Paul Ward (IRL/EU)
@paul-ward-irl.bsky.social
Unelected bureaucrat. Brussels, Dublin, The Hague.
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if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall
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Well well well… looks like someone is going to become a main character in MAGA soon. He’s no Big Balls….
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts
‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Well well well… looks like someone is going to become a main character in MAGA soon. He’s no Big Balls….
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With tightening immigration policies, the EU is moving towards a Eurokafala system where migrants are constantly brought in to make up for labour shortages, but also constantly abused as second-class citizens.
www.ft.com/content/4329...
www.ft.com/content/4329...
Europe’s second-class citizens
Countries that looked down on the Gulf’s ‘kafala’ system are edging closer to creating their own
www.ft.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
With tightening immigration policies, the EU is moving towards a Eurokafala system where migrants are constantly brought in to make up for labour shortages, but also constantly abused as second-class citizens.
www.ft.com/content/4329...
www.ft.com/content/4329...
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One of my potentially most unpopular opinions is that genealogy is a gateway drug to dubious if not downright poisonous politics/social attitudes. Which is alarming when you consider how popular genealogy is and how much worse DNA testing has made all this.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
One of my potentially most unpopular opinions is that genealogy is a gateway drug to dubious if not downright poisonous politics/social attitudes. Which is alarming when you consider how popular genealogy is and how much worse DNA testing has made all this.
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Dr Assal Rad—
"Reports and footage have been circulating all day, where is this headline in Western media?
"How is this not considered news?"
"Reports and footage have been circulating all day, where is this headline in Western media?
"How is this not considered news?"
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Dr Assal Rad—
"Reports and footage have been circulating all day, where is this headline in Western media?
"How is this not considered news?"
"Reports and footage have been circulating all day, where is this headline in Western media?
"How is this not considered news?"
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On Sunday we’ll publish our weekly investigation with The Ferret as usual. But this week it isn’t about uncovering hidden stories here in Scotland.
Karin Goodwin, The Ferret’s co-editor, has been in the West Bank 👇
Karin Goodwin, The Ferret’s co-editor, has been in the West Bank 👇
Our collaboration with The Ferret brings you reporting from the West Bank this week
www.thenational.scot
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
On Sunday we’ll publish our weekly investigation with The Ferret as usual. But this week it isn’t about uncovering hidden stories here in Scotland.
Karin Goodwin, The Ferret’s co-editor, has been in the West Bank 👇
Karin Goodwin, The Ferret’s co-editor, has been in the West Bank 👇
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The ongoing radicalization of Gen Z Republicans is something media in Europe should absolutely start covering. Now.
This is a focus group of Gen Z Republicans in the United States of America. Now.
They get their news only from social media/podcasts, and they express warm sympathy for Adolf Hitler and for (Nazi) Nick Fuentes.
Fascism will destroy their future.
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
They get their news only from social media/podcasts, and they express warm sympathy for Adolf Hitler and for (Nazi) Nick Fuentes.
Fascism will destroy their future.
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The ongoing radicalization of Gen Z Republicans is something media in Europe should absolutely start covering. Now.
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The occupation state has finalized its largest-ever gas export deal with Egypt, worth up to $35 billion, while Palestinians remain denied sovereignty over their own land and natural resources. This agreement moves forward under occupation, blockade, genocide, and apartheid.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The occupation state has finalized its largest-ever gas export deal with Egypt, worth up to $35 billion, while Palestinians remain denied sovereignty over their own land and natural resources. This agreement moves forward under occupation, blockade, genocide, and apartheid.
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And this deregulation drive is also reigning in the EU...
Same rethoric about rules being too rigid etc.
Workers, our communities, nature pay the price
Only winners are corporatiins and the rich
Same rethoric about rules being too rigid etc.
Workers, our communities, nature pay the price
Only winners are corporatiins and the rich
The Trump Admin wants to turn the clock back to 2008 and let Wall Street run wild.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
Bessent: "These 2008, 2009, 2010 financial rules were too tight. They hamstrung the American financial system. It was time for a change ... we have to take the financial system out of this straitjacket ... the regulated system is too constrained."
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
And this deregulation drive is also reigning in the EU...
Same rethoric about rules being too rigid etc.
Workers, our communities, nature pay the price
Only winners are corporatiins and the rich
Same rethoric about rules being too rigid etc.
Workers, our communities, nature pay the price
Only winners are corporatiins and the rich
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Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
tinyurl.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
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EU Member States agree on negotiation mandate for treaty with USA on exchange of personal data in visa waiver process
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Decision - EU - 2025/2640 - EN - EUR-Lex
eur-lex.europa.eu
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
EU Member States agree on negotiation mandate for treaty with USA on exchange of personal data in visa waiver process
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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Really isn't emphasized enough that the people most pleased with Trump's peace plan are Republicans and then Biden administration foreign policy alumna
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Really isn't emphasized enough that the people most pleased with Trump's peace plan are Republicans and then Biden administration foreign policy alumna
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
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A reminder that women's bodily autonomy will always be politically restricted in a way that men's will never.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Dáil votes by narrow margin not to restore abortion Bill that ends three-day wait for termination
Legislation passed second stage in previous Dáil but TDs decided by 73 to 71 to reject Bill
www.irishtimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A reminder that women's bodily autonomy will always be politically restricted in a way that men's will never.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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🇸🇩 More than 500 academics & cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for a global academic and cultural boycott of institutions based in or funded by the United Arab Emirates over its role in Sudan’s war. Signatories include Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore...
More 👇🧵
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December 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
🇸🇩 More than 500 academics & cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for a global academic and cultural boycott of institutions based in or funded by the United Arab Emirates over its role in Sudan’s war. Signatories include Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore...
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🚨 Bombshell at #EUCO at almost 2 am: António Costa has proposed to use common borrowing to meet Ukraine's most immediate financial needs while technical work on the reparations loan continues in the coming months.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 Bombshell at #EUCO at almost 2 am: António Costa has proposed to use common borrowing to meet Ukraine's most immediate financial needs while technical work on the reparations loan continues in the coming months.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
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This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
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For his heroics, the asylum seeker was shot, kicked in the head, and now faces deportation. Today, the government also announced they are implementing Zionist lobbyist Jillian Segal’s plan to oversee Australian public life from education through to arts orgs and immigration. It’s completely fucked.
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
For his heroics, the asylum seeker was shot, kicked in the head, and now faces deportation. Today, the government also announced they are implementing Zionist lobbyist Jillian Segal’s plan to oversee Australian public life from education through to arts orgs and immigration. It’s completely fucked.
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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
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Latest twist at #EUCO:
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have come up with a new idea: to raise joint debt for Ukraine under an enhanced cooperation mechanism.
The three countries will not veto the plan and, in turn, exempt themselves from the financial liability.
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have come up with a new idea: to raise joint debt for Ukraine under an enhanced cooperation mechanism.
The three countries will not veto the plan and, in turn, exempt themselves from the financial liability.
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Latest twist at #EUCO:
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have come up with a new idea: to raise joint debt for Ukraine under an enhanced cooperation mechanism.
The three countries will not veto the plan and, in turn, exempt themselves from the financial liability.
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have come up with a new idea: to raise joint debt for Ukraine under an enhanced cooperation mechanism.
The three countries will not veto the plan and, in turn, exempt themselves from the financial liability.
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"The case, brought by Max Schrems in 2014, originally lasted 11 years and hit the Austrian Supreme Court three times and the CJEU two times. Mr Schrems was awarded €500 in damages" are we, as citizens and data subjects, fine with this? Meta definitely was, buying time and power...
noyb WIN: The Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that Meta must give users full access to their data. All of Meta's claims of trade secrets or other limitations were rejected, leading to unprecedented access to the inner workings of Meta.
noyb.eu/en/austrian-...
noyb.eu/en/austrian-...
Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data
The Austrian Supreme Court has issued a ruling in an 11-years long procedure against Meta
noyb.eu
December 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"The case, brought by Max Schrems in 2014, originally lasted 11 years and hit the Austrian Supreme Court three times and the CJEU two times. Mr Schrems was awarded €500 in damages" are we, as citizens and data subjects, fine with this? Meta definitely was, buying time and power...
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Top thread here - I am immediately reminded of Meta's funding of carbon removal materials discovery that.......................did not turn out great
www.ft.com/content/6922...
www.ft.com/content/6922...
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Top thread here - I am immediately reminded of Meta's funding of carbon removal materials discovery that.......................did not turn out great
www.ft.com/content/6922...
www.ft.com/content/6922...
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The thing about all these right-wing institutions—from Fox to Truth Social to this faux-university—is that they subsist entirely on parasitic criticism of leftists & things the left has built. Without the host body, they are nothing. They can't build, they can't create, they can only whine.
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The thing about all these right-wing institutions—from Fox to Truth Social to this faux-university—is that they subsist entirely on parasitic criticism of leftists & things the left has built. Without the host body, they are nothing. They can't build, they can't create, they can only whine.
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Everyone knew. Just like with Savile - they knew he was a peadophile & they went out their way not to ask because they knew what the answer would be and they’d rather kids get raped then it’s awkward for them with someone they know they can always use for a quote
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Everyone knew. Just like with Savile - they knew he was a peadophile & they went out their way not to ask because they knew what the answer would be and they’d rather kids get raped then it’s awkward for them with someone they know they can always use for a quote