🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
I never met Jason Arday, and know nothing about him beyond what I have read, seen and heard in the media.
As the debate around him raged in recent weeks, I stayed out of it, precisely because it struck me as one of those occasional frenzies in which facts get lost and humans cease to be treated as humans. I now wish I had reached out to him, tried to encourage him that “this too shall pass.”
Many people today, those who knew him above all but also many like me who didn’t, will be feeling sadness and anger that this has all led to his death, a family suddenly without a father, parents without a son. None of us will ever know exactly what was going through his mind, but it is hard to disagree with @MayorofLondon that Jason Arday faced “an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse … pernicious public shaming that other people in his position wouldn’t have faced.”
Whatever the truth of the allegations against him, would he have suffered such a hounding had he been white, with short hair? I doubt it. The zeal with which the Trumpian anti-DEI brigade in the U.K. leapt on this story to try to push back the wheel of progress towards genuine equality was horrible.
Again, Sadiq is right to say “His death was a tragedy but it should be a wake-up call for all of us.”
RIP Jason. And to all of us, if ever you think someone you know may have cause to be suicidal, reach out to them.
This really is another huge loss for Limerick City and part of a much deeper and increasingly worrying trend. The sheer number of businesses closing their doors since 2024 should be setting alarm bells ringing
It looks like most of my X feed will now be videos of Glen and I’m OK with it.
This is a rare video of him singing Falling Slowly alone and it’s simply beautiful
As Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann gets underway in Belfast this weekend, we meet some of the people behind this huge event, from organisers to the dedicated volunteers who pledge their time on #RTENationwide Friday 31st July @RTEOne 7pm @UlsterUni@VisitBelfast@culture_ireland@rte
Desperately sad news about the passing of Glen Hansard, who died in the early hours of this morning in a motorcycle collision.
A brilliant musician, activist and all round great guy.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam 🙏🕊
@levdavidovic@hedgehogreview This is exactly the approach I was taking in my school 10 years ago. Tragically too many vested interests felt under threat and I was 'cancelled'. Change does not come easy in eeducation
This is exactly the approach I was taking in my school 10 years ago. Tragically too many vested interests felt under threat and I was 'cancelled'. Change does not come easy in education! https://t.co/jCW9XzqxlU
32 years ago tonight, Riverdance. A period of years where Ireland became confident; success in sport, music, film, finance and tech. A little tiger was born.
Stunning. 🇮🇪
Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate, especially all my Muslim friends. Wherever you are in the world, may you be blessed with peace, joy, and hope today and always.. 🌙✨❤️