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Prof Diana Jeater

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Tayo Aluko @mrtayoaluko.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Paul Robeson was a canary in the coal mine long before Jeremy Corbyn My article in @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on #PaulRobeson's birthday, ahead of a sharing of Paul Robeson's Love Song for #mayday 2026. #peekskill #kenosha #blacklivesmatter #antisemitism #itwasascam www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Paul Robeson was a canary in the coal mine long before Jeremy Corbyn
On his birthday, Tayo Aluko looks at how the establishment destroyed Paul Robeson's character because of his political views
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Mothin Ali calls out spineless Starmer for dragging the UK into the Iran war and then repeatedly lying about doing so
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Mothin Ali corrects Starmer’s Green Party slander
Mothin Ali calls out spineless Starmer for dragging the UK into the Iran war and then repeatedly lying about doing so
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How on EARTH does a former human-rights lawyer have nothing to say about this?!
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Llewelyn Pritchard @llewelynpritchard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b... Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role Peter Jukes 24 April 2023
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Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31/03/2026
Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?
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‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail. We know where this will go -- the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement. We will sue and we will win.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you @vickyblake.bsky.social and @ewanmg.bsky.social for fighting this fight on behalf of all UCU members.
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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Certification Officer has issued his decision in Blake & McGaughey v UCU. My initial response is here: vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/03/31/t... I urge members to read the full ruling rather than relying on the summary emailed to all members by HQ today. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cbcb...
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The Certification Officer’s ruling: Blake & McGaughey v UCU
The Certification Officer has now issued his decision in Blake and McGaughey v UCU. One complaint was upheld in part as a technical breach. The rest were dismissed, and no rerun or further remedy w…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantirs NHS contract.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/03/2026
‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
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‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it “Let me say, we’ve won,” he told a rally in Kentucky on 11 March. “I think we’ve won,” he said on the White House south lawn on 20 March. “We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” he said in the Oval Office on 24 March. “We are winning so big,” he promised a fundraising dinner on 25 March. Donald Trump keeps declaring victory in Iran. But saying it over and over does not make it so. While the US president insists that his military campaign in the Middle East is a historic success, the world is bracing for a conflict that continues to metastasize and could wreak havoc on the global economy. Continue reading...
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Does AI risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale? A new article in Times Higher Education draws on research by @jeater.bsky.social funded by the British Academy, exploring how AI’s training data and linguistic norms reflect the Global North’s historical dominance. bit.ly/4sE53qF
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In postcolonial Africa, the ethical neutrality of AI is pure fantasy
“Knowledge production, including the production of technology, is one of the most important political questions facing higher education globally.”
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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Following the recent raid on Westminster Meeting House various folks who were arrested by the police had computers and phones siezed by the police. This included children’s computers. Phil is trying to raise funds to give 10 grants of £150.00 towards replacement devices. @quaker.org.uk
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Help raise £1500 to support my community by buying tech kit siezed by the Police in the Westminster Meeting House Raid – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support my community by buying tech kit siezed by the Police in the Westminster Meeting House Raid. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes dropped by 63% last year. That's because the Trump administration fired a ton of employees from the department responsible for investigating wealthy tax cheats. When the rich get richer while we struggle, it is ALWAYS by design.
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Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚨New report out today.🚨 If we want fewer families facing homelessness, we need to be honest about what works... and what doesn’t. Our new report looks at the evidence behind housing policy and why social housing is key to ending the housing emergency. 🗝️ Read the full report: shltr.org.uk/ifWuB
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Build Up Not Trickle Down Need-Led Housing - Shelter England
The government must adopt a need-led development model that delivers genuinely affordable social homes so everyone has a safe, affordable and secure place home.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026
Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This campaign is about hope vs hate. United, we can make sure Greens defeat Reform.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨2-month-old Juan Nicolás was "choking on his own vomit" in a TX ICE prison with a recent measles outbreak—with no doctor there. After a short hospitalization, and still sick, ICE deported him to Mexico. "Measles & tuberculosis-infested detainment," - @pabloreports.bsky.social tells us ⬇️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.
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Why Are CEOs Paid So Much?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research
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Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism
We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We're being subjected to a deluge of medieval anti-science claptrap from the right-wing press. Meanwhile, anti-vax attitudes are rising and measles is back. Their opinions are not just "hot takes" – they're wrong and dangerous.
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Media derangement syndrome
A new epidemic...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal gov't has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths,” she wrote. “It does not.”
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Judge quotes Orwell’s 1984 as she orders Trump to restore slavery exhibits in Philly
Judge compares president’s attempts to erase history to the dystopian Ministry of Truth
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/02/2026
What Wes Streeting ISN'T telling you... 🧐
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/02/2026
The implication of the BT piece is that Farage’s “Movement” is directly funded by that network. If that’s true, it’s much nastier. He should be having to defend his position to every newspaper and talk show. They should be demanding his resignation. *crickets*
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/02/2026
Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
‪Will, Ian, Maddie and Aleks are to be released following a hearing this morning.‬ ‪Julija Brigadirova was granted bail but is not released due to being on remand for an Instro Precision action in June 2024. Julija is the only one of the Instro10 held on remand.‬ ‪Free them all.‬
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge. Support the Filton24 here: chuffed.org/project/filt...
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 18/02/2026
Sorry this is "unemployment fears" at the same time as they are pushing AI to take people's jobs, which is obviously something that will start with the entry level jobs that young people need? CAN THEY NOT THINK. #Labour #Starmer
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Prof Diana Jeater @jeater.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute? A long, but important, read for anyone in @ucu.org.uk revsoc21.uk/2026/02/18/u...
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Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute?
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On a day tens of millions of Americans are more sure than ever before that the leader of our nation is a serial sexual predator who's either a pedophile or aiding and abetting pedophiles, the idea that his party is investigating Spanish lyrics they don't understand is a near-alien level of weirdness
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/02/2026
‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there?
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‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there?
Birdwatchers flock to Montréal for rare sighting of ‘vagrant’ bird that has made its home during a bitterly cold winter
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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Huh, maybe the revolution will be televised
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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pocketfulofstories.bsky.social @pocketfulofstories.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Shakespeare knew - a plague on both our houses - here and in the US ❤️ Ian McKellan
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it's_my_potty🧤 @oldbaby.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
take this in
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Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
UCU members have a right to a free + fair election, and a working union. Under Grady, members have seen: 📉over 10% real pay cuts, for lecturers, senior lecturers 🔻union membership+density plummet over 5% ✊UCU staff doing 4 strike ballots 🏳️failure to protect branches+job security So we need change.
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Umm, so we “need” to take Greenland to “protect it from Russia”… The same Russia he just asked to join his “peace board”? Do I have that right?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Phang: If the Trump/Bondi DOJ continues this charade of Halligan presenting herself as a U.S. attorney—even though a federal judge has found that she was unlawfully appointed—indictments like this for carjacking and attempted bank robbery could potentially be dismissed.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Black Panthers in Philadelphia have initiated armed community defense initiatives to counter ICE kidnapping raids within the city. (January 15, 2026) ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾
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Heidi MacDonald @ NYCC @comixace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
i don’t think it’s appropriate that old people are my age
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/01/2026
Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US—a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, Bloomberg reports. Deutsche Bank analysts warn Washington’s key vulnerability is living off global financing—and Europe may decide it no longer wants to bankroll the U.S.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/01/2026
My Republican colleagues must take notice: The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize. This is pathetic. It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Poetic
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