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[Stuart 🇬🇧 @StuartCan_NI]

@BenLowry2 @ticoirlandais @deirdreheenan Deirdre is an SDLP stooge. She (like Chris Donnelly) masquerades as a ‘political commentator’ but anyone with half a brain cell knows what she is.

[Ben Lowry @BenLowry2]

Deidre, I just saw this, you didn't tag me.
Why have you posted a carefully edited clip that has the effect of distorting my point, ending before I explain myself? The emjoi implies I was inconsistent.
And what are you saying? That unionists are more racist than nationalists? If so, why not actually say it, just as I went on TV to argue the contrary? It is a self-serving nationalist myth

[cbtj @cbtj10]

@DiaryAlfred Just adorable 🥰

[M’Lord Skipper & The Lady Fargo of Sussex @SkipperTheBear]

Surely someone can offer a spot in their sofa for sweet Honey the BT?

[cbtj @cbtj10]

@DiaryAlfred I am so pleased for you (happy tears here) what a lucky pup he is to be so adored 🥰🙏😊

[cbtj @cbtj10]

@bbctheview bingo card…..let me be clear…used over and over and over - be clear just stop saying it 🙄all the buzz words but all thick as champ: God help us

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[aniuska @anallinaresg]

he is literally a violent man who did this in public, but people don't want to believe that he assaulted two of his exes in private...

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘6 JUNE 2026 #Lost Ginny #ScanMe
Cocker Spaniel Female
#Erbistock #Wrexham #Wales #LL13
She never leaves the farm but has been missing since last night. We live between the Cross Foxes and the Plassey.
https://t.co/9E09duJMaV

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1990 the IRA murdered James Sefton, 65. Married father of 2. Retired RUCR driving past Forthriver Primary School on Ballygomartin Rd when bomb exploded under car, murdering him & wife. Disabled lady slightly injured when car mounted pavement & struck chair #OTD

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisday in 1990 the IRA murdered Ellen Sefton, 66. Wife & mother of 2. Mrs Sefton died next day, 7/6. The car crashed 10am, onto the pavement injuring a female wheelchair user who was recovering from a stroke and slightly injuring her husband on their way to hairdressers. #OTD

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisday in 1990 the IRA murdered James Sefton, 65.
Married father of 2 murdered along with his wife. Retired RUCR driving near Forthriver Primary School on Ballygomartin Rd when bomb attached to car exploded. Car mounted pavement and crashed. Couple cut from car wreckage #OTD

[Daniel Catchpole @KingDanTheGr8]

@iowntheterf @jk_rowling Would you like me to try and raise some funds for some mental health treatment for you?

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1973 the IRA murdered David Purvis, 22. Engaged. RUC shot from a car, Belmore St, Enniskillen. Colleague escaped. In 1971 he & RUC risked their lives evacuating the Town Hall & 1972 saved cat & money in Kilskeery fire. Maguire acquitted but jailed for terrorism #OTD

[cbtj @cbtj10]

@BtCulter Great news 🙏🙏🥰

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[cbtj @cbtj10]

@BtCulter 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[Paul Wilson @PaulWil38543502]

Some seriously big issues here to be accounted for by @PaulaJaneB

What part of "lucky I didn't get stuck into the b**tard properly" is acceptable from your position as Chair?
To then further try to silence Mr Gaston when he challenged the outburst.

This is disgraceful.

[Peter Martin @petermartindup]

What Sinn Fein are not telling you is there is no way to ensure *safeguarding* arrangements in a school without mandatory inspection as per the NI Audit Office report (enclosed). This SF stance is playing politics with children’s safety and is actually appalling.

[ukkcbeard @ukkcbeard]

It has got to be said, poor Paula here is way out of her depth. If she had any dignity at all, she’d resign.