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Rashidfreed

@rashidfreed.bsky.social
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People, Purpose, Planet, poetry & Place. Charity CEO & Trustee & NUFC www.theomareffect.com

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026
Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...
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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools
Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...
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Jonathan Tedds @jtedds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Essential report from MIT on the impact of AI on their undergraduate teaching. Alex Veremeyenko: "The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software." aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 12/09/2026
AI is not the origin of data. It's a probabilistic regurgitation of words. It knows nothing, no judgment, no experiences. It hallucinates 100% of the time. Humans are flawed, but OUR experiences, OUR judgment leads to data. So we have to find a human at the origin of a truth or it's not a truth.
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We started the week saying 'national security can't be at the expense of social security'. But we ended the week realizing that national security CAN apparently come at the expense of securing free and fair elections!
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 31/08/2026
Newcastle signing my #1 replacement for Anthony Gordon from my summer transfer window newsletter is very cool. Pardo is super versatile and can play across the front line, a great fit for Jaissle-ball #NUFC
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Great to be at the launch of @jonmackenzie.bsky.social new book The Spectre of Pep last night. The room was full of friendship, warmth & connection. Its a wonderful & typically generous touch that Jon's book is dedicated to our son, Omar, who took his own life three years ago. # NUFC fans check out-
Book cover of The Spectre of Pep by Jon MackenzieDedication "To Omar and Om" on the inside cover of the book: The Spectre of Pep by Jon MackenzieLarge pile of books at the book launch of Book cover of The Spectre of Pep by Jon Mackenzie. The cover is blue and features a picture of Pep Guardiola
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Grey Eye Magpie @greyeyemagpie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#nufc 🫡
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#Grenfell 9 years on and still we march for justice
A banner of a green heart with the word Justice in the middle A banner of a green heart with the word Change written on it
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 28/05/2026
Landing in inboxes first thing tomorrow. Want to receive it, subscribe at editkev.football #NUFC PS. Gonna go have a lay down.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Imagine waking up this morning as an #NUFC player, and looking at the election results across the region. I wonder if Bruno, Thiaw, Ramsey, Osula, Joe & Joe, Botman, Schar, Elanga,Tonali, Woltemade are all thinking- Aye, this will do me and my kids for the next 5 years! The famous geordie welcome
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Anybody who was in the academic trenches knows that the administrator class was a representative of capitalist interests that prioritized the financialization of academia while undercutting labor and destroying democratic energies. You don't get here without them serving as hatchet men.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well of course Miles Jones, Reform UK’s Deputy Leader in Bexley works for pollster More in Common…
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
London Falling? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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London has England’s highest levels of child poverty, data shows
About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 27% in the UK as a whole
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 14/03/2026
Mood #NUFC
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Trump may have been involved in an unparalleled and inexplicable pact with the US government to remain above the law, one that was likely buffered by criminal actors and hostile foreign states." On Trump's missing taxes, from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
free excerpt from Kendzior book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) on trump's taxes. i am not writing on a phone, i don't use apps like google lens, and i am not manually typing pages of my book into a tiny box. if you'd like to go that, have fun.excerpt from Kendzior book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) on trump's taxes. i am not writing on a phone, i don't use apps like google lens, and i am not manually typing pages of my book into a tiny box. if you'd like to go that, have fun.excerpt from Kendzior book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) on trump's taxes. i am not writing on a phone, i don't use apps like google lens, and i am not manually typing pages of my book into a tiny box. if you'd like to go that, have fun.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oxfordshire County Council is leaving X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter. It says it is “deeply concerned about the rise in online hate speech and abuse targeting women and girls… we must make clear and principled choices about how we communicate”.
A lovely bird logo and a decidedly less than lovely X logo
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🔴 NEW: Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. We can reveal that its funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians, and Tufton Street insiders. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
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Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 13/01/2026
I'd heard this morning that a Training Ground announcement was on the way. Confirmed by Craig Hope today. Important milestone for PIF ownership. People have rightly asked questions about the major infrastructure projects. #NUFC archive.is/202601131704...
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 05/01/2026
Ah man, this fucking sucks. Honestly, hope they find the person, they get charged by the police and banned for the rest of their life from SJP #NUFC
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 04/01/2026
Yessssssss. Not a routine win but in the end we absolutely deserved the win. Depth of the squad helped to make the difference. Miley & Bruno both class, the latter player of the season so far. Two wins on the spin & a clean sheet. #nufc
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If it wasn't for those pesky kids! How a real term decline in education support stokes a discourse that conveniently blames children and families for needing support. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis?
Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10/11/2025
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
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An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
From new Wired article about Alpha Schools: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
800 words please on why this proves the Labour and Conservative strategy to primarily target Reform voters is working perfectly.
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Ole! Ole!
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
As someone responsible for running youth and library services, in a charity focused on specific neighborhoods, I can testify that the struggle is real, brother.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Really good piece from Jane Bradley and co at NYT. Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K. Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that… democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
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US anti‑abortion cash floods UK free speech frontlines
Democracy for Sale investigation finds US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars.
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.
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Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Grenfell Tower is being dismantled, and alongside it, the truth. news.sky.com/story/grenfe...
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Grenfell Tower deconstruction begins amid fears the work will lead to more flashbacks for community
Deconstruction has begun, starting with the tower's highest floor. Sky News has learnt the work has sparked a surge in local requests for mental health support.
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James' Place @jamesplaceuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The free, life-saving therapy we offer is delivered face-to-face, or often, shoulder-to-shoulder💙Our trained, professional therapists support men in suicidal crisis at our warm & welcoming centres in Liverpool, London & Newcastle. Anyone can refer a man to us, or refer yourself: jamesplace.org.uk.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Some of you may have seen this already, if you haven't, watch, then reshare with those you know, should see it. Have a great day guys!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025
Per the press conference, the actual inscriptions on the casings are: "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three down arrow" "O bella cao, bella cao cao cao" "If you read this you are gay lmao"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.
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