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Padraic
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Photography. Wildlife. Birding.
Liverpool. Football. Club.
Pinned
Five years ago today in my suburban Chicago yard.
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every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
It might be below freezing, but there's nothing like pizza fresh off the grill. That's the Chicago way!
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Two night stay at hotel by the Sofi stadium in Ingleside, CA for US first FIFA World Cup match in June: $3,468. Prior week: $923. That's some surge pricing!
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life.
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A sign of the shellacking Trump is getting by federal grand juries is that I had never heard the term "no true bill" until the last few months when this DOJ started to fail to get indictments which rarely happened previously.
BREAKING: Back-to-back failures by prosecutors to secure an re-indictment against Leticia James are another striking rejection of Trump’s retribution campaign.
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Eight months ago vs today. 🤡

@atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What does Schumer plan to do if Hegseth steals his lunch money and stuff him in his Congressional locker? Get real.
Schumer: "I plan to demand Secretary Hegseth give the total, unedited videos of what happened in the September 2 boat strikes ... second, I will demand of Rubio and Hegseth, What the hell is going on in the Caribbean and Venezuela? How far do they plan to go?"
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
My "These Deals are Real" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt. 🤡
Brooke Rollins: "These deals are real. No one in the history of our country has ever been able to effectuate deals like this. We won't see the effect until next year."
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The white-tailed deer are frequent visitors at my place.
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm much more of a summer person, but the view from my porch in winter can be beautiful.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wonder who will win the inaugural Netflix Peace Prize!
Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros.

Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?

It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?

TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Wow, that’s a pretty big point of disagreement, NPR. Maybe someone could investigate which point of view is correct and report on the truth of the matter. Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 8d
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was seriously wounded. Trump says the deployments are necessary to fight crime, but others disagree. n.pr/44aRgxY
West Virginians question National Guard deployments after attack on 2 of their own
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was seriously wounded. Trump says the deployments are necessary to fight crime, but others disagree.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Find someone who looks at you the way Christy Moore looked at Shane MacGowan while singing Spancil Hill.
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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When I went to college in Boston in the 90s my grandmother’s parting advice was “Stay away from the Kennedys.” It remains good advice.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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An interesting Chumbawumba anecdote: they hated Thatcher so much that they recorded an album while she was very much alive to be released on the day she died, “as part of the celebrations.”

Not sure why that anecdote sprung to mind right now. Weird.
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Got a close up look at Trump’s medal
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is.

The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life.

Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My kids and I deciding which citizenship to keep when the Republicans ban dual citizenship: the nation sliding into authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism, and divisiveness, or the one offering visa-free residency and work privileges in 27 countries.
two men in suits and ties are sitting in front of a window with blinds
ALT: two men in suits and ties are sitting in front of a window with blinds
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Terrorist were coming to the U.S.
We killed ‘em.
OK, boat wasn’t coming here.
There was no 2nd strike.
OK, there was. But we didn’t know.
Didn’t see or order it.
That guy did.
Fog of war.
Self-defense.
Just wanted to sink the boat.
JK. We meant to kill ‘em.
And we’d do it again.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM