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Kevin Donoghue

@donoghuek.bsky.social

Grumbling about the unfairness of it all since 1952. Live in Dublin Docklands, Ireland, European Union.

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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h ago

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d ago

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 3d ago

#BREAKING South African Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3d ago

Here's some history the US Supreme Court doesn't want you to think about. In April 2026, SCOTUS effectively ended the Voting Rights Act. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal" and cemented Jim Crow.

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 7d ago

Were the "asocials" and "criminal" prisoners in the concentration camps victims? Apparently, we need to have that discussion again. Hape Kerkeling, the German queer comedian, spoke in Erfurt last week and demanded the ban on the AfD due to the party's relativization of Nazi crimes.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · last wk.

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Simon Wren-Lewis@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · last wk.

This week's post: Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/popu... One of the first decisions Victor Orban took was to abolish Hungary's independent Fiscal Council. Its hard not to see attacks from the left on the OBR in a similar light.

Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was

Don’t shoot the messager The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has just published a report on the Office of Budget Responsibility, the ...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 2w ago

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
En Buen Ora@enbuenora.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Claire Mullaly@clairemullaly.bsky.social · 3w ago

The British Home Secretary is a problem, Mahmood is enabling terror. From the failure to stop Thomas travelling to Belfast to incite the June 9 pogroms, to 5 day silence after Dover, to attempted murder yesterday - Mahmood has picked a side.

Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is absolutely right, but the key is that Republicans would be the ones to force the issue. Many Democrats just refuse to take the open shot at Musk. He's a ripe, rich target, and an obvious way to dramatize key issues and mobilize key voters, but some of them are still sitting on their hands.

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3w ago

If Louis Farrakhan came up on a few billion dollars and started bankrolling the Democratic Party people would hear about it and Republicans wouldn’t stop making Dems answer for his statements while disavowing their support.