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Cahir O’Doherty

@cahirodoherty.bsky.social
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Arts & Travel Editor in New York City | Sé/é | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️ |🇮🇪 | 🇪🇺 | Donegal | Immigrant | Brooklyn based

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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sticking a pin in Drumcree and longstanding nationalist grievances was an intentionally wounding kind of acupuncture. So I’d like to hear a lot more about the PSNI and Parade Commission’s decision to facilitate it.
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield
Street sign for Gobblers Knob Rd
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So I think it's past time, let's storm the barricades, say... tomorrow afternoon? I'm going to need a lie in and a cooked breakfast before storming anything! And let's dig out the family "eat the rich" recipes tonight? Yeah? Cool *slaps thigh* Get an early night though! Big day tomorrow
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Bloomberg: Cybertruck Is Biggest Flop Since Edsel - Joe.My.God.
Bloomberg News reports: Ford Motor Co. introduced a car almost 70 years ago widely viewed as the greatest automotive flop of all time. Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck may well be on its way to claiming that t...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/07/2026
LATEST: Oil surges to $100 a barrel after Iran-backed Houthi rebels attack tankers in the Red Sea, threatening an energy bottleneck in another key waterway.
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Oil tankers attacked as Iran threatens to turn second trade route into a ‘Gate of Tears’
Iran-backed Houthi militants said Thursday they had struck two tankers in the Red Sea, risking another bottleneck that could further disrupt global energy supplies, spike prices and heap domestic poli...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
More good news from NYC! Arts funding always suffers during hard times, so this is truly welcome. hyperallergic.com/nyc-mayor-ma...
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NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I was 17 years old when this story ran. I am very aware that if I had been 27, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here to remind you of it. I try never to forget that as much as I chose my own path in life, I also got lucky.
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"In the letter, Moylan uses the phrase 'United States of America'. And this is the first known example of somebody using this phrase." 📜 Réabhlóid Mheiriceá - Na Laochra Gael 🗽 Ag tosú Dé Céadaoin 🕤 21:30
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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.
Blue Tesla with a smashed front end next to a Baltimore City light rail car painted with the pride flag.
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BlueBayOG @bluebayog.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This administration lead by a lunatic wants to control all news media taking away the freedom of the press and control what content we watch. They want to control TV and news outlets and run it as state media. Please file a complaint with the FCC. www.tvinsider.com/1271231/the-...
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Why ABC Just Issued an Urgent Warning to 'The View' Audience
The network is asking audiences to weigh in.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026
A little birdie sent me an un-paywalled version of this article from VF! It's here: www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...
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Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?
Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage
Picture of the White House lawn with the White House completely obscured by a UFC cage covered in sponsorships
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...
fortune.com
Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here's how to prepare | Fortune
Here's how Mayor Mamdani's tax agenda could reach the Teterboro ramp — and which airports, ownership structures, and strategies offer the most protection.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
To all the kids who were - and are - their own mothers x
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
They passed a law to break a law. Then they passed a racist map. And they don’t have to tell anyone what happened 👇🏽 It’s all so dark. Watch fascism work. 🇺🇸 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.
Screenshot of a tweet from FactPost reporting that newborn death rates are rising as babies die from vitamin K deficiency, which is preventable with a single shot at birth, and attributing the trend to widespread medical disinformation causing parents to refuse the vitamin K shot. Includes a split image of RFK Jr. speaking at a microphone alongside a photo of newborns in a hospital nursery.
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Do you ever wonder what a Samuel Beckett birthday card would sound like? Congratulations, you’re one year closer to eternal darkness.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
TERF ideology is like a black light except instead of revealing grim stains on your hotel sheets it reveals grim people who were previously hiding in plain sight
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."
Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die. 

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."
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damasterchief @damasterchief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/04/2026
A firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn "stop, stop, stop" but didn't know who it was for, federal investigators said Thursday. to.pbs.org/4sNBCC5
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NTSB says firefighter heard ‘stop, stop’ before LaGuardia collision but didn’t know who it was for
A firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn “stop, stop, stop” but didn...
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Do you know what would be really great to see? All those tractors driving down to Doonbeg and occupying the golf course of the man who got everyone into this mess...
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The best of America and the worst on the same day is really hard to take.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vance’s presence is telegraphing what’s next for the United States. Like Hungary he wants: 👉 Closer alignment with Russia 👉 Capture of state institutions 👉 Rigging the system to stay in power
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2026
BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This be the verse
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/03/2026
Sending ICE agents who are being paid handsomely to the airport to stand around not helping TSA agents who aren’t being paid at all because of a dispute over paying ICE agents …it’s pretty diabolical.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This makes me want to storm the GPO myself.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We are being governed by manosphere shitposters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Like clockwork.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026
Make it stick.
futurism.com
People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses"
On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue." A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Last summer in Positano, the skies opened and a biblical downpour turned the streets into rushing rivers, drenching the hordes of summer-dress wearing Instagram influencers and ruining their Limoncellos. Absolute scenes. I could not stop laughing. I think I might be a chaos demon.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is Inishtrahull, a small island above my home county of Donegal. The last inhabitants left in 1929; the lighthouse keepers moved away in 1987. Its rocks are the oldest in Ireland, at 1.8 billion years old. That’s the age I feel when I read the current news cycle.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Seamus Heaney was right, poetry is strong enough to help in moments of crisis.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you want to clear the ground for a generational upheaval, perhaps don’t start it with a Bloody Sunday of their school children. newrepublic.com/post/207199/...
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The Terrifying Revelation About Trump’s Strike on Iran Girls’ School
Was the strike based on outdated information?
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 18/02/2026
The King's Fort • Derry This is one of the best preserved ringforts in Ulster. It likely dates to some time between the 6th—12th century. It is situated on the southern slopes of Benbradagh, commanding spectacular views over Drumsurn in County Derry. #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Archaeology #Derry
The circular earthworks of an early medieval ringfort, set high on a ridge looking over green countryside towards distant mountains.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We’re at the cosplaying colonists of yore section of the MAGA extinction burst. But there’s no second Troy to sack or burn.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Take Irelands name out of your mouth when you want to rationalize white supremacy. The Irish didn’t come to America to share their culture. They came fleeing destitution and starvation in their homeland, courtesy of the kind of imperial power you now fetishize. We don’t forget.
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
When I was a boy I wanted a pink Rolls Royce that could fly but The New York Times didn’t write a story about it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents. "He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."
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‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It’s unusual to see the apotheosis of someone’s life in a picture, but this may well be Pam Bondi’s. I have a feeling this image will come to haunt and define her (and the second Trump presidency) in American history.
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