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[Laoise de Brún | Barrister | Seanad Candidate @laoisedebrun]

Inclusive of the cohort sitting the leaving Cert.

Let’s break this down:

The only possible meaning of pregnant person is a woman who is pregnant but who, although pregnant, identifies as a man.

These are notional constructs.

They don’t exist.

None have ever demanded this erasure of women either. None.
Name a transman that is fronting this campaign in the media.
Giving interviews and soundbites.
They don’t exist.
A. Because there would be uproar
B. Logic would dictate that if you are carrying a child, you accept your femaleness.
C. There is no legal basis for this: men cannot get pregnant and there is no category of pregnant female that person describes
D. As usual in modern Ireland, there is no legal or media campaign only our technocrats quietly destroying the pillars and boundaries of our society brick by brick.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The ideal subject of totalitarianism... is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

— Hannah Arendt

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

My office has received an extraordinary volume of correspondence on the EU Migration & Asylum Pact.

People are asking serious questions about democratic accountability, sovereignty and public consultation.

I’ve heard those concerns.

I’m seeking answers from Government on what Ireland has signed up to, what it will cost and what powers remain in Irish hands.

Watch below ⬇️

#MigrationPact #Ireland #Democracy #Accountability #IndependentIreland

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Henry Nowak, 18 ans, étudiant.

Poignardé cinq fois.

Allongé au sol, il répète aux policiers

« j’ai été poignardé »,

« je ne peux plus respirer ».

Réponse de l’officier:

« I don’t think you have, mate. »

On le menotte. Il meurt dans la nuit.

Pourquoi?

Parce que son meurtrier a dégainé l’arme absolue de notre époque: l’accusation de racisme.

Et face à cette arme, des policiers conditionnés à craindre une plainte plus que la mort ont retourné les menottes contre la victime.

Souvenez-vous.

Le monde entier s’est agenouillé pour quatre mots: « I can’t breathe. »

Des entreprises, des gouvernements, des stades entiers.

Henry a prononcé exactement les mêmes mots, en train de mourir.

Il n’y aura ni genou à terre, ni hashtag, ni minute de silence.

Ce n’est pas une coïncidence, c’est un système.

Une idéologie qui a enseigné à une société entière que l’accusation de racisme prime sur les faits, sur le corps, sur la vie elle-même.

Le wokisme n’est pas une posture morale inoffensive.

Ce soir-là, il a littéralement tenu la main qui a menotté un gosse en train de se vider de son sang.

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Let's decode what actually happened here.

Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."

The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.

This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.

Now watch the response.

Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.

But here is the part that matters.

Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?

Because it serves both.

Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.

Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.

And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.

Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."

The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.

And the war continues exactly as planned.

This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.

Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.

Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.

The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.

Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.

Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.

[Luke O' Connor @LOCthedreamer2]

If we scrap the triple lock, you might as well just hand the country over to Foreign warmongers in the U.N. and NATO.

Irish Neutrality has been a cornerstone of our state's existence.

The populist right and left should both oppose this shameless attempt to suck up to unaccountable international organisations.

#HowIrelandWorks

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Very interesting article by Sinéad O'Sullivan on how the Irish government defends doing nothing.

https://t.co/eYNSORP0J5

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

The geopolitical version of drunkenly sucker-punching a much smaller guy at a bar because your girl told you the smaller guy was looking at her funny...only to discover the much smaller guy knows Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has taken you down to the ground & begun to choke you out👇

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

Feel like this guy has waited his whole life to say this. Incredibly eloquent and accurate appraisal of the failure of Western elites.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

@ColletteCostel2 From Amazon.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

Ireland is so rich 40% of working people under the age of 35 live in their childhood bedroom without hope of buying or renting their own home.

Ireland is so rich that each month it sets new homelessness records with 17,500 people being homeless in March.

Ireland is so rich that 3 out of 5 Irish people under the age of 25 want to emigrate and 81% said they'd have a better quality of life elsewhere.

Ireland is so rich that Irish people - not high-earning non-Irish FDI tech multinational (Indian) workers, and not no-earning false asylum claimants - will at best be able to move into a garden shed out the back of their parent's home.

Ireland is so rich that when it snows elderly people across the nation - particularly in the west - are left without heat and electricity because of archaic infrastructure outside of the capital.

Ireland is so rich that hauliers and farmers recently braved being pepper-sprayed by police to try and bring notice to the fact that they are living paycheque to paycheque.

Ireland is so rich that groceries cost the second-highest in the Eurozone - 12% above the EU average. It has the highest electricity costs in Europe (excluding inflationary government subsidies). Ireland is so rich it routinely tops the most expensive lists for hotels, dining, internet, phones, postage etc.

Ireland is so rich...on paper.
👇👇👇

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Hurray, Trump saved 8 AI-generated people.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

@MarkLTighe Over €15billion has been allocated to emergency accommodation since 2021

The Irish Times are not doing anywhere near enough investigative work into this. Its the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the State.

Please dig deeper Mark. 🙏🏻

https://t.co/o4OMo4bCsb

[SnDMedia @SnDMediaNews]

The Undertones of 'Ireland’s Destruction'

Éamon Ó Murchú

Leo Varadkar has never hidden his contempt for the Ireland that built this country.
The real Ireland, the one of small farms, parish halls, GAA pitches on wet Sundays, and families who trace their line back through famine and rebellion.

This week, speaking on Matt Cooper’s Path to Power podcast, the former Taoiseach returned to form. While farmers and rural communities have spent recent weeks forging a rare, stubborn unity against policies that threaten their livelihoods, Varadkar offered not dialogue, but division, provocation dressed up as concern.
He was blunt, Farmers, “bring costs on Ireland.” Urban areas, by contrast, are “the ones paying all the bills.” He argued that the old alignment between agriculture and the national interest has broken. “What was good for farmers and the wider agricultural industry was what was good for Ireland,” he recalled of the past. But now, he claimed, “things are actually starting to go the other way,what’s in the interests of farmers and the agriculture industry is by and large not in the interests of Ireland as a nation.”

Farmers still see themselves as bringing money and jobs, yet “a lot of the time they bring costs on Ireland.”

This is classic gaslighting. Varadkar speaks of “modernising” the countryside, yet every syllable drips with disdain for the people who actually live there. Traditional rural life, in his worldview, is an embarrassing relic, too white, too settled, too attached to the land their ancestors cleared with their bare hands.

He has said it before, openly and insultingly:
Ireland is “too pale and stale.” We need “more colour” right across every sector, he once declared, as though the native population were a faded photograph that must be digitally altered to suit the tastes of Davos and Brussels.

The message is unmistakable: your culture is the problem and your homogeneity is the obstacle.

The timing is no coincidence. As rural Ireland finds its voice, through haulage and tractor convoys, town-hall defiance, and a growing refusal to accept the destruction of family farms in the name of net-zero dogma, the globalist script demands a counter-offensive.

Enter Varadkar, the polished puppet, sent back onto the airwaves to divide and demoralise. He paints rural protest as irrational anger, as bigotry in wellies.
This is 'psychological manipulation' of the highest order, making the victims feel guilty for noticing their own erasure.

Varadkar’s record speaks volumes. Under his watch, Ireland became a laboratory for the great replacement experiment: record asylum claims, tents on city streets, hotels filled while Irish families waited years for housing. Rural communities were told to absorb the consequences without complaint. When they objected, they were labelled racists, far-right, or his favourite, "out of touch".

The undertone remains constant, Ireland does not belong to the Irish. Yet something has shifted, the farmers’ contractors, haulage and general publics unity of recent weeks is no scattered grumbling; it is a national awakening, a recognition that policies sold as progress are in fact engineered decline.

Varadkar can gaslight all he likes. He can trot out tired lines about diversity being our strength while evidence piles up in emergency departments, housing lists, and changing school rolls. The Irish people have seen this playbook before.
They will not be so easily fooled again. The land remembers, the people remember, and the harder the Varadkars and elites of this world push, pitting town against country, native against newcomer, the clearer the choice becomes: surrender our inheritance or stand up and take it back.

Rural Ireland is choosing the latter. The rest of the country and indeed the world is watching and learning. The undertones of destruction are being met, at last, with the souls of pure Irish defiance.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

In March 2014, Henry Kissinger warned against Ukraine becoming a pawn in a competition between NATO and Russia, as this would tear apart Ukraine and redivide Europe for decades:
- "Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other—it should function as a bridge between them… The west is largely Catholic; the east largely Russian Orthodox. The west speaks Ukrainian; the east speaks mostly Russian. Any attempt by one wing of Ukraine to dominate the other—as has been the pattern—would lead eventually to civil war or break up. To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West—especially Russia and Europe—into a cooperative international system"
https://t.co/JezArAOgCK

[Carol Nolan TD @CNolanOffaly]

So true Eoin.. you mention NGO’s- it’s just criminal that there are 34,000 of these organisations that don’t create employment but yet get €6.2Billion of hard earned Irish taxpayers money every year and this is of course to the detriment of self-employed people and businesses

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir document 👇 wouldn't be a manifesto they proudly boast about, but a clear sign of the urgent need to purge its software from the public institutions it has infiltrated.

What are they saying, essentially?

They basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a "they" - the supposed enemies of Western civilization, whose cultures the document codes as inferior - and a "we" who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software (which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure).

Look at point 4 for instance. They write that "the limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software."

It all rests on a pretty massive assumption: that coexistence is impossible. Why would "free and democratic societies" (by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal-democracies) need to "prevail"? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems out there?

Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption: it's simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument.

But it's the entire ballgame: if civilizations and political systems can coexist - as they largely have, imperfectly but recognizably, throughout history - then the entire case they make in the document evaporates.

In fact one can argue that, studying history, the big problem was not that civilizations couldn't coexist: it was that, from time to time, one of them decided that others were inferior, threatening, or standing in the way of its rightful expansion - and acted accordingly.

So many catastrophes and so much human suffering in history trace back not to the fact of plural civilizations, but to one of them deciding it could no longer tolerate the others.

The problem, in other words, has almost always been exactly the worldview Palantir is now selling. Their manifesto isn't warning against the cause of some of the worst periods in history: it's arguing for reviving them!

Or take point 15: they explicitly call for the re-armament of Germany and Japan, and an end to "Japanese pacifism". Basically undoing one of the foundational settlements of the post-WW2 order.

I mean, think about the insanity of this for a second: a private company - unelected, answerable only to its shareholders - is casually proposing to overturn the security architecture of two continents. A settlement that took a world war, and tens of millions of dead to establish.

Why do they propose this? There is obviously a commercial motivation: a remilitarized Germany and Japan are massive new defense-software markets.

But the more troubling answer is that point 15 fits into the ideological project the rest of the manifesto lays out - a civilizational contest requires a consolidated Western bloc, and pacifist members are a liability in such a contest.

So taking a step back we now have what's the most influential defense-software company in the world, with its code deeply embedded in all the machinery of Western states - intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, welfare systems, border controls - openly outing itself as an ideological project.

They're effectively saying "our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours."

Because, worryingly, that's what they CAN do. Palantir software is all about basically telling states: "these are your threats, these are the people and groups to watch, these are the patterns that matter, these are the targets that warrant action."

For instance the DGSI - the French intelligence services - use Palantir (see: https://t.co/3YJk88k4QY): do you honestly think the software is warning them about, say, the NSA tapping the phones of French government officials? About the weaponization of US extraterritorial law against French companies? Did it warn them about the AUKUS ambush that cost France a sixty-billion-euro submarine contract? Obviously not.

And that's exactly what the manifesto is saying. They've positioned themselves as advocates of Western civilizational unity, so their software can't undermine it. The ideological position and the product roadmap have to align, or the whole project falls apart.

This makes their software not only deeply dangerous for the world as a whole but also, almost by definition, for any country using it. When it comes to your security as a state, it is primordial you base yourself on truth as opposed to ideology. The entire point of an intelligence agency is to tell its government what is true, not what your so-called "allies'" defense contractors would like you to see.

A state that outsources its threat assessment to a company with an explicit ideological agenda is not gathering intelligence, it is essentially subscribing to propaganda.

The conclusion couldn't be more obvious. Every government still running Palantir software in its intelligence, security, or public-service infrastructure needs to start ripping it out, now! Lest they want to be embarked on the delusional and deeply destructive clash-of-civilizations crusade Palantir has now openly committed itself to.

[Madeleine Ebbs @MadeleineEbbs57]

Don't know who this man is, but OMG.
Long time since I heard anyone speak the truth with such passion. We need to be shouting this from the rooftops.
We need to wake drip fed sheeple...

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The “pro-Ukrainians” in NATO countries backed the coup in Kiev without majority support from Ukrainians; supported reversing Ukraine’s election outcome in 2019 as 73% of Ukrainians voted for a peace platform; supported purging Ukraine’s political parties, media, language, and culture; sabotaged the Minsk and Istanbul peace agreements; boycotted diplomacy as hundreds of thousands died in the trenches; and will now expel Ukrainian refugees so they can be sent to the trenches. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

The #FuelProtest in Galway Port tonight raising the tricolour high. Just in the last few minutes. 🇮🇪☘️