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Vivian Gerrand
@vivsoph.bsky.social
Writing about alternative narratives, belonging, migration, polarisation, radicalisation and resilience.
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Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, yet our tax system is delivering underfunded services and growing inequality.

Making giant gas companies and millionaires pay their fair share would be a step towards a better Australia.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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If you don’t know the details about Dutton’s flip flopping policies, vote No to Liberal National candidate in the federal election.
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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☀️ Good morning, IRMS fam!
It’s Day 2 of #IRMS2025, and we’re just getting started.
Today brings more powerful panels, critical conversations, and opportunities to connect across borders in the fight against male supremacism. #IRMSConf
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🌍✨ Today’s the day!
Welcome to #IRMS2025 — our virtual global gathering on confronting male supremacism begins today! Whether you’re joining from your morning coffee or late-night tea, we’re so glad you’re here. 📲 Stay tuned here for updates & highlights all day.
Let’s go! #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
April 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A privilege to have chapter on conspirituality and radicalization published in this exciting new collection edited by colleagues Michele Grossman and Hisham Hellyer.

Open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
February 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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As a Sociologist, I need to tell you

the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
January 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tomorrow!
All welcome to experience Local Positioning Systems, a sonic art installation by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth made from archives of local precariously housed individual voices.
December 9, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics |
‘The party needs to provide a new vision of a society that offers education and opportunity to all…’
Joseph Stiglitz www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics | Joseph Stiglitz
The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Struggling Australians being forced into poverty with 'nowhere affordable to live'
More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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It was a privilege to be interviewed on Al Jazeera's The Take podcast exploring 'Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children?', with some real space to unpack the many challenges with a blanket ban (noting, this is a call for more & better regulation, not none!) youtu.be/Wf_zq8j7Hds?...
Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children? | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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November 19, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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I have already posted about this ~elsewhere~, but I was very excited to recently receive my copy of this edited volume I contributed to with a number of incredible colleagues in the conspiracy theory research space. Peek Chapter 10 - “QAnon as a Contemporary Re-emergence of the Satanic Panic”. 🎉🥳
November 21, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM