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As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

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Perfect…

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HMRC admits not collecting £40bn tax last yr. Others say over £100bn. Big accounting/law firms, banks mastermind tax dodges. Rarely prosecuted. No big accounting firm prosecuted; get govt contracts. Fewer than FIVE criminal cases brought in 2023-2024, 16 in 2018-2019. Govts chase little people.

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Many congratulations to @esmeward.bsky.social and her colleagues. We, the @manchester.ac.uk community are lucky and proud to have this museum.

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Cracking statement from Sandi Toksvig who is standing for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...

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This is really important. Far right populists often use language that tries make their bigotry seem as if the majority support their view. They do not! They use terms like ‘normal people, ‘working class’, ‘mothers’ ‘Millions of mothers’ certainly did not call for the murder of innocents

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Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

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I find this the single most infuriating line pushed by AI promoters, which is saying a lot. But the argument that you can ignore laws if following them would stop you from doing what you want to do is an argument taken seriously in no other context I can think of

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SOUTH AFRICANS: “Americans are seeing that they’re being embarrassed by their president. He thinks ruling 🇺🇸 is a reality show… They are bullying South Africans. This isn’t a genocide.”

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WATCH: “Let the press in!” Yet again we were the only outlet kept out of the closed-door Rep. Andy Ogles event co-opting Memorial Day for his anti-immigrant presser inside a closed capitol today. (as the rest of the media said nothing)

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There are 435 congressional districts — and in all of them, our groups are organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...

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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use" My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇

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🔴Why Keir Starmer Is Wrong About Immigration In an interview with Byline TV, migration researcher and campaigner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social dispels misconceptions about immigration, and its political currency at the ballot box www.bylinesupplement.com/p/why-keir-s...

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Former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’ www.timesofisrael.com/former-pm-ol...

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UK govts made the rich richer. Billionaire wealth is 10 times larger than in 1990, built on speculation, inheritance, exploitation & regressive taxation. 16m Britons live in poverty. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Can't rebuild economy without redistribution. Increase taxes on the rich.

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With tech-driven echo chambers we ‘slipped into a new way of thinking, a kind of singularity, where both intellectual and emotional satisfaction came exclusively from a confirmation of the self,’ writes @aiannucci.bsky.social in his brilliant essay: www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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It is not blood libel to state accurately who is being killed and by whom. If the IDF and its supporters do not want its reputation linked to the slaughter of more than 16,000 babies and children, I would suggest they stop killing babies and children.

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This rules

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In the scientific discipline of media content and discourse analysis, aggregate coverage bias means even if all individual stories are factually accurate, a relative focus on one issue over another suggests readers that said issue is much more important than other less-covered issues.

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this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

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Malinowski: A couple of years ago, Vance gave a speech.. The title was universities are the enemy. He said explicitly, we cannot achieve anything in this country as a conservative movement unless we aggressively go after the universities. That's what they're doing right now

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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sustained access for essential food and medical supplies. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

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this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

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President Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans reut.rs/4mI3S7w 1/3

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Man in moustache calls out the Labour government for giving teachers a pay rise, part of which has to come out of existing school budgets #BBCQT So a little more for teachers and a lot less for students

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There is mounting evidence of the harm the cuts will cause. It’s good that Liz Kendall is listening to these concerns, but she must do more and think again. Disabled people and women will pay the price to meet self-imposed fiscal rules, instead of asking those with the broadest shoulders.

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

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I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars. These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/

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If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

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Gordon Brown, "You can't allow the children to suffer, and that's the point of abolishing the two child rule"

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My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds. Open to all academics/researchers to sign. molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

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Incredible chart work. 🙏🏼 #90dealsIn90days

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Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds

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Read @sifill.bsky.social's thread above this comment. If there's a future when all this is over, if there's still a human world, the reckoning will need to confront the media owners and editors who spent years misdirecting the public.

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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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Almost like the right-wing papers are out of step with the country, who knew?

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I think this is right looking at yesterdays front pages, so much of it seemed so laughably archaic - “Lord Frost denounces his own deal again” etc etc

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I will never for as long as I live understand how there are people on this earth who are not just passively allowing this to happen but are actively enabling it - and yet they still sleep soundly at night and spend their days without any remorse. What happens to a human to remove the bit that cares?

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New post just out: "Running Hot" A guest post today from Ed Balls (yes that one) + his research colleague Dan Turner. It looks at why the US economy has grown so much faster than the UK's (pre-Trump). And what Rachel Reeves can learn from that. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

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