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“This is austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them.” My col. on Labour’s sweeping disability cuts and mark of shame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

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Yes, look: you have been taken in by one of the most bleak and idiotic frauds ever inflicted on the people of Britain. The people who did it are not confused or misguided, this is not an error. They are terrible people who have worked very hard indeed to scam the public, so they can do just this.

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The government's planned social security cuts will rip £5 billion away from some of the most vulnerable people in our society, entrenching the poverty and inequality many already face. We've been here before. We know the damage it did. We know it doesn’t work.

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Appalling. A century and a half of efforts to protect noncombatants in warzones have been increasingly eroded in the past few years by Russia, the US, Israel, and now EU member states. This must stop.

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🧵A Chronological thread of Labour MPs opposing the #WelfareCuts announced by their own government. At time of writing this only 7 of the 248 labour MPs on Bsky have mentioned it and of those only 5 explicitly oppose it. If you see more then comment below! Tag your MP to ask them for comment ♿✊

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Ceasefire Ends During Israeli-Involved Bombing

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#Gaîté lyrique La majorité de ces jeunes sont en procédure de reconnaissance de leur minorité, ils devraient donc être logés et scolarisés, ce qui n’est pas le cas. ⁦‪@MdM_France‬⁩ www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe...

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On attend des solutions d'hébergement pour les mômes de la gaîté. Maintenant ! @leafiloche.bsky.social ? @annehidalgo.bsky.social ? Avant de les déloger, pensez à les loger !

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Call your reps, and if you're in an applicable position, make your conferences hybrid.

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Aucune expulsion sans relogement ! Sur BFM j’ai soutenu les mineurs isolés qui occupent la Gaîté Lyrique. Cette expulsion honteuse cède aux revendications de l’extrême droite. L’urgence est de les mettre à l’abri !

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Mettre des enfants à la rue, c'est abominable et indigne de Paris. @annehidalgo.bsky.social, @leafiloche.bsky.social, ne le permettez pas! Il faut une solution d'hébergement tout de suite.

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Around this time 5 years ago, Italy had locked down, France was locking down, but the UK government was in ‘it can't happen here’ mode. The current political situation brings me back to that moment, when I wanted to scream: we know where this is headed, please do something before it's too late. 1/

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This week's column is on how clinging on and hoping for a Labour surge either in terms of popularity or well formulated policy is now for the birds www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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« La grève se finit, on n’est plus stressés ! Je ressens une immense joie, je suis très contente pour le 13ème mois » Les agents d’entretien de Sciences Po viennent de remporter une victoire, après une grève pour faire connaître leurs dures conditions de travail. Avec @rapportsdeforce.bsky.social

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My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

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Finally a reaction, but the language is telling. ‘What protections are there for students if […] lecturers leave‘: what about ‘What protections are there for students and lecturers if lecturers are sacked’? Can @helenhayes.bsky.social bear to say it? committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

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What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

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So you'd like a research grant from @britishacademy.bsky.social but you've got an additional need that makes that difficult? Well we still believe in equality, diversity, inclusion, and so there is a fund you can apply to for help with that www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/addi...

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Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!

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Columbia has expelled the president of @swcolumbia.bsky.social, a HELU member org, for participation in Palestine solidarity activism. This comes less than 24 hours before SWC's first bargaining session. We stand with SWC-UAW against this illegal interference in bargaining. uaw.org/in-shocking-...

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Columbia University still refuses to acknowledge Mahmoud's abduction by name in any official communications. No one cares about your "principles," we care about your actions. Will you protect international students, or throw them to the wolves?

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NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife: "I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."

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This is what I said back last October. And 90 universities are indeed currently making redundancies. Exactly on traintracks and on timetable. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it) hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=... template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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People say attention spans are short now, but theatrical playbills from the olden days are like: ᴍʀ ᴡᴀʀʙᴏʏs ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍ ONELY THE GOOD BITS FROM - 𝕁 𝕌 𝕃 𝕀 𝕌 𝕊 ℂ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕊 𝔸 ℝ - ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs ғʀᴏᴍ - 𝕆 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕃 𝕃 𝕆 - ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴍʀs sᴀᴍsᴏɴ ᴡɪʟʟ 𝙱 𝚁 𝙴 𝙰 𝙺 𝙳 𝙰 𝙽 𝙲 𝙴

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That this is how Columbia admin is reacting instead of fighting when a member of their community is being used as a national litmus test for civil rights erosion by the people who are also cutting their funding—how could any serious scholar or student or parent trust your institution ever again?

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Today is Maurice #Ravel’s 150th birthday! Here follows a thread of 62 Ravelian facts, quotes and stories, one for each year of his life. #Ravel150

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