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Dr Bethany Usher

@bethanyusher.bsky.social

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Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 12

So excited we are finally at True Crime Forum! And I got to bring my Mam to work day!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is very good news and will help to stop the Far Right getting elected on marginal votes.

Now do parliamentary elections.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · Jul 10

🚨🗳️ | New Guidance in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill confirms that Mayoral and PCC elections will return to the Supplementary Vote system.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Jul 10

Researchers at Newcastle University are bringing ancient Roman maths into the 21st century 🧮📜

Find out how this work aims to support the teaching of modern maths in schools >> bit.ly/4kxDfQs

Researchers bring ancient Roman maths up to date

Ancient mathematical texts that played a key role in constructing the Roman empire will be transformed for the 21st century by researchers at Newcastle University.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Jul 7

Controversial muscians making huge hits, when has that ever happened?

Oh wait...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jul 5

🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED

A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 5

Was like our last Govt Rwanda scheme. A complete nonsense.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 4

Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?

Rachel Reeves’s distress may help destigmatise emotional response to stress or professional frustration

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 4

Because he was allowed to get away with the drip drip drip dehumanisation and now it's free fall down the rabbit hole.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Jul 3

The USA shows you what is happening all over the world.

They are blaming immigrants while the billionaires are looting and destroying everything.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Jul 3

Want to play your part in uncovering our local past?

Discover the hidden histories of a Newcastle burial ground in this new article from Dr @myragiesen.bsky.social and find out how you can get involved>> bit.ly/44rJz5R

Hidden histories: the story of Ballast Hills Burial Ground

Explore Newcastle University's work uncovering hidden histories at Ballast Hills Burial Ground, revealing forgotten lives and reshaping heritage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 3

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr.
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 3

What has Rachel Reeves tears done to my older lady friends at the gym, who did not like her before.

They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas

Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · Jul 3

very good

Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · Jul 3

Is she as weak as you think she is?

Today's column is on m'Substack:

fleetstreetfox.substack.com/i/167427356/...

Why Rachel Reeves' tears are not the weakness you think they are

She sat in power on that green bench

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 2

Trump is going to say Obama is an illegal immigrant isn't he.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ah, the golden age.

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you. That does help actually because it's such a norm I've been feeling like there's something wrong with me.

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's crippling me at the moment. I am terrified everything I say comes across wrong or I am reading things wrong. I hate it.

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 2

Okay developing severe anxiety about sending and receiving emails isn't going to go well in a job where the main communication is email.

What's this all about then?!

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · Jul 1

www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Oh, this is not what we’re being told????

UK business confidence levels hit highest since 2015, Lloyds says

Confidence levels among British employers hit a fresh nine-year high this month as companies became more optimistic about the outlook for the economy, according to a survey published on Monday.

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 1

I agree. I often think about whether we'd have had kids five years later and also with Brexit and Trump having come into play. Our youngest was born 2015.

Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jul 1

People just can't afford children and to have a decent quality of life on the average wage. Lots of young people are choosing not to have children as a result.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?

Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

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Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jun 30

I don't think it matters anymore

Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social · Jun 29

There were also moments of unconscious bias around sexuality and grinder from police officers that I think were interesting too. An important episode.