Martin Nutty

Excellent piece shining a light on how the #StraitsOfEpstein crisis is speeding up the #Gretacene

Thanks to @pluralistic@mamot.fr and the Nerve for shining a light on this moment, a reminder that when things are dark, the seeds of dramatic positive change may be spouting

#CleanEnergy #ClimateChange

https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-column-enshittification-trump-cleantech-green-revolution-pakistan

A ray of Sunday sunshine

Down goes Orban in #Hungary. Kiss of death delivered by Vance and Trump

Autocrats are frowning today

#USPolitics #EUPolitics #GeoPolitics #Politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt?post=asset%3Ac53cf903-f724-4987-945c-111392460034#post

Gotta love Andy Borowitz. In the bleakest of times satire is a salve

#USPol #USPolitics #PopeLeo

https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-claims-popes-election-was-rigged

Increasingly #Ukraine is bringing the war to Moscow.

For more than four years #Putin has shielded Muscovites from the consequences of his aggression. That is no longer possible as Ukrainian drone technology brings the front line to the Russian capital

The drip drip drip of regime destabilization is being delivered by drone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-17/record-drone-attack-on-moscow-kills-three-targets-refinery?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTAxNjAxMCwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NjIwODEwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjVYQVpLSVAzSUIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0QjM1NTMxNERGRUE0RkVDOTc5RTRGRjIzQTIyNEMwRCJ9.JM8EzjtyD6rZjzSdABDM1p_o9Sr2pd6jKAcfVrh7UFg

Why is democracy failing?

🤔 Because the #UltraWealthy are buying it.

Additionally, the #SuperRich are leveraging their media platforms to convince voters that they need #Fascism

What we really need is a #WealthTax. Concentration of wealth is toxic to democracy

#PeterGeoghan ‘s examination of Reform party financing lays it out in all its ugly nakedness 👇

#UKPolitics #Politics #Oligarchy

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-reform-uks-donations-have-come

To call Cormac Begley and Liam O’Connor’s music #IrishTrad, is to do it a disservice.

These two men are musical innovators and there is little traditional about their approach. Let’s say they’re masters of the indigenous sound but are extending that fuaim into new territories

Maybe there work would be better served by calling it #CeolDúchasach. Regardless, give this a listen, and a watch,both music and imagery are superlative

#IrishArts #mastodaoine #IrishMusic

https://youtu.be/ZZ0pFdRb3eM?si=bvVb0PftsRB9S0tj

Simon McGarr completely captures the Irish government’s obtuse determination to do nothing in the face of the illegal and immoral behavior of many American tech enterprises

While many Silicon Valley leaders are overtly supporting a democracy subverting American regime, the Irish ruling class class clings to a see no evil obtuseness as the techno spigot pours money in

#mastodaoine #broligarchy #geopolitics #IrishPolitics #TechnoFascism @pluralistic@mamot.fr @gilduran@journa.host

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-promise-of-no-change/

I wonder if we’ll look at this year’s #MetGala as some kind of tipping point?

The gushing #billionaire owned press foist fawning imagery on us normies. It all smacks of the self absorbed Capitol Elite at the center of the #HungerGames.

Is this the year when backlash coalesces? Where the 99% say enough and demand a #WealthTax?

https://www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-walter-column-feminism-for-a-world-on-fire-met-ball-jeff-bezos-amazon

This HCR piece points to an escalation in presidential paranoia.

Americans have become accustomed to presidential shit posting, but the pace is increasing as public dissatisfaction with Trump becomes more overt.

This account👇 points to an increased tempo of absurd behavior. Increasingly the possibility of a 25th amendment palace coup seems likely

#USPol #Politics #Invoke25 #TrumpIsNotWell

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-12-2026

#MartynTurner on point today

#Mastodaoine #Cartoon #IranWar

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/cartoon/2026/03/25/martyn-turner

We’re in stage 4 of #facism in American

@rcbregman@mastodon.social lays out the case and it’s crystal clear. The job is not to be surprised, to understand the pattern and then to organize against it

The #MidTerms will be crucial but violence is to be expected

#USPol #authoritarianism

https://youtu.be/DDf25rNyT1A?si=fRsvY_OTLjfjsg9N

The ridiculousness of American politics captured in one panel by #cartoonist David Horsey

#USPol #Cartoon #Politics

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/25/800025656/cartoon/the-news-loop/

It’s a predictable truism, Ireland needs to move away from #FossilFuels as fast as possible. This has been crystal clear since the #UkraineWar began

Real leadership demands a coherent and aggressive policy to electrify everything via #renewables. Ireland should be a #WindPower giant. I don’t get a sense of urgency from the current government rather we just see reactive “policy”

#CleanEnergy #GreenEnergy #MastoDaoine

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/27/energy-crisis-harris-alludes-to-one-off-payments-for-heat-pumps-and-efficient-cars/

I hate to see my name getting dragged into this mess

#USPol #Cartoon

This feels like it captures the absurdity of the current US moment in all its sycophantic glory

#USPol #Politics #Cartoon

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/11/800036393/cartoon/further-tributes/

This year in #Russia, May’s parade season is curtailed as the national mood darkens in the face of bleak economic news and a war in #Ukraine where little is gained and whose duration exceeds WWII

As skepticism grows, internal security is increased and dissent strangled along with internet access. #Putin’s Russia becomes more Orwellian by the day and there is little joy on the streets of #Moscow

#UkraineWar #GeoPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/world/europe/russia-mood-victory-day.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.0DHW._h-B58Q0fT4q&smid=nytcore-ios-share

April. 12th will be an important day in #EUPolitics. 16 years into #Orban rule, #Hungary goes to the polls to decide whether they are going to vote for more of the same

@anneapplebaum@journa.host has the details on the scare tactics being used by the #Fidesz ruling party claiming #Ukraine is subverting Hungarian sovereignty. That’s all types like Orban have to offer - absurdities delivered by state controlled media.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/hungary-first-post-reality-political-campaign/686565/?gift=Q2sH08aR_cUj62Rd_n3z7RAa7aO1eQoHI8Fe09DIhmw

File this one under chipping away at the base. Rural America Trump voters less likely to show up at the #midterms and vote the party line

#USPol

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010798680/trump-iran-farmers-iowa-fertilizer.html?smid=url-share

“Follow the Money”

If you want to see #USPolitics clearly, there is no better advice. America has a government brought to you and bought from you by #Billionaires.

#HCR has all the details in this excellent piece

#USPol #WealthTax

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-12-2026?r=3alg6&utm_medium=ios

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@IrishStewPodcast/116285688855147998

Looking forward to having my funny bone tickled by Paddy Cullivan as he takes on the life of Michael Collins next week at the New York Irish Center. Lots of other dates and locations available - see details below

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishTheater #IrishHistory #NYC

A reminder that well executed government policy can improve life despite resistance to change

Trumpism loathes the #subway and bus network and anything that gets people out of cars and away from burning #petrogarchy oil.

Even worse public transit allows people to rub shoulders with each other. Keeping people fearful and isolated from each other is a key component of MAGA

#NYC #USPol #PublicTransit

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/congestion-pricing-traffic-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.Rpkg.Pb3cdK4xnc_A&smid=nytcore-ios-share

How long before the #enshittification begins at #BlueSky?

It seems to me BlueSky is a decentralized #SocialMedia company in name only. Sure it has an open source protocol, but who is using it at scale other than BlueSky?

How much enshittification does 100m buy?

@pluralistic@mamot.fr

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition

Two masterful #StPatricksDay speeches in #NYC yesterday at Gracie Mansion from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Irish President Mary Robinson.

Both speeches emphasize the importance of community and solidarity in an era when toxic individualism is lionized by the technobros et al. The current struggle pits the warmth of community vs the relentless pursuit of individual wealth accumulation

#Mastodaoine #IrishPolitics #USPol

https://www.youtube.com/live/y4vWE2bIqsQ?si=imauLlwAjvtiYCqu

A good piece on #PeteButtigieg.

As the Trump train wreck continues to smash the economy and wreck geopolitical stabilit, #Buttigieg is well positioned to return the country to a sane path. He has the communication and governance skills required to rebuild the American Dream

#USPol

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/pete-buttigieg-presidential-aspirations/686138/?gift=Q2sH08aR_cUj62Rd_n3z7b9RW4MHpskquqm_URFUd6E

Solid statement from Cardinal Cupich of Chicago

#Iran #USPolitics

https://www.archchicago.org/statement/-/article/2026/03/08/statement-of-blase-j-cupich-archbishop-of-chicago-a-call-to-conscience

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@IrishStewPodcast/116318741361375582

Great to have the opportunity to record an episode in front of a live audience especially when backed by an exceptional film

#IrishFilm #IrishPodcast #Thriller

As good a piece of political satire as you're likely to encounter from the inimitable #TerryGolway

We live in the era of #IgnoramusRex

#USPol

https://open.substack.com/pub/terrygolway/p/observer-260?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

Not a great time to be looking for work in the tech world

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/meta-layoff-thousands-of-employees-in-may/4070910/?utm_campaign=morning_paid&utm_content=morning_paid-2026-04-20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email

Given Meta’s questionable interest in fact and truth, I’m sure they’re comfortable outsourcing to AI

#SocialMedia #AI #SiliconValley

In war there is always a silver lining for the #billionaire class.

Unsaid, or unconsidered by Trump in his quote ⬇️ is the little folks who have to pay for the consequences of this absurdly ill-considered war against Iran.

An oh yeah #affordability is not a thing

We all know the Straits of Hormuz was a huge point of vulnerability to the movement of oil tankers. It's ideal for asymmetric warfare. Mines are cheap, relatively easy to deploy and oil tankers are expensive

#UsPolitics #Iran

Is this setting up for another #TACO outcome?

Ah yes now we've entered into another breath holding competition. These always work so well for President Trump

I'm surprised a demand to be installed as president for life wasn't made. I guess that'll be next month

#MidTerms #USPol #Politics #USPolitics

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/g-s1-112917/trump-says-he-wont-sign-bills-until-congress-overhauls-voting