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Prof Jo Barraket AM

@jobarraket.bsky.social

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Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 16h

Feels like a mouse plague year at this stage. We suspect the mice of neighbouring buildings being renovated have moved house 🙄

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 16h

They've been around for months and are becoming more brazen every day!

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 16h

As a manager of others, there are a lot of things that sap people's energy & productivity. I didn't imagine in the lofty heights of my fine institution that one of these would be the persistent invasion of our offices by mice 🐭😬

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 1d

🛎️Early view

How do different levels of #ideas have potential for #ambiguity❓

In what ways can policy actors utilize them to allow for different interpretations to build a #coalition❓

Sunwoo Ryu examines #Childcare policy reforms in #SouthKorea👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 2d

wow

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 2d

Before he belonged to the world, Kermit was created to bring joy to one person.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 3d

It absolutely is. Quite the rising issue in our part of the world

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 3d

It's very annoying!

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 3d

I moaned by text and my partner turned his car music off; not an ideal solution but nice of him

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 3d

Word!

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 3d

Gendered relations of power have taken a cyber-twist at my place. Alexa won't play my music at home because bloke is using it in the car 🙄

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 4d

word

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 4d

Nice day for it!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...