Michele Paule
@michelepaule.bsky.social
Academic. Author. Activist. PI: Girls, Leadership, & Women in the Public Eye project. RHJYC trustee. Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/3swdbdew
I can’t believe a woman gubernatorial candidate who was raped as a child by her stepfather and whose mother lost custody of her minor children as a result has to respond to an attack ad calling her a liar. It is, as far as the literature I know an actual unprecedented low in modern politics.
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
🚨 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
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.
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
theguardian.com
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. uk.news.yahoo.com/british-born...
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.
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
theguardian.com
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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...
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
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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.
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...
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.
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📢 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...
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
theguardian.com
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.
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.
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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....
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...
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
theguardian.com
💷 £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...
£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
bylinetimes.com
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...
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...
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...
ituc-csi.org
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 ⏬ 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... ifs.org.uk/living-stand...
