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Mary Corcoran
@marycorcoran.bsky.social
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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.

‘Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine’: The people live in each other’s shadows. .. more

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7
TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
#streetart

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 3h
This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 6h
Russian elites are fragmenting. Putin looking behind his back at ultra-nationalists, backed by oligarchs, who will cultivate disgruntled veterans & supporters of the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, & the neo-nazi militias/gangs. They’ll take Putin down

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Warning to others’: murky death of militia leader as Kremlin reasserts control
Reports that Stanislav Orlov was killed by Moscow security services highlights careful managing of non-state power
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 8h
If only the distinction were so easy? If only expanded higher education hadn’t given opportunities so many more? If only industry hadn’t stopped apprenticeships & outsourced training to unis? If only w/class filk stuck to certain aspirations? Trades are highly skilled, undervalued by capitalism.

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Steph Petrie @stephpet.bsky.social · 10h
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Dutch man's video testament before throwing 'Filton 24' stone through UK embassy window
Dutch activist targets UK embassy in Hague in solidarity with Filton 24 – because apparently, stones speak louder than words
www.thecanary.co

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d
UK - Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?

Seven prisoners have been taken to hospital since starting their strikes, with some claiming a lack of medical attention
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?
Seven prisoners have been taken to hospital since starting their strikes, with some claiming a lack of medical attention
www.theguardian.com

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 1d
Government waters down farm inheritance tax plan
Government waters down farm inheritance tax plan
The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.5m.
www.bbc.com

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 1d
Ultimately the real power of universities, whether in resisting their own corrupt management in the UK or a corrupt government in the US, depends on the reputation they have cultivated.

Abandoning respect for commercialisation led to deteriorating public support, and thus powerlessness.

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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 1d
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SMOKING GUN of illegal redactions.

Even an old geriatric like me can unredact some Epstein redactions.

Go to site, highlight redactions and open in notes.

"No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of....or political sensitivity."

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www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

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tk4471.bsky.social @tk4471.bsky.social · 1d
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I've No More F***s To Give!
YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq
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Seattle Mark @2loony.bsky.social · 1d
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BREAKING: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment the WH Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by The Mayday Network
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Don’t encourage them!

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 2d
Oh the irony.

The @ledbydonkeys.org peeps who were arrested for projecting information about Trump & Epstein onto Windsor Castle for Trump’s visit, we’re interviewed by THE CHILD PROTECTION TEAM!

Yep. All charges later dropped.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle
The art activists made headlines during the US president’s state visit when they shocked the waiting media with a short documentary – and were quickly arrested
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
4. Is difficult as the areas of greater need are also those most hostile to internal migration. Should also have very clear education, training spending to ameliorate local hostility.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Narrative is that U.K. can turn the workforce tap on & off again. Please come & work in our hard to recruit sectors, now go away, now come back. Heard this rap for 40 years now.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d
Ticketmaster CEO Charges Own Children Christmas Present Handling Fee https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/12/20/ticketmaster-ceo-charges-own-children-christmas-present-handling-fee/
Ticketmaster CEO Charges Own Children Christmas Present Handling Fee
THE CEO of Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, Michael Rapino delivered on all fronts this Christmas, ticking off every item on his kids Santa lists but his children have voiced their annoyance at the number …
waterfordwhispersnews.com

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 2d
there is no excuse for poverty in the UK. Poverty is a political choice which is inexcusable and morally repugnant.
The volume of rough sleeping, street begging, food bank use in the UK is incompatible with a civilised society

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
All part of a chess game to plant as much land in advance of a political arrangement.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
No room for anyone except polemicists anymore. My mind doesn’t need changing. Not for debate. 📣

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 2d
FAR-RIGHT ISRAEL APPROVES 19 ILLEGAL
SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINIAN W BANK

Saudi Arabia condemned this. UN Sec-Gen Guterres said Israel's "relentless" settlement expansion fuels tensions, restricts Palestinian access to land, threatens the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state.

They prob beamed.
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3d
Every time I think 🤔‘it’s time to change my pinned post with something new’, I find that my present one never dates.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3d
I’m dissatisfied. The Kennedy Centre board didn’t go far enough. If they want to pay real tribute to Trump, they should prefix their names with Trump-, have their new names tattooed on their faces, & rename their children Donald J Trump. Otherwise, they’re only sycophants not TRUE MAGA.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3d
The thing is that the U.K. government (like many others) suspended the normal procurement rules in the global race for PPE. This should mean that ministers would rely more heavily on advice, rather than less. Instead, politicians (overwhelmingly Tory) used their networks to pitch for contracts.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3d
Although ‘Wee Mikey’ Gove was widely reported to have ‘put pressure’ on civil servants and overruling their concerns.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d
The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.

Who saw that coming?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3d
Would be arrested in London.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Dublin nativity scene recreated 'in solidarity with Gaza'
Activists have recreated the nativity scene in Dublin to draw attention to the conflict in Gaza.
www.rte.ie

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 4d
True, some are persuadable. Read a credible study on the 5 main groupings in Deform’s ‘thin coalition’ of support. But the glue holding them together is animus, a sense of powerlessness, tales of being deprived by others, and rage at perceived ‘disrespect’. That’s a powerful draw for populists.

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 4d
A central part of maintaining corruption at UK universities is the installation of cronies with inflated salaries.

Most senior posts at universities are occupied by incompetent people who could NEVER make 150-250k in any other post.

So, they will never question policies that destroy the uni.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4d
Public debt is not the cause of stagnation. It is the consequence of an economy organised to funnel income upwards and leave it there. Debt is not the burden. Inequality is the burden. Debt is how its macroeconomic consequences are temporarily managed.