The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

Owen Jones is denouncing what many remain silent about. Israel announces that it will expel the surviving Palestinians from Gaza. Netanyahu orders the takeover of 70% of the territory and to "encourage" voluntary transfers.

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

For the first time since the so-called “ceasefire,’ the Israeli military has ordered mass population evacuations from Beirut. Lebanese families are once again fleeing Beirut’s southern suburbs after renewed Israeli evacuation warnings targeting parts of Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.

The recent rulings in the supreme court I think are not just a sign of a roll back of rights but a sign that the legal establishment in the UK is more and more comfortable with simply ignoring international human rights norms and having no expectation of being held responsible for failing them.

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

Israel destroys 2000 year old priceless castle to further it's illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing. Is the real headline, but of course the BBC gets its headlines straight from Tel Aviv.

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Israel currently occupies and controls 20% of Lebanon, systematically demolished 81 villages and towns; it is now destroying and evacuating major cities—Tyre and Nabatieh—killed ~3,400 and displaced over 1.2 million. Israel is committing another genocide.” M.S. (UN)

Israel is bombing UNESCO sites in Lebanon with American bombs and there's thundering silence from Americans in US media and on social media sites from right/left/liberal/moderate posters. If it was Russian bombs being dropped, it would be front page news and trending on all platforms.

There are just 2 weeks left to apply for our final award! One fully-funded Master’s Plus studentship is available for low-income and/or ethnic minority home applicants at Uni of Kent or KCL, and will fund the applicant through their MA and PhD. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/kno... #cfa #phd #medieval

Universities shouldn't be forced to prioritise making money, Zack Polanski will say on Thursday In a speech to an education union, the Green leader is expected to say that the UK should stop treating students like customers, and instead see higher education as a public good

📣 Call for Papers "A special issue of #PublicHumanities invites submissions considering how various legal, policy, and normative landscapes governing academia are impacting who is able to shape and engage in the public sphere." Deadline: December 18, 2026 #HigherEd #EduSky cup.org/3Rlmr62

This is incredibly tragic. I had the pleasure of speaking at an MIT Libraries event last month and got to see the good work the do and the community they support. For a university of this caliber to shutter this many of its libraries--this is truly a travesty.

It’s really frightening.

Israel has killed nine paramedics in just 72 hours in southern Lebanon and it’s business as usual. Now imagine the outrage if that was nine Israeli paramedics. The entire world would be screaming and condemning it as terrorism.

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

www.blackwitness.com/p/this-is-th... So glad he's safe for now.

Rashida Tlaib, the US congresswoman from Michigan, decries 'mass murder' in Lebanon as the death toll mounts from Israel's attacks since March, saying the US is not a 'bystander' but an 'active participant' in the Israeli invasion. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/osen4f

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

'Up to 42 courses are also set to be axed as part of the move, which comes after 350 roles were cut last year. Hundreds of staff and students took to picket lines on 22 May before marching towards the university’s main administrative hub to hold a rally.' 2/2

'The Russell Group university is looking to shed more than 600 roles – with 2,700 staff at risk – as part of a “transformation plan” that its leaders have said is necessary to prevent it “running out of money”.' 1/2

Both the UK and the EU have independent Free Trade deals with Israel. It is time they were cancelled. We Sanctioned Russia instantly, why won't we even cancel Free Trade with Israel when they Kidnap our citizens and parade their torture on National TV?

Every choice that is removed from teachers in the classroom and from fields of study (grading, books, available topics) delegitimizes those fields and the broader institutions. Imagine a mechanic who didn’t get to choose what tools they could have in their workshop?

The world is shocked by how the Gaza flotilla activists were treated, as if this were something new. But if they feel confident enough to do this in front of cameras, imagine what Palestinians endure when nobody is watching.

On not forgetting Gaza open.substack.com/pub/antonylo...

The Government Media Office in Gaza warned on Tuesday of what it described as a dangerous decline in humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip due to the siege and restrictions imposed by Israel. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260520-gov...

You cannot commit genocide in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, then hide behind anti-Semitism... There is no rise in anti-Semitism.

Israel not letting Aid to Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu is a War Criminal and Evil Bastard. Can you imagine if another country was doing that to Israel? All Hell would break loose.

There are 2 cats in the first photo... #SpotTheVoid

Left- Israel murdered all 6 of these Lebanese people today. Right- Israel bombs Lebanon and kills 8 more people.

Can anyone explain to me why Israel (& only Israel) can order people from another country to evacuate their city? Israel has issued an evacuation order for Tyre in Lebanon, displacing 200,000 more people. I suppose as long as its only 'them' & not 'us' being displaced, it's okay? #warcrimes

'The analysis...suggests that the prevalence of hallucinated citations depends on the area of research. SSRN, a preprint server for social sciences research, had the highest rate of hallucinated citations at nearly 2%, almost five times higher than any other major repository.' 1/2

Today is Nakba Day. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine began 78 years ago today and it has never stopped.

Since the start of this war in Iran, more than 3,600 people have been killed and over 26,500 injured in Iran. In Lebanon, 2,700 people are dead and over a million are displaced. And Netanyahu says: “The war is not over.” We cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s wars.

LIVE Stop Sale of STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND Protests in NYC LIVE NOW: youtube.com/live/DWttCBi...

You know you fly too much when you (and the airline!) know your favourite seat on the different plane types... (Just settled in my fave A380 seat - 68A. Extra leg room + window + easy loo access = best economy seat for a productive day working on articles)* * Yes, I know, I am a massive geek

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Aftermath of the Israeli strike on Beirut (Dahieh)

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Last year ICE fascists shot and killed a 23-year-old American citizen named Ruben Ray Martinez. Then they covered up the murder. A year later, the only witness to the crime has died in a car accident. Read and subscribe (especially if you’re in Texas): letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ice-shot-a...

Anthony Horowitz uses AI, says 'it feels like cheating'. I mean...yes? You're using the theft-powered plagiarism machine to generate text, do you expect it to feel like a good day's hard work?

The subtext of all this, of course, is "Muslims are a Hamas fifth column, the lot of them." And nobody in Labour is doing anything to contest this. The Tories just shrug and smirk, and REFUK shout "Hell yes, they are!"

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.