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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Lecturer in International Relations at Glasgow University. Rugby/ex-MMA/Beer Enthusiast. BJJ 🟪⬛🟪. ADD. Opinions own, rt =/= endorsement.

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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One of the best threads I’ve read in a long time
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons
A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'
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wetwebwork @wetwebwork.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So Palestinian protest groups should ditch the peaceful signs, mask up in all black, and that would be an acceptable form of action is the message, I guess...
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If only they’d hold up a few Palestine Action signs, then the government might actually do something about them
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Please donate to help this Gazan student’s appeal against the Irish government’s disgraceful decision to reject his visa application: Mahmoods Education chuffed.org/project/1958...
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Mahmoods Education
From Determination to Graduation: Help Me Get to Ireland
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Love O'Toole's writing: "The SpaceX IPO marked the definitive launch of a new form of capitalism, based entirely on storytelling. Capitalism has always relied on belief...But this new form is based, not on belief, but on the suspension of disbelief." tinyurl.com/yhksdjnn
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Fintan O'Toole: Elon Musk conjures up a fantasy for Wall Street and a nightmare for Belfast
Dazzled SpaceX investors and frenzied brick-throwing boys in Belfast are all swallowing his dark fantasies
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I hate agreeing with Boris Johnson www.wsj.com/opinion/put-...
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Opinion | Boris Johnson: Put Up or Put a Sock in It, Europe
Continental leaders talk big about autonomy and independence from the U.S., but it’s all bluster.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Scum. All of them.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Kathy Sheridan: Sinn Féin is deliberately being obtuse about EU plan to help Ukraine
It’s not a simple question of spending money on services here or bolstering Ukraine’s defence
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Unbelievably grim. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I love this piece. Marina Hyde is my spirit animal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Ireland can’t afford to ignore Trump’s threat to Europe. Silence would be submission
US president Donald Trump’s hostility towards Europe has long been manifest
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Reading this, my mind is brought back to a scholar I met at ISA 2025 who ruefully explained his vote for Trump in 2024 because the US "...just HAD to get rid of Biden" To which I should have asked, how did you think the #January6th guy would be an improvement? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter
US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Yanqui go home www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland in Trump's Western Hemisphere – do you feel owned yet?
Steve Bannon’s boasts are not just those of a marginal blowhard – they chime with the fully official American claim on the hemisphere in which we live
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Very smart government we have, very credible and serious. Burn political capital at European level for a meaningless gesture and potentially a short-lived polling bump. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Ireland will vote against Mercosur trade deal, Taoiseach and Tánaiste confirm
Simon Harris said the government’s position stands: ‘We will vote against the agreement’
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"What the world is witnessing is not a "rules-based" order, but colonial pillaging. Upholding sovereignty, equality and noninterference is not optional. It is the foundation of global stability — and it must be defended." tinyurl.com/4r6tjah7
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US invasion act of imperialist aggression: China Daily editorial
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Make Billionaires Extinct Again www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Climate: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should take Billie Eilish’s question seriously
If you’re a billionaire, she asked, why are you a billionaire?
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is literally being done just so Muskrat can claim to be the world’s first trillionaire. No financial or business sense, just pure ego. Disgusting. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Tesla deal to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire
World’s richest person could receive the largest corporate payout in history if he meets required goals
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Things one loves reading about
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Us Vs Them
How the Far Right taught good people to hate
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Same thing goes for the nameless US elites, shit or get off the pot you absolute cowards. 7 million people are marching in the street and risking being murdered by ICE in the streets to prevent deportations. You are worried about your stock portfolio. Grow a pair.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Shit or get off the pot time, Tories. Either disavow her plan for ethnic cleansing publicly and vote to kick her out of the party, or resign your position. You gutless cowards. Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people
Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I remain convinced that the Conservative Party is more akin to an ant infected with cordyceps than a functioning political party. Its legs are moving and it’s capable of travelling from point a to point b, but its mind has been eaten by Farage and it’s a slowly dying husk.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A good piece summarising Starmer’s continued hypocrisy and absurdity regarding the genocide in Gaza
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK
Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
GET IN MY SON
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Fintan O’Toole: Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps
Accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning strategy
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
The intense Israeli forces offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at risk.
• The unacceptable level of risk has led us to reluctantly decide to suspend our lifesaving activities in Gaza City.
• Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City.
GAZA - The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend vital medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation. The situation includes continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than one kilometre from our healthcare facilities. The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of risk for our staff, forcing us to suspend lifesaving medical activities.
"We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," says Jacob Granger, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Gaza. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous, with the most vulnerable people - infants in neo-natal care, those with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses - unable to move and in grave danger."
While large numbers of people have fled south due to evacuation orders, there are still hundreds of thousands of pople in Gaza City, who are unable to leave and have no other option but to stay. Those who are able to leave face an impossible choice: either remain in Gaza City under intense military operations and the deterioration of law and order, or abandon what's left of their houses, their belongings, and their memories, to move to areas where humanitarian conditions are rapidly collapsing.At the same time, partially functional hospitals across the Strip are overwhelmed due to severe shortages of staff, supplies, and fuel. Patients also face enormous obstacles reaching care, often arriving late and in critical condition.
Last week alone, and despite the mounting offensive, our clinics in Gaza City carried out over 3,640 consultations and treated 1,655 people with malnutrition. We have also treated patients with severe trauma injuries, burns, as well as pregnant women and others requiring ongoing medical care who are unable to leave the city. This shows the scale of medical needs. Although we have been forced to suspend our activities in Gaza City, we aim to continue supporting key services in Ministry of Health facilities, including Al-Helou and Al-Shifa hospitals, while they continue to function.
Access to and the provision of safe drinking water, food, shelter and care is increasingly restricted. People in Gaza City have been repeatedly and relentlessly bombed. They are exhausted and are being deliberately deprived of the essentials needed to survive.
We call for an immediate halt to the violence and concrete measures at the necessary scale to protect civilians. Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City, and acceptable conditions for the safe and sustained delivery of medical care and humanitarian aid, conditions that are clearly not in place today.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My one question about this ludicrous nonsense is, who is the supposed shooter, and what *ACTUALLY* happened to him. Very convenient that he "took his own life".
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yes. This. 1000x this. The best thing the UK (and Ireland) could do to improve its politics would be to start tuning out this American culture war nonsense which has absolutely no relevance to or bearing on our society whatsoever.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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How to Practice Politics the Right Way
How leaving a cult showed me how people really change. And why the answer isn’t a left-wing Charlie Kirk.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
Maybe it is appropriate then that so many large media institutions are carrying on his “work” to facilitate “open dialogue” by letting the right call for Civil War, retribution, and violence while firing anyone who simply accurately describes the things that Charlie Kirk said and did.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/09/2025
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When he’s right he’s right, although as usual, he’s only saying this to pressure countries to buy American oil instead of
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear. This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like
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The Clint Initiative Podcast @theclintpodcast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Nothing but silence was the response when this happened. Still is.
Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness.
DO NOT LET IT.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2025
CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!
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Farage furious over Jo Brand's 'throw battery acid not milkshake' joke

Brexit party leader calls for police action over comedian’s comments on BBC Radio 4

Jedidajah Otte
Wed 12 Jun 2019 19.32 BST

The BBC has defended the comedian Jo Brand against claims she incited violence in comments she made during a radio show.

Brand, who joined the Heresy talk show on Radio 4 as a guest on Tuesday, joked about throwing battery acid at “unpleasant characters” instead of milkshakes.
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party and one of several European election candidates that had milkshakes thrown on them in recent weeks, tweeted: “This is incitement of violence and the police need to act.”
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ChazombieDude @chazdude.newgrounds.com · 23/08/2025
#cartoonistsforg4za
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The SovCit movement comes to Ireland, as if the country didn’t have enough problems already 🤦🏽‍♂️ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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‘Serious concerns’ over conspiracy theory group forming shadow system of county councils
Organisation’s activities ‘risk misleading or exploiting citizens’, says elected Fianna Fáil figure
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A wee message we projected at Sziget last night 👇
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This. Many, many times over.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In other news, the Pope has been confirmed to be Catholic
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Really really hoping for some European leader (any one will do) to tell Mango Mussolini to keep his ignorant comments to himself and to stay out of domestic political issues that have nothing to do with him www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
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‘Get your act together’: Donald Trump tells Europe to address immigration
Hundreds of protesters gather in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to voice their opposition to US president
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