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20 Years of NIFG - The Top 20s!
Day 5: Northern Ireland's Youngest Internationals
Day 5: Northern Ireland's Youngest Internationals
20. Shaw Gillespie (Hertford)
Debut: 27th February 1886
Age: 18 years, 35 days
Total Ireland Caps: 6 (1886-1887)
Debut: 27th February 1886
Age: 18 years, 35 days
Total Ireland Caps: 6 (1886-1887)
19. Brodie Spencer (Huddersfield Town)
Debut: 5th June 2022
Age: 18 years, 30 days
Total #NornIron Caps: 23 (2022-2026)*
Debut: 5th June 2022
Age: 18 years, 30 days
Total #NornIron Caps: 23 (2022-2026)*
This is what I was talking about.
Every material in this house exists in Africa and we are importing plastic instead. Anand House in Vadodara is built around exposed brick, rattan weave, teak, pigmented stucco and handwoven chatai blinds made by local artisans. The rattan screens divide spaces, cover storage units and frame the entire living room. The teak furniture is custom built. Not a single synthetic fibre doing any of that work.
Africa grows rattan. We have hardwood traditions that predate every furniture market in Asia. We weave grass, palm, raffia and sisal into objects that museums in Europe have collected and archived as masterpieces. The difference between us and Vadodara is not the material. It is that they sat down and decided their craft was worth refining into something you could furnish a home with and sell to the world.
We are still buying plastic chairs from a Chinese catalogue and calling it furnishing a home.
Vadodara, Gujarat, India | Kuryaāt Spaces and Arts | Jaba and Mitesh Champaneria | Photography: Ishita Sitwala
More images in the comments.
Every material in this house exists in Africa and we are importing plastic instead. Anand House in Vadodara is built around exposed brick, rattan weave, teak, pigmented stucco and handwoven chatai blinds made by local artisans. The rattan screens divide spaces, cover storage units and frame the entire living room. The teak furniture is custom built. Not a single synthetic fibre doing any of that work.
Africa grows rattan. We have hardwood traditions that predate every furniture market in Asia. We weave grass, palm, raffia and sisal into objects that museums in Europe have collected and archived as masterpieces. The difference between us and Vadodara is not the material. It is that they sat down and decided their craft was worth refining into something you could furnish a home with and sell to the world.
We are still buying plastic chairs from a Chinese catalogue and calling it furnishing a home.
Vadodara, Gujarat, India | Kuryaāt Spaces and Arts | Jaba and Mitesh Champaneria | Photography: Ishita Sitwala
More images in the comments.
More images from the home above.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The subject of US-Israel relations is becoming an issue in the 2026 elections.
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The old cliché about the subject of Israel, and even the subject of US foreign relations, being bipartisan is showing itself to be more and more untrue every day. The Democratic Party is becoming the home of antisemitic, anti-Israel double standards and bigotry, and
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on the right, we also see the same thing, fueled by Qatari money.
For American Jews, this presents an interesting situation. To what degree should Israel influence how they should vote and who they should support, or should Israel affect this at all? For other Diaspora Jews,
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For American Jews, this presents an interesting situation. To what degree should Israel influence how they should vote and who they should support, or should Israel affect this at all? For other Diaspora Jews,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have a question for Republicans who support the 'Save America Act.'
Yes, I know setting minimal standards to ensure only citizens of the USA can vote sounds good.
But can someone tell me how this can be enforced?
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Yes, I know setting minimal standards to ensure only citizens of the USA can vote sounds good.
But can someone tell me how this can be enforced?
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The realistic solutions are enforcement mechanisms, not just another headline law. The strongest ones in the current SAVE America Act framework are a private right of action,
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penalties for officials who knowingly register ineligible voters, mandatory database cross-checks, and federal preemption with clear deadlines and compliance audits.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have a question for Republicans who support the 'Save America Act.'
Yes, I know setting minimal standards to ensure only citizens of the USA can vote sounds good.
But can someone tell me how this can be enforced?
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Yes, I know setting minimal standards to ensure only citizens of the USA can vote sounds good.
But can someone tell me how this can be enforced?
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How can it be enforced any better than what could be done without the passage of the act?
You see, laws are only as good and as effective as they can be enforced, as there are penalties for violations.
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How can it be enforced any better than what could be done without the passage of the act?
You see, laws are only as good and as effective as they can be enforced, as there are penalties for violations.
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The Constitution of the USA states that state legislatures have the responsibility to organize elections for local, state, and federal offices.
So, sure, if there is a state that allows non-citizens to vote before the Save America Act,
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So, sure, if there is a state that allows non-citizens to vote before the Save America Act,
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Two battles are ongoing, both of incredible but underestimated importance - first, with the FLA/JNIM coalition pushing to annihilate and finish off the Russian military camp in Anefis, the second, with a Gao convoy fhat has reportedly already lost several vehicles...
And big question mark remains on its status and whether it continues. If it withdraws, Annefis should be done for - Russians in Aguelhok, key location in the North in post-Kidal reality, allowing return to combat in the future, will be cut off.
The amount of supplies, attention and manpower that would demand rescuing Aguelhok once Anefis falls, may collapse Russian and Malian forces elsewhere, like in Gao, hence it wouldn't be possible to rescue the town.
Ship captain here, and I run the most visited maritime news site in the world. It’s clear many of you need a lesson in how actual naval conspiracies are perpetrated.
I’m getting pushback from all sides on my suggestion that Mamdani conspired to keep U.S. Navy warships out of yesterday’s NYC 250th 🇺🇸 birthday parade.
Let’s break down the specific criticism I’ve received.
“It looked great on TV” and “my cousin’s uncle was in NJ and saw Navy ships.”
Yes. It’s called a Potemkin village. The term comes from Grigory Potemkin, who erected fake, impressive-looking villages along Catherine the Great’s 1787 tour of newly conquered Crimea to exaggerate the region’s prosperity while hiding the poor who lived nearby.
The VIPs got one story. The villagers got another.
That’s what happened yesterday. If you watched MSM on TV or from the anchorage in NJ, you got a spectacular event. If you showed up to the Navy’s designated viewing areas, you got nothing.
“I saw a Navy ship anchored right off the Battery” and “here’s a photo of a destroyer I took.”
The warship anchored off Manhattan was Dutch, not American. The American warships anchored far from the crowds. The one Navy warship that did sail before the parade was retreating from Manhattan, not entering it.
“It’s laughable to think Mamdani called the SECNAV to block Navy ships.”
I agree. That’s not how the system works. Democrat socialists, like the Soviets before them, use safetyism and bureaucracy to wield power and shrug off accountability. Mamdani didn’t call the CNO or SECNAV. He doesn’t want a paper trail.
“You’re just jealous you didn’t get on a ship.”
My family owns yachts in New York. The Coast Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine invited me aboard ships. My job as a maritime journalist is not to collect the official story from VIPs. It’s to get the ground truth.
“So how did the conspiracy play out?”
The following comes from unverified sources involved in planning the event. Take it with a grain of salt, but here’s the best I can piece together.
A source inside NYC government says a person close to Mamdani made a “big deal” about safety, invoking last year’s tragedy when a tall ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge and killed Mexican Navy cadets.
A midlevel bureaucrat relayed those concerns to a midlevel naval officer: the wake from Navy ships could kill tall ship sailors.
This is ridiculous. The Navy has paraded with tall ships for over two centuries and that incident had nothing to do with a ship wake.
But it “sounds” reasonable to “avoid killing midshipmen”, and Navy admirals are so paranoid about safety they won’t even let sailors rappel down the hull to paint anymore. So some admiral signed off.
Not literally signed off, you can’t leave a paper trail, but approved NYC’s unreasonable terms in a closed door meeting.
But communists don’t want to “seem” unreasonable, so they offered parade grounds on Governors Island, close to the Navy ships, for patriots who wanted a look.
Making patriots take an old, broken ferry off Manhattan to see their own Navy is wholly unreasonable, but next to “midshipmen falling from masts” it sounds fair and a reasonable concession.
And since communists never miss a chance to squeeze you for cash while slathering VIPs with praise, they sold ferry tickets to what should have been a free event.
Then, the night before the parade, the ferry suffered “storm damage” and “had to” close. Sounds reasonable, there was a storm.
But if it wasn’t storm damage, it would have been mechanical failure or something else.
And I have a source who got on the island and didn’t see much structural damage.
“You blame Mamdani but this was Trump’s parade and JD Vance was one of the VIPS and @SECNAV hates commies”.
Trump and JD and even Hung Cao can’t be at every meeting, the aren’t micromanagers. And even if they did pushback, which sources say is likely, what happens when they over ride or fire an Admiral?
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I’m getting pushback from all sides on my suggestion that Mamdani conspired to keep U.S. Navy warships out of yesterday’s NYC 250th 🇺🇸 birthday parade.
Let’s break down the specific criticism I’ve received.
“It looked great on TV” and “my cousin’s uncle was in NJ and saw Navy ships.”
Yes. It’s called a Potemkin village. The term comes from Grigory Potemkin, who erected fake, impressive-looking villages along Catherine the Great’s 1787 tour of newly conquered Crimea to exaggerate the region’s prosperity while hiding the poor who lived nearby.
The VIPs got one story. The villagers got another.
That’s what happened yesterday. If you watched MSM on TV or from the anchorage in NJ, you got a spectacular event. If you showed up to the Navy’s designated viewing areas, you got nothing.
“I saw a Navy ship anchored right off the Battery” and “here’s a photo of a destroyer I took.”
The warship anchored off Manhattan was Dutch, not American. The American warships anchored far from the crowds. The one Navy warship that did sail before the parade was retreating from Manhattan, not entering it.
“It’s laughable to think Mamdani called the SECNAV to block Navy ships.”
I agree. That’s not how the system works. Democrat socialists, like the Soviets before them, use safetyism and bureaucracy to wield power and shrug off accountability. Mamdani didn’t call the CNO or SECNAV. He doesn’t want a paper trail.
“You’re just jealous you didn’t get on a ship.”
My family owns yachts in New York. The Coast Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine invited me aboard ships. My job as a maritime journalist is not to collect the official story from VIPs. It’s to get the ground truth.
“So how did the conspiracy play out?”
The following comes from unverified sources involved in planning the event. Take it with a grain of salt, but here’s the best I can piece together.
A source inside NYC government says a person close to Mamdani made a “big deal” about safety, invoking last year’s tragedy when a tall ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge and killed Mexican Navy cadets.
A midlevel bureaucrat relayed those concerns to a midlevel naval officer: the wake from Navy ships could kill tall ship sailors.
This is ridiculous. The Navy has paraded with tall ships for over two centuries and that incident had nothing to do with a ship wake.
But it “sounds” reasonable to “avoid killing midshipmen”, and Navy admirals are so paranoid about safety they won’t even let sailors rappel down the hull to paint anymore. So some admiral signed off.
Not literally signed off, you can’t leave a paper trail, but approved NYC’s unreasonable terms in a closed door meeting.
But communists don’t want to “seem” unreasonable, so they offered parade grounds on Governors Island, close to the Navy ships, for patriots who wanted a look.
Making patriots take an old, broken ferry off Manhattan to see their own Navy is wholly unreasonable, but next to “midshipmen falling from masts” it sounds fair and a reasonable concession.
And since communists never miss a chance to squeeze you for cash while slathering VIPs with praise, they sold ferry tickets to what should have been a free event.
Then, the night before the parade, the ferry suffered “storm damage” and “had to” close. Sounds reasonable, there was a storm.
But if it wasn’t storm damage, it would have been mechanical failure or something else.
And I have a source who got on the island and didn’t see much structural damage.
“You blame Mamdani but this was Trump’s parade and JD Vance was one of the VIPS and @SECNAV hates commies”.
Trump and JD and even Hung Cao can’t be at every meeting, the aren’t micromanagers. And even if they did pushback, which sources say is likely, what happens when they over ride or fire an Admiral?
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The Mainstream Media on the Potemkin ship, USS Kearsarge, loose their minds.
This isn’t POTUS’ or VP’s or @SecWar or @SECNAV or even the CNO’s fault. They are as frustrated as I am but they also don’t want to distract from the celebrations.
Their only fault is not firing Admirals who everyone knows are undermining them!
Problem is every single time they fire any general or admiral for cause the Potemkin media has an absolute conniption fit.
“How do you know it’s the admirals and not others in the defense industrial complex?”
Nobody stopped the massive show of airpower. Nobody stopped the USCG and US Merchant Marine ships from “making a wake”. Nobody stopped the Army ship that joined the parade. Nobody stopped the foreign navy ships.
It was only the most powerful warships in the world, including the nuclear supercarrier Nimitz, that did not parade yesterday.
“Why didn’t they just invite you on the ship? Would have made the Admirals jobs easier.”
The Potemkin ploy doesn’t work if you invite independent media that asks hard questions tells
Apart from the dozens of people mad at me I also received hundreds of supportive messages asking, “Is anyone getting fired for this?”
Of course not. They have Mexican navy incident reports and weather reports to cover their asses.
They had months to cover their asses and create reasonable rationalizations for excluding 🇺🇸warships from the parade.
WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CONSPIRACIES TODAY IS THIS:
Real conspiracies aren’t leaders doing hard things to screw you. The real conspiracy is socialists working hard to rationalize doing nothing.
Doing nothing to stop fraud.
Doing nothing to close the border.
Doing nothing to deport commies
Doing nothing to get ships into Manhattan.
Doing nothing to emergency-repair the ferry’s “storm damage.”
THATS THE CONSPIRACY TODAY: doing nothing to advance the President’s agenda
And that conspiracy is so wide spread and has so many media outlets inside and so many ivy league geniuses working on “reasonable” rationalizions that it seems like I am the crazy one.
Or worse: it seems like the President himself is not fulfilling his campaign promises.
He is! But he can’t micromanage everything and it’s so prolific the conservative influencers themselves can’t see it and are tearing his base apart: which motivates the left to do more.
More of what? More of nothing!
“How are you certain malfeasance was at play?”
POSIWID: The purpose of a system is what it does.
Fact: The Navy spent years planning “the biggest naval parade in 50 years” in Manhattan.
Fact: Not a single U.S. Navy ship paraded down Manhattan’s East River.
You don’t need a Harvard PhD to understand the simple truth of POSIWID.
Anyone can understand the fact a Navy parade with no Navy ships in the parade is outrageous.
It doesn’t matter if there were cameras and a speech from the VP and fire works and thousands of Navy sailors in the vicinity.
THEY HELD A HISTORIC NAVY PARADE WITH NO NAVY SHIPS ON PARADE
All the other reasonable rationalizations are garbage.
Bottom line: Commies use bureaucracy and safetyism to make me sound unreasonable for expecting Navy ships to parade down Manhattan during the largest naval parade in NYC history.
They make it so people give me shit for pointing out the first lesson I learned at maritime academy: a ship has to pick up anchor to get underway and parade anywhere.
This isn’t POTUS’ or VP’s or @SecWar or @SECNAV or even the CNO’s fault. They are as frustrated as I am but they also don’t want to distract from the celebrations.
Their only fault is not firing Admirals who everyone knows are undermining them!
Problem is every single time they fire any general or admiral for cause the Potemkin media has an absolute conniption fit.
“How do you know it’s the admirals and not others in the defense industrial complex?”
Nobody stopped the massive show of airpower. Nobody stopped the USCG and US Merchant Marine ships from “making a wake”. Nobody stopped the Army ship that joined the parade. Nobody stopped the foreign navy ships.
It was only the most powerful warships in the world, including the nuclear supercarrier Nimitz, that did not parade yesterday.
“Why didn’t they just invite you on the ship? Would have made the Admirals jobs easier.”
The Potemkin ploy doesn’t work if you invite independent media that asks hard questions tells
Apart from the dozens of people mad at me I also received hundreds of supportive messages asking, “Is anyone getting fired for this?”
Of course not. They have Mexican navy incident reports and weather reports to cover their asses.
They had months to cover their asses and create reasonable rationalizations for excluding 🇺🇸warships from the parade.
WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CONSPIRACIES TODAY IS THIS:
Real conspiracies aren’t leaders doing hard things to screw you. The real conspiracy is socialists working hard to rationalize doing nothing.
Doing nothing to stop fraud.
Doing nothing to close the border.
Doing nothing to deport commies
Doing nothing to get ships into Manhattan.
Doing nothing to emergency-repair the ferry’s “storm damage.”
THATS THE CONSPIRACY TODAY: doing nothing to advance the President’s agenda
And that conspiracy is so wide spread and has so many media outlets inside and so many ivy league geniuses working on “reasonable” rationalizions that it seems like I am the crazy one.
Or worse: it seems like the President himself is not fulfilling his campaign promises.
He is! But he can’t micromanage everything and it’s so prolific the conservative influencers themselves can’t see it and are tearing his base apart: which motivates the left to do more.
More of what? More of nothing!
“How are you certain malfeasance was at play?”
POSIWID: The purpose of a system is what it does.
Fact: The Navy spent years planning “the biggest naval parade in 50 years” in Manhattan.
Fact: Not a single U.S. Navy ship paraded down Manhattan’s East River.
You don’t need a Harvard PhD to understand the simple truth of POSIWID.
Anyone can understand the fact a Navy parade with no Navy ships in the parade is outrageous.
It doesn’t matter if there were cameras and a speech from the VP and fire works and thousands of Navy sailors in the vicinity.
THEY HELD A HISTORIC NAVY PARADE WITH NO NAVY SHIPS ON PARADE
All the other reasonable rationalizations are garbage.
Bottom line: Commies use bureaucracy and safetyism to make me sound unreasonable for expecting Navy ships to parade down Manhattan during the largest naval parade in NYC history.
They make it so people give me shit for pointing out the first lesson I learned at maritime academy: a ship has to pick up anchor to get underway and parade anywhere.
@SecWar @SECNAV *Hudson River
#DeadlyDrones
Hezbollah has successfully used fiber-optic (optical fiber) FPV drones against Israeli armored vehicles, including some Merkava tanks, especially during fighting in southern Lebanon in 2026.
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Hezbollah has successfully used fiber-optic (optical fiber) FPV drones against Israeli armored vehicles, including some Merkava tanks, especially during fighting in southern Lebanon in 2026.
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How they work: The drone is connected to the operator by a thin fiber-optic cable instead of a radio link.
Key advantage: Because there is no radio signal, Israeli electronic jammers cannot disrupt or detect the control link
Key advantage: Because there is no radio signal, Israeli electronic jammers cannot disrupt or detect the control link
Tactics: The drones fly very low and fast, often attacking the top of tanks, where armor is thinner.
Some have reportedly bypassed the Trophy active protection system by exploiting its limitations against such small, low-flying threats.
Some have reportedly bypassed the Trophy active protection system by exploiting its limitations against such small, low-flying threats.
🧵#FromTheArchives: From the "Shadow of Jihad" to the Shadow of the Crusader Coalition: Words Abdulrahim Atun Wishes You Forgot.
"All Jews are enemies; they are usurpers and occupiers of Palestine...Therefore, one does not consider reconciliation or appeasement with them, and they have no right to exist on any part of Palestine. All of Palestine is the land of Islam"
(pg.39)
(pg.39)
"This door cannot be entered before the guard dogs - which protect the Jews - are removed from the rulers of the Muslim countries, the tawagheet, especially the countries surrounding Palestine, and their armies and security forces."
(pg. 40)
(pg. 40)
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Two years ago, we set out a mission: make Britain a clean energy superpower.
And in that time we have delivered:
✅Record levels of investment
✅Stronger energy security
✅Thousands of new jobs across the UK
A thread 🧵
And in that time we have delivered:
✅Record levels of investment
✅Stronger energy security
✅Thousands of new jobs across the UK
A thread 🧵
1⃣ Investment:
£61.9bn secured in the Spending Review - the biggest programme of investment in clean energy in British history.
Plus £100bn of private investment into clean energy since July 2024.
From offshore wind to nuclear - investors are backing Britain's energy future.
£61.9bn secured in the Spending Review - the biggest programme of investment in clean energy in British history.
Plus £100bn of private investment into clean energy since July 2024.
From offshore wind to nuclear - investors are backing Britain's energy future.
2⃣ Building:
We've ended years of delay and got Britain building again.
Within 72 hours of taking office, we lifted the onshore wind ban in England.
We've delivered two record-breaking renewables auctions, securing enough clean, homegrown power for the equivalent of 23m homes.
We've ended years of delay and got Britain building again.
Within 72 hours of taking office, we lifted the onshore wind ban in England.
We've delivered two record-breaking renewables auctions, securing enough clean, homegrown power for the equivalent of 23m homes.
