It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

Remember, remember, 5 November: A new alliance says the media system is broken and is building a movement to fix it from the ground up, starting with what they are calling Media Liberation Day | Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk

Exactly this:

Join us at our next research circle on Friday 26 September Would be great to listen to your contributions in discussion with others committed to #emancipatoryadulteducation www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-iai...

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It's a remarkable coincidence how many people on the same road seem to have had overnight access to box fresh flags, 10 foot ladders and the necessary equipment to attach them to lamp posts all at the same time, isn't it?

The Trump administration withholds over $6 billion intended for education and community programs, impacting crucial resources like afterschool, summer programs, English language, and adult literacy.

The affected programs include: - migrant education - teachers and school leaders effectiveness training - English language acquisition - STEM education, college and career counseling, and other activities - before/after/summer school programs - Grants for adult education/literacy programs

Reporting live from the protest outside Parliament💥 Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare

🚨DPOs Criticise Institutionalised Ignorance From Ableist State in Pandemic and Say Nothing Has Changed 'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...

The Government's welfare bill concessions will create a two-tiered system. In real terms: Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.

'Reducing funding for adult learners is “harming social outcomes, health and wellbeing, economic growth and individual opportunity”' The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇

Who knew?! www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Good morning. Please do support your local library. Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery. @manclibraries.bsky.social @cmbclibraries.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social

#ArtAdventCalendar Day— I started art lessons to improve my digital art, never expecting to fall in love with the brush. My first #oilpainting, March 2017, when I was almost 50. By Nov I was up to the "napkin drill." Then a year of still lifes, learning different materials/tools like palette knife.

Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities. I was delighted to contribute to 'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...

How important was the music to the classic era of Film Noir? For a look at the contribution of Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner, Raksin, Adolph Deutsch and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, join me and John Leman Riley / @lemanriley.bsky.social at Tipping My Fedora. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

Another of your excellent articles outlines his social media presence compared to other parties bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/n...

Today was fun. My current project with Centre Space Arts launched as part of the opening of the brilliant and HUGE new Furniture Mine @emmausnorthstaffs.bsky.social. Really good event with Terry Waite, Stoke's Lord Mayor and Stoke Community Choir. Well done all involved.

Council funding to be redirected from England’s rich areas to most deprived👍