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Michael Hambrook

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He/Him • PhD Philosophy at Exeter • Decolonising Neurodiversity • 4E Cognitive/Cultural Diversity • Eco-Socialism 💚🌏☮️🏳️‍🌈 • Music 🎸🪕🐋✨🎶

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Time for a walk in the countryside, Barden Bridge near Bolton Abbey. Getting out in nature does wonders for the mind, body and soul!
Mothin hugging a giant redwood treeMothin stood at a river bankPicture of a medieval bridge in autumn,  river running underneath,  rocks carved out to make rock poolsautumn, taken from the top of a bridge river running underneath,  rocks carved out to make rock pools
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Kashmir Day 2025 commemoration in Bradford. Ordinary people face the same problems across the world from the effects of climate change, the rise in the cost of living, political repression. Ordinary people of the world need to unite and come together against those that seek our exploitation
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Shubh Deepavali to everyone celebrating in Coventry South and across the country! 🪔 As diyas light up our streets and homes tonight, we celebrate the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. Wishing you all a Diwali filled with joy, peace, and togetherness ✨
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali. Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.
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Kutlerski @kutlerski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Hot off the press…!
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore. My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn
More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip. It is not a threat. It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Rewilding isn't only about saving nature, but re-filling the world with beauty and loveliness. We just need to allow it happen.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is the political video I've been waiting to see. I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"People must see themselves as the authors of their own emancipation." Excellent new open-access article on the dangers of externally induced regime change with particular reference to Iran –– –– coauthored by Cardiff philosopher Patrick Hassan.
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"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan (keywords: Iran; Regime Change; Anti-Imperialism; Post-Colonial Theory)
Calls for regime change in Iran have surged once again following the June 2025 aerial bombardments by Israel, encouraged by hawkish factions in Washington and Tel Aviv. These military actions, ostensi...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"The Greens need someone...who will “challenge wealth & power” and speak “really clearly & unapologetically” when doing so." I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party: let's build our grassroots & send a big team of Green MPs to Parliament. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If the Greens really are to become the Reform-style populists of the left, Zack Polanski could be their man | Owen Jones
The deputy leader is challenging for the top job at a time when the party urgently needs to pick up disillusioned leftwing voters, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie. A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Under a Labour government, billions are being slashed for the elderly, disabled and children – the most vulnerable in society. Meanwhile, tech bosses rake in tax cuts and wealth taxes on the super-rich aren’t even on the table. Austerity 2.0 isn’t the “change” people voted for.
Times newspaper headline: Education Secretary suggests end of free school meals for some infants Financial Times headline: UK looks at cutting digital services tax to avoid Trump tariffs
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
For a fab neuro-affirming glossary, check out the work I'm doing with @stimpunks.org 400 terms reflecting the needs of neurodivergent & disabled communities “Language is also a place of struggle.Thinking differently requires speaking differently" bell hooks (1989) stimpunks.org/glossary/#h-...
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Develop A Language In
Which We Can Both Understand And
Challenge The World
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2025
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
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The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Gilbert Achcar on The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features. www.historicalmaterialism.org/the-age-of-n...
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The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features - Historical Materialism
With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of th...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
1. My column on what happened, what comes next, and just how easy our fake democracies are to overthrow. + short thread on where our remaining hopes lie. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own | George Monbiot
Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
On the day after the day before: Look after yourself, and others. Find solace and strength in nature, and in like-minded, caring people all around. We'll need solidarity in the dark times ahead. Meanwhile, a taste of the magic of an Irish rainforest may help raise spirits. 🌏
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
No imminent threat to the reproduction of capitalism is on the horizon, so contemporary fascism manifests the strange spectacle of “preventive counterreform”—parasitic on resuscitating the racialized anticommunism of a previous era.—Alberto Toscano, 2020
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The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
What if "economic anxiety" and "racial/class/gender/nationality resentment" are not distinct things, but intertwined manifestations of a profound insecurity about how to think of one's place in an unpredictable and rapidly changing world?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
God help us all.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
At the end of The Empire Strikes Back the rebels are desolate. Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. Luke Skywalker has been defeated in battle by Darth Vader, losing a hand in the process. The Emperor's victory was total.... until the Jedi returned. Not sure what made me think of that.
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Very good new and much needed article "Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?" by Vishnu KK Nair, Warda Farah, and Mildred Boveda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm? - Vishnu KK Nair, Warda Farah, Mildred Boveda, 2024
In this article, we engage in a critical conversation with scholars of neurodiversity. We emphasize the transformative role neurodiversity has in creating a cru...
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