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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2h

They've truly been housetrained by the Blueshirts. If that had happened in the 70's or 80's they'd have genuinely boxed the heads off each other at the next meeting

Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 3h

The opening exchanges of the high stakes Fianna Fáil meeting discussing the presidential election are described as calm and mild so far. TDs voicing the hurt felt by party members across the country.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4h

This is actually 100% what they intend to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 9h

Jim Gavin to his former tenant

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 13h

Wow I didn't have Heather Humphreys has a Reichstag fire moment during her campaign on my bingo card

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 13h

The now deleted video from Heather Humphreys’ team including an image of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Video focused on how Heather knows the border and the North - and was posted days after she said she doesn’t just go on “day trips”.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 15h

Also flags just how quickly the European political system will be to forget about a genocide if a ceasefire ever happens

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 15h

Every person on the flotillas is as important as the next but the fact that the entire European political system has hardly had a word to say about the kidnapping of elected reps in international waters and then imprisoned is absolutely shocking

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 22h

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

thousandmadleens.fr

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 16h

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

For everyone in Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim, a McBudget is the same as a SuperMacBudget just with nicer chips

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

They are all just openly laundering the actions of a fascist now. Almost zero pushback

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

Trump’s actions mark a sharp departure from his predecessors. Historically, US presidents have made sparing use of the armed forces for missions within the nation’s borders. Here's what to know

Why Trump’s Use of Military in US Is So Controversial

President Donald Trump has repeatedly deployed the US military for domestic assignments. In June, he summoned the Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles — over the objections of local leaders — to subdue protests against his administration’s mass arrests of migrants. In August, Trump called up the Guard to combat violent street crime in Washington, DC. On Sept. 15, the president announced plans for a National Guard deployment to Memphis, and on Sept. 27, he ordered troops to Portland, Oregon.

bloom.bg

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that voters in other countries would look at the chaos and cruelty going on in the United States and turn away from it is massively misunderstanding the appeal of fascism and what fascists actually want

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

Haha that's certainly one way of looking at it

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday showed the sharp divide between the left and the right on how justice in the US is being carried out. https://cnn.it/4mWUYSd

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

Don't be giving them ideas

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, is there even a constitutional mechanism for doing this?

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 1d

Hearing reports of Jim Gavin canvassers in the Wicklow mountains who are refusing to surrender.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

Why? What would even be the point? There are still 2 people running ffs

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

There is a lot going on everywhere at the moment tbf it's very hard to take it all in

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

We have to pay for the election they bought with our own money for the next 4 years so they have enough of our own money in time to buy the next election

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

Caitríona Redmond: Families go backwards as Paschal Donohoe peels an orange in his pocket

Soaring energy prices and food shrinkflation are battering even the most frugal of families — and Budget 2026 has done nothing for them

dlvr.it

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

I think it would still result in a huge amount of chaos

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

That needs to happen as soon as possible

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

There is a very good chance that Ireland will have a completely autocratic and incredibly hostile state right next door to us within a few years and we need to be seriously preparing for that outcome

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

It had fucking better be Alan, they have to raise at least 3 grand

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

There's surely a pro-NATO newspaper columnist out there absolutely hammering out a piece about how the tenant owed 3 grand is a Russian spy. The Irish Daily Mail probably has the newspaper article on file ready to go

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 2d

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 3d

Seán Gallagher wouldn't have walked away like this and he'd still have kept the three grand

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