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emily1collins.bsky.social
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To state the obvious: It is hard to conduct effective foreign policy when being seen as too aligned with you represents a potential 25+ point electoral liability for prospective partners.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

"[Women's oppression] is, like the exploitation of labour itself, a social structure which roots itself in and distorts a naturally given human capacity. It is not reducible to biology, but neither is it separable from biology." www.counterfire.org/article/marx...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Excellent post here from Suzi unpicking just how flimsy all the stuff about "UPFs" really is

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

"On the doorstep people don’t make a distinction between graduate visas & small boats" This is: a) objectively wrong (plenty of polling evidence) b) suggests utter contempt for electorate's thought processes c) is a dreadful way to make policy Otherwise fine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 69 comments

@kareningalasmith.bsky.social and I wrote an open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector. "the gift of clarity has been given to us and the response for all victims should be straightforward - in fact it always was…" shonaghdillon.substack.com/p/supreme-co...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I think most people probably believe that abortion is legal in the UK; in fact it's only partially decriminalised, & British women have some of the most restricted abortion access in Europe. We need abortion fully legalised & access to it made a right, not a lottery.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I checked to see if it was less darkly comedic than a Super Hornet sliding right off the deck because the carrier did a hard turn but that's literally what happened

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

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"People asked me if I thought Giuffre ‘was in fact a fantasist’. Someone who’d made her story up. All that changed this weekend. A dead victim was somehow a believable victim. And it made me feel 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺." ✍️ @maitlis.bsky.social articles.globalplayer.com/7giK6UH1ESfe...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Fantastic article by Victoria Smith thecritic.co.uk/gender-criti...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Ghana: "Meta is displaying .. a complete disregard for the humanity of its key safety workers.. content moderators. They are treated as objects who can be used up, burned out & replaced with no care.. for the permanent damage to their mental & physical wellbeing.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

On Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and espionage. From my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Written in 2019, published in 2020.

submitted 158 days ago • 12 comments

Read this again & again “A U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified IN ADVANCE of the child’s urgent medical needs.” Depravity

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

‘People in the past were more comfortable with doubt, and we should be too. But I wonder if we can really imagine ourselves back into that older way of being a body.’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Some of you are completely losing the plot this morning. I repeat - the Supreme Court decision in the WFS case has absolutely nothing to do with the provision of toilets, a decision largely based on commercial factors. The law, rightly, is not over prescriptive in toilet provision. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments