Deborah McWhirter

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Listen to this pilot. Speaking the truth about his flight during the FAA ground stop.

I hope he doesn’t lose his job over it.

Bless you, Mr. Pilot! 🙏

[mitra @mitrajoy_]

Police don’t eliminate the root cause of crime. They respond after it happens. Crime prevention begins with livable wages, universal healthcare, food security, affordable housing, quality education, accessible childcare, and addiction treatment.

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

“The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack.”

— Winston Churchill

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

A nation’s progress is also measured by how it welcomes all people with disabilities and particular needs. Their lives are not a burden on society. They are a blessing, because they can help us to remember the foundation of the dignity of every human being and what is truly important in life. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

[𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖔𝖋 𝕰𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝕮𝖑𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉 @Jacxdad3376]

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."

Nelson Mandela.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed just posted a beautiful behind the scenes video from when the polls closed until he took the stage for his victory speech.

Watch this. I am crying again. Hope and democracy won. Michigan won and you won Dr. Abdul 💙

[Mr. Keynes @TyKeynes]

Late stage capitalism:

A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.

And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Sebastian Matta, a 19-year old student at Arizona State University, just successfully CRUSHED his Republican opponent to become the next clerk of Superior Court in the nation's 4th-largest county. He killed it on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. This is a must watch.

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

1969 a US soldier is asked:
"If you could send one message to Americans 50 years in the future what would it be?"
"Don't send your sons to finish what politicians start."

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Love it. There's not enough of this fun in the world...

[Dr Dunny Kruger @DrDunnyKruger]

‘Australia without migrant workers’

Who made this? 👏

Mandatory viewing for any fool who still doesn’t understand the implications of slamming the gates shut.

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Do you remember when Fairies used to cause major disruption to roads? No not me and me husband in July. In 1999, engineers building a motorway through County Clare found themselves facing an occult obstacle no survey had flagged. A single hawthorn tree, standing alone in a field at Latoon, just outside Newmarket-on-Fergus.

Lone hawthorns are not to be fecked with. Cut down as part of a hedgerow, they're just trees. But solo in open ground, they become a sceach, a fairy bush, believed to mark the meeting point of ancient fairy paths or bealaí sí.

These are the invisible routes the Aos Sí travel between one stronghold and the next. Interfere with one, and you invite misfortune. Interfere with one sitting on a fairy path, and you're inviting a supernatural shitstorm.

The Latoon bush had the misfortune of standing right in the path of the planned N18. Road crews arrived to clear it when word reached Eddie Lenihan, a seanchaí who'd spent decades collecting stories like this one from farmers and neighbours across Munster.

A local had once told him this particular bush marked a meeting ground between the fairy hosts of Munster and Connacht. This was some inter Provincial business. Disturbing it wouldn't just curse whoever swung the chainsaw. It would curse the road itself.

Lenihan went to the press and story went international. And somewhere along the line, the people actually responsible for building a motorway through Clare decided the safer bet was to build around a bush rather than risk finding out whether an angry crowd of nationwide Fay folk could really enforce some fairy FAFO.

The N18 was redrawn and what should have been a straightforward stretch of motorway ended up delayed for close to ten years while the alignment was reworked to leave the tree untouched. When it finally opened as the M18, the hawthorn was still standing exactly where it always had, in the median strip near junction 11, close enough to the tarmac that trucks doing a hundred kilometres an hour pass within a few metres of it every day.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Brilliantly done by @RobTemple101 - creator of @SoVeryBritish.

Manager meeting for food packaging. So true!

[SweetIrishGhirl @Newrygal1]

This happened live on the radio years ago. Thee most batshit crazy segment yet completely normal for the north of Ireland. Genuinely a cult classic here

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I saw a quote today that has me teary eyed: “Your pet has memorized the sound of your car pulling up the driveway, your footsteps, the opening of the door, and even the rhythm of your heartbeat. You are their entire world, finally complete once you get home.”

[Deborah McWhirter @DebMcW]

@KerryBurgess Well said.

[Marie Curie @mariecurieuk]

Terminally ill people deserve financial security. 💛

People with a terminal illness, no matter their age, should be able to access a State Pension level of income, so everyone has the money they need to live well in their final months. #PensionAwarenessWeek

[Marie Curie @mariecurieuk]

🚨 Over HALF of nurses in a new UK survey told us terminally ill patients are being cared for in places not designed for it, including corridors.

We’ll say that again. Dying people are being cared for in corridors.

No one should spend their final days like this. The government must make fixing end of life care a priority.

[Deborah McWhirter @DebMcW]

@atensnut Clearly not a woman's woman.