Dr Bethany Usher

Dr Bethany Usher

@bethanyusher.bsky.social

Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette

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This is very good news and will help to stop the Far Right getting elected on marginal votes. Now do parliamentary elections.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk

🚨🗳️ | New Guidance in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill confirms that Mayoral and PCC elections will return to the Supplementary Vote system.

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🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone. 1/

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Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

What has Rachel Reeves tears done to my older lady friends at the gym, who did not like her before. They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?

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Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...

newrepublic.comWhy Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Anyone watched 24/7 in police custody tonight? What an important storyline about law and legal perception, sexual and cultural differences, race and religion, consent, hard lines and what moments might mean. A difficult story told carefully. Love to the victims

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Replying to @premnsikka.bsky.social

Apparently he's got form... "I think Enoch Powell is the man”, proclaimed Rod Stewart. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.” bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/r...

bylinetimes.comREVIEW: White Riot - Why We Need a New Rock Against RacismChris Sullivan remembers Rock Against Racism and reviews the new documentary: White Riot, directed by Rubika Shah and finds it especially relevant today.

Rod Stewart has always been a twat. Bowie used to talk about it from time to time. Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.

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Bowie. He knew everything.

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Rod Stewart has always been a twat. Bowie used to talk about it from time to time. Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.

Today, I suddenly remembered a moment of real unkindness by a stranger. I was 16 and went for a walk after a traumatic incident. I sat on grass to think. A woman came out of her home and started shouted at me that by being there I was scaring her children. I was just sitting. I was also a child..

And I said 'I'm sorry I'm just sitting. We'd call her a Karen perhaps now. A middle class Estate. A traumatised working class kid. Just sitting. Anyway, remembering it made me sad. And then I turned a corner and there was this sign. And it made me feel better. It says those who wonder, not wander

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They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers. Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street. They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery. Make it stop!!!

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It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025