Michelle McCabe
@shellmccabe.bsky.social
Belfast Westy in Donegal. Research. Critical Disc Analysis/Ethnomethodology: Constituting the facticity of assumptions in everyday talk. 🐶 butler, gin drinker, inclusive feminist. She/her. #AbortionIsHealthcare #FreePalestine
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Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.
Israel intercepts Gaza Sumud flotilla vessels: What we know so far
Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, @alicemydaughter.bsky.social, who lost her daughter to suicide, is urging cisgender allies to 'speak out' to defend trans people when they can
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
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Mum of trans daughter who took own life calls on people to 'speak out' on issue
On Transgender Day of Visibility, Caroline Litman, who lost her trans daughter to suicide, is urging cisgender allies to 'speak out' to defend trans people when they can
www.mirror.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
On Transgender Day of Visibility, @alicemydaughter.bsky.social, who lost her daughter to suicide, is urging cisgender allies to 'speak out' to defend trans people when they can
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
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Grown men harassing and abusing children because poular media convinced them that boys and men are somehow invading women's sport.
Why is it so easy to radicalise people to "protect women and girls" from a fictitious threat, while they repeatedly overlook and excuse real harm done to us?
Why is it so easy to radicalise people to "protect women and girls" from a fictitious threat, while they repeatedly overlook and excuse real harm done to us?
A father has screamed "you’re a f-----g boy” at a little girl during an under-12 year olds Rugby match. Under 12s. She left the pitch in tears, scared, and later returned.
www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...
www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...
Father banned for screaming ‘you’re a boy’ at under-12 girl after ‘transgender rumours’
Graham Hall reportedly entered the field of play and ‘screamed and shouted’ abuse at the player following foul on his daughter
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Grown men harassing and abusing children because poular media convinced them that boys and men are somehow invading women's sport.
Why is it so easy to radicalise people to "protect women and girls" from a fictitious threat, while they repeatedly overlook and excuse real harm done to us?
Why is it so easy to radicalise people to "protect women and girls" from a fictitious threat, while they repeatedly overlook and excuse real harm done to us?
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you will not regret reading this thread to the end
Everyone seems to think a Pre-Sentence Report is some kind of gateway to a get-out-of-jail-free card but, honestly, defence barristers everywhere DREAD reading them.
Your ‘two-tier justice’ is far from the reality.
Your ‘two-tier justice’ is far from the reality.
March 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
you will not regret reading this thread to the end
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I will keep repeating myself until it becomes accepted fact in The Discourse: Elon Musk is a eugenicist and has repeatedly demonstrated this with what he has said and what he has done
Musk's transphobia really hits different when you realize that he ordered all boys via IVF.
He's worse than a bad father, he's a dissatisfied customer.
He's worse than a bad father, he's a dissatisfied customer.
coincidentally his first nine (?) children are all AMAB
December 31, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I will keep repeating myself until it becomes accepted fact in The Discourse: Elon Musk is a eugenicist and has repeatedly demonstrated this with what he has said and what he has done
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Richard Gere helping Asylum Seekers.
RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.
RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.
March 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Richard Gere helping Asylum Seekers.
RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.
RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 77
Female #bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave.
Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found #flowers.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 77
Female #bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave.
Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found #flowers.
March 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 77
Female #bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave.
Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found #flowers.
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 77
Female #bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave.
Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found #flowers.
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Every White House correspondents dinner that I attended had a comedian mocking the President of the Day. Not this year …. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
The group's board unanimously decided it would no longer feature a comedic performance, WHCA President Eugene Daniels wrote in an email Saturday.
www.politico.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Every White House correspondents dinner that I attended had a comedian mocking the President of the Day. Not this year …. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
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Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right
Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Prominent advocates against antisemitism from around the world have pulled out of a conference in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a> tackling precisely that issue, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.</p>
<p>The conference, which was organised by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and described as "a shared dialogue on addressing contemporary antisemitism", has been itself termed "antisemitic" by some who were invited to attend.</p>
<p>Haaretz <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-23/ty-article/.premium/stab-in-the-back-european-jewish-leader-blasts-netanyahu-govt-for-embracing-far-right/00000195-c378-db1a-af95-eff9ec000000" target="_blank">reported</a> that the first reform rabbi to serve in the Israeli Knesset slammed the event, saying it "should not provide a kashrut certification to politicians from either the far right or the far left who represent parties that adopt antisemitic positions, whether publicly or privately, or anti-democratic positions, even if they express support for the policies of the Israeli government and the State of Israel".</p>
<p>The withdrawal of invited guests, such as French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, senior representatives from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and even the chief rabbi of the UK, followed the inclusion of far-right European lawmakers and speakers, many of whom are linked to white supremacy and Nazism, and are vocally anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim, The National newspaper reported. </p>
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March 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right
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March 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Like others, I pulled out of a scheduled talk at Columbia earlier this academic year. Colleagues and students at Vichy-on-Hudson have asked us to renew our boycott commitments.
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March 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Like others, I pulled out of a scheduled talk at Columbia earlier this academic year. Colleagues and students at Vichy-on-Hudson have asked us to renew our boycott commitments.
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Columbia boycott
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.*
We, the undersigned, commit to a boycott of Columbia University in solidarity with students, faculty, and staff targeted by ...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Like others, I pulled out of a scheduled talk at Columbia earlier this academic year. Colleagues and students at Vichy-on-Hudson have asked us to renew our boycott commitments.
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"Silence is not just complicity; it is consent. And so, the bombs keep falling, and the Palestinians remain what the world has allowed them to become: numbers."
— #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️
Israel’s genocide continues, and Palestinians remain ‘numbers’
The world’s indifference to Palestinian suffering allows Israel to destroy us and our homeland with impunity.
aje.io
March 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"Silence is not just complicity; it is consent. And so, the bombs keep falling, and the Palestinians remain what the world has allowed them to become: numbers."
— #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️
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This is of very great concern. Labour has effectively declared war on trans academics and students. By defining transphobia as a “free speech” issue it is going to protect transphobes in higher education while preventing trans-inclusion. This is the opposite of “free speech”.
Sussex university fined £585,000 in transgender free speech row
The university is fined by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This is of very great concern. Labour has effectively declared war on trans academics and students. By defining transphobia as a “free speech” issue it is going to protect transphobes in higher education while preventing trans-inclusion. This is the opposite of “free speech”.
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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Next @qubpalestine.bsky.social Teach in
Dr. Brendan Ciaran Browne
'Palestine and the limits of free speech: a cancellation story...'
April 9th
7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre
Room 02/017
Free and open to all
Dr. Brendan Ciaran Browne
'Palestine and the limits of free speech: a cancellation story...'
April 9th
7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre
Room 02/017
Free and open to all
March 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Next @qubpalestine.bsky.social Teach in
Dr. Brendan Ciaran Browne
'Palestine and the limits of free speech: a cancellation story...'
April 9th
7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre
Room 02/017
Free and open to all
Dr. Brendan Ciaran Browne
'Palestine and the limits of free speech: a cancellation story...'
April 9th
7pm
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Peter Froggatt Centre
Room 02/017
Free and open to all
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"Bridget Phillipson has suggested cutting school spending by £500m and ending universal free school meals for infants."
Monday's TIMES: Chancellor risks war with unions over spending cuts
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#TomorrowsPapersToday
March 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Bridget Phillipson has suggested cutting school spending by £500m and ending universal free school meals for infants."
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Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... This is a longer-than-normal post - but in it, I try to offer a comprehensive and cohesive explanation of what Trump is all about. Have I succeeded? That is for you to decide.
Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation
Please excuse this much longer-than-usual post. I am seeking to explain something that has appeared almost inexplicable - which is Trump's assault on the USA. I should not have begun thinking about th...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... This is a longer-than-normal post - but in it, I try to offer a comprehensive and cohesive explanation of what Trump is all about. Have I succeeded? That is for you to decide.
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"Who fired that lethal bullet at Malak? Why did they kill her? Was she a threat to the soldiers while she slept? Did they fear her dreams of returning to Ramla?"
As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️
As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️
As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s
My best friend blushed easily, loved our Gaza neighbourhood, and hoped to become a nurse to look after sick children.
www.aljazeera.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Who fired that lethal bullet at Malak? Why did they kill her? Was she a threat to the soldiers while she slept? Did they fear her dreams of returning to Ramla?"
As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️
As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️
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"Tens of thousands of Britons are set to lose almost two-thirds of their income as a result of welfare cuts announced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government." on.ft.com/4iwx5zM
Thousands of Britons to have welfare income cut by more than 60%
FT calculations point to dramatic impact of government reforms to benefits system
on.ft.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Tens of thousands of Britons are set to lose almost two-thirds of their income as a result of welfare cuts announced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government." on.ft.com/4iwx5zM
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The rise of authoritarianism is not primarily driven by ideology, but by the craving for power of its leaders and the relentless opportunism of their followers.
March 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The rise of authoritarianism is not primarily driven by ideology, but by the craving for power of its leaders and the relentless opportunism of their followers.