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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Doctor of History at LSE International History. Book on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 forthcoming. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 3h

Took my boys to Goodrich castle recently where Lord Talbots use to rob his tenants with a sword. So if he wants to use a gun and castle your grandchildren could wind up in the House of Lords 😑

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 3h

A robber baron perhaps

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 13h

Debating Imperial Guard vs Space Marines in a pub while slagging of GW in general...I have reached peak English!

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

They all pop off to Dubai on the weekend. I think they want to make the UK more like Dubai shallow hollow vapid. Where abusing the staff is not just tolerated it it’s actively encouraged

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I mean Shakespeare, BBC and before recent brain melting right wing turns Harry Potter. The UK was a cultural juggernaut and that was a massive money spinner but of course those with no creativity can’t imagine value.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

The look of shock and horror on one of the mums at my daughter’s school face when I explained we have seen a massive drop in international students because of UK immigration policy. She was completely unaware students were counted in the numbers. Which begs the question why?

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Booo boooo

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Who should I be shouting at right now

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Which is why it appeals to a certain type of person who’s not very generous to folks in the service industry. (That is the nicest way I could frame that.)

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, what is there to do that? You can’t do elsewhere with nicer scenery and less ickyness

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Red Army Faction that will make a fun side project for a bit of popular history.
Me several days later: JESUS these people were insane!

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh JFC this is insane

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

When miscarriages become crimes

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Neighbor comes home to find her house broken into. The police response eh we will send a car in about an hour if we feel like it. That was 2 hours ago. Must be some old ladies somewhere holding up signs.

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Ah don’t be too hard on yourself the core is great and this is oddly therapeutic for me so I appreciate the effort

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

@ynot1989.bsky.social justice got through the latest Center Cannot Hold great stuff mate

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

CNN drives me insane with its sanewashing. They admit crime is falling then blame dems for people "not feeling safe" without mentioning crime is much higher in places that are under GOP control. I mean JFC I want actualy facts and figures not mealy mouthed well.. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

*aloud

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

6th century I began to squeal joyfully allowed

a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in a kitchen with his hands in the air .

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in a kitchen with his hands in the air .

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

Been following you on here for a while. You seem ethical decent and fairminded working on journalism rather than pundetry. Hunter S Thompson I think would approve as would Spider Jeruselum. So I have subscribed. Congrats you and Ground News are the only two news subs I have. Keep up the good work!

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

From Reform Councilers admiting to FT there is nothing left to cut to doctors striking due to no training post despite huge waiting list. I am begining to think austerity may be at the heart of Britians problems.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First-year resident doctors back strike action over jobs shortage

British Medical Association say 30,000 medics were chasing 10,000 jobs this year.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

The KT we saw at tankfest was big noisy and scary...but even then you could imagine all the things that could possibly go wrong. Also such a lovely target from the air

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

Basically it’s a absolute pain

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 3d

😑 don’t even get me started it’s basically shooting yourself in both feet. My international students are often some of my best brightest and most engaged and willing to pay for the privilege.