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UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow

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Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
The awkward truth about some of Trump’s views on Europe? European leaders agree with him | Shada Islam
The awkward truth about some of Trump’s views on Europe? European leaders agree with him | Shada Islam
The US president’s fears about ‘woke’ Europe are laughable. He would feel right at home in today’s EU, says Brussels-based writer Shada Islam
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 13h
They’ve been doing it for years, especially those of children.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday Home Office plans to immediately begin seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones and sim cards without the need for an arrest have been condemned by a solicitor and anti-torture campaigners. People who arrive by small boat and are sent to Manston processing centre in Kent will from Monday be eligible for searches for electronic devices, a minister has said, with technology on site to download data. Continue reading...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 13h
Burning vile, racist, linguaphobic, electioneering, lying filth from Dog Whistle Central.

There are children in the house. They can read. It tells them they are not loved or wanted. It tells lies about them. It’s sick. Don’t leave this stuff lying around and send the pre-pay back empty.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 19h
7/ We also note:

State Department Legal Adviser, Abe Sofaer written congressional testimony 1989:

“The United States has repeatedly associated itself with the view that unconsented arrests violate the principle of territorial integrity.” ...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Labour Government’s policies are looking increasingly like appeasement, waving bits of paper at an external dictator to look like one of the mafia.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d
Lyse Doucet: "What must Russia and China be thinking now.. if any country can do what they want this is a very dangerous time" #BBCLauraK

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Yes exactly - parallels Francesca Albanese’s characterisation of Israel-U.S-Allies as Mafia tactics. And she knows too.

Mob rule in a mobbed world.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory.

Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 1d
Neues Adjektiv in Verharmlosung gedropped: „kühn“
FAZ Screenshot: „Trumps kühne Machtdemonstration“ von Nikolas Busse

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 1d
What just happened ...

Comedy: Jamie Kaler

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Gaza's economy has plummeted by 87 percent in two years, deepening poverty and leaving thousands without resources.
Poverty, unemployment skyrocket in the Gaza Strip after Israel's war
Gaza's economy has plummeted by 87 percent in two years, deepening poverty and leaving thousands without resources.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
Trump's plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. It's a scheme worthy of a mob boss. www.economist.com/the-americas...
Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”
www.economist.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d
The thing about being a "lifelong advocate of international law" is you have to have the courage to speak up when it’s broken

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 1d
buytickets.at/sdhepress/20... Now more than ever, #WeKeepTelling! Join us in celebrating Palestinian writers. Tickets are free, donations to our fundraisers are welcome and encouraged.
11th January, 7 pm GMT, online.
Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 11th December 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 1d
Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you

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Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams
From Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven stories, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
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Reposted by Steve Peers, Alison Phipps, Robert C. Richards

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 1d
Legal Issues Raised by Trump’s Seizure of Maduro, Explained

The operation revives disputes over the legality of the 1989 Panama intervention, enhanced by President Trump’s vow to “run” Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro’s formal status as president.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
Legal Issues Raised by Trump’s Seizure of Maduro, Explained
www.nytimes.com

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 1d
Let me sum up the reaction of the German government:
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times.

But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
2026: the tactic of appealing to moral hypocrisy is dead and buried. EU leaders wishing to be seen as ahypocrital have a problem but those unmasked and lauding their consistently brutal and do not .

For protest this means very different tactics and learning.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
If you are wanting an in-depth analysis of US aggression on Venezuela and what its all about this is a superb piece: spoiler alert - it’s not drugs its global hegemony karat.substack.com/p/america-at...
America Attacks Venezuela — But the Real Target Is China
How Trump is reviving the Monroe Doctrine
karat.substack.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela - the shredding of international norms and conventions by terror states with unimaginable supplies of weapons

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
At least 7 explosions heard in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, followed by a low-flying aircraft, say media reports.
Venezuela's capital hit by blasts, Caracas blames the US
At least 7 explosions heard in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, followed by a low-flying aircraft, say media reports.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
The fragility of digital evidence
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d
🔴 BREAKING: Namecheap, a major domain registrar and web-hosting company, revoked the domain of Zionism Observer, an archive account which had uploaded more than 16,000 videos of Palestinians killed in Gaza, mostly documenting suspected Israeli war crimes.

Namecheap explained the move by saying th
🔴 BREAKING: Namecheap, a major domain registrar and web-hosting company, revoked the domain of Zionism Observer, an archive account which had uploaded more than 16,000 videos of Palestinians killed in Gaza, mostly documenting suspected Israeli war crimes. Namecheap explained the move by saying the archive “promoted or displayed cruelty.” But, Zionism Obserer stated that the videos had been submitted to be used at The Hague in international criminal proceedings, and by human rights groups. “Nuking our domain name just broke hundreds of links in lawsuits, court cases, and human rights reports,” the account wrote on Twitter/X. Quote Zionism Observer @receipts_lol · See new posts Conversation Zionism Observer @receipts_lol NameCheap revoked the domain name for the digital memorial we created to honor those massacred by Israel in Gaza. Over 16,000 videos, mostly of war crimes, were removed. NameCheap said our memorial "promotes, encourages, engages or displays cruelty to humans or animals." X: Zionism Observer @receipts_lol X: Zionism Observer @receipts_lol

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder if the Prime Minister of UK will be as exercised by this as he was by Maccabee match policing in Birmingham [rhetorical question 🙄]
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d
Israel has issued a demolition notice for the Aida camp football pitch near Bethlehem, a vital space for some 500 children to train and play, and one of the few open spaces in this crowded refugee camp.

Kids found the notice at the gate in December, threatening the pitch’s removal. Voices...
Israel has issued a demolition notice for the Aida camp football pitch near Bethlehem, a vital space for some 500 children to train and play, and one of the few open spaces in this crowded refugee camp. Kids found the notice at the gate in December, threatening the pitch’s removal. Voices including Ms Rachel, the high-profile children’s educator, are amplifying this crisis, urging athletes, including FIFA soccer players, and journalists to spotlight the demolition threat and stand with the Palestinian youth. Local leaders and former Bethlehem officials say the land was legally leased and the pitch built with community support, Al Monitor reported.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
Three decades after its modest beginnings on Channel 4, the TV juggernaut now has its own channel and global subscribers Thirty-two years ago, a small group of archaeologists gathered for a weekend in Somerset to make a TV programme about a field in Athelney, the site where once, 1,200 years ago, King Alfred the Great rallied resistance to the invading Viking army. There weren’t many concessions to showbiz glitz. Instead, a group of blokes with unruly hair and a couple of women walked across a field, talked things over in the pub and, at one point, gathered around a dot matrix printer to watch it slowly disgorging some results. The most exciting artefact they found was a lump of iron slag. No soil was overturned. Continue reading...
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WHO @who.int · 2d
Mental health is shaped by social and structural factors—yet too often, mental health policies fail to address them.
Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Meanwhile at the repulsive/evil nexus....
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproof Thousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain and wind, an assessment compiled by shelter specialists in the devastated territory has revealed. The assessment will undermine claims that Palestinians in Gaza are being supplied with adequate shelter. Fierce storms in recent weeks blew down or damaged thousands of tents, affecting at least 235,000 people, according to UN estimates. Continue reading...
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