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Michele Paule

@michelepaule.bsky.social
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Academic. Author. Activist. PI: Girls, Leadership, & Women in the Public Eye project. RHJYC trustee. Latest book: tinyurl.com/3swdbdew

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population. Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵
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MeCCSA Women's Network @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
MeCCSA 2025 has come and gone but we still have plenty of updates to share about the conference and our network members! Stay tuned for more 👀 #MeCCSA2025
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, and a worker for an NFL team have all been fired this week for speaking critically about Charlie Kirk, a man who criticized others for a living.
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Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media
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Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The silence from those who claim to be fighting and campaigning to protect women & children is now deafening. It was never truly about safeguarding them - it is about immigration and racism, and certainly not about the safety of Black and Brown women and children. uk.news.yahoo.com/british-born...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers. Women penalised for becoming mothers. Position becomes even worse when women become unpaid carers. 74,000 women a year forced to leave jobs for getting pregnant. Takes toll: low pensions, poverty insecurity.
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UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows
ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women
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MeCCSA Women's Network @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We also have a website for blogs, advice, reading recommendations and much more: meccsa-womens-network.org.uk
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Welcome MeCCSA Women's Network - MeCCSA Women's Network
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Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An interesting framework for the context of #onlinehate: "similar to the 'there is no alternative' to neoliberalism argument...the gendered construction of cyberlibertarianism presents online freedom as the only game in town, at least when it comes to online hate." academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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An Intersectional Feminist Critique of Cyberlibertarian’s Grip on the Construction of Online Freedom
Abstract. The impacts of online hate speech include emotional and embodied harms that have sometimes stunted careers, resulted in lost wages and missed job
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Black Country people: fash are trying to mobilise people in Dudley this Sunday, hot off back of former Tory MP & multiple property owner Marco Longhi’s campaign to remove leisure discount for asylum-seekers. Please join the counter demo 11am at the Fountain if you can.
DEFEND REFUGEES
Sunday 17th Aug: 11am
The Fountain, Market Pl,
Dudley DY11LP
NO TO RACISM
REFUGEES WELCOME
EMERGENCY MOBILISATION STOP THE FAR RIGHT IN DUDLEY
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Well this is all suddenly starting to make a lot more sense… Women abused as children by Rotherham gangs say police also sexually assaulted them www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
📢 Behold, The Master Race 🔽 🙄. Currently, if not in jail, to be found harassing terrified asylum seekers trapped in their temporary hotel accommodation up and down the country. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.
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ICE’s Deportation Machine Runs on Private Security
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If Zoe had added Munich, everybody would now talk about Pop Music....
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
3.7 billion people live below the poverty line. In the UK, unnecessary cuts are hitting the most marginalised. All whilst billionaire wealth is surging - per new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report. UK must tax extreme wealth & support the UN Tax Convention. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports
Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
💷 £2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large Five years after launch, £1.9 billion of Bounce Back Loans is still missing — only £130 million recovered bylinetimes.com/2025/06/25/2...
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£2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large With Government Accused of 'Passivity' in Claiming Funds
Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government's Covid 'bounce back' loan scheme was launched
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
On balance, I was more comfortable with Fox employees lying about wars than running them.
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Marie Tidball @marietidball.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Today, Women’s Aid’s heartbreaking report finds that 19 more children have been killed since 2015 by a known domestically abusive parent during unsafe contact arrangements. This is a 50% increase in the number of families impacted compared to the last decade. www.womensaid.org.uk/nineteen-mor...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/06/2025
In use at many UK universities right now
A refuse skip that says "PROFESSOR BIN" on the side
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it [ITUC] www.ituc-csi.org/under-neolib...
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Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it
Amid deliberate attacks by neoliberal employers and policies, the right to strike is being weakened, year on year, all around the world. Even in the most developed countries, the drive to neutralise t...
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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 17/06/2025
They're just arresting organizers now.
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Border Patrol Detains Two Leaders of Migrant Advocacy Group
Jose Ignacio "Nacho" De La Cruz, 29, and his stepdaughter, Heidi Perez, 18, were pulled over in Richford. An advocacy group accused agents of racial profiling.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.
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Michele Paule @michelepaule.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
📢 This ⏬ is what happened to UK #inequality since 1961. It soared in the 1980s under Thatcher and no UK govt has seriously tried to reverse it since - so, the centre cannot hold and things fall apart... ifs.org.uk/living-stand...
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Charlie Austin @chuckles-s.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
British women are being jailed and shamed under archaic abortion laws. After more than a century and a half, this week, MPs could vote to change that. My col. on decriminalising abortion - and giving tens of millions of women a genuine right to choose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week | Frances Ryan
Women will really have the right to choose if politicians vote to revoke this Victorian-era legislation, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 16/06/2025
🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected. This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪
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Regional emperor penguin population declines exceed modelled projections - Communications Earth & Environment
The number of emperor penguins in the Bellingshausen and Weddell Sea declined by 22% over the period 2009–2023, a reduction of 1.6% per year, exceeding predictions from population models based on high...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Best image of the day:
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 14/06/2025
wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Eugenics is back: short video and blogpost about the 21st century resurgence of the discredited ideology of eugenics www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...
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The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised in England and Wales after 200 years. Labour will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence. It comes alongside an extra £233 million in funding for homeless services, taking the total this year to nearly £1 billion.
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 10/06/2025
🧬MedSky🧬 Existing drug class may help patients with skin cancer that resists standard treatments, a new study shows. #Cancer #Melanoma
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Existing drug class may help patients with skin cancer that resists standard treatments
Increased activity in a specific biological pathway may explain why many patients with a deadly form of skin cancer do not respond to the latest cancer treatments, a new study shows.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
You can explore the data here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r... and my colleagues have written here for @wonkhe.bsky.social on what the data tells us wonkhe.com/blogs/what-s...
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What SHAPE graduates do
The British Academy has released analysis of what social sciences, humanities, and arts graduates do after graduation. Pablo Roblero and Alfie Denness introduce the findings
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our new @britishacademy.bsky.social infographic on key facts about social science, humanities & arts (SHAPE) graduate employment www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/57...
PDF of data found here https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-research/british-academy-shape-observatory/understanding-shape-graduates/PDF of data found here https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-research/british-academy-shape-observatory/understanding-shape-graduates/
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Katywho50 @katywho50.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women
Through executive order, President Donald Trump has used an Orwellian playbook to erase women from the public record.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Really great that @economist.com used their cover story this week to revisit their 2010 cover story on ‘gendercide’. The practice of aborting girls for just being girls is not over, but has reduced significantly economist.com/leaders/2025...
Graph showing the reduction of ‘missing girls’ per year

The countries with the biggest skews in favour of boys in sex ratios at birth have seen a reversion towards the natural rate. In South Korea almost 116 boys were born for every 100 girls in 1990.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 06/06/2025
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
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Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident.

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
As usual, the cruelty is the point. Missouri has lived under the boot of a GOP supermajority for 22 years and they have consistently defunded schools. And now they are planning to close schools for the severely disabled.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/05/2025
This isn’t just about one racist woman in Minnesota. It’s about a pattern that’s played out repeatedly in recent years—a sort of patronage system for bigotry that’s become embedded in conservative fundraising culture.
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How Calling a Child the N-Word Made One Woman $700,000
The Shiloh Hendrix GiveSendGo campaign exposes the right’s patronage system for public displays of racism.
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Michele Paule @michelepaule.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is what #Farage & #Reform want for the UK
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Cambridgeshire @cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Councillor says some children in care are 'evil' #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews 🔗: www.bbc.com/news/arti...
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Cambridgeshire councillor says some children in care are 'evil'
Reform UK's Andy Osborn makes the comments at a Cambridgeshire County Council committee meeting.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The dictator of one of the United States' enemies is using the President of the United States to announce military attacks on a United States ally.
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