A great victory in the UK today for people who’ve never met a trans person, were never likely to meet a trans person, but who would quite like to be able to use slurs if they did.

Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires. 1/

Incredible.

Stop asking why train drivers are paid twice as much as nurses. Start asking why chief executives are paid hundreds of times more than either.

To Markievicz Skinnider Kearns O'Malley Hackett Coyle Wyse-Power Gifford Sweeney O'Farrell Moloney Lynn Sheehy-Skeffington Spring Rice Stopford Price Bourke Bowles The Cooneys And ALL the powerful Irish women from history, the present and the future, Happy #NollaignamBan

Everyone should have a home, place to play & create in Ireland This is how we do it Take on hoarders & speculators & end #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland through policies outlined here in: "This is #DerelictIreland - The Solutions" #HousingCrisis #GE24 acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

It's be a dang shame if #ElonLovesTheCCP started trending today

I really cannot believe this!!! Falling? Is this how you, CNN, describe the killing of tens of thousands and the expulsion of so many more? Could you say that the Jewish population in Europe was falling between 1933-1945? FALLING? Seriously? Where did these people get their degrees? Also the chief editors?

1/ Let’s talk about Liv, Meta’s AI bot claiming to represent a “Proud Black queer momma.” The creators behind Liv? Ten white men, one white woman, and one Asian man. No Black creators. No cultural context. What does this say about their relationship with Black women? A lot. 🧵

🥰 Meet 18 wk old Rochelle 🥰 Rochelle & sister were abandoned just before Christmas 💔. She's a #RedSetter x, a stunning girl who needs an active 🏡, she's clever & lively! A little nervous, this girl will thrive in a loving home 💗 madra.ie/dog-profiles/ #AdoptDontShop

🚨 Elon is Bored but Dangerous It’s clear that @elonmusk is far more calculating than most people realize. But he’s also a bored billionaire who can afford to treat people’s lives like pawns in a video game—and he’s doing exactly that by treating people, nations, and ideals like meaningless pieces on a game board. Like many who accumulate vast wealth, he likely feels unfulfilled because money alone doesn’t create meaning. The pursuit of “more” never ends because it doesn’t fill the void. Tesla’s stock is falling, with the company set to face serious competition in 2025. He’s drawn fire from MAGA supporters over his H1B visa stance and now appears at odds with @realDonaldTrump . Once a mutual ally, Trump has been sidelined as Elon takes center stage, reducing Trump to the role of sidekick. Elon needs a distraction. In the UK, he has ‘patriots’ rallying behind him—people who claim to oppose unelected bureaucrats and foreign interference but seem to overlook Elon’s contradictions. He backs an openly racist figure like Robinson while sidelining @Nigel_Farage and much of the Reform movement—not out of conviction, but because the UK is just another stage for his spectacle. He doesn’t care about Britain; this is entertainment for a man who can afford to play. His alliance with Israel isn’t necessarily driven by ideology. It’s likely transactional: Israel’s advanced technologies benefit his space exploration goals, and aligning with a pro-Israel Trump administration helps secure the U.S. dollars he needs for his ambitions. Elon’s ability to stoke division—through race wars, culture wars, and political polarization—is plain to see. The super-rich thrive on keeping ordinary people distracted and divided, fighting over scraps while they consolidate wealth and power. They profit as we’re encouraged to turn our frustrations against the weakest and most vulnerable among us, blaming them for our struggles instead of addressing the real sources of inequality. And we’re falling for it. On X we rip into each other over meaningless arguments, fueling division while they sit back and enjoy the chaos. Meanwhile, people clamor to “take their country back.” But what does that even mean anymore? The more we channel our anger toward “the other,”the further we drift from the values we claim to defend. By the time you reclaim your country from whoever or whatever you think took it, you might find you’ve become the very thing you despised.

Hey @elonmusk and @KemiBadenoch why the silence on white grooming gangs? Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch are both screaming for a national child sex crimes public inquiry. Don't either of them realise that nearly 90% of child sex convicts in the UK are white, not Asian? Or do they just not care? Searchlight says: Let's stomp on all child rapists, not just those whose ethnicity irks Tory-Reform swing voters. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025… @uaf @AntiRacismDay @CPhilpOfficial @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick

New from me @theintercept: Military service is the single strongest individual predictor of becoming a “mass casualty offender,” far outpacing mental health issues, according to a sophisticated study by @START_UMD 🧵🧵🧵 theintercept.com/2025/01/02/…

It wasn't the Unions in @RTE pushing for RTE's bogus self employment fraud to go public, hell no, the Unions were hiding it. It was ME and I've done very well at doing what unions were paid to do but didn't. @SIPTU @NUJofficial

Record homelessness and ever-growing inequality reflect who is currently winning a fundamental war on democracy, the war of wealth and power hoarding, the class war.

RT @SanaSaeed: The amount of Muslim, Arab, brown journalists I know who have been removed from covering the genocide - because they ‘are to…

RT @daithigor: A depressing paragraph about the red light detectors at Blackhall Place that were on trial for six months in 2015. https://t…

I need them to make up their fucking minds??!!??? Real Irish patriots who are protecting their culture but call the use of their own native language “woke”????? Someone make it make sense x

I’m Dr Dante Diaz, a General Surgeon in Guadalajara, Mexico. I’m calling for the immediate release of Dr Hassam Abu Safiya and all other medical and allied health professionals from Gaza currently detained by Israeli forces. #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #FreePalestine

Feeling v aggrieved. Write letter to @IrishTimes supporting campaign for Maud Gonne statue, responding to letter by Prof Ferriter. I’ve written well regarded biography of Gonne & suggested location, based on her campaigning work. IT publishes 2 letters from men, both objecting.