Margaret E. Ward
@margareteward.bsky.social
Human. Boat rocker. Leadership consultant. Journalist. NYer in Ireland. Sharing trusted news sources & experts reporting on breakdown of US Democracy. #ireland #irish #leadership #business #democracy #resist #american #democrat #irishbluesky #broligarchy
"[The global arms industry] is committed to shredding men, women and children in the name of ’national security’. This book explodes that myth with harrowing testimony and investigations into how the civilians of Gaza and Yemen are paying the ultimate price..." — Antony Loewenstein Pre-order now!
Billions in dark money are flooding the election — and voters don’t know who’s behind it. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
$1 billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its political and moral enslavement to Donald Trump and separate itself from the MAGA political party cult. The writing is already on the wall, Republicans. trib.al/MCKHSTS
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has."
Al Gore: Trump administration is the most corrupt in history
The former vice president rebukes Trump’s attack on Iran and condemns the administration’s dismantling of climate regulations.
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Source: Bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘kill chain’ that destroyed an Iranian school and killed children and teachers share.google/hqI1tiE5o4lu...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
For this week’s Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to cognitive linguist Matthias J. Becker about the launch of Digital Hate Review, a new open-access journal built to connect the dispersed disciplines studying online hate. Becker is the publication’s editor-in-chief. Listen/read here:
Matthias J. Becker on the Launch of Digital Hate Review
Digital Hate Review aims to give a new home to research, analysis and argument on a range of issues at the intersection of tech and public discourse.
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Worth a read if you want to know what’s really happening…
Excellent reporting here by Rachel Lavin on the ongoing impact of racist riots and arson attacks in Belfast, digging into the data, and the human stories behind the numbers and trends.
After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?
At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home
irishtimes.com
"Why does every move we make in the twenty-first century somehow have to enrich a handful of fascist oligarchs who wish to destroy us, even though we are — until they replace us with AI bots — their best customers?" — Gil Durán @gilduran.com
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an o...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
theguardian.com
I'm one of the speakers at this event in the National Library on 24 September, so if that isn't enough to put you off, do come! You need to register but it's free.
National Library of Ireland@nlireland.bsky.social · 2w ago🌙 Dublin By Dusk | Twilight Talks Join us for our first Twilight Talks, exploring how NLI collections have shaped readers’ research. 📅 Thurs, 24 Sep, 6.30pm: https://ow.ly/XIQJ50ZKnbl Four 15-minute talks on: Sarah Curran, 1950s Irish homes, the 1932 Tailteann Games and Michael Davitt.
Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.
Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch
There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...
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www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... “Its proponents are actively willing an apocalypse, or a wave of interconnected apocalypses brought forth by climate change and financial chaos, to hasten us towards a post-democratic world in which only a rich few survive to prosper.”
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
theguardian.com
They are corrupting democracy She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
theguardian.com
In the Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest documentary, director Alex Gibney investigates the rise of Elon Musk and says what's behind Musk's success are distressing truths. n.pr/3UMLdOh
From DOGE to space lasers, Alex Gibney peels back the many layers of Elon Musk
In the Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest documentary, director Alex Gibney investigates the rise of Elon Musk and says what's behind Musk's success are distressing truths.
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In the past 25 years, I've represented many New Yorkers who suffered injuries as they worked to help our city heal after 9/11. Despite grave risks to their own well-being, they went to Ground Zero, every day, to repair our streets, our homes, our lives These unsung heroes must never be forgotten
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago25 years after the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember the New Yorkers we lost and honor the extraordinary heroism and selflessness that carried our city forward.
Today, we remember. We remember that 25 years ago, the world stood still. We remember the 3,000 people who left home that morning and never returned.
Lessons for a happy retirement from a year interviewing Ireland’s top leaders www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...
Lessons for a happy retirement from a year interviewing Ireland’s top leaders
One well-known chief executive says there are two questions you should never, ever ask your partner when you retire
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I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Today, I was proud to join New Yorkers for the 9/11 Day of Service at the Intrepid Museum. September 11th is a day we remember the terror and loss our city endured. It is also a day we remember the extraordinary courage, kindness and generosity New Yorkers showed one another.
Ireland needs to wake up & pay attention to this. Data centres guzzle water, electricity, they pollute & they’re noisy. Why are we welcoming them in here?!
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community. Today, a staggering 75% do. Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.
UN warns of ‘irreversible damage’, even if global warming peaks at 1.5C
UN warns of ‘irreversible damage’, even if global warming peaks at 1.5C
The damages of climate change are being compounded by inaction; yet even if global warming slows, the harm is permanent. A new UN report highlights the dangers the world can expect if our governments in and out of the EU keep on this path
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This is such a perfect portrait of the blatant corruption at work in my now-authoritarian home state. It has everything - even hurricanes. My favorite detail? This was so shady that even *Rick Scott* took a firm line against one of the people involved. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Fascinating in terms of the ‘time tax’. How Welfare Became a ‘Tool of Humiliation’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | How Welfare Became a ‘Tool of Humiliation’
Accessing public benefits often requires navigating a burdensome amount of paperwork and bureaucracy — what the journalist Annie Lowrey calls “the time tax.” On “The Ezra Klein Show,” she explains why...
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Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · last mo.I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
You can listen to the first episode with Manizha Khan here - she was Dean of Dentistry at an Afghan university when the Taliban took the country back in 2021 - but the story of how she got there is absolutely incredible podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Manizha Khan Part 1: One woman’s escape from The Taliban
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 19 December 2025 · 1hr 6min
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against #datacentre boom - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... "datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches" what could be the problem...?
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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