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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 1d

🚨BREAKING -- Huda Ammori has been granted the right to appeal the proscription of Palestine Action via judicial review.

The Home Office tried to challenge the decision to grant Ammori a judicial review, and was struck down today by the Court of Appeal.

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Dr. Max Lempriere @thephdpeople.com · 7d

Advice for early-stage #PhD students: Document everything. You’ll thank yourself later.

#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 7d

People who think Psychology shouldn't be anti-colonial or anti-oppressive, frankly, shouldn't work with the general public. If you are not against it, you are upholding it, and that is a dangerous position to be in if you are supposed to be treating people.

🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 7d

Activism for practitioners is one way of ensuring a better world, outside of just being a therapist. Activism for clients/patients is a fantastic way to reduce feelings of helplessness and empower clients.

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 7d

You can't just therapise pain away when that pain comes from real and changeable circumstances. To believe in empowering people just through self-care is ignorant and comes from a deeply privileged place.

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 7d

Psychology is inherently political. To be neutral isn't just complicit, it's nuts, especially in this day and age. Activism is some of the most important work we can do as practitioners.

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 7d

The ignorance in some of these responses is why Psychology as a field is such a turn-off for those who aren't privileged. To call what Israel did not a genocide (newsflash: it literally is, according to the UN) supports, even condones and enables genocide and supporters of it.

The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 8d

Neutrality is not complicity – it’s clinical integrity.

Bruce Nallantyne, Deanne Jade, and Sarah Pagdin respond to Dr Mehdi Alemohammad’s article in the October issue of The Psychologist.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Neutrality is not complicity – it’s clinical integrity | BPS

Bruce Nallantyne, Deanne Jade, and Sarah Pagdin respond to Dr Mehdi Alemohammad’s article in the October issue of The Psychologist.

www.bps.org.uk

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 7d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 14d

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 13d

I just need someone to explain pensions to me in the simplest way possible.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16d

Memorizing this

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Nikki Elizabeth @nature-clinpsy.bsky.social · 16d

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Ash @h1twom4n.bsky.social · 18d

JK Rowling’s favorite word since the 90’s has been poverty despite the fact she was raised upper middle class and was broke for a short while following her divorce like most people. This farce is especially disgusting considering she could spotlight UK poverty issues and DOESN’T

A tweet from JK Rowling which says:

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17d

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans bigotry and the alt-right pipeline she's personified require her to undermine and perpetuate real misogyny, so she's browbeating a woman almost half her age who has already been subjected to plenty of sexual violence for playing Hermione
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J.K. Rowling is wrong about Emma Watson

Anti-trans activism covers up the reality of gender-based violence.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16d

This is my issue with politics lately. Basically, every announcement assumes the reader has an utter lack of curiosity or knowledge to the point that it's just meaningless chaff.

The government's immigration policy is now the exact policy they dismissed when Kemi suggested it in spring.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16d

Separately, what are we doing here?

Migrants already can't claim benefits before they get permanent residency, surely we remember this?

Migrants already pay NI contributions, again, extremely obvious.

So what actually is the notional policy change? Just the volunteering bit?

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced at Labour party conference this week that migrants to the UK will have to prove they are net contributors to society, have never claimed benefits and have a clean criminal record in order to qualify for permanent residency.
Her new policy built on a previous government announcement of a rise from five to 10 years in the default period that migrants would need to be in Britain before being able to apply for indefinite leave to remain.
But ministers clarified this week that the 10-year period could be shortened if foreigners could prove they were making a positive contribution to society, including by paying national insurance and volunteering in the community.

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Kate Lynn-Devere @kate-lynn-devere.bsky.social · 16d

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b

Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme

With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24d

Roger Meyers Jr in the Simpsons yelling at children: YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT! THAT'S WHY YOURE STILL KIDS--
'CAUSE YOU'RE STUPID!

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🌻🐝 @psychotherabee.bsky.social · 27d

Working full-time is a scam tbh. Many jobs are so sedentary that they will send you to an early grave if you don't do an impossible amount of exercise everyday to remedy the negative impact of being sedentary

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 29d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · Sep 18

A grotesque display of opulence from the world's elite. Billionaires feast on taxpayer funded banquets while they back a genocide and burn the world.

But sure, migrants are the problem.

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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Action is the antidote to despair."

Joan Baez

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Sep 16

Explore our October edition
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Sep 7

A lot of things about society suck a whole lot but one of them is that some single person will get filmed being a dickhead and then we’ll spend a full week hyperfixating on them.

It’s like the entire internet has pathological rumination.

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Witness Support Dogs @witnesssupportdogs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meet Marley, the first Witness Support Dog in training!

Marley is hard at work at the moment, going through training and being spoilt rotten with cuddles. He'll likely be in training for another year at least - stay with us on his journey to becoming a fully fledged Witness Support Dog! 🐾

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