Jim Boland

Retired Granparent.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Reminder:

[Liz Shuler @LizShuler]

Minneapolis workers are the best among us. Facing freezing temps to peacefully stand for truth, freedom, and calling for ICE to leave Minnesota is true solidarity in action.
https://t.co/r1WjqEbQYM

[Mark Henry @Mark_J_Henry]

The Irish passport is one of the world's most powerful. It provides visa-free access to 185 countries and territories, making it the joint 9th most useful passport in the world. 🇮🇪🎉 Ireland's EU membership makes the greatest contribution to our ranking.

https://t.co/zERj2UOeu4

[Jim Boland @jboland]

@AFLCIO Never answer crazy questions

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Belfast stands with 🇵🇸

[Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union @IUBAC]

BAC took over @WorldofConcrete 🔥
#WoC2026

[Jim Boland @jboland]

Who would have thought it would fall to Bankers like Carney and Powell to stand up to the thuggery?

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

[Mark Henry @Mark_J_Henry]

Ireland is the 8th most socially progressive nation in the world, says the new Global Social Progress Index. The country is rated highly as an inclusive and safe society, with strong rights and freedoms, and excellent educational participation. 🇮🇪🎉

https://t.co/9FAbVoDDNw

[Jim Boland @jboland]

Painfully true

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

[Jim Boland @jboland]

I believe it

[🇮🇪 This is Ireland 🇮🇪 @ThisIsIreland3]

Britain imposed a window tax, meaning households were taxed based on how many windows they had. The more light you had, the more you paid.

To survive, families blocked up windows or never installed glass at all. Wooden shutters, cloth, or animal skins were used instead

#History

[Jim Boland @jboland]

This man’s generosity and decency know no bounds

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

USA 🇺🇸
Bruce Springsteen donated $500,000 to the family of a young woman who was killed by an ICE agent, leaving behind her six-year-old son.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

🍷 Wine map of Italy — the world's largest producer.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Africa is not poor, Africa is Overexploited

[Jim Boland @jboland]

Can’t believe a word his says anymore

[ML Smith @maria48308]

She’s right on all counts.

[Jim Boland @jboland]

Imagine that?

[Mark Henry @Mark_J_Henry]

Irish teenagers are among the best in the world at math. Our 15-16 year olds rank 11th out of 80 countries in their average math scores. Asian countries top the ranking, with Estonia, Switzerland, the Netherlands & Ireland performing best in Europe. 🇮🇪👏

https://t.co/MNlEopEz47

[Jim Boland @jboland]

The Irish know it’s not green

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Number of persons with foreign citizenship in Greenland

[Jim Boland @jboland]

@MichaelRapaport Take a fucking Valium

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

How not to be a victim of time – Rebecca West on music and life https://t.co/t9VtRy9BxC

[Jim Boland @jboland]

We will be the worlds worst before long if this continues

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Masked men grabbing women by the hair and ripping them from their cars. Trump's America, 2026.