Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 03/07/2026If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall. 217108901398
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 02/07/2026How is this not a 25A issue? The US is a deeply unserious and flawed political system. Executive power without Collective Cabinet responsibility, Without actual Parliamentary oversight, Without the means to change Executive itself. & With executive immunity? All lead to corruption & malfeasance 010
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026Obama: "Values every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold. Values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did." 432520511
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent." 291134033668
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍MS NOW @ms.now · 18/06/2026Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson sings the national anthem at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center. WATCH LIVE HERE: youtube.com/live/4jPZhuw... 323118282479
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 18/06/2026www.ms.now/opinion/mike... Many years ago, I heard a woman speak, whose husband had been murdered by the state for a crime he did not commit. From that day forward, I have been an advocate against the death penalty.ms.nowOpinion | Here’s how Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine should followup his call to end the death penaltyAustin Sarat: The Buckeye State’s Republican governor has the chance to set an example for other states’ chief executives. 0185
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Brilliant article that frames the abomination of the NI race riots perfectly. If nothing else. It gives a sad reality to that old joke of the Muslim tourist visiting Belfast in the '80s being stopped & asked their religion. Aye, but are you a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant one? 000
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley is mounting in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi. Hundreds took to the streets in protest and police tear-gassed a crowd outside the Walmart where an officer shot the infant. Officials are not releasing bodycam or security footage.mississippifreepress.orgAnger Mounts in Senatobia Over Police Killing of 1-Year-Old Kohen WileyProtests broke out in Senatobia, Mississippi, amid mounting anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. 14691340
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 18/06/20261/ Ukraine's massive drone strike against Moscow – with a reported 555 drones and missiles fired, and 180 claimed to have been shot down over Moscow – has prompted anger, defiance, and resignation from Russian warbloggers. "Tehran is safer", one says. ⬇️ 31834248
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2026People have the right to march, etc, but I'm with Sadiq. Those flag loving bores are not representative of our city, which they hate - largely because it disproves every dim witted thing they stand for. 27732141
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V... 1609186716862
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Sorry BBC, this framing is not only false equivalence, it is wrong in point of fact. The pro-Palestine march today commemorates the anniversary of the Nakba, the tragedy of Zionist colonisation of Palestine. Nakba Day was yesterday. Painting this as a “rival” march is a fallacy, and invents animus 0218
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 16/05/2026An 🇮🇪 Flag at a #UniteTheKingdom rally? Is the cunt waving that serious? Imagine, if you would. Being an #Irish patriot & finding common cause with #racists & #xenophobes who not too long ago would have called you #Bomber before trying to burn you out. I hope #NedBroy's on duty! 141
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 15/05/2026@lfcr.bsky.social Please. Please.. Please... Draw a line under this disaster and #SackSlot We cannot go on with this #TemuTenHag Where is the #Spirit? Where is the #Desire? Where is the #Pride? #SlotOutstatic.klipy.comJohn Coffey's Iconic 'I'm Tired, Boss' SceneALT: John Coffey's Iconic 'I'm Tired, Boss' Scene 000
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Note that - John Terry currently works at Chelsea as a part-time *youth* academy coach and *mentor*. 😓🤦🏻 62512173
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026If the Voting Rights Act is rightly seen by many of us as the real beginning of American democracy, then it is fitting that a Court hell-bent on undoing democratic rule, including granting the president king-like powers, would seek to dismantle it. 01147323
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/202617,517 in emergency accommodation while over 180,000 homes lay empty Have no doubt it is a manufactured housing crisis that is costing lives & traumatising generations Call it out ffud street art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social 🎵 by Meryl Streek #speirghorm 32617
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that. 628215916063
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This week. I have mostly been up on a roof. Adding 3.76Kw of #SolarPanels to the roof of my #ManCave Next step is to hire a pro to install a full suite of #solar & #battery on the house itself. This is just my initial bit of solo experimentation. Going great so far! 000
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Day 509 of the uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪🇪🇺 📷 Levan Zazadze 312438
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The imbalances created by the Hormuz closure will reverberate quite a while yet. Tankers must offload. Storage must be brought back to normal levels in the Gulf. That needs empty VLCCs, who are either full or heading elsewhere. The price shock will continue until that imbalance is fixed 000
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026A lovely turn of phrase in this X post "Democratisation of Intelligence" While most folk get excited about the #TipOfTheSpear when it comes to Air Combat ops, it is the Tankers, AWACS & ISR platforms that make those iOS possible. They are called #ForceMultipliers for good reason. As are Recon Sats😉 000
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026youtu.be/lg5ZQbCiVgI?... My interview for TVP World 🙏 Mariupol & 4 years on 🇺🇦youtu.beShaun Pinner: surviving Russian torture and escaping death | Ukraine This WeekYouTube video by TVP WORLD 04410
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026The tragedy behind this war is that it delegitmizes whatever government may come after the Iran's present theocracy as being a puppet of the United States and Israel. Iranians deserve better. 818443
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Fox News darling Sen. @JohnFetterman: “Why can’t we all just celebrate what happened today?” 458839303
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I saw this front page of the Hitler-loving far right Daily Mail. This garbage [even Wikipedia doesn’t consider it valid] pushes far right tropes into lower middle class homes across England & Wales. Am loving the British Royal Air Force [RAF] being described as ‘tourists’ & also the ‘erupts’ [1] 58214
Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍 @banie01.bsky.social · 01/03/2026It's been too long since I've posted. Life & rage kept me busy elsewhere. The #AVgeek in me has been busy too tho! Some recent acquisitions & a plan to repaint the #Mosquito & to #Kitbash the #P38 into a #NightLightning are in progress. & Look at my #BF110G 🤤 #ScaleModels #Aviation #Warplanes 050
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 05/02/2026i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list 626155855
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Elves in Viridian @reindeerarebetter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Gen X here; was 16. I'm pretty sure this headline in 1987 would have drawn equal shares among "That creep?" "That clown?" and "Who?" Clearly the ReaganBushes dropped the anti-Soviet ball big-time, though. 143
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/12/2025BBC News, "The US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela" Sky News, "This is America, it looks like Somalian pirates" ITV News, "Venezuelan officials have called the action an act of international piracy" UK Labour government? No comment at time of posting 2722598
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/12/2025This tasty digestif to the Sandwich Guy case chews on each slice of the deliberations, tantalizingly giving readers a rich flavor of why jurors found the evidence so unpalatable and disgorged all charges against the defendant. Condiments to the reporter.buff.lyJurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’Two of the 12 jurors who found the accused DC sandwich thrower not guilty of assaulting a federal officer discuss why the case didn’t hold up. 751847311
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025It used to be an impeachable offense. Now it’s a daily occurrence. 22991173069
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/11/2025It's Election Day in many parts of the country. The governors, mayors, city councils, state reps, judges, school boards, and referendums you vote for today will be a vital line of defense against the Trump regime. You still have power. Use it. 161111328
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney 16279691291
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Nick @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 04/11/202512... inches. Full... Italian herb... jacket! 22119
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Solidarity is the only way 783224735529
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 14/10/2025‘Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.’ www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...npr.orgOpinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press passTom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen... 151172289
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Left: Tice to ITV: “It’s slander to say Dr Aseem Malhotra is our health adviser - apologise!” Right: Reform UK conference: “Dr Malhotra worked with me to write Reform UK’s health policy.” So which is it, Dubai Dick? Lying on stage or lying on telly. #ukpolitics 1715066
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Baba Yaga Fèlla @babayagafella.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Tuapse ... Another angle. #russianLosses #UkraineNews 612835
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 21/09/2025A fitting memorial to Charlie Kirk 3643153
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 11/09/2025#charliekirk #guns #gunviolence 414874
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Here's the crucial part of the summary of today's Court of Appeal judgment (full text of the judgment not yet public). The Home Office raised the ECHR in written proceedings, but not oral argument. The rest of the summary makes no mention of the ECHR. It seems it was not the basis of the judgment. 15722
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025The ECHR as a turnip-ghost, continued. 15419
Reposted by Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025“A dangerous crank — what on Earth are you on about??!” @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them. 28143671305