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The Myth of Morgan McSweeney – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The established press’ focus on supposedly ‘all powerful’ individual advisors often obscures the more important structural issues that come to define politics, writes Adam Bienkov

By popular demand, we are removing this informative and prescient article by @adambienkov.bsky.social from last July's print edition

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Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

‘What happens when a city loses its university?’ And 52% of students at Essex’s Southend campus on health and social care courses are local.

YouTube video by Ashley B I vote for a name change. What we’re watching isn’t power. It’s panic when the spotlight moves.

Interesting. I always assumed the malignant narcissism was just a component of white supremacy, but she argues we need a name change

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Very important and detailed peer-reviewed critique of the Sullivan Review.

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy Children march in protest in Chile and a perfectly preserved mummy is found in the Alps

I'm here on BBC World Service's History Hour about 10.25mins in, talking about the history of children's protests! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #skystorians #histchild #historyhit

Just to recap the past week for the Olympics:

- LA28 chair Casey Wasserman in most recent Epstein Files dump
- ICE going to Italy
- International calls to Boycott and Cancel World Cup and Olympics grow louder
- Entire world hates the USA
- LA County unveils plan to disappear the unhoused for LA28

PhD project on offer - Savannah-on-a-chip - part of the Leverhulme DTC in ecological data science
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at @glasgow.ac.uk

Microfluidics, bacteria and phages. Interactions with eco-epidemiology and physics of life.

Deadline early March - get in touch!

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Excited about this project. Please DM me with any questions.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

Trump has fully or partly blocked entry into the United States for citizens of four nation-states whose teams have already qualified: Ivory Coast, Haiti, Iran, and Senegal.

#BoycottUSWorldCup

Do You Have to Live Boldly to Write Boldly? There are authors and poets who have lived luminous lives, done tons of crazy and eccentric things, and gained quite a bit of fame as rebels, dissenters, mavericks.

"Let us not be surprised if the most humble, hesitant, shy or self-conscious citizens start to speak up louder, while those who seemed to be extremely confident and sure of their own convictions suddenly start to stammer." @elifsafak.bsky.social on introverts, extroverts, and these times

This is correct.

Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
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On Minneapolis, and organising for action; a timely and important reminder...

‘“As organizations and society, we’re forgetting how to set taboos and boundaries, and how to defend values,” Göttlich said. “Taboos are an essential part of our stance”’

If any 🇩🇪 football federation vice-president is going to say this, it’s going to be the one from St Pauli 🏴‍☠️

Call for Papers - Contributions to Anthology on Queering Sport/Physical Culture #SportHistory #Skystorians #NASSH2026 @mjveri.bsky.social

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

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YouTube video by John Mather Paul Robeson sings "Joe Hill" for the workers at Sydney Opera House

It's 50 years to the day - 23 Jan 1976 - since Paul Robeson's death: football player, singer, actor, leading voice in the international working class movement.... Joe Hill seemed fitting for these times www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnw...

Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading.

This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.

1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.

Please read this article if you are new to this history, y'all

#OtD 17 Jan 1893 a coup d'état took place in Hawaii, organised by United States. A republic was briefly declared, and the island was annexed by the US five years later: the first of many overseas imperialist conquests by the nation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8879...

Statement in solidarity with Palestine prisoners and Greta Thunberg This statement is a declaration of support for the campaign by prisoners detained for their Palestine solidarity activism who are demanding that the UK government respects their fundamental rights to ...

The struggle continues against the suppression of solidarity actions with Palestine: please sign this statement in solidarity with Palestine prisoners and Greta Thunberg. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Empire of Vice In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

"Vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count."

Empire of Vice | @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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Performance with purpose at The Mills Fabrica Performance with purpose at The Mills Fabrica

UK sports studies types; there's an intriguing looking London-based exhibition looking at new fabrics in sports wear and opening later his month - admittedly quite industry oriented, but may be of interest to some (and not far from Kings Cross station to boot) #sustainabililty #sportswear

British Woman Left 'Stranded' in Hungary After Home Office Refuse to Let Her Bring Niece to the UK The 13-year-old girl, who she was given parental responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office's decision

🔴British Woman Left ‘Stranded’ in Hungary After Home Office Refuse to Let Her Bring Niece to the UK

The 13-year-old girl, who she was given responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office’s decision
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