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Like millions of Canadians, my ancestors left Ireland in the shadow of the famine. They carried hope across the Atlantic and helped build the Canada we know today. To return to Mayo, and receive a welcome such as this, is a testament to the life they built for their children — and to the indomitable spirit of the Irish, everywhere — whose pride in their heritage is unbroken by distance and time.

Ten years ago today Farage unveiled his racist "Breaking Point" poster. Within hours a far-right sympathiser murdered the MP Jo Cox. Instead of apologising, Farage went on to verbally attack her husband. Farage has always been scum. Never Vote Reform.

The "US biolabs in Ukraine" story is one of the Kremlin's oldest and most successful disinformation campaigns. The facilities in question were Ukrainian public health and veterinary laboratories supported by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to improve biosafety and disease surveillance. None of the publicly available documents show evidence of biological weapons. In Russian state media, these facilities are routinely described outright as "US bioweapons labs." Among pro-Kremlin influencers and politicians in the West, the messaging is often more subtle. They simply talk about "dangerous pathogens" and hint at unspecified sinister purposes, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions. Yet Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time Russia supporter who met Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad twice and questioned the Assad regime's responsibility for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, is now presenting old public documents as newly "declassified evidence." In reality, ODNI simply re-stamped documents that had already been public for years. Many of the slides are excerpts from a Pentagon DTRA fact sheet released publicly in March 2022. Gabbard's office repackaged these documents and presented them alongside Russian fabrications as evidence of a sinister biolabs program. This shouldn't surprise anyone. When it comes to Ukraine, Gabbard has consistently echoed Kremlin talking points. She has argued that the US and NATO provoked Putin into invading Ukraine, framed the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, claimed that sanctions hurt the West more than Russia, blamed an "elite cabal of warmongers" for the conflict, and suggested that peace negotiations should prioritize avoiding nuclear war. She has repeatedly claimed that the war could have been avoided by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. But Putin himself made clear in his essays and speeches before the invasion that his goals went far beyond NATO and centered on denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent nation. She has also dismissed allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "manufactured hoax" and appeared as a speaker at the "antiwar" Rage Against the War Machine rally in 2023. Tulsi's only goal with all this is to hurt Ukraine and help Russia.

The evil Democrats invented photosynthesis to screw with trump's pool.

It is impossible to view Tulsi Gabbard as anything other than a Russian asset after her persistent lies regarding ’biological labs’ in Ukraine. By spreading debunked Kremlin conspiracy theories, she has once again directly compromised Western security to boost Moscow's information war. Gabbard knows the exact nature of the research taking place in Ukraine, making her public statements deeply deceptive. The facilities she targeted are standard BSL-3 diagnostic laboratories, which are common worldwide for managing routine but serious illnesses. Work in a BSL-3 lab is strictly regulated, but it remains a foundational part of global civilian health infrastructure aimed at treating known diseases. She intentionally blurred the lines to confuse the public about BSL-4 labs, which are the only facilities equipped to handle entirely untreatable, lethal bio-agents. A BSL-4 lab requires maximum engineering controls, including a dedicated, non-recirculating air supply, extensive structural reinforcement, and personnel in positive-pressure suits. By singling out Ukraine and pretending its basic BSL-3 public health centers are part of a dangerous biological warfare program, Gabbard gave a veneer of credibility to Russia's wildest fabrications. She willfully chose to ignore the facts in order to validate a hostile nation's propaganda campaign during a genocide. Her actions represent a fundamental betrayal of national trust, and she deserves to be legally prosecuted for treason

It is frankly embarrassing that a sitting U.S. Vice President is unaware of one of the most elementary facts of World War II. Nazi Germany did not negotiate an end to World War II. The war in Europe ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender after total military defeat and the collapse of the regime in May 1945.

Military historian Phillips O’Brien: There have been no U.S. peace efforts in Ukraine. There have been efforts to get Putin a very good deal, forcing Ukrainians to give up more territory and people. That is not peace. That is Washington trying to deliver Putin a success. 1/

REALITY STILL EXISTS

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

It is difficult to overstate just how dumb, ignorant, stupid, the people who currently govern the United States are. Here is the Homeland Security Secretary claiming that the unionists & loyalists in *Northern* Ireland ‘want to be Irish’ & want to be in Ireland. Pure ignorance.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

Western audiences are completely failing to grasp the monumental scale of the war in Ukraine due to a constant barrage of disinformation and competing international crises. The sheer volume of casualties (including civilian) has been systematically downplayed, leaving the true magnitude of the war nearly invisible outside of Ukraine itself. There is a pervasive belief among even pro-Ukrainian Europeans that this conflict is a somewhat ”clean” war with limited civilian casualties. This narrative flies in the face of reality, as the war has amassed approximately 2 million total casualties over the last four and a half years, with a breakdown of approximately two-thirds Russian and one-third Ukrainian. Despite Russia having more total casualties, Ukraine has dozens of times more civilian casualties than Russia. This crushing disparity tells you everything about the ruthless reality of Russia's campaign. A purely numerical comparison with the war in Gaza highlights the gap in Western perception. As of May 2026, more than two years of war in Gaza resulted in at least 75,811 reported deaths, both sides included. In stark contrast, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program reveals that the single three-month siege of Mariupol saw between 27,000 and 88,000 fatalities. Most of them were Ukrainian civilians. Even though Mariupol had a population five times smaller than Gaza, its death toll in just three months potentially surpassed Gaza's total over two years. On a bigger level, the approximately 2 million total casualties in Ukraine match the population of the entire Gaza Strip. This comparison is strictly statistical, used only because the public is highly aware of Gaza's bloodshed. The Kremlin has skillfully hidden its atrocities and suppressed civilian casualty data in occupied areas, but the West must look past the propaganda and recognize the historic scale of this devastation

Hilarious Community Note

"I hope they will extend a helping hand, which we have always extended first" It wasn't long ago that Russia was threatening to withhold Russian oil and gas from Armenia if it continued towards the EU.🤪 moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/05/2…

The famous incident from the 2003 Carlsberg Cup, where Danish midfielder Morten Wieghorst intentionally missed a penalty against Iran. The referee had awarded the penalty because an Iranian defender caught the ball with his hands inside the box, mistakenly thinking he had heard the half-time whistle.Since the penalty was awarded due to a misunderstanding, Wieghorst consulted his coach and deliberately fired his shot wide as a display of sportsmanship, an act for which he later won an Olympic Committee Fair Play Award. Football is great

BREAKING: FIFA peace prize recipient is bombing Iran a day before the start of the FIFA World Cup.

Incorrect. He had a visa. From the US Embassy in Nairobi. It was valid. They vetted him there, and gave him a visa. Then he landed in Miami, was detained for 11 hours, and deported to Istanbul. THEN they branded him a terrorist. A FIFA referee, simply because he’s Somali.

‼️German Fellas! Estonian owned KAMILLA of Hansa shipping (previously delivered Alumina from Ireland to Russia) is currently on her way to occupied Viipuri (Vyborg), Russia from Lübeck in Germany What is she carrying and why is Hansa involved? 🤔 This is one for German NAFO 🫡