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Mary Margaret McCabe

@mmmccabe.bsky.social
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Ancient philosopher on either construal. Also, Philosophy in Prison www.philosophyinprison.com

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Philosophy in Prison @philosophyinprison.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Listen now to our Chair, MM McCabe‘s story of Sir Stephen Hough’s visit with her to one of our partner prisons, talking music and philosophy.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Many thanks to Georgia Mann for recounting my story of Stephen Hough talking about music and philosophy in a CatB prison. @philosophyinprison.bsky.social ❤️
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hugely impressive to watch four men — with variously deprived educational backgrounds — think together, enjoy developing an argument together and collaborate in the editorial process across a whole day. They entitle it ‘Deciphering the Narrative’. Brilliantly received by others when transmitted.
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Philosophy in Prison @philosophyinprison.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excited to have launched a philosophy podcast on the content hub of one of our partner prisons. The podcast has been devised, recorded and edited by some of our longstanding participants in the prison, in collaboration with @mmmccabe.bsky.social. We’re grateful to all involved!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“Claire Short resigned on principle but that was in 2003 which was the last time principles were seen in British politics.” Paraphrase of comment on radio just now.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is brilliant. And terrifying. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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Philosophy in Prison @philosophyinprison.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Fantastic to see the work of our philosophers being recognised @thebpa.bsky.social awards for their work with us in prisons! Well done to all the award winners and nominees, and thank you to the judging panel.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Last night’s brilliant award ceremony for @thebpa.bsky.social honoured Leonie Smith, @jonbebb.bsky.social and James Chamberlain, all for wonderful work with @philosophyinprison.bsky.social Congratulations all!!!!! #philosophymatters
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street. A stroke
had left him perpetually foggy, unable to recall many details about his life beyond the fact that he had been born in Cuba and had
spent nearly 50 years in the United States.
"Where am I?" he called out.
"Villahermosa," someone answered.
Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle. The deportees…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
torn between thinking it's objectively hilarious that literally nobody wants to help Trump open the straits (it is) & feelings of impending doom because evidently 1/Trump can't do it 2/if it's not open v soon we are screwed, cannot run an economy on schadenfreude alone. (although: sooo renewable!)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 13/03/2026
Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org
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Christopher Steele @christophersteele.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Watching members of the Trump administration try to ignore or absolve the Kremlin’s malign involvement in the Iran war is quite something. Russian military advisors are on the ground there providing targeting data against US forces and Russian components feature in both Iran’s missiles and drones.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Achieving UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, says CCC: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sheffield Hallam’s new plan to save cash: 🔸 All teaching-focused staff to be employed by a subsidiary firm 🔸 All non-REF staff to be moved to a pension scheme with a lower employer contributions #UKHE
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Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only
Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Broligarchy's First World War?
AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This ia a good piece by Simon Tisdall.
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/03/2026
Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy
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Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy
As the US waives its ban on India buying Putin’s oil for 30 days, Europe must bolster its own measures, such as stopping the flow of luxury cars
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Seems likely that (a) the school was deliberately hit by a "precision" strike by the US or Israel relying on outdated intel and (b) US is more likely responsible than Israel. US didn't deliberately aim at a school, but it deliberately aimed at a building that is now a school and has been for years
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Video: How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School
Malachy Browne of our Visual Investigations team describes what satellite imagery and other evidence tell us about who might be responsible for an airstrike on an elementary school in southern Iran. T...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The United States killed all these children last Saturday. 170 of them. Every. Single. One.
Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hard to concentrate on academic work when war rages and spreads, and all my thoughts are with the innocent people who die, are wounded, or are made homeless.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Adam Parsons: "In the eyes of many people this is an illegal attack" No, according to international law it is an illegal attack. Do your job, look out of the window and tell us if its raining.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Really looking forward to joining fellow speakers for the #WorldBipolarDay webinar.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled viruses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the bacteria, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/02/2026
Reports now that this has been revised up to 85 dead, with even more injured
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The home secretary will warn Labour MPs that the party will lose the next election unless they speed ahead with her hardline immigration reforms” Heaven help us www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Shabana Mahmood to sacrifice ‘bourgeois support’ over migrants
The home secretary will copy Denmark’s Social Democrats to seize the immigration narrative from Reform UK and appeal to working-class voters
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026
Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle'
Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
UCL didn’t teach them about the greater good then. This amid what is happening in HE anyway is a terrible outcome especially for those universities who look after the least advantaged and are needed the most.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/02/2026
What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
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What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Female victims, the law, the public, are all remote and potentially treacherous things that need to be kept as far as possible from infringing on this vast, self-contained and sophisticated reciprocal system of power.” Brilliant. And the truth.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I've been singing this to myself all day
Brian Lyman:
🎶It's time to question methods
It's time for petty fights🎶

Adam Rothman:
🎶It's time to meet the experts on the plenary tonight🎶
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
How do you legislate to make those with power respect those without it? The reporting of the Epstein scandal has given the women no voice. Try the small remedies. Listen to others (don’t just wait your turn). Censure those who interrupt. Call out the use of physical presence to establish power…
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Kirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Will Starmer and McSweeney really survive this? And the 'one rotten apple/we didn't know much' is a rotten, empty defence in face of the extensive networks of so many in or with power selling their souls (if they had any) for girls, women, money, trips. So shallow www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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PM says he knew when giving Mandelson US job he had kept ties with Epstein after conviction
Starmer defends ambassador appointment, saying he was lied to ‘repeatedly’ about extent of contact between pair
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Bigger things going on today i know but watching Bezos buy, wreck, and now basically gut a media institution at a time when America really needs a free press is just such a grotesque waste. If you don’t know how to run it, sell it to someone who can www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers
Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Don't think I've ever felt as sick reading a newspaper story as I have looking at this morning's Epstein coverage. Just the open amorality of all the powerful people involved for so long.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Lebedev is still a Lord...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/02/2026
"What a uniquely American obscenity to hear this woman employ the language of shared humanity, as the Trump administration kills Americans and systematically kidnaps immigrants and their kids." Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on "Melania."
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The Melania movie is an American obscenity
The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Really weeping for the patriarchy….
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Brilliant story about what can be done to improve the lives of the incarcerated, with huge credit to www.justice-defenders.org www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How Kenya’s jailhouse lawyer turned a life sentence into a legal career behind bars
After being incarcerated for murdering her partner, Ruth Kamande studied the legal system to understand her own case. Now she is fighting to reform Kenya’s laws
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
GOP senators, governor call for full investigation into ICE murder www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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Republican senators join calls for fuller investigation into Minneapolis killing
Trump says his administration is
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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