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Jon Dean
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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher.

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 20h
Mabel is a glorious researcher and colleague, and you should all buy her book, or order it for your libraries: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/politics-and...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?

Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22h
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 23h
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
batariangal.bsky.social Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 23h
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 2d
This Labour government’s talent for punishing its own natural supporters without gaining any new ones is something I don’t think I’ve ever seen in politics. What on earth are they smoking

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d
okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article

“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit

and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions

ghouls, the lot of them
I have never been able to convey her near-total obsession with Bobby properly. What I can say with authority is that it seeped into every corner of her life, affected every relationship she had, and drove every decision she made in late 2023 and all of 2024, including her catch-and-kill operations on his behalf, the campaign strategy memos she wrote him, and the other journalistic transgressions that have still not been disclosed.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 4d
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 6d
Killing Thatcher - like Say Nothing, but better, more gripping, more intense.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d
Sometimes you just have to murder and dismember a critical journalist. Things happen!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11d
"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities. The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 11d
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.

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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 11d
A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer
Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British
www.theguardian.com

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UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 11d
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 12d
⏰ CLOSING TOMORROW: Call for participation for a workshop on social reproduction

Apply by 15 Nov to take part in Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction, a 2026 #workshop for scholars, practitioners and activists using traditional & non-traditional methods.

➡️ Info: buff.ly/ZFAUEkF
Call for Participation: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction Workshop The Sociological Review Foundation Seminar Series
Call for participation in a seminar funded by The Sociological Review Foundation exploring methods, ethics and innovative approaches to social reproduction research.
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Iain Simpson @iainsimpson.bsky.social · 12d
But think of the positives. You get all the popularity that comes with announcing an income tax rise, all the credibility that comes with a screeching U-turn, and all the revenue that comes with tinkering with the cycle to work scheme, all rolled into one.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13d
One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 14d
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d
It is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action....

Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
Fresh strike action begins at Sheffield Hallam University
Union members at Sheffield Hallam Uni strike in a dispute over job losses, workload and welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 14d
This would be awful. I still use what I learned on that course, twenty years on. Please sign and share.
hlmurray.bsky.social Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 14d
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 14d
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org

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UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 14d
📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights

Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!

#SaveSheffieldHallam
Day One UCU Hallam members UCU Hallam members Samba band

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14d
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
justinwolfers.bsky.social Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14d
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15d
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 16d
Woke up to find that the US Senate is a terrible institution and the BBC is in thrall to the hate preachers of the right wing press. Neither is a surprise but it’s a reminder of how rotten the power structures are.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 16d
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

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Sarah Clarke @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 18d
"And then she looked at me! With her transgender eyes! It was terrifying :("

Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
Several nurses alleged Rose gave them "evil looks" or "hard stares", which Rose denied, telling the tribunal she did not know who the nurses were. "I'm not in the business of levelling evil looks at anyone or hard staring," Rose said, adding people could think whatever they wanted about her but that did not influence her view of colleagues "as professionals". One of the lead nurses, Bethany Hutchison, said Rose had smirked at her as they passed in a corridor, which she took to be an attempt at intimidation. Mr Fetto asked Rose if she had "displayed amusement" towards nurse Bethany Hutchison. Rose said she was talking to another colleague at the time about something they found funny, "but it wasn't [Ms Hutchison's] presence which I found amusing".

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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