Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@ctmccartney.bsky.social
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
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😮 SHOCK: As Santa Is Cancelled.
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
#BrokenNews - Santa Is Cancelled
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
😮 SHOCK: As Santa Is Cancelled.
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
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Great satire. These guys deserve their own TV show, the ghosts of Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris are strong in these two.
😮 SHOCK: As Santa Is Cancelled.
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
👇🏻 Find out why - watch and then share this #BrokenNews report.
youtu.be/I96albSd2w0
#BrokenNews - Santa Is Cancelled
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great satire. These guys deserve their own TV show, the ghosts of Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris are strong in these two.
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In early West Wing, Ainsley Hayes (Sorkin's 'smart Republican') lectures Sam about how pernicious it is that the Democrats just don't like people who own guns.
Every time I watch it I'm screaming at the screen that Republican governments proudly hate half the country and that's apparently fine!
Every time I watch it I'm screaming at the screen that Republican governments proudly hate half the country and that's apparently fine!
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
In early West Wing, Ainsley Hayes (Sorkin's 'smart Republican') lectures Sam about how pernicious it is that the Democrats just don't like people who own guns.
Every time I watch it I'm screaming at the screen that Republican governments proudly hate half the country and that's apparently fine!
Every time I watch it I'm screaming at the screen that Republican governments proudly hate half the country and that's apparently fine!
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Boxing Day for me growing up was going for walks and helping sabotage the Hunt on public land. Watching friends' parents chase the Hunt off their land where these monsters on horseback went into despite knowing they didn't have permission. The Hunt is destructive to farms and communities.
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Boxing Day for me growing up was going for walks and helping sabotage the Hunt on public land. Watching friends' parents chase the Hunt off their land where these monsters on horseback went into despite knowing they didn't have permission. The Hunt is destructive to farms and communities.
So close to target! For almost of us who have somewhere to sleep comfy with family over xmas...
So great to see #DuvetKnowItsChristmas raise huge sum again for Centerpoint! As much as topping and tailing with my adult daughter is "fun" this time of year, it's for a good cause! gofund.me/c9a84c3ea
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
gofund.me
December 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So close to target! For almost of us who have somewhere to sleep comfy with family over xmas...
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
So great to see #DuvetKnowItsChristmas raise huge sum again for Centerpoint! As much as topping and tailing with my adult daughter is "fun" this time of year, it's for a good cause! gofund.me/c9a84c3ea
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
gofund.me
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
So great to see #DuvetKnowItsChristmas raise huge sum again for Centerpoint! As much as topping and tailing with my adult daughter is "fun" this time of year, it's for a good cause! gofund.me/c9a84c3ea
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December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Stood outside busy services on A1 with my dog and amazed someone has just walked past and identified the breed of my dog instantly and called it out.. . Which is mad because noone ever knows what my dog is!!
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Stood outside busy services on A1 with my dog and amazed someone has just walked past and identified the breed of my dog instantly and called it out.. . Which is mad because noone ever knows what my dog is!!
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Merry Christmas to the best the now deceased Irish Twitter had to offer. #Speirgorm
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Merry Christmas to the best the now deceased Irish Twitter had to offer. #Speirgorm
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Ulster University senior management spends freely in the skies
Three trips to Qatar cost £83114, attended by Vice-Chancellor & other senior figures including pro-VCs
St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington added another £61000 — or ~£12400 per head
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
Three trips to Qatar cost £83114, attended by Vice-Chancellor & other senior figures including pro-VCs
St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington added another £61000 — or ~£12400 per head
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
Ulster University under fire for £83k cost of Qatar trips after telling Stormont it is ‘feeling the squeeze’ of cuts
Ulster University has been criticised over an £83,000 bill for trips to Qatar.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ulster University senior management spends freely in the skies
Three trips to Qatar cost £83114, attended by Vice-Chancellor & other senior figures including pro-VCs
St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington added another £61000 — or ~£12400 per head
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
Three trips to Qatar cost £83114, attended by Vice-Chancellor & other senior figures including pro-VCs
St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington added another £61000 — or ~£12400 per head
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
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On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The only thing cooler than this post box? Posting your vote in the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social local ballot to stop a pay freeze @northumbriauni.bsky.social!
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The only thing cooler than this post box? Posting your vote in the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social local ballot to stop a pay freeze @northumbriauni.bsky.social!
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Solidarity to @northumbriauni.bsky.social staff, told they must move to a pension scheme widely considered worse or face a pay freeze (against UK-wide bargaining). United as unions, they can beat it (& deter other employers from trying similar). Post those ballots, & join if you’re not a member!
The only thing cooler than this post box? Posting your vote in the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social local ballot to stop a pay freeze @northumbriauni.bsky.social!
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Solidarity to @northumbriauni.bsky.social staff, told they must move to a pension scheme widely considered worse or face a pay freeze (against UK-wide bargaining). United as unions, they can beat it (& deter other employers from trying similar). Post those ballots, & join if you’re not a member!
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
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I found it guys.... it took some searching, but there IS some good news today!
France has exonerated women who were convicted of performing or seeking an abortion, before legalisation in 1975. This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said the minister-delegate for gender equality. Read more: www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I found it guys.... it took some searching, but there IS some good news today!
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France has exonerated women who were convicted of performing or seeking an abortion, before legalisation in 1975. This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said the minister-delegate for gender equality. Read more: www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
December 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
France has exonerated women who were convicted of performing or seeking an abortion, before legalisation in 1975. This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said the minister-delegate for gender equality. Read more: www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
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The Wurzel wankers round here regularly blockade the Port of Dover with their red diesel fuelled tax rebated tractors.
Disruption of national infrastructure is a criminal offence (ask Just Stop Oil), but is apparently fine if you are a farmer.
Not one is ever arrested.
Disruption of national infrastructure is a criminal offence (ask Just Stop Oil), but is apparently fine if you are a farmer.
Not one is ever arrested.
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The Wurzel wankers round here regularly blockade the Port of Dover with their red diesel fuelled tax rebated tractors.
Disruption of national infrastructure is a criminal offence (ask Just Stop Oil), but is apparently fine if you are a farmer.
Not one is ever arrested.
Disruption of national infrastructure is a criminal offence (ask Just Stop Oil), but is apparently fine if you are a farmer.
Not one is ever arrested.
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"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,
A true Xmas tradition now. My first picture contribution last year (as well as the usual donation) and I shall be doing so again tomorrow! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A true Xmas tradition now. My first picture contribution last year (as well as the usual donation) and I shall be doing so again tomorrow! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Reposted by Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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@elizabethweill.bsky.social, in the new Appeal, on how an important decision from the New Jersey supreme court could, perhaps, inspire other courts & states: theappeal.org/new-jersey-s...
New Jersey Supreme Court Rejects ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’
The first ruling of its kind in the country could give people convicted based on SBS testimony a new shot at freedom.
theappeal.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@elizabethweill.bsky.social, in the new Appeal, on how an important decision from the New Jersey supreme court could, perhaps, inspire other courts & states: theappeal.org/new-jersey-s...
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Debunk the immigration crime myth www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
"...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...
"...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’
Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.
www.brennancenter.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Debunk the immigration crime myth www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
"...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...
"...immigration has crime-reducing effects..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"...immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent (eg, murder) & property crime..." www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman...