‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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AIPAC just flushed $40M down the toilet. Another $30M in corporate bribes went up in smoke. Good to see a bit of sanity return to the US where, up until now elections were bought

Or put up a heartwarming post about an Irish person of colour without 50 apoplectic replies screaming "Great Replacement!"

Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber". Sure, but it's also where I can do 30-post Odydsey riffs without people advocating for genocide or white nationialism in the comments.

“This latest stunt has catapulted you to a new celebrity category — the Bargepole Club” ~Suzanne Harrington Irish Examiner ☕️

‘Palantir was willing to spend more on securing political access than almost all of its British and Continental competitors. It made donations to London think tanks and hosted parties at Davos.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton

Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history

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The 1929 Wall St Crash will look like a tea party compared to what's coming

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵Notes from a Popping AI Bubble: Oracle, which is owned by Larry Ellison, admitted in it's annual report that it could not guarantee that it would be able to manage its outstanding debt, which had now grown to $130 billion. www.joemygod.com/2026/07/nyt-...

Esquire: A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought. “Duran gets inside the heads of our potential overlords and finds that they're full of spiders, snakes, and poison toads.” via @theshebeen.bsky.social www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought

Let’s hope the vice president’s is so unlikeable that it keeps him from climbing the ranks any higher.

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I personally can't stand soccer so couldn't really care less about. It just seems like another par for the course example of the inherent corruption and greed in the sport. This just seems like a good opportunity to clean house, ditch FIFA and set up something better from the bottom up

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 6d ago

FIFA said it would move forward with its consultation process to bring private investment into the World ⁠Cup and its other tournaments in defiance of a fierce UEFA-led backlash against the proposal.

Shots fired at the Portrush home of nazi anti-migrant organiser Mark Brown look like the latest chapter in a UDA turf war, but the nazi connections behind it stretch back through Combat 18, the National Front and forty years of loyalist paramilitarism. Read more here:

Shots fired in Protrush but Loyalism's nazi feud has deep roots | Searchlight

Shots fired at the Portrush home of nazi anti-migrant organiser Mark Brown look like the latest chapter in a UDA turf war, but the nazi connections behind i ...

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Is this some Guinness World Record attempt or something? Enoch Burke wins High Court permission to challenge failed employment appeal #speirghorm jrnl.ie/7115963

Enoch Burke wins High Court permission to challenge failed employment appeal

The former teacher is challenging that decision and the procedure underpinning the appeal.

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You say Holocaust, Boy George says war. These are the rules and he's nothing if not consistent.

Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE@barheys.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh dear !!! That's Boy George gone from all of my playlists then ........... what an absolute tosser !

This absolute shitehawk lording over these men praying like she is some superior being. If this happened to Christians or Jews, instead of Muslims, it would be front page news on every rightwing rag in Britain

Claire Mullaly@clairemullaly.bsky.social · last wk.

This is who some members of NI WRN and a failed gender critical tribunal case helped organise a rally for. In the video Posie Parker disrupts guys praying in a park, and tells them she’s not racist - she’s Islamophobic. Scratch a transphobe - get the far-right. Up Feile!

POGROMS across the West Bank. Hundreds of Israeli settlers (terrorists) coming down from hilltops and setting entire Palestinian villages on fire.

It's almost a pity Graham didn't live to see the absolute disaster he helped create

Trita Parsi@tparsi.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow is Lindsey Graham's funeral. Here is some previously unseen footage of his monstrous reaction to Trump starting the illegal war with Iran. [laughing] - We have done it! [more laughter] - I almost cried! [of happiness] - How long have we pushed this?

Graham Carey (42) made a livestream on Instagram in which he said that refugees "were here to rape women and children" www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

Truck driver who went on 'rape-ugees' rant live on Instagram to learn his fate

Graham Carey (42) made a livestream on Instagram in which he said that refugees "were here to rape women and children"

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Solidarity with all the victims of this horrific attack: Police shoot dead Berlin Pride van and knife rampage suspect, officials say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Police shoot dead Berlin Pride van and knife rampage suspect, officials say

Abdul Ballout, 21, reportedly shot in operation at allotment in Spandau district after fatal attack in Tiergarten park

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Apart from the fact that he's a white South African immigrant who overstayed his US student visa, this is the kind of gibberish only the most mindless of the far right trot out. Elon Musk is a child in an adults body

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Because only the University educated are exposed to the realities of Israel's crimes: University courses covering Israel-Palestine should be audited, Julian Leeser tells royal commission www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

University courses covering Israel-Palestine should be audited, Julian Leeser tells royal commission

Inquiry’s focus this week is on security for the Jewish community, with the MP telling the commissioner his son is afraid to attend synagogues and events

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Most of the people arrested during the Henry Nowak riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence

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Summary: The US, Israel & the Lebanese gov are planning a Lebanese civil war and are toying with the idea of asking the Sharaa government in Syria to participate as well. Because if there is one thing the region hasn't had enough of, it's civil war... www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The U.S. Puts Once-Unthinkable Ideas on the Table to Disarm Hezbollah

Proposals such as enlisting Syria, vetting Lebanese troops or relying on Israel alone face steep hurdles.

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Yet Half A Million people liked it 🤷‍♂️

65yearcitizen@usa24freedom.bsky.social · 2w ago

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

Germany treating peace activists like genocidal terrorists while the genocidal terrorists are given a free pass bomb and kill Palestinians. Make it make sense! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Cross-party delegation in Germany to observe trial of Irish citizen Daniel Tatlow-Devally

Duncan Smith, Labour Party TD for Dublin Fingal East, discusses why he is joining a cross-party delegation in Germany to observe the trial of Irish citizen Daniel Tatlow-Devally.

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The whole world is wrong except Israel: Israel criticises Labor’s draft Palestine policy in rare foreign intervention ahead of party conference www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Israel criticises Labor’s draft Palestine policy in rare foreign intervention ahead of party conference

Statement by Israeli embassy in Canberra challenges proposed positions on settler violence and annexation of Palestinian territory

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The racists are turning themselves into pretzels over on Facebook to make this a race issue. #speirghorm

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seán McGlone, charged with dangerous driving for the incident Eoin is celebrating here, was also charged last year with possession of firearms, drug dealing and money laundering www.crimeworld.com/courts/man-a...

A lessor government would simply change it's practices that are leading to their nation becoming international pariah's. Not Israel. They simply pass off the world's disgust at their genocidal actions as a messaging problem.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2w ago

Must-Read: Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/isr...

It looks like he was photoshoped in, but no, he actually had to be photoshoped out in the official version.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

LMAO

'Point of no return': Belgium becomes fourth European country to ban imports from West Bank Source: The Jerusalem Post share.google/8nc3wHrX6td7...

Belgium bans West Bank imports, drawing condemnations from Israel | The Jerusalem Post

This makes Belgium the fourth European country with an import ban on Israeli settlements. Spain was first in September 2025, followed by the Netherlands and then Ireland.

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Willing to bet my right leg they're not actually bothered about him being far-right, they're bothered he has influence - stealing their thunder.

Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 2w ago

The UDA has declared war on the far right in north Antrim, firing shots at the home of a notorious racist and issuing a death threat to his friend.