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Alan Keenan

@ajcpkeenan.bsky.social
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A while back I wrote a book called "Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure". Little did I know... So much still to learn.

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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Sign here to tell @andyburnham.bsky.social to SAY NO. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Andy, Andy, @andyburnham.bsky.social You know approving #Rosebank is not the way to lasting growth - nor an exit from #neoliberalism. It's a faster route to the dead-end of #climatecollapse. Just say no - and be the change you talk about!
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vivamusic.bsky.social @vivamusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
heatstrike.uk #Heatstrike ⚠️ #TooHotToWork 🥵
Heatstrike
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Heatwaves across the UK are intensifying thanks to climate breakdown. But gov has nothing in place to prepare. Workers shouldn’t bear the cost. We demand: 📢 A national maximum working temperature 📢 A heatwave furlough scheme 📢 A climate action plan heatstrike.uk #HeatStrike #TooHotToWork
Daisy holds up a poster which reads: 'Don't face the heat alone. This summer. Heatstrike.uk'Graphic which reads: HEAT STRIKE: DON'T FACE THE HEAT ALONE
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Richard Ashwell @richardashwell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#HeatStrike: The Met office has issued a Red #ExtremeHeat Warning for this week, with the historical UK temperature record for June set to be obliterated Which is why we are calling a Heat Strike on the hottest day of the year so far! Sign here: heatstrike.uk #climate #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather
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Heat Strike
On the hottest day of the year people all over the UK will join the Heat Strike. Find out more and sign up!
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This thread on the #ReflectingPool #AlgaeScandal is brilliant. Go science!
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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/06/2026
S&P 500 profit margins just hit a record high. In Q1, companies kept nearly $0.15 in profit for every $1 of revenue — more than double the long-run average. The boom is concentrated in megacap tech, AI infrastructure, layoffs, and “efficiency” drives.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Researchers from the nonprofit tech watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reported that [Musk's, Yaxley Lennon's and Lowe's] posts about Belfast collectively garnered more than 115 million views across their accounts, with Musk accounting for 55 percent of the total.
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Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say
The newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Good to see some in US media are willing to call a spade (#ICE concentration camps like #DelaneyHall) a spade (a concentration camp). Yes, it can - and is - happen-ing in the USA. Thanks to @andreapitzer.bsky.social for the reference. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...
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Why we’re calling Delaney Hall a “concentration camp” – The Jersey Bee
The term describes facilities where targeted groups are held without due process under inhumane conditions.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Andy Burnham has a 12% lead in new Makerfield poll ahead of Reform with Greens in 3rd place ahead of Restore. Labour: 49 Reform: 37 Greens: 5 Restore: 5 Conservative: 3 Lib Dem: 1 Other: 1
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2026
Janeese Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist, could become the next mayor of D.C. Now, Trump is threatening to take over the nation’s capital if she wins, an assault on the Home Rule Act of 1973 and a grave threat to the democratic process. bit.ly/4ejAz7D
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is what impunity looks like. Thousands upon thousands involved in illegal road blocks, violence, intimidation, unlawful procession, disorder, rioting, arson, pogroms.. Less than 45 convictions out of thousands in August 2024, and around 100 out of thousands arrested for Ballymena in 2025.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Elon Musk, come collect your boy.
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Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thousands mobilised against the far right in cities across the UK today. Some 20,000 people out opposing racism in Belfast. The biggest antiracist demo in Belfast’s history - the best possible response to the racist pogroms that hit the city. 🧵
An aerial shot of thousands of anti-racist protesters in Belfast todayThousands of anti-racist to protesters gather in Belfast today
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Racist rioters defended. Peaceful protesters arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-belfas...
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The Belfast Riots Have Exposed the Real ‘Two Tier’ Britain
Racist rioters are defended and peaceful protesters are arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An outrageous and anti-democratic verdict, a product of Starmer’s authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by too many politicians, judges and journalists to name. #Palestine #RightToProtest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK
Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Again, Farage, Robinson, and Musk wanted this.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/06/2026
It’s simple: tenants have the legal right to safe and habitable housing, and my administration is committed to making sure that right is upheld.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/06/2026
Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The easiest way to end up in the NYT Opinion section is to be someone they perceive as “progressive” arguing that progressives actually have to capitulate to the right on x issue
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Not to repeat myself again, but it is bad that we are now two years into a Labour government and a major shift has been we now have annual riots that the government struggles to condemn.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump: On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.”
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ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump
On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lots of fascinating details in this @majorityreport.bsky.social interview with @jeetheer.bsky.social linking chief accuser of @grahamformaine.bsky.social to previous Republican skullduggery, including a role for #GrahamPlatner's opponent, #SusanCollins www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-C...
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Platner Smear Flops | Jeet Heer | TMR
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excellent discussion on democracy & the various things called "populism". Sharp questions from @piercepenniless.bsky.social & subtle & enlightening answers from @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. Way past time to update my book: the politics of "the people" has changed so much! www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Jan-Werner Müller and James Butler · On Politics: Myths of Populism
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"German politicians rush to demonise...Israeli philosophers speaking at Holocaust memorials, while they forgive allies’ jokes about Auschwitz; they pass laws to combat what they consider antisemitism,[to] be enforced by police officers who send one another Nazi memes" www.equator.org/articles/ger...
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Bad Memories • EQUATOR
Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/06/2026
They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A superb analysis by Prof Guy Standing of the politics of precarity and the class dynamics driving British politics and threatening the Labour Party's survival. Must reading for @andyburnham.bsky.social and well-wishers. @compassoffice.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/the-precaria...
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The precariat election: Ignoring class and insecurity imperils Labour
A fractured ‘dangerous class’ has spoken. If Labour cannot offer them real security, the damage may be permanent
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Annabel Denham of the Daily Telegraph is the posh face of mob violence. The radicalised British right are now happy to invoke the language of violence & unleash violence on the streets of Britain. It needs called out; not normalised. #Newsnight
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's good to see @vanhollen.senate.gov call out the dangers of #crypto and other outside money in Maryland's 5th Congressional district Dem primary. From what I have read, Dem establishment's pick Adrian Boafo's links to crypto funders should rule him out entirely. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Van Hollen sends warning about outside money in 5th Congressional District race
The race is one of Maryland’s most competitive after U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer announced earlier this year that he was stepping down following four decades in Congress.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Can democracies defeat the #BigTech juggernaut? In the UK there's a chance. Join 10,000+ others & tell Health Secretary @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social: Trigger the break clause and get #Palantir out of the #NHS. Sign the @foxglovelegal.bsky.social petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/94...
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Health Secretary James Murray: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS
https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/wes-streeting-trigger-the-break-clause-and-get-palantir-out-of-the-nhs/
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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One of #KeirStarmer's gifts to British democracy.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/05/2026
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 23/05/2026
Sanders & Lee introduce a bill to ban super PACs and end unlimited political spending. One can hope.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_n6...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Introduces Abolish Super PACs Act
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 20/05/2026
The lawsuit was filed by a former Capitol Police officer and a Metropolitan Police Department officer, both of whom defended against the Jan. 6 riots and later testified to Congress.
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Cops Who Defended Capitol On Jan. 6 Sue To Block Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund
The lawsuit was filed by a former Capitol Police officer and a Metropolitan Police Department officer, both of whom defended against the Jan. 6 riots and later testified to Congress.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
More proof if needed of the shambles of Starmer's Downing Street operation. A briefing to papers on capping supermarket prices produces predictable backlash from supermarkets followed by govt retreat. Basic incompetence from the Starmer Govt.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reform’s candidate for Makerfield questioned over neo-fascist Facebook friend www.channel4.com/news/reforms...
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Reform’s candidate for Makerfield questioned over neo-fascist Facebook friend
The date for the Makerfield by-election has been confirmed. Voters in the Greater Manchester constituency will go to the polls on 18 June.
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Seeing Farage's thugs push @channel4news Clare Fallon out of the way is so appropriate: Farage's secret £5 million "security" package at work.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026
Wheelchair user Julia Feinberg, who has spinal muscular atrophy, lives independently thanks to the 600 hours of help she gets each month to have someone assist with daily tasks. If Gov. Gavin Newsom gets his way, Feinberg risks losing the care that allows her to live an independent life.
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Newsom's budget shows he's not the resistance leader you think he is
Disabled people on Medicaid-funded home care are often "conditioned to accept crumbs."
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I’m not sure when it happened, but I am pleased to see the @newyorker.com is now including the option of buying from @bookshop.org on its book pages, in addition to #Amazon. Who knows why they changed, but I will take it as a small victory for pluralism.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
With the caveat that this is a Fox poll, this would seem to suggest that in 2006 the majority of people polled simply did not know what the 14th Amendment said, but by 2026 Trump’s demagoguery around birthright citizenship had educated a huge swathe of the public, only NOT in the way he intended.
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69% OF VOTERS now say children of illegal immigrants should be granted automatic citizenship-a massive shift from the 45% who felt that way twenty years ago, according to a new Fox News Poll.
Where do you stand on this issue?
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SHOULD CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE BORN IN U.S.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Nationalize it. The people’s minesweeper reporting for duty!🫡
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The only upside of the insane war on Iran and the economic damage it is doing is that finally there is a real discussion about the irrationalities of tying the price of electricity to gas in the UK.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“A report by Common Wealth recommended passing emergency legislation to instruct the NESO to act as a single buyer of electricity, taking renewable generators out of the wholesale market and paying them fair, fixed prices.” Our new report in @skynewsrss.bsky.social 👇 news.sky.com/story/greens...
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Greens pile pressure on Ed Miliband to end 'rigged energy system'
The party's MPs said looking into decoupling electricity from gas "won't cut it", and the energy secretary should fully commit to end "rip-off Britain".
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Alan Keenan @ajcpkeenan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is a no-brainer. Demand for a windfal tax on fossil fuel profits should be at the top of the political agenda. One small thing we can all do - sign this petition to tell G7 governments to tax polluters profits now. act.350.org/act/tax-poll...
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Tax polluters' profits now!
The war in the Middle East is taking hundreds of lives while also causing oil and gas prices to surge – and fossil fuel companies are cashing in, while families struggle with rising bills. The richest...
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