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DOGE did everything they were supposed to do and have already killed almost 700,000 people including 430,000 children, as intended. DOGE is one of the most successful anti-democracy, mass-murder campaigns we've ever seen, and we will be dealing with the consequences of their success for generations.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
DOGE did everything they were supposed to do and have already killed almost 700,000 people including 430,000 children, as intended. DOGE is one of the most successful anti-democracy, mass-murder campaigns we've ever seen, and we will be dealing with the consequences of their success for generations.
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One week to go until our National March for Palestine! All out, show our unbreakable solidarity with the Palestinian people and show our government we have not gone away and we insist they take action to sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
One week to go until our National March for Palestine! All out, show our unbreakable solidarity with the Palestinian people and show our government we have not gone away and we insist they take action to sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow
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Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.
UNRWA slams Israel for crippling Gaza efforts, aid woefully short of needs
Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.
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They're continuing to starve them on purpose
24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
They're continuing to starve them on purpose
Centrist Das watching the inauguration
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Centrist Das watching the inauguration
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joyce carol oates has sent one of the worst men in living memory into a spiral wherein he desperately tries to prove that he contains a shard of humanity within the trash heap of his existence
thank you, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ! I can't imagine you dreamed you'd get under his "skin" like that
thank you, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ! I can't imagine you dreamed you'd get under his "skin" like that
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
joyce carol oates has sent one of the worst men in living memory into a spiral wherein he desperately tries to prove that he contains a shard of humanity within the trash heap of his existence
thank you, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ! I can't imagine you dreamed you'd get under his "skin" like that
thank you, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ! I can't imagine you dreamed you'd get under his "skin" like that
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*John Carpenter sighs, breaks out the synth*
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
*John Carpenter sighs, breaks out the synth*
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Being pro-trans and pro-immigrant is a winning strategy, like we've been saying all year
These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored
These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored
"All of these candidates who won last night didn’t shy away from talking about gender equality and LGBTQ rights. They didn’t buy the theory that doing so would alienate young men. And they were right. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Carville."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
What Young Men Problem?
Democrats won clear majorities of this constituency.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Being pro-trans and pro-immigrant is a winning strategy, like we've been saying all year
These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored
These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored
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Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
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Ivan Yates becomes the first middle aged white guy to fail at podcasting, in keeping with being the first bookie ever to go bankrupt
Broadcaster Ivan Yates will no longer present a political podcast with Matt Cooper after it emerged that Mr Yates had not disclosed his work advising Fianna Fáil during the Presidential Election
Yates exits podcast after not sharing FF election work
Broadcaster Ivan Yates will no longer present a political podcast with Matt Cooper after it emerged that Mr Yates had not disclosed his work advising Fianna Fáil during the Presidential Election.
www.rte.ie
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ivan Yates becomes the first middle aged white guy to fail at podcasting, in keeping with being the first bookie ever to go bankrupt
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I am going to lose my fucking mind!
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
A total of 213,738 people spoiled their vote in the recent Presidential Election, and questions remain as to why so many people chose to do so, writes Juliette Gash.
Size of spoiled vote the elephant in the room of election
A total of 213,738 people spoiled their vote in the recent Presidential Election, and questions remain as to why so many people chose to do so.
www.rte.ie
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I am going to lose my fucking mind!
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
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Is this like spoiled votes where they need to be pandered to harder? Or are there some problems where the solution isn't "more racism"?
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Is this like spoiled votes where they need to be pandered to harder? Or are there some problems where the solution isn't "more racism"?
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Strongest condemnation from a local politician so far coming from Labour's Ged Nash - underlining how close we may have been to having several lives lost in Drogheda overnight as a result of this attack.
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Strongest condemnation from a local politician so far coming from Labour's Ged Nash - underlining how close we may have been to having several lives lost in Drogheda overnight as a result of this attack.
I sent this into Irish Pictorial Weekly ten years ago, (when I innocently thought gombeens were the worst thing about Irish politics)
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I sent this into Irish Pictorial Weekly ten years ago, (when I innocently thought gombeens were the worst thing about Irish politics)
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Looking forward to the IT giving people the opportunity of saying why we voted in record numbers for Catherine Connolly. They might learn a bit about Ireland.
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Looking forward to the IT giving people the opportunity of saying why we voted in record numbers for Catherine Connolly. They might learn a bit about Ireland.
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Why is that person on Rte? Look at the smile. She’s delighted about actual Nazi symbols and swastikas in her name. Smiling away.
This person didn’t even get nominated and would never be elected so why is she on Rte? Where’s McGregor or the other headbangers interview? Why her? #Áras25 #Speirgorm
This person didn’t even get nominated and would never be elected so why is she on Rte? Where’s McGregor or the other headbangers interview? Why her? #Áras25 #Speirgorm
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Why is that person on Rte? Look at the smile. She’s delighted about actual Nazi symbols and swastikas in her name. Smiling away.
This person didn’t even get nominated and would never be elected so why is she on Rte? Where’s McGregor or the other headbangers interview? Why her? #Áras25 #Speirgorm
This person didn’t even get nominated and would never be elected so why is she on Rte? Where’s McGregor or the other headbangers interview? Why her? #Áras25 #Speirgorm
The Irish media are being played like fiddles by this Maria Steen tripe. Her campaign was as sincere as McGregors', she knew she hadn't a hope and deliberately botched it, but now is invited to be the face of the "oppressed right", and her/Iona are eyeing the foreign billionaire funding rolling in.
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Irish media are being played like fiddles by this Maria Steen tripe. Her campaign was as sincere as McGregors', she knew she hadn't a hope and deliberately botched it, but now is invited to be the face of the "oppressed right", and her/Iona are eyeing the foreign billionaire funding rolling in.
The Irish media are being played like fiddles by this Maria Steen tripe. Her campaign was as sincere as McGregors', she knew she hadn't a hope and deliberately botched it, but now is invited to be the face of the "oppressed right", and her/Iona are eyeing the foreign billionaire funding rolling in.
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Irish media are being played like fiddles by this Maria Steen tripe. Her campaign was as sincere as McGregors', she knew she hadn't a hope and deliberately botched it, but now is invited to be the face of the "oppressed right", and her/Iona are eyeing the foreign billionaire funding rolling in.
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“We need to respect the opinions of everybody who spoiled their vote”
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
October 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“We need to respect the opinions of everybody who spoiled their vote”
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
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Catherine Connolly, the independent socialist, is President-Elect. Yet again, Ireland bucks the trend of liberal democracies falling to far right nihilism. Here is who she is - Connolly supports the LGBTQ community & People with Disabilities, Carers & a United Ireland. #Aras25 #SpeirGhorm
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Catherine Connolly, the independent socialist, is President-Elect. Yet again, Ireland bucks the trend of liberal democracies falling to far right nihilism. Here is who she is - Connolly supports the LGBTQ community & People with Disabilities, Carers & a United Ireland. #Aras25 #SpeirGhorm
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Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.
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Can't believe Catherine Connolly posted about my show tonight 😊
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Can't believe Catherine Connolly posted about my show tonight 😊
I haven't got to go to Halloween in years but here's a costume idea for anyone who wants it
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I haven't got to go to Halloween in years but here's a costume idea for anyone who wants it