Robbie Brennan

Former journalist now in PR and communications. MSc in Climate Change Media and Policy from Dublin City University. Beleaguered father-of-two living in Sligo.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@SherekhanKlopp @Knox_Harrington Think Neil was stating a fact about what gets rewarded in the current environment more than advocating for abuse as an effective means of communication.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I mean, every time I open this app I see really extreme hatred and utterly deranged propaganda but in the main, it is just utter garbage, an idiot-box for the dumbest motherfuckers on Earth.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

The “#StopTheGame” campaign has been launched to cancel Ireland’s Nations League matches against Israel scheduled for 27 September and 4 October.

Irish supporters do not want their team to take the field against Israel and are calling for a boycott.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@kev_bundleSSS Like, c'mon guys...

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@anneapplebaum If you didn't know anything about the Middle East, never read a book or newspaper article, but watched the terrible TV series Designated Survivor in which this scenario is discussed in the first episode, you would be better prepared....

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I simply can’t take another 700 Barak Ravid fake US-Israel tension stories. We did this for 15 months with Biden, Ravid published 30+ of these and no policy ever changed. They’re curated by WH officials/Ravid to create artificial distance between the president and unpopular wars.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@adamjohnsonCHI I wrote a bit about Democratic pragmatism/cowardice and what it will ultimately mean....

https://t.co/Ou3YDRiDXN

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Things are bad right now, but some perspective helps. Not too long ago, leaders of both parties forcibly sent American teenagers to die in Southeast Asia and then the they lied the country into another war that cost $1 trillion and killed a million people — all while the economy was being rigged for bankers and billionaires to loot everything.

Maybe the past politicians seemed to you like nicer dudes than the current White House occupant, but things have been going in the wrong direction for a very long time, even if you weren’t paying as much attention because everyone had been a little more polite.

The fact is, much of what we’re living through now is less an anomaly and more a horrible culmination.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@ryangrim Reminder that this is a lawmaker who goes around telling podcast hosts that she has seen evidence that the US has retrieved alien spacecraft and the bodies of dead aliens from crash sites - which one presumes, if true, would be classified information.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

Only in America could an obviously cold-blooded murder be turned into an irrelevant and tiresome debate about the direction in which wheels were being turned.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Nothing very surprising to me personally about the press conference but I would imagine a gigantic shock to many people. This is a mixture of brutal colonial exploitation with fantasy television on a scale that should send shivers down every decent person’s spine

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@little_football Hard to excuse it tbh. But when I saw the comments, my first thought was, 'At least something is going to happen now...'

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@little_football This stuff from Salah is dreadful on a couple of counts - it means that a Liverpool legend will leave in January to zero fanfare, and it puts pressure on Slot at a time when neither he nor the team look capable of relieving it. Mutually assured destruction.

[People's Republic of Cork @cork]

Cork reaction to the DJ Carey documentary on RTE 😂
https://t.co/xadUBynUwx

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@frank_oconnor @judesherry @anoisagency I find that what local authorities really want is to commercialise space. Green space, to them, is a barrier to regularly hosting concerts, markets, and events.

[Robbie Brennan @RobbieCBrennan]

@little_football All that talent and they're left trying to hit the static big No9 with balls into the box.