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Kathy Dodworth

@dodgington.bsky.social
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Research Fellow KCL | Voluntary Labour | Global Politics | Health | Kenya | Tanzania | Non-State Actors | Heat Pump Widow

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 02/10/2026
Last night, hundreds of people gathered outside Palantir's London HQ to demand an end to their #NHS contract. The rally closed a day of protests at 40+ locations across England, and a week of action against Palantir around the world. ✊ #PeopleVsPalantir #NoPalantirInTheNHS #BackTheBreakClause
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Africa’s coalition-building at the UN is quietly redrawing the world order. It has already changed how the world is mapped. Can it now change how it is governed? Lynda Chinenye Iroulo on @africaatlse.bsky.social
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Africa’s coalition-building at the UN is quietly redrawing the world order - Africa at LSE
Africa is beginning to make itself heard at the United Nations. It has already changed how the world is mapped. Lynda Chinenye Iroulo asks: can it now change how it is governed? In September 2026,…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Despite The Deadline, US Bilateral Health Deals Not Ready For Implementation - Health Policy Watch
Although the United States' bilateral health memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with 35 countries are due to come into effect on Thursday (1 October), the
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I should never sit in quiet coach cos people’s phone calls are just twice as aggravating. Same number of people making calls, twice the anger. Better approach is to have a loud coach and go experience intermittent surprised relief when people AREN’T on phones
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🟡 Print Edition Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism By Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ewww! support many of Tedros’ proclamations but this is gross. No one’s health challenge should be an investment opportunity
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hmmmm, well said sir. I might lend you my vote! It is this very issue of this history of persecution that shuts down legitimate debate on Israel’s actions today. I think he conveys well how and why that becomes such an embodied response. #neveragainforanyone
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Urgh
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In these cases, they clearly believe our concerns are illegitimate. So illegitimate that they often associate us with – or even proscribe us as – terrorists. Care about Palestinians? Terrorist. Want to burn and kill asylum seekers? We might not like your methods, but you have legitimate concerns.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026
The absolute scourge of the ‘informal meeting’ - a technique management now regularly use to avoid accountability. Always ask what ‘informal’ means, always demand the full formal process with union support, and always remember that it is definitely not an ‘informal meeting’ if HR are there.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Are we allowed to post about this publicly? Who knows. But if you send a message *during welcome week* to tell your entire staff that they might lose their jobs, I’m not sure you can demand that the recipients behave with honour and discretion.)
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘These are not ebikes. They are illegal electric motorbikes.’ This is it exactly. I wrote off a pedal bike last year - and was lucky not to be badly injured - when one of these mini motorbikes slammed on brakes in front of me (seemingly in response to a phone notification) Rider cycled off
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/09/2026
Agriculture Dept. Puts Trump’s Face On Soybeans
Agriculture Dept. Puts Trump’s Face On Soybeans
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It also became clear that Uni exec were leaning on the advice of a consultancy firm that has been shaping HE policy in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK: Nous (or Nousferatu, as they’re now known). The fact VCs and others are delegating policy to consultants, despite £400k salaries, is disgusting
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dear America, they may call themselves democratic socialists but are really social democrats. Rent controls, state-supported healthcare for the poorest, allowing unions, childcare subsidies ≠ end of capitalism. Don’t be scared!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🔴 All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are not allowed to accept secretariat services “funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”. But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Revealed: the foreign governments behind Westminster's cross-party groups
Foreign states aren't meant to fund the organisations running parliamentary groups. Our investigation found evidence that some do.
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I support Amanda Knox. The misogynistic tabloids & Italian legal system shaped her wrongful convection. She’s never been vindicated in public eye bc she was in abstentia. She tried to live anonymous life & media wouldn’t let her. So she leans in & they accuse her of monetising the crime. So screw it
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Everyone doing stuff despite serious reservations is the problem
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Such a good piece. No one, including Obama, can campaign on a premise of change without tackling campaign finance - it is meaningless. the broligarchy is omnipresent and party less. Dimon, just like Musk, is a complete chameleon and entirely without values
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m suddenly getting a huge uptick of reviewer requests of papers not remotely in my field. Is this AI? Journals are legit
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Do Vice Chancellors get paid just shy of half a mil a year to pick between consultants?
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 31/07/2026
GP registrar explains something most patients in England have never been told... Your GP practice can block your records being extracted into US spy-tech company Palantir's NHS platform - but only if patients ask. Find out how: justtreatment.org/gp-letter
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
On the left is the oath that Gianni Infantino took when he joined the IOC: "I will always act independently of political interests. I will fully comply with the IOC Code of Ethics" On the right is the IOC Ethics Commission's explanation of why Gianni Infantino will be allowed to break these rules.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 22/07/2026
Board of Peace moving forward with "pilot" concentration camp in Gaza, apparently www.ft.com/content/2b6b...
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Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to set up Gaza ‘pilot’ city
Controversial plan comes after months of fruitless attempts to advance US peace deal for the enclave
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hey, if your friend has cancer, please don’t tell them how you know someone else with cancer. Thanks!
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"“Everyone is thinking and talking about Infantino, but nobody ever does anything...everyone looks at these issues through their own personal risk/benefit balance and then decides to do nothing.” @mjslater.bsky.social on what keeps Infantino in power www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...
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What football really thinks of Gianni Infantino (and why he is more powerful than ever)
Despite a multitude of controversies at this World Cup, the FIFA president still seems impregnable
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So, by logic set out here by the v same Conservatives, Shamima Begum should be accepted back by UK govt and, if not, Brits should be refused visas to Syria. Plus, IMHO, Begum did not even commit a crime. Home Office policy is so racist, on part of both main parties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mahmood to set out plan to deport grooming gang leader
Calls have grown to deport Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed after his release from prison.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🔴 NEW: A Hostile Foreign State Could ‘Buy A UK Election For Just £25m’ By Andy Pryce A former UK diplomat who spent a decade tracking Russian influence operations explains how open our politics is to foreign capture Read the full story below.
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A Hostile Foreign State Could 'Buy A UK Election For Just £25m'
A former UK diplomat who spent a decade tracking Russian influence operations explains how open our politics is to foreign capture
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I just received an email inviting myself to nominate (myself?) for an international women’s research award. There is a field on the form for my marital status …
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Guys guys - finally! good news! And in the public interest! Who remembers THAT?
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/06/2026
Elon Musk doesn't believe gutting USAID caused any deaths. He claims his DOGE team was unable to find kids the agency was helping. Well, here are some specific people he could talk to: parents whose kids are now dead, and kids who are now orphaned, thanks to him. www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-the-cu...
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Yes, the Cuts to USAID Have Killed
Elon Musk dismisses the human toll of the Trump administration’s gutting U.S. foreign aid—but it’s real and it’s measurable.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...
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As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This 2024-25 figure is jaw dropping. The wrong people are in charge of our universities….
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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PLANS TO CUT NEAR 25% OF HASS ACADEMICS - BUT NEAR 25% OF ITS PAY COSTS ARISE FROM HIGHLY PAID MANAGERS WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM THE REDUNDANCIES In the last 5 yrs, the Exeter has been cutting costs to the bone while overseeing a vast increase in highly paid staff. [1/8]
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/06/2026
Alibaba, one of China’s most valuable technology companies, sued the U.S. Department of Defense, challenging the Pentagon’s decision to designate it as a company affiliated with the Chinese military.
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Alibaba Sues Pentagon Over China Military Label
The Chinese tech giant said it had no ties to China’s military and that the U.S. government had violated the law by making that claim.
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yay! Another white male for PM! At least he’s not posh AF
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Don’t get me wrong, totally fed up with Starmer. Just think it’s mad that the mayor of Manchester, not an MP, decides he has enough support to be PM and he’s there within the week. What kind of process do we have in this country where we’ve only had a say in 3 out of soon to be 7 PMs in a decade
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