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[Mick @mk1mick]

Not #Ukraine️ or #Russia but #Afghanistan where @POTUS stole $9.5Bn from the Afghan people.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Coll McCail @MccailColl]

“History will remember him as the unremarkable former human rights lawyer who offered carte blanche to the gravest crimes of our age.”

Good riddance, Sir Keir. For @ScotNational.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/v7Cul4wHzP

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions.

Dr. Fauci personally signed off on these experiments, then lied to Congress about it. Biden tried to protect him with a last-minute pardon. That’s the very definition of a cover-up.

[Boyne News @BoyneNews]

Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 51-year-old Nichola Turner (McCormack) – also goes by Nickie - who is reported missing from her home in Kells, Co. Meath, since Saturday 20th June 2026.

Nichola was last seen on Thursday 18th June 2026 at approximately 1pm.

Nichola is described as being 5 feet 5 inches in height, with a slim build, auburn hair and green eyes.

Nichola is believed to have access to a 151MN-Reg blue Ford Mondeo.

Gardaí and Nichola’s family are concerned for her well-being.
Anyone with information on Nichola’s whereabouts is asked to contact Kells Garda Station on [phone], the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station

[La Catrina Norteña @catrina_nortena]

🚨 SALEN VIDEOS DEL FRAUDE DE LA ULTRA DERECHA EN COLOMBIA

Así fue como el Pueblo en Cartagena descubrió una camioneta cargada con votos marcados por el candidato nacido en Estados Unidos @ABDELAESPRIELLA.

Por favor compartan antes de que la Casa Blanca mande bajar el video de las redes...

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Tens of thousands of Albanians have gathered for the 21st day in a row to protest plans to build a luxury resort on Albania’s southern coast, a development linked to Jared Kushner.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Will Elon Musk and other MAGA types be tweeting about this former top rightwing politician in the UK who was just found guilty of being a pedophile and whose wife aided and abetted him in those sick sex crimes against children? If not, why not?

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Ireland spent €2.88 million deporting 377 people by charter jet since February 2025, according to Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan this week. Most recent flight on Thursday to Johannesburg cost €735,000 and carried 42 South Africans. The most expensive deportation charter to date. These figures exclude Garda overtime and other staffing, so the true operational cost is higher.

Follow the money. The contract for the flights is held by Air Partner Ltd, a Gatwick based company (with interesting shareholders) that recorded pre-tax profits of £8.5 million in 2024, under a deal worth up to €5 million. The per-head cost across all ten flights works out at roughly €7,639 per deportee, though that figure varies wildly depending on destination and group size, ranging from Georgia at around €3,200 a head to the most recent South Africa flight at roughly €17,500 per person.

This is an industry. People are making fortunes from this bureaucracy and revolving door policies are necessary to keep that money flowing. In fact everyone seems to be benefiting financially from the asylum process except the Irish taxpayers.

SOURCES

Irish government press release (June 2026 South Africa flight): https://t.co/ZYE9agKXXN

Irish government press release (February 2026 South Africa flight): https://t.co/rPsndUGQdQ

RTÉ News: https://t.co/RPk0sqvDDd

Irish Legal News: https://t.co/9069e6QWzq

Irish Central: https://t.co/AL3ueuGOUe

[Mick @mk1mick]

@VladTheInflator https://t.co/1hibqeedDx

[🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 @STANISKRAPIVNIK]

Seven Americans from Alabama held ten children captive for three years, forcing them into prostitution.
During a raid on the criminal group, seven suspects were arrested, including two mothers whose children were subjected to torture and violence in a bunker.

One man drugged children aged between two and 15 years old, and then brought in clients who paid up to a thousand dollars for rape.

The New York Post notes that the bunker either belonged to an elderly grandmother of one of the suspects, McElroy, or was located near her home. The woman put electric shock collars on the victims, including her own children.

Justice > do what yhe did to WILLIAM WALLACE ..only much much much slower .........

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 ABSOLUTE BOMBSHELL: DNI Tulsi Gabbard explicitly confirms Washington funded highly dangerous biolabs in Ukraine!

She reveals the establishment viciously smeared her as a Russian asset simply to cover up their reckless gain of function research that threatens humanity!

[Mick @mk1mick]

@rtenews Another Tax

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Former president Michael D Higgins has criticised the European Union, accusing the bloc of lacking any credibility on human rights and international law https://t.co/ibXcdkBp5c

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran announces the Strait of Hormuz has been officially closed after the US failed to pressure Netanyahu to stop the war on Lebanon

In view of America's blatant breach of promise and breach of contract regarding the failure to implement Paragraph 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding to end the war.

And in response to the continuous violations of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon and the merciless killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of the oppressed people of this land, and failure of the Israeli occupation forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon:

We announce that the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all vessels.

[nwl @nwl88444048]

The financial accounts for Adam Harris (brother of FG leader Simon) charity Asiam for 2025 have been published. Another superb year!

Revenue at the charity surged by 54% from €2.4m to €3.7m

Most of the increase came from the HSE whose donation increased from €244,607 to €1,147,507

Other notable donors were the Irish (sic) Human Rights and Equality Commission, the €10m state-funded outfit of which Adam Harris is a commissioner.

And Rethink Ireland, which is partly state-funded, donated €139,378 compared to zero the previous year. Adam Harris is now on the board of Rethink Ireland.

Such a small world, and presumably Adam Harris excused himself as these organisations discussed donations to Asiam.

Most of the increased funding has gone on staffing, increased from 27 to 44, staff costs increase from €1.4m to €2.5m

Adama Harris was paid €98,595 compared to €97,500 the previous year (though the previous year's accounts put his pay in the €80-90k band, who knows)

€3.7m income wha'!
It was just over €100k when Adam's brother was first appointed to Cabinet in 2016.

What a superb job Adam Harris has done and in such a crowded field of state-funded autism charities. Well done to him!

Extracts from the accounts and the autism charity landscape in the Tweet below.

Link to the 2025 accounts at the Charity Regulator website.
https://t.co/eDjsdzgfZq

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Israel will never recover from this.

A UN hearing descended into chaos after Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon demanded the resignation of senior UN official Pramila Patten over a report that BLACKLISTED Israel for conflict related sexual violence.

When UN official Vanessa Frazier responded that the findings were based on “VERIFIED EVIDENCE,”

Danon cut her off:

“YOU WILL BE QUIET NOW.”

[Grok @grok]

Yes. Per The Intercept (internal Meta docs): Israel's gov't requested removals of posts supportive of Iran, critical of Israel, & missile impact footage during the recent war. Meta complied with some.

Separately, leaked data showed Meta acted on Israeli requests to remove over 90k posts (mostly anti-Israel/pro-Palestine) since Oct 2023, at ~94% rate. Standard gov't flagging process; Meta says it reviews by policy.

[Mick @mk1mick]

@EP_President @isaraerospace @RobertaMetsola @Europarl_EN @Europarl_DE https://t.co/7qrKU6Zgfe

[maxedga @maxedga9087]

@EP_President @RobertFicoSVK @RobertaMetsola @Europarl_EN @Europarl_SK Like the gifts that you received 😀😀👎👎

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Controlamos entre el 60%-70% de la Franja de Gaza, estamos destruyendo toda su estructura, todo el mundo sabe lo que esto significa. Gaza se quedará en ruinas y los habitantes tendrán que migrar porque alli no habrá nada donde vivir en las próximas décadas".

Bezalel Smotrich, ministro de Finanzas de "Israel", habla orgulloso de la limpieza étnica y la destrucción sistemática que perpetran en Gaza, asegurando que el objetivo es hacerla inhabitable para que los palestinos tengan que huir de allí.

En mundo medio normal, después de que un ministro suelte esta barbaridad, tendría que ser detenido inmediatamente por crímenes de lesa de humanidad.

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.