Sara Rich Dorman

Sara Rich Dorman

@srd.bsky.social

Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol

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Jack
@jhol95.bsky.social

Not to open oneself up to accusations of being right-wing, but a minimum wage of nearly £30,000 a year and a higher rate tax bracket of £50,000 does look a little off

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Healey poised to increase adult minimum wage in UK Budget ft.trib.al/NZ6vrC3

ft.trib.alHealey poised to increase adult minimum wage in UK BudgetChancellor will hold back from bigger increases in the rate for younger workers despite Labour manifesto pledge

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Guy Shrubsole
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Could centuries of secrecy about who owns our land soon end? A new government consultation proposes revealing who owns up to 95% of England and Wales. To stop this being blocked by big landowners, I need your help to send in supportive evidence. Here’s how: whoownsengland.org/2026/10/27/c...

whoownsengland.orgCenturies of secrecy about who owns our land could soon end – but only if you can helpToday is a big day for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land. The Government has launched a consultation proposing bold measures to open up the Land Registry, the official body that r…

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Edward Tissiman
@edtiss.bsky.social

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

news.stv.tvDriver who left cyclist with brain injury following road rage incident avoids jailJoseph Hedley, 39, became involved in a confrontation with the cyclist before violently attacking the man without provocation in Edinburgh in 2024

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C. Attention historians: this is gobsmackingly bananas.

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Bijan Parsia
@bparsia.bsky.social

One thing I think is underrated in Universities by students is there power of saying good things about things you like. If you like an instructor, tell them! If you really like them, tell the head of education or department. If you really really like them nominate them for an award.

Sara Rich Dorman
@srd.bsky.social

Discuss with reference to party systems and active travel.

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus

"the anglosphere" was a 200 year long experiment born out of a burkean conservative reaction to the french revolution that has caused nothing but endless misery and stagnation

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀
@thespaceshipper.com

Oh no 😭 One of the last members of the USS Enterprise has left. RIP Walter Marvin Koenig (1936-2026) Star Trek, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Starlost, The Questor Tapes, Futurama... What a career in sci-fi. I will miss Pavel Chekov. Again 😞

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
@threadinburgh.scot

🪹🍻The Robin's Nest is in the news for the wrong reasons. Built in 1936 by Mrs Johan Thom as the "Greenend Inn". An "improved pub", it was an anachronistic arts & crafts-style take on an English country tavern to try counter the success of the Temperance movement threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/25/t...

threadinburgh.scotRoadhouse! the thread about when Art Deco hostelries took on the Temperance Movement (and won!)There’s a pub in Edinburgh that has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently but, despite its rather forbidding appearance, it’s a very important pub. It is a surviving examp…
EdinburghMinute.com@edinburghminute.com

☔️  Good morning Edinburgh. Monday’s headlines: Storm clean-up, more wind tomorrow, Gilmerton shooting, St Margaret's House eviction delay vote + Big Wheel arrives ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

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Lewis Baston
@lewisbaston.bsky.social

Interesting thought from Brazil 🇧🇷

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Sara Rich Dorman
@srd.bsky.social

Interesting thread here on the Brazil election.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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Camcycle
@camcycle.bsky.social

Meet Will, the Cambridge plumber who gets to many of his jobs by e-cargo bike. Will founded Veloplumb in 2023, with a simple idea: many plumbing jobs don’t need a van full of equipment. 'I really believe in it, it boosts mental health to be outdoors, exercising and of course doing some plumbing!

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J. Nathan Matias
@natematias.bsky.social

"Political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute, rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life."

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

So glad this is out in the world! Idea for this paper first came from public convos back in 2015 about Rachel Dolezal and why she couldn’t be Black in the public eye. Lots of folks had lots to say about the social construction of Blackness. This is our attempt to say lots of something about that.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
@threadinburgh.scot

Foursquare are a worthy cause for those in need of their help, and also a great service for those of us who don't. If you can help them in their time of need then it will be a donation well made 🙏🏼

The Edinburgh Reporter@edinreporter.bsky.social

Edinburgh charity “losing £10,000 per day” after “devastating” theft AN Edinburgh charity has said they are losing £10,000 worth of business every day after the ...

theedinburghreporter.co.ukEdinburgh charity “losing £10,000 per day” after “devastating” theftAN Edinburgh charity has said they are losing £10,000 worth of business every day after the “devastating” theft of parts of their essential delivery vans. Staff at the Edinburgh Furniture Initiative began their shifts unaware of the brazen theft until drivers attempted to start up the charity’s transport vehicles – and the vehicles began spewing diesel fumes. Mechanics at the local garage “knew exactly what had happened” as soon as they heard the engines, and confirmed all four vans – their entire fleet - had had their catalytic converters stolen.

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Neil Mackay
@neilmackay.bsky.social

Turning Point UK is a British offshoot of Turning Point USA. I’m assuming all those media commentators who painted Charlie Kirk as a saint will be all over this investigation as well…

Al Jazeera Investigates@ajiunit.com

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

50 years ago, the Attorney General went to prison for committing crimes to cover up the criminal actions of the President of the United States. The fallout from Watergate led to the building of a wall of independence at DOJ that lasted half a century. That wall has been shattered by Trump's people.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Attorney General Todd Blanche says there's a "misperception that there's this separation and independence between the Department of Justice and the White House." "I work for President Trump."

Sara Rich Dorman
@srd.bsky.social

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right, loyalist paramilitaries and Zimbabwe ?!

Al Jazeera Investigates@ajiunit.com

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

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Al Jazeera Investigates
@ajiunit.com

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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Edward Tissiman
@edtiss.bsky.social

Between 2021 and 2025, around 2 million cyclists passed the floating bus stops on Leith Street, Edinburgh, and around 5 million bus passengers boarded or alighted here. No injuries have been recorded. Over the same period, drivers injured around 600 Edinburgh pedestrians, killing 16.

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Melissa Chemam
@melissaontheroad.bsky.social

Former Rwandan army sergeant major Robert Kabera, 50, outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, has been found beheaded in neighbouring Uganda. He had fled Rwanda after being accused of sexual assault, which he denied. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comRobert Kabera: Critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame found beheaded in UgandaFormer army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.

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Alan Lester
@alanlester.bsky.social

It’s gratifying that this unfortunately necessary book has become a become a best-seller in Canada. My part was to help expose the trans-national far right networks that sponsor denial, & their tactics of distortion, distraction & cherry picking uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

uofmpress.caTruth Before ReconciliationEmbedded in the lived experiences of Survivors and supported by the evidentiary record, Truth Before Reconciliation is a valuable tool to help develop the historical and information literacy needed to...
Sara Rich Dorman
@srd.bsky.social

This should be fun for the presenters

Tim Bonville-Ginn@timbonvilleginn.bsky.social

Other things of note: Canyon-SRAM-Scalable Capital 🇩🇪 EF Education 🇺🇸 Yellow B. Cycling 🇳🇱 Soudal-Safety Jogger 🇧🇪 (we already knew this one) Modern Adventure Factor Racing 🇺🇸 Hayf Sport-Visit Malta 🇮🇹 Toscana Factory Team 🇮🇹 Most interesting there is the unconfirmed sponsor change for Visma.

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Michela Wrong
@michelawrong.bsky.social

Yet another vocal critic of President Paul Kagame has met a violent and gruesome end in Uganda: a reminder of the tricky "human rights issues" that make Rwanda a ludicrous, cynical choice for the staging of F1 in Africa. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukRobert Kabera: Critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame found beheaded in UgandaFormer army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.

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Peter Geoghegan
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

Crypto has bought US politics - and now it's doing the same in the UK As Reform takes £100m+ from crypto tycoons, I sat down with Hollywood's most vocal sceptic @benmckenzie.bsky.social to talk crypto, corruption and how to fight back democracyforsale.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

democracyforsale.substack.comCrypto “is buying off legislators”, with Ben McKenzieHollywood actor Ben McKenzie talks to Democracy for Sale about how crypto has taken over American politics – and is coming for Britain

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Odd This Day
@oddthisday.bsky.social

It’s the 112th anniversary of Mr Rée’s birth today, so here’s a thread about his extraordinary life (which prompted several people last year to observe, regardless of his sandals/socks decision, that Harry was “smoking hot”)

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

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Tom Hamilton
@tombhamilton.bsky.social

At French History we're appointing a new Co-Editor and a new Associate Editor in the history of France and/or the Francophone world in the post-1789 period. Deadline 16 Nov. Do get in touch if you have any questions! Links posted below. 🧐📚📖👋✉️💾✍️🖥️🇫🇷 @frenchhistory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fh

academic.oup.comFrench History | Oxford AcademicThe official journal of the Society for the Study of French History. Publishes contemporary debates from an international range of scholars, covering the entire chronological range of French history f...

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Chas Booth (he/him)
@chasbooth.bsky.social

Polls are open! Edinburgh Greens members - check your inboxes! You should have an email from 'OpaVote Voting Link'. Please vote Chas Booth #1 in #Leith ward in the Edinburgh Greens 2027 council candidate selection process. More info here: linktr.ee/chasbooth