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Jackie mac ardle

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Sports enthusiast. All things Ireland.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland @ccacireland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland needs to stop reacting to individual climate events and start preparing systematically for a climate of greater extremes. The Council says Ireland’s climate resilience planning and preparation does not yet match the scale or urgency of the risks the country faces. shorturl.at/0rBfZ
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Tania Doney @taniadoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).
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Marco Rubio says foreign actor was 'clearly' behind suspected plot at UK airbase
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/09/2026
Full report here: youtu.be/ahdKLdKcqFA?...
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Trump DOJ SCRAMBLES As Epstein Survivors Blow COVER-UP WIDE OPEN!!
The Redacted Reading Room in Dallas showcased the incredible artwork of Maria Farmer. Raw, startling, and searingly honest, Maria’s pieces are a memorable part of the experience, alongside the…
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Dave, just Dave @davew66.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My friends son turned 18 recently. These two “men” attacked him without provocation yesterday afternoon at Liverpool St station. 2 lost teeth, broken collarbone, 8 stitches. Hope the #COYS family coming back from the game share this and get them what they deserve. www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...
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CCTV images released after serious assault at station – Central London
Detectives investigating a serious assault at Liverpool Street railway station are releasing images in connection.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CNN’s journalists were denied access to the White House grounds.
Early today, CNN journalists were denied access to the White House grounds. CNN's mission to report on the U.S. government will continue regardless of any attempts to restrict physical access to the White House and other government buildings, or any other attempts to impede
We will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to
without fear or favor.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Macron, quietly calling Trump a liar: “The Strait of Hormuz has remained basically blocked, and there are no agreements to open the strait. “In fact, the situation in transit has degraded compared to a few weeks ago.”
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
A remarkable short thread. This object took skill, knowledge, and many days of work. The person making it did not need to spend the day hunting for food, water, or shelter, nor repelling invaders The desire to create this mace, a symbolic thing of beauty and meaning, was fulfilled #Ireland
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump - moving on from killing people to killing the planet.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Russian oligarch and close personal friend of Putin Umar Kremlev secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr’s May wedding in the Bahamas, ProPublica reports. Kremlev and several other Russians were among the 50 guests.
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Gavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My piece from Doonbeg on a surreal couple of hours Golf momentarily takes backseat in Doonbeg as Trump touches down at Irish Open www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2...
irishtimes.com
Golf momentarily takes backseat in Doonbeg as Trump touches down at Irish Open
Third tee provides prime viewing spot for US president’s arrival in West Clare
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.
NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
2/ Background by NYT Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail By Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join.
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
N. Ireland is being flooded by violent extremists. UK Gov permitted Proud Boys' entry only weeks after the pogroms to hang out with pogromists & make a hate documentary. Absolutely no Government body is looking into international dark money flowing to the far right & paramilitaries here.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
What did Kash do
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also @ldfreedman.bsky.social comparing Iran to other stupid wars to look at how damaging it will be to the US. samf.substack.com/p/good-wars-...
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Good Wars, Bad Wars, and Stupid Wars
Could the war in Iran do even more damage to the US than Iraq?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/08/2026
“They murdered our child. People need to be held responsible when they murder people in this country."   Alex Pretti's family is right, we need accountability for him & every victim of Trump's lawless ICE operation.   That Alex’s family still has no answers is absolutely shameful.
abcnews.com
Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'
Alex Pretti, an American citizen and ICU nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.
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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the bastards www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Brendan Carr is what happens when you give an insecure hall monitor a federal agency and zero shame. Fantastic breakdown by @lizdye laying out the receipts on his overreach. Essential reading from Public Notice and shoutout to @atrupar.com for relentlessly holding these clowns accountable.
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OpenAI says announcement it would buy Irish teenager’s start-up was meant as a ‘joke’ But the announcement was taken seriously by the teenager and several executives www.independent.ie/business/iri...
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OpenAI says announcement it would buy Irish teenager’s start-up was meant as a ‘joke’
OpenAI says an apparent announcement that the AI giant would buy the start-up idea of an Irish teenager was meant as a joke.
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Christ, the poor emergency services to had to respond to this. I hope they're getting proper support www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Infinite Monkeys @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The first episode of this was very good. A crime drama with female rage directed at the Epstein Class.
TV poster. A woman’s face over the title: Furious
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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It takes 2y to produce 1 Patriot interceptor missile + 2.5y to produce its solid rocket motor, and the supply chains of the components must be secured. It's not a new problem but the Iran war made it worse. This is the best article I've read on the subject. We wouldn't be able to win a war w China.
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Scaling Patriot Production: The Industrial Base Crisis Explained - Foreign Policy Research Institute
On April 10, after coalition forces had fired at least 1,700 Patriots in just five weeks, the Pentagon announced a $4.76 billion contract to accelerate
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
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Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I can Nazi anything wrong with this
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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That's a bus. It's an artist's impression of Brisbane Metro, a busway project.
A Brisbane Metro busway image used for an article on Dublin's MetroLink rail project, which actually has rails and platform doors at all stations, and no stations that look like this.
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Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Great warning that drawing wrong conclusions on inadequate evidence from the pandemic or careless analysis of the evidence could increase risk in the next one.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/07/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Carlos Cordeiro, FIFA’s adviser to the White House Task Force for the World Cup, has RESIGNED in protest over FIFA’s controversial plan to sell stakes in the tournament to private investors led by Josh Kushner.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
More questions for Reform, more pressure.
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Glen Hansard @glenhansard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk was humiliated in his interview with The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes. She called him out on his bullshit, pointed out his lies and ignorance and extreme prejudice. We need more interviews like that. This is the response of the world’s thinnest-skinned man.
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She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spanish goalkeeper totally blanked Trump and hugged Carney.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/07/2026
Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Washington Post:
"The U.S. is planning for a wider war," said one U.S. official familiar with internal administration discussions, adding that the Pentagon was increasing the number of military aircraft in the region.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Pentagon still covering up. Dozens of US soldiers injured by Iran this week and a “significant number” of Blackhawks damaged. Not revealed until the NYT mentions it here.
The U.S. officials offered a recounting of the last five days of Iran's attacks on Jordan, which the Pentagon has not yet discussed in detail publicly.
The first attack to hit U.S. forces in Jordan struck a residential facility at King Faisal Air Base, wounding as many as five U.S. service members, they said. The second hit a base in eastern Jordan where U.S. Blackhawk helicopters were operating from, damaging a significant number of them.
Then, 48 hours ago, Iranian missiles hit Jordan's Muwaffag Salti Air Base in Azrag, which is the same base where the troops were killed on Friday, the officials said. The earlier strike wounded about
20 U.S. troops rushing to take cover in bunkers. No one was killed in that barrage. But on Friday, when the Iranians struck the base again, two U.S. troops were killed and four other service members were injured, according to U.S. officials. Other personnel were evaluated for minor injuries and returned to duty.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On Friday, CPD officials sat before Chicago’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights and assured alders that they didn’t need to investigate Border Patrol agent Charles Exum’s shooting of Marimar Martinez because the FBI was on it.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They squandered the chance. They really really should have been seeing things like Nolan making an Odyssey film and it doing bonanza numbers with audiences and critics as a chance to promote their vision of the good. But they just turn out not to really have one, they just have anger.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 19/07/2026
"Before Wednesday's semi-final, there were deepfake videos of Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham in navy gear as they prepared to attack Argentine warships." How shitposting and AI and have breathed technological life into the World Cup's history of being used as a propaganda vehicle. jrnl.ie/7105003t
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Keep politics out of football? Try telling that to the internet's army of World Cup shitposters
Our FactCheck editor details the internet trends seen by a thirtysomething-year-old man.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Have we all become so numb to the rank stupidity and evil actions of Trump and the lousy and foreseeable fall out from these actions? …I mean it has become kind of an endless stream of stupid and evil followed by they lousy and foreseeable fall out all along.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 15/07/2026
Game...ON! #WorldCup
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The forest south of Paris being burned up in wildfire isn’t just any forest. Fontainebleau was crucial to the development of Impressionism, is in masterpieces by Monet and Renoir, and the campaign to protect it inspired one of the earliest environmental manifestos www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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Fire ravages protected France forest that inspired the artists of Paris
Wildfire burns through nearly a fifth of Forest of Fontainebleau that featured in works of Monet and inspired early environmentalism
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Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🇮🇪 ♿️ 🇵🇸 @niamhnicheallaigh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just so you understand how much drinkable water that is, there are exactly 1,000,000 (one million) litres in one megalitre. Nature and wildlife need water to survive, so do data centres. Choose wisely.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. the President is right that his tariffs are at work — in destroying U.S. jobs .. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025 .. “His trade oscillations and border taxes are a major reason .. why Americans are so unhappy.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
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