Michele Paule

🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵

MeCCSA 2025 has come and gone but we still have plenty of updates to share about the conference and our network members! Stay tuned for more 👀 #MeCCSA2025

Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media

Teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, and a worker for an NFL team have all been fired this week for speaking critically about Charlie Kirk, a man who criticized others for a living.

The silence from those who claim to be fighting and campaigning to protect women & children is now deafening. It was never truly about safeguarding them - it is about immigration and racism, and certainly not about the safety of Black and Brown women and children.

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UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women

UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers.

Women penalised for becoming mothers. Position becomes even worse when women become unpaid carers.

74,000 women a year forced to leave jobs for getting pregnant.

Takes toll: low pensions, poverty insecurity.

We also have a website for blogs, advice, reading recommendations and much more: meccsa-womens-network.org.uk

An Intersectional Feminist Critique of Cyberlibertarian’s Grip on the Construction of Online Freedom Abstract. The impacts of online hate speech include emotional and embodied harms that have sometimes stunted careers, resulted in lost wages and missed job

An interesting framework for the context of #onlinehate: "similar to the 'there is no alternative' to neoliberalism argument...the gendered construction of cyberlibertarianism presents online freedom as the only game in town, at least when it comes to online hate." academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

DEFEND REFUGEES Sunday 17th Aug: 11am The Fountain, Market Pl, Dudley DY11LP NO TO RACISM REFUGEES WELCOME EMERGENCY MOBILISATION STOP THE FAR RIGHT IN DUDLEY

Black Country people: fash are trying to mobilise people in Dudley this Sunday, hot off back of former Tory MP & multiple property owner Marco Longhi’s campaign to remove leisure discount for asylum-seekers. Please join the counter demo 11am at the Fountain if you can.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.

Well this is all suddenly starting to make a lot more sense…

Women abused as children by Rotherham gangs say police also sexually assaulted them www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

📢 Behold, The Master Race 🔽 🙄. Currently, if not in jail, to be found harassing terrified asylum seekers trapped in their temporary hotel accommodation up and down the country. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

ICE’s Deportation Machine Runs on Private Security Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.

Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations.

Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

If Zoe had added Munich, everybody would now talk about Pop Music....

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says

3.7 billion people live below the poverty line.

In the UK, unnecessary cuts are hitting the most marginalised.

All whilst billionaire wealth is surging - per new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report.

UK must tax extreme wealth & support the UN Tax Convention.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

£2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large With Government Accused of 'Passivity' in Claiming Funds Huge sums of money have yet to be returned by businesses five years after the last Conservative Government's Covid 'bounce back' loan scheme was launched

💷 £2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large
Five years after launch, £1.9 billion of Bounce Back Loans is still missing — only £130 million recovered bylinetimes.com/2025/06/25/2...

On balance, I was more comfortable with Fox employees lying about wars than running them.

Today, Women’s Aid’s heartbreaking report finds that 19 more children have been killed since 2015 by a known domestically abusive parent during unsafe contact arrangements.

This is a 50% increase in the number of families impacted compared to the last decade.

www.womensaid.org.uk/nineteen-mor...

A refuse skip that says "PROFESSOR BIN" on the side

In use at many UK universities right now

#OtD 22 Jun 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it Amid deliberate attacks by neoliberal employers and policies, the right to strike is being weakened, year on year, all around the world. Even in the most developed countries, the drive to neutralise t...

Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it [ITUC] www.ituc-csi.org/under-neolib...

Border Patrol Detains Two Leaders of Migrant Advocacy Group Jose Ignacio "Nacho" De La Cruz, 29, and his stepdaughter, Heidi Perez, 18, were pulled over in Richford. An advocacy group accused agents of racial profiling.

They're just arresting organizers now.

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history.

Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

This

📢 This ⏬ is what happened to UK #inequality since 1961. It soared in the 1980s under Thatcher and no UK govt has seriously tried to reverse it since - so, the centre cannot hold and things fall apart...
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British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week | Frances Ryan Women will really have the right to choose if politicians vote to revoke this Victorian-era legislation, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

British women are being jailed and shamed under archaic abortion laws. After more than a century and a half, this week, MPs could vote to change that.

My col. on decriminalising abortion - and giving tens of millions of women a genuine right to choose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Regional emperor penguin population declines exceed modelled projections - Communications Earth & Environment The number of emperor penguins in the Bellingshausen and Weddell Sea declined by 22% over the period 2009–2023, a reduction of 1.6% per year, exceeding predictions from population models based on high...

🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted

A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected.

This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪