@drbob317.bsky.social
A retired Scottish-Kiwi sociologist living in exile in Birmingham UK. Left-leaning and a dedicated fan of Liverpool FC, the All Blacks and Bob Dylan.
Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
The Rockwell family: βIf Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that (his) work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution towards immigrant communities and people of color.β
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02.11.2025 15:12 β π 6007 π 1915 π¬ 313 π 103Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time
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JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trumpβs National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegsethβs incursion on Oregonβs sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
03.11.2025 04:41 β π 1626 π 465 π¬ 32 π 23It really is pathetic that People and Teen Vogue are so much better at basic political reporting and framing than the @nytimes.com
02.11.2025 18:25 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely! Mr Coltrane, as Billy Connolly called him, was one of the best.
02.11.2025 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Republicans are always good for a laugh. They never fail!
02.11.2025 15:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He shut the government down for a month to hide files establishing the extent of his fraternization with the most infamous serial child rapist of the last century, and now he is threatening to invade Nigeria to protect members of a religion he pretends to practice but has never actually belonged to
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A very young girl in a dress standing in a garden. She is holding a large teddy bear in her hands.
2 November 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara Ina van Dijk, was born in Dordrecht.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Iβm reminded of the old adage, courtesy of Cracker, βInnocent βtil proven Irish.β
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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
2 November 1901 | A Polish Jew, Herz Klafter, was born in Kamienica. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 5 March 1942.
No. 26397
He perished in the camp on 23 March 1942.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
Vintage photo of a little boy in a bonnet, sitting in a classic car under dappled sunlight.
2 November 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jan Carl Albert Ruschkewitz, was born in The Hague.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
2 November 1920 | A Pole, CzesΕaw Gil, was born in JarosΕaw.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from TarnΓ³w on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 32
He perished in the camp on 10 May 1943.
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Video about the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/kKOZLEUo2QM
Farageβs claim that flag mania was down to ordinary citizens couldnβt be further from the truth. Brilliant expose via @manchestermill.bsky.social.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Memory eternal. π―οΈ
02.11.2025 00:16 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A very stirring anthem! Love it!!
01.11.2025 10:04 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0U.S. π» played us the wrong Chumbawamba song!
πΆ The world is riddled with maggots;
the maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of the bosses & bureaucrats
They're taking over the boardrooms; they're fat & full of pride
& they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died πΆ
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 β π 17195 π 6966 π¬ 720 π 1219The saying used to be of someone with an inflated ego, βA legend in his own mind.β With Trump itβs βA Nobel Prize winner in his own mindβ π!
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(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Exclusive: Nearly nine months after President Trump took over the Kennedy Center, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst theyβve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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Sadly true.
30.10.2025 22:47 β π 780 π 244 π¬ 36 π 16Not just amoral but abhorrent.
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Had. To. Share. After. Seeing. On. Facebook π’
30.10.2025 23:05 β π 1731 π 490 π¬ 120 π 69Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.
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GB News presenter and Reform supporter Matt Goodwin got humiliated on #BBCQT
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/audi...
Itβs a Friday, which means more purges at the DOJ and FBI.
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Dominic Cummings pushed for Covid tech contracts to be handed to a company run by a Trump-supporting billionaire after holding a secret meeting with him alongside Boris Johnson.
Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed
