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Richard Hall
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Prof of Education and Technology #walsallfc NTF PFHEA #decolonising The Hopeless University http://bit.ly/3plYOdB Alienated Academic http://bit.ly/2HjFQL6 #freepalestine 🇵🇸

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Andrew Case @aclaudecase.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
BREAKING: The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including PM Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, reports Turkish media.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd

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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 4d
Yes! From A lovely woodland walk in Norfolk!

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 4d
Yes, fellow fungophiles, they are out, and in numbers. #fungifriends
A display of freshly-foraged wild mushrooms, including scarletinas, amethysts, slippery jacks and Bay boletes among other species.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 5d
Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:
A Keynote slide listing links to critiques of AI in higher education, with a picture of The Terminator and a newspaper headline about Grok servers poisoning a Black area of Memphis.

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 6d
More on the situation at #Emory, where the firing of a med school colleague & other activities by the admins appear to violate our Open Expression Policy. We either have a policy or we do not. @emoryaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org #AAUP @academic-chatter.bsky.social

www.emorywheel.com/article/2025...
Emory must stand up, reject culture of fear
The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.
www.emorywheel.com

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 7d
The Women's Budget Groups calculated how many children would be lifted above the poverty line if the two-child limit was scrapped.
How many children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child limit was scrapped?
www.bigissue.com

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 10d
Yeah, it's almost like this disgusting hate speech should be banned. Wonder who has the power to do that
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 10d
Wow a UK university finally learnt the word scholasticide

www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...
Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine
The Senate has published a ‘Senate Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, Palestine’.
www.soas.ac.uk

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11d
Trump administration officials reportedly told Israel that Washington will soon unveil a detailed plan for deploying an international stabilization force in Gaza.

CENTCOM is leading the design, which includes both a new Palestinian police alongside troops

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 11d
We remember Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a beloved activist rabbi who was a leading voice connecting Jewish spirituality to justice-oriented politics. He passed away last week at the age of 92.

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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 11d
I'm speaking about a new book project, The Dissolution of the Universities next Thursday, online c/o DECkNO at Bath. Should be full of lols www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissol...? #ukhe
The Dissolution of the Universities
Join Professor Richard Hall in discussing the crisis of the university with the DECkNO community.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11d
“My heart is just broken,” the Uber rider said. “Whether anyone is here legally or illegally, they deserve to be treated like a human being and not just taken off the street with no prior notice.”
Family distraught after feds detain Chicago Uber driver despite protected status, asylum application
Diego Castro was detained last Friday as he was dropping off a passenger in West Town. His family says he had made a life here since applying for asylum eight years ago.
trib.al

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d
children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at
How Chicagoans Are Helping Kids Have A Safe — And ICE-Free — Halloween This Year
Neighbors are organizing indoor trick-or-treat events, candy drives and candy dropoffs to protect vulnerable families. Two Logan Square blocks that attract thousands of trick-or-treaters may shut down...
blockclubchicago.org

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11d
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 11d
'around 150 jobs at risk in the initial phase'

- all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments
- large numbers of staff in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms

#UKHE
#HigherEd

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University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation
The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.
bbc.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 11d
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22d
Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir:

"Since we've taken delivery of the hostages, let's return to the war and open the gates of hell upon Gaza."
Ben Gvir

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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 24d
We stand with Palestine, with Birmingham’s communities, and against every attempt to use racism to silence solidarity. If Maccabi Tel Aviv come to Birmingham, they should be met not with welcome but with protest... these monsters have no place anywhere substack.com/home/post/p-...
Statement: No Apartheid Team in Birmingham
No Israeli team should be allowed to play any sport, anywhere, while Palestinians live under apartheid and Palestine remains in the grip of genocidal Israeli violence.
substack.com

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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · 25d
Collaboratory Research Placement Project: Children’s engagement with religions and worldviews in Leicestershire schools: The role of interfaith educational programmes in supporting trust and belonging collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-re...
Children’s engagement with religions and worldviews in Leicestershire schools: The role of interfaith educational programmes in supporting trust and belonging - Collaboratory Research Hub
Collaboratory 2026 Research Placement Project Download PDF (coming soon) Key Details Project Title: Children's engagement with religions and worldviews in Leicestershire schools: the role of interfait...
collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · Oct 10
Just to note that my phone got stolen about 45 mins ago in Central London, so if you receive anything weird-looking from me - especially Whatsapp/Signal - ignore

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Oct 9
Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social · Oct 2
Project report on racial literacy in Leicester Secondary Schools with the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and BERA www.bera.ac.uk/publication/...
Teaching to transform the curriculum (T2TC)
Building frameworks for racial literacy
www.bera.ac.uk

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Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · Sep 29
The scary part is that if ole boy was half a second slower on his bike, he could have wound up in South Sudan.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Sep 29
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Sep 28
"By any sensible definition, 'racist' is a word you can't apply to someone who doesn't want Romanians living next door."

Says Fraser Nelson, who happily published Taki's Nazi fandom, racist liar Liddle, and white nationalist Douglas Murray.

Beyond satire.

frasernelson.substack.com/p/who-thinks...
Who thinks Reform is racist?
Keir Starmer has dropped the r-bomb. Was he wise to do so?
frasernelson.substack.com

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · Sep 26
"This entire process was never about me. It was never about any threat to the public, it was never about terrorism – a word used by your government to discredit people you oppress. It was always about Gaza, about what happens if you dare to speak up." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kneecap rapper Mo Chara's terror case thrown out
The case against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Sep 24
Excellent news.

Lifting the two-child cap won't end child poverty - but every expert in this area agrees that it is by far the single most important and effective thing the government could do.

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Sir Keir Starmer will be told by senior cabinet ministers that lifting the two-child cap is the most effective way of alleviating child poverty amid mounting pressure from ministers and backbenchers. The Times has been told that a body of ministers and officials set up to tackle child poverty will recommend lifting the cap after concluding it is the best way to alleviate the problem. The recommendations from the child poverty taskforce are expected before the autumn budget on November 26, although it has been repeatedly delayed.

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · Sep 19
Fastest way to shorten the odds on a Reform government