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Mary Corcoran
@marycorcoran.bsky.social
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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice’.

‘Free speech’ = when elite men make everyone else pay for their gobshite. .. more

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7
TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
#streetart

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️😁 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 15h
Annnnd there we have it.. Farage supports his “good friend” Trump who was “too busy” to take his calls last week to stop him invading Greenland..

Now he supports Trump having Greenland.. if he was PM Trump wanted UK, he’d given him it

Farage is the biggest threat in UK politics to UK security
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage
Reform leader says he agrees ‘strategically’ with Trump but adds that views of Greenlanders must be respected
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Mary Corcoran

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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 16h
NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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LaindonFeminist: Labour led by Keir for me @viviane49.bsky.social · 18h
In a week where Trump has dominated news you’ll have missed the incredible achievements of our Labour Ministers. Warm Homes Plan and new Design Guidance for housing alongside consultation on mobile use for under 16’s top a brilliant list of announcements.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Last night you were saying that Europe was weak and fragmented.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d
Kurdish-majority communities are under attack in North East Syria from the Damascus regime.

Rojava must not be abandoned

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Under-16s social media ban backed by Lords

www.itv.com/news/2026-01...

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
South Africa doesn’t want rubbish.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Ryanair owner thanks @elonmusk-parody.bsky.social for promoting his airline, and wishes to present him with a free Idiot’s Ticket (retail €16.99). Worth a 👀 One thing broligarchs can’t stand is being laughed at vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBXFKgu/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Reviews the Trumpian threats to democracy in political institutions and law. Even more fundamentally, politics is about who gets what, how and why, as Lasswell put it in 1936. For 50 years under neoliberalism a super elite has captured most resources and power
American democracy on the brink a year after Trump’s election, experts say
Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
And provided they never eat, drink, walk anywhere or go near windows, they’ll be perfectly safe!

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
#musk #oleary #twat
Dry your eyes, Elon

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TikTok - Make Your Day
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Also holds dual Irish and Canadian citizenship.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Always the way: managers are hostile towards listening to their workforces. Prefer to frame concerns as backsliding or resistance. It pervades all sectors to the detriment of their enterprises/agencies (& ultimately the public). I blame management schools - no industrial relations on their curricula

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d
Here's a chart to chew on: white-collar workers say that AI saves them little or no time, but executives think it's a massive timesaver. This divide between employees and management is going to influence the future of the workforce.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
Forty percent of white-collar workers say that AI saves them no time at all. Meanwhile, 19 percent of executives think AI saves 12+ hours per week.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.

I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Reposted by Kori Schake, Mary Corcoran

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d
“Donald Trump, like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, believes in power and power only,” warns Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “Europe must prepare to play by those same rules” econ.st/4qV624W

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2d
Contacting congress is far more effective than people think.
202-224-3121

"Nothing is more eloquent to a member of Congress than the voice of his or her own constituents."—Nancy Pelosi

This is even more true with state & local legislators, so Google & call them REGULARLY!
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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
He’s a genius to his supporters.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Keep up! Your preprepared script that nothing is gonna change is looking very worn. But, if that’s your comfort mantra….

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Thought it looked like Newsom!

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Who?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Trump simply hasn’t gotten around to menacing Republicans & MAGA yet. Time is ticking. Too late.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Who’s yer man with Harris?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
But, but suvverentee! Where’s all the nativists these days?

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2d
BREAKING: Israel has bulldozed the UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem after uncovering undeniable evidence that it was providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians x

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d
That said, could everybody, on the political right and left, who is now madly construing this entire situation into Starmer‘s personal failure please inform themselves about
a) America
b) Brexit
C) the rest of Europe

Thank you

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Thyme & plaice 😉

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
I appreciate you aren’t agreeing. I just think his views are so much closer to rightist radicals than you do. He’s made his money eroding liberalism, cheering nativism and ‘free market’ economics. Now the dangers of fecking with populism are evident, he wants back to liberal internationalism.

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Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal @trapped-ipps.bsky.social · 2d
‘Give them an end date’

Retired High Court Judge Sir John Saunders speaks on the #IPPScandal on ‘Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal’ Episode 21: Totalitarian State’.

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