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Michelle Everson

@eversonmeverson.bsky.social

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Professor of Law, European and economic law are specialities; also sheep selfies.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight, the Harvest Moon rises: the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. 🌕

October’s full moon is also named the Hunter’s Moon, once marking a time to gather food for winter.

It will be the first of three supermoons this year, glowing bigger & brighter.

Moonrise: 19:44*

A close-up of a glowing full Moon, filling the frame against the black night sky. Its surface is marked with craters and rugged textures. This is a supermoon, appearing larger and brighter than usual.

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Nedad Memić @nedadmemic.bsky.social · 4d

Seit gestern Abend hat der berühmte #Tatort einen bosniakisch-stämmigen Kommissar. Hamza Kulina wird vom großartigen Edin Hasanović gespielt. Auch viele Rezensionen sind hervorragend. Ich muss mir die Episode nun in Ruhe anschauen. 😊👍

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 5d

Original Instagram author credited in thread.

The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 5d

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...

Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

observer.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 5d

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

🚨EXCLUSIVE

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

bylinetimes.com

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 6d

Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 6d

More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
apnews.com/article/ital...

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

apnews.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

Fifteen drones were detected over the Elsenborn military camp, a Belgian army training facility near Bütgenbach in Belgium's East Cantons. They crossed over into Germany.

Munich Airport was later shut down after the drones buzzed it.

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Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 7d

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 8d

Rest in Peace the fantastic Jane Goodall 🙏🏻

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 8d

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 9d

Didn't the rascist git play the free movement disadvantages Commonwealth citizens card during the Brexit campaign?

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 9d

Thinking about this piece from 2024 today...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9d

Can't stress enough how much the army Pete Hegseth yearns for already exists in Russia... and demonstratively sucks.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 10d

With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

www.forkingpaths.co

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