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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The BBC openly endorsing racism here.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10/08/2025

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid. Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

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This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF

MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A teen trapped in Gaza who has been accepted to study at the University of Glasgow has launched a fundraiser in a bid to get him to Scotland 🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'

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Gaza teen launches fundraiser after being offered place at Scottish university

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 29/07/2025

This needs shared far & wide! Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations @reformexposed.bsky.social

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

David Lammy says the "widespread loss of life" of aid workers in Gaza is a travesty. Who killed them, David? And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA. This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is
calling on every single leader in the world: DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD &
WATER INTO GAZA RIGHT AWAY. Even if it takes bypassing the reports, meetings, endless conferences, parliamentary sessions, UN sessions, and all the other regular diplomatic
channels that have led nowhere. Just do it. Genocide must not be allowed to continue while we all
watch. We must not allow mass starvation in Gaza.
We cannot wait any longer. IF YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT. HISTORY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE RECTITUDE OF
YOUR ACTIONS.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 14/06/2025

Fascinating! On the persuasive urge to 'do your own research' - often urged in environment of distrust, can be helpful - but also connected to conspiracy theories and reinforcing existing biases.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Credit to @katemossewriter.bsky.social for using her time on Radio 4 this morning to fully represent. ✅ women in leadership ✅ ai danger ✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip 🙌🏼

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Steve Chalke @stevechalke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies." Pope Francis

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...

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Schemas and the Political Brain

The neuroscience and psychology of why better facts don't make winning arguments in politics.

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The problem with so many institutional approaches to inclusion is it is more ‘come on in, let’s help you look more like us’ than ‘come on in, let’s enrich each other as we journey together’. There’s no inclusion if we’re not prepared to change.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Fab evening at Lincoln Arts Centre this evening curated by @maisonfoo.bsky.social & their wonderful community of hosts. Such a privilege to share memories, recipes, music & laughter (& dancing!), as well as the more difficult stories. Refugees make Britain a richer, brighter place to be. Thank you.

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025. Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“Lowercase writing is a way to reject the authority and rigidity associated with traditional grammar”. Interesting.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Time to get the HE comms team organised.

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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

New British Future research finds 61% of the public would prefer current levels of international student migration to stay the same or increase. Only 27% would reduce or stop student migration, which makes up around 40% of total UK immigration [Thread]

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Just caught up with #bbcqt Thank God for @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaking (informed) truth.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This terrible piece of journalism from BBC Culture re Kendrick Lamar’s super bowl show is why representation matters. White people, if we can’t be bothered to educate ourselves, we shouldn’t be writing about what we don’t understand.

Screenshot from the BBC website showing the headline ‘Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show was one big tease’.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In the UK, immigrants are ‘illegal’. In the States immigrants are ‘aliens’ (see previous post). Different flags, same colours.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

NEW: While responding to worst wildfires in the history of Los Angeles, FEMA employees were ordered to immediately change their vocabulary to call immigrants "aliens." "For Immediate compliance" they were told. Worker said it's "the most 1984 email Ive ever seen" www.404media.co/for-immediat...

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'For Immediate Compliance': FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say 'Alien' Instead of 'Immigrant'

"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The Western World might be burning but when ✅ its sunny in February ✅ you find a book Oxfam that you’ve been looking for for ages ✅ you can get coffee from the best coffee shop in the shires there is still some space for joy.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

7 practical ways to support the remarkable colleagues working in Gaza to rebuild higher education with and for their students. My piece in Research Professional News this week: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Normal service - Research Professional News

Alison Phipps suggests how UK universities can support colleagues in Gaza during a fragile ceasefire

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Fiona @fionaduerden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New hero. Walk humbly, show mercy - speak truth courageously. This is the way of Jesus ❤️

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