Paddy McNally
@paddymcnally.bsky.social
Historian. UK. All views are my own, not my employer's. Not an admirer of Tories, US Republicans or Putin.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾
This was about an hour ago…
This was about an hour ago…
June 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾
This was about an hour ago…
This was about an hour ago…
Reposted by Paddy McNally
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Make no mistake: Illinois is leading the nation in strengthening women’s health care.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
May 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Make no mistake: Illinois is leading the nation in strengthening women’s health care.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care.
We are not going back.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
I have never known such appalling politicians in my life. They have absolutely no conscience or empathy. There is a name for people like that, but I’m too wary to say it.
May 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I have never known such appalling politicians in my life. They have absolutely no conscience or empathy. There is a name for people like that, but I’m too wary to say it.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.
😲 Guys, Avelo painted their ICE jets all white! The tail number matches. How pathetic is that? 👀
May 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
New
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
Government source says there are doubts over cost of reinstating early years service brought in by previous Labour administration
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔
www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...
www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...
May 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔
www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...
www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...
Reposted by Paddy McNally
VanillaRage, I always appreciate your content!
There was a time when news came in black and white, not red or blue. Anchors weren’t brands, facts weren’t clickbait, and “going viral” was a bad thing.
Now it's mainline outrage in hi-def, mistaking bias for truth. A 24x7 echo chamber sponsored by your friendly Algorithm...in the Twilight Zone.
Now it's mainline outrage in hi-def, mistaking bias for truth. A 24x7 echo chamber sponsored by your friendly Algorithm...in the Twilight Zone.
May 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
VanillaRage, I always appreciate your content!
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Several guests who attended Trump's crypto dinner last night said they attended with the explicit intent of influencing him and U.S. financial regulations.
Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets.
It's all out in the open.
Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets.
It's all out in the open.
May 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Several guests who attended Trump's crypto dinner last night said they attended with the explicit intent of influencing him and U.S. financial regulations.
Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets.
It's all out in the open.
Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets.
It's all out in the open.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
If I've been rather quiet of late, that's because there's not much to say now about the university crisis. We've passed beyond the stage at which warnings can do much good, and we're not looking at a planned reconstruction or new policies so much as individual rescue and salvage. (1/?)
This week's university redundancies are the following:
*Bangor
*Cardiff Met
*De Montfort
*Liverpool Hope
*Plymouth
*Suffolk
That's after last week's Aberdeen, Arts Uni Bournemouth, Durham, Exeter, Falmouth, Greenwich, Keele, Newcastle, Nottingham and Trinity St Davids.
*Bangor
*Cardiff Met
*De Montfort
*Liverpool Hope
*Plymouth
*Suffolk
That's after last week's Aberdeen, Arts Uni Bournemouth, Durham, Exeter, Falmouth, Greenwich, Keele, Newcastle, Nottingham and Trinity St Davids.
May 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If I've been rather quiet of late, that's because there's not much to say now about the university crisis. We've passed beyond the stage at which warnings can do much good, and we're not looking at a planned reconstruction or new policies so much as individual rescue and salvage. (1/?)
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Mussolini’s Italy expelled university professors who opposed fascism.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Mussolini’s Italy expelled university professors who opposed fascism.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
Franco’s Spain replaced university academics with regime loyalists
Nazi Germany removed Jewish professors & left-leaning scholars.
Academia is a threat to unified ideology. It’s why fascist regimes always target it.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Reposted by Paddy McNally
The Trump administration is a rogue, fascist authoritarian regime.
The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students and demanded that thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
This is an outrageous and disqualifying abuse of power.
This is an outrageous and disqualifying abuse of power.
Live updates: Administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students, says thousands must transfer
President Donald Trump's administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school.
apnews.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Trump administration is a rogue, fascist authoritarian regime.
Reposted by Paddy McNally
This administration intends to turn us into a full authoritarianism 🤬
May 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This administration intends to turn us into a full authoritarianism 🤬
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Honestly I feel like my entire life austerity has been a cloud under which we have all lived. This kind of thing is never ending. How are people expected to live without pay rises never mind pay cuts ✂️ utterly unreal
📮 Send a postcard to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social Say no to pay cuts of up to £8k per year! Council leader, John Cotton, needs to see the scale of the support for the city's workforce & anger at these pay cuts. Will you click to send him a postcard? ✉️
supportbinworkers.unitetheunion.postbug.app
supportbinworkers.unitetheunion.postbug.app
Tell Birmingham Council’s leader to 'Stop attacking your workers' on a postcard #BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is trying to cut the pay of hundreds of bin workers by up to £8,000. This will mean people being unable to pay bills, support their families and even losing their homes. No won...
supportbinworkers.unitetheunion.postbug.app
May 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Honestly I feel like my entire life austerity has been a cloud under which we have all lived. This kind of thing is never ending. How are people expected to live without pay rises never mind pay cuts ✂️ utterly unreal
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Yesterday, the UK, France and Canada apparently woke-up to the idea that Palestinians in Gaza may be victims of a genocide.
But they knew. Israel knew. We all knew. 16 months ago. Because the International Court of Justice told us so:
But they knew. Israel knew. We all knew. 16 months ago. Because the International Court of Justice told us so:
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Yesterday, the UK, France and Canada apparently woke-up to the idea that Palestinians in Gaza may be victims of a genocide.
But they knew. Israel knew. We all knew. 16 months ago. Because the International Court of Justice told us so:
But they knew. Israel knew. We all knew. 16 months ago. Because the International Court of Justice told us so:
Reposted by Paddy McNally
What in the actual fresh hell?
Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.
May 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
What in the actual fresh hell?
Reposted by Paddy McNally
British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA
May 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Scottish football’s two most decorated players of all time in one pic 👏 51 trophies between them..
James Forrest 26 🏆
Bobby Lennox 25 🏆
James Forrest 26 🏆
Bobby Lennox 25 🏆
May 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Scottish football’s two most decorated players of all time in one pic 👏 51 trophies between them..
James Forrest 26 🏆
Bobby Lennox 25 🏆
James Forrest 26 🏆
Bobby Lennox 25 🏆
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Reposted by Paddy McNally
‘Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets – are already starving.’
Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets – are already starving.’
Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Reposted by Paddy McNally
Here's a photo we can all post on June 14. You're welcome😁👊
May 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Here's a photo we can all post on June 14. You're welcome😁👊