Citizen Khan

Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world,
Than the pride that divides
When a colorful rag is unfurled.

[Citizen Khan @SocDemSouth]

The petition has passed 800k signatures. If it reaches 1 million from 7 countries, the EU & govts must action & account for it

I have signed this initiative https://t.co/SFYcWejbX6 . Sign it and share it! https://t.co/CVotnb8Z4Q

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The idea of the enlightened billionaire is over. The naked drive for power and profit is now clear. We must choose. We either live with powermongers driving conflict and greed for their own benefit, or we can have a politics of care. Your choice?
https://t.co/wlljgXrPma

[Paulie Doyle @BigPaulieDoyle]

Just four months ago a poll published by the Irish Times found that 71% of respondents want neutrality enshrined in the constitution

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

Irish football players shouldn't be put in this position anywhere.

Poland refused to play Russia.

We should do the same

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly]

In this article Sinead O’Sullivan repeatedly uses the misleading phrase ‘a sovereign Europe’. The EU is not ‘sovereign’ over anything, its peoples have never consented to forming a sovereign state and its legitimacy comes only from the consent of its members.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

The Irish Times naturally doesn't reveal O'Sullivan's affiliation in her anti-neutrality piece today. She's the director of a defence thinktank, Security Ireland. Amongst other things, it advises investors on 'opportunities' to be had in the EU's €800bn arms industry bonanza.

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

Data centre growth represents the death of western innovation. So bloated & inefficient are western closed AI models compared to open Chinese AI models, that our tech lords need to splurge on endless data centres. Meanwhile the Chinese require only a tiny fraction.

Of course the billionaire brain rotted class who have seized overwhelming policy making power in much of the west are also rapidly rigging the system - even more than it is already rigged against most people in favour of said billionaire class.

The below headline is a case in point. In Ireland the entire population is actually subsidising the data centre energy bills of brain rotted billionaire tech lords.

If you’re not enraged, you should be. Alternatively you can just drink the soup cooked up by the frontmen of these parasitic billionaire vampires. The Irish government and media have been guzzling on that soup.

The entire situation is an act of insanity. The west being led to its death by a bunch of billionaires, while its servants and courtesans cheer it all on or tell you to look away and get angry at something else. Sad.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

Data-centre energy demand adds hundreds of euros to home electricity bills, study claims
An estimated cumulative average of €360 has been added to household electricity bills over recent years due to high data-centre energy demand
https://t.co/ON4dLllT8a

[Conor O'Neill @conoraon]

There are 2 key questions Govt need to answer when this finally hits the floor of the Dáil:

1. If Spain can include a ban on certain services, why can't Ireland?

2. Services ban rightly imposed re Russian-occupied territory in 2014. If it was implementable then, why not now?

[Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan]

For over two years it has been obvious that Europe needed to negotiate directly with Moscow. Geography, energy, security architecture: all European interests.

Waiting on Washington was strategic dependence dressed up as Atlanticism. The bill for that delusion is now coming due.

[𝕭𝖆𝖒 𝕾𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖆𝖓 @BamSullivan]

Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.

Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.

Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.

But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

[Revolution @Revolution_IRL]

Fianna Fáil summed up.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

FIFA's response when 3 member associations REFUSED to play Russia:

"Fully understandable and cannot be criticised from a legal or moral point of view".

The FAI must do the right thing and have clear precedence to fall back on.

#StopTheGame

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory.
The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Western media:

[Citizen Khan @SocDemSouth]

For a country claiming to have the best colleges globally(they certainly charge the highest fees), it sure has a lot of really fucking stupid people across it's top ranks. A bunch of know nothings with zero self awareness.
Pricey frat party+ elite networking ≠ education!

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

Inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20 would signal to the world that aggression works, and that appeasement is back on the table. America is better than this.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide.

Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave their cars behind. By removing ticket costs and barriers, public transport is treated more like an essential public service, simple, accessible, and open to everyone, including visitors and cross-border commuters.

The results have been noticeable: more people are using public transport, roads are less congested, and urban air quality has improved. While premium first-class rail still requires payment, everyday travel is now seamless, just get on and go.

This bold approach has positioned Luxembourg as a global example of how making transport free can help shift habits toward greener, more sustainable travel.