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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 17h

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

Client asked for it.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

Reading the article, it's going to use the TEF.

So it will be a complete mess

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

Not that many, as is happens.

Almost no correlation between the two in every university I've served who collected the data

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

No issue with this if the metrics and assessments are perfectly thought through

Which they most likely will not be

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

It was a really good idea, and the only way to pay for the expansion of HE

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 6d

Over the weekend Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has gone up “every single month” since Labour took office, and that it’s been left higher by “every Labour government in history”.

Neither of these claims is quite right—our fact check has the figures 👇

Kemi Badenoch’s claims about Labour’s unemployment record aren’t quite right—here’s why – Full Fact

The Conservative leader has repeated two claims about Labour’s record on unemployment, neither of which is quite right.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 18h

Great to see ordinary US citizens doing extraordinary things to resist.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 22h

Telegram founder and general a-hole Pavel Durov, who's IM network hosts hundreds of groups where info-ops coordinate their activity and pay for content, is annoyed that democracies are fighting back against the damage he, personally, has helped usher in in many autocratic regimes

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill

UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

There really isn't anyone so vulnerable that this administration won't kick them to the floor and stand triumphantly over their injured form

Starving kids, kids needing HIV suppressant drugs, special education needs kids, cancer patients...

They are just bad people. By any reasonable definition

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much

Will it lead Americans to question what they think 'free speech' is? Probably not.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Real life plastic bag…

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Only took a decade…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Who Was Jeffery Epstein? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Can only suggest you take an elementary comprehension course.

Blocked, obviously

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

It's really hard to know whether the current US govt is ideological or just cynical

Increasingly it looks more ideological in health at least. Certainly in foreign policy, defence and trade. Cynical in corruption and probably domestic policing/judicial

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really really big deal. This weekly report listed all the outbreaks amd incidences of notifiable diseases, like measles. Anyone could read it. Health professionals often keep tabs on it. They don't care if we get sick.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Or
- the economy is innovating services
- people are productively to busy to cook
- we have close to full employment
- immigration is working and immigrants get jobs

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

If he'd just learn some economics, I'd consider voting for him.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Might be worth a 10-second notice?

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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