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Interested in the history of mental health policy, penal policy, true crime, association football and Coltrane. One of the Two Doctors. No g in Cummins
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Asked what his "unconditional surrender!" post meant for Iran, Trump says: "Very simple -- unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. I've had it. I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there."

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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SHELF LIFE: our latest book reviews 📘 Duane Ebesu on gentrifying Brooklyn 📗 Baris Cayli Messina on Russian criminals 📕 @danieljwoodward.bsky.social on social murder in the DWP 📙 @driancummins.bsky.social on social work 📕 Laura Hamilton on UK feminism 📗 Ningxiang Sun on H20 & humans buff.ly/gp4RZAl

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🔴Patient surveillance system Oxevision is just on dozens of NHS trusts - and it has been involved in at least four deaths among mental health patients Really important investigation from my colleague @lucasamin.bsky.social (also in today’s Observer) open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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This is a truly exceptional book.

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“Garrett argues that critical social theory provides tools to question common sense perceptions of social work, asking questions about its role and wider society.“ @driancummins.bsky.social reviews Paul Michael Garrett’s “rigorous and challenging” study. Out now in the Magazine. buff.ly/MJqNbUo

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socioeconomic 🤔

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We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

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Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA

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PM on R4 taking Trump Gaza seriously rather than reporting it as a genocidal breach of international law 🙄

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40 years of Aikea- Guinea

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40 years of Meat is Murder

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100 years of The Great Gatsby

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"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

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A new post by Neil Ballantyne reimaginingsocialwork.nz/2024/12/13/t...

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Reform is a party by and for men born in 1967 who believe they were personally gassed at the Somme.

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Lmao they're so scared, this is deranged

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35 years ago,when I was in my first year of engineering school, 14 Canadian women were killed in another Canadian engineering school, because they were women. #16Days Learn more about them here: www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

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