Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

Apparently Israel/US are targeting Iranian lefties' homes, so as to leave no opposition to the princeling.

In the days leading up to today's attacks, the CIA "assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he could be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

At this point, it’s a conscious choice to ignore the harm their policies are doing, both to migrant communities and to their electoral prospects - suggesting it’s an ideological commitment, at least for Mahmood. Also disingenuous to conflate the planned change to settlement with ‘illegal migration’

is it called operation lion’s roar because trump is the same deep orange shade as scar from the lion king

The precise relationship btw US imperial interests and Israeli territorial expansion and regional hegemony is often complex and then, sometimes it’s v clear

imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int... I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.

The Israeli military says it’s attacking Hezbollah sites but civilians and infrastructure have been repeatedly targeted

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

they voted for a woman is a tradesperson, who is led by a leader who is Jewish and gay but Reform say they lost because of Islamists lol

personally there’s definitely pressure in my relationship to vote a certain way because like if I found out my partner was a xenophobic capitalist that would be the end of the relationship and pretty sure he feels the same way so yeah

Your morning read. about family and ramadan and what we lose when people we love die.

Anyway, I was on @oxfordcsls.bsky.social's Talking About Methods podcast this month ranting about exactly this, if anyone's interested: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Suspected victim suicides have outstripped homicides for the last two years, according to the Domestic Homicide Project. I suspect that if we’d been looking for longer, this would have been the case for longer. 💔

your daily dose of feminine rage findingwordsforthoughts.substack.com/p/protect-gi...

We have begun to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland, BUT we still don’t have all the services in the regulations. For more information on abortion in Northern Ireland visit our website. buff.ly/XwevUJY

"The govt have been completely shamed in court & I'm proud the entire Green MP group all voted against proscription of Palestine Action" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the high court declaring the proscription unlawful

Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit

This morning the High Court found that the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful. Explanation and analysis from @finishedloading.bsky.social and me below.

there are many forms of violence out there symbolic cultural structural interpersonal posting about how well your writing is going on social media

HE disputes aren’t isolated – they’re everywhere. Right now members are fighting redundancies, pensions attacks and worse at Solent, London Met, Durham, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Leicester, Stirling and more. Our struggles are linked – and so is our solidarity.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Got a job rejection at 2:30am on a Saturday and can unis maybe just realise there are actual people on the other end of these emails and do better?

It wasn't political convenience though, it was a very specific political project -removing even the softest parts of the left from political life and integrating large parts of the British state into the wider Epstein network (Palantir etc.)- that they pursued with absolutely fanatical intensity.

this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church

"Why Women Rebel"

no time like the present to cancel that prime membership if you still have it xx

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2

Wrote a new thing, on LinkedIn and anxieties of using it. If you like this one, check out my other posts and also *subscribe* because then you get stuff like this straight into your inbox, instead of days later when i finally remember to post findingwordsforthoughts.substack.com/p/linked-out...

whatever mandelson did must be *extremely* bad if he thinks that saying that he doesn't remember if he got 75k from epstein is a good coverup because like having no memory of receiving that much money just makes you look like an extremely out of touch rich prick tbh

tagline for the entire season tbh

Your new morning read just dropped on pain and medicine and the many ways it fails women

two years today since Hind Rajab was killed by the IOF. she was 5.

Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...

A reminder: as happy as I am to see adverts for jobs; no role is 'permanent' in UK HE and hasn't been for some time. 'Open-ended' is what we call it: it's important to remember we are actually all precarious to some extent, especially at the moment.

your new morning read just dropped & it’s on borders and lines and indignities of having the wrong kind of passport

I started a substack. It’s mostly about academia and job hunting and trying to live life amidst chaos, and amidst the hellfires of capitalism. check it out. If for no other reason then to tell me I’m an ok writer bc pretty sentences are one of the very few things that currently bring me joy.

I mean as a child that grew up in a socialist city I’m like yes please please give every set of housing blocks a couple of nurseries and a couple of schools and a GP and a mid-tier health centre and multiple playgrounds and green surfaces and some trees and also supermarkets and cafes

We really need a conversation about just how insane the Postgraduate loan is because 6% of everything over £21,000 is mental. The interest rate is also 6.5%. I've paid in a grand this year, but have only managed to pay off about £300. It's a massive scam that I had no choice but to sign on to.

the only things that are certain in life are death taxes and the fact that I’ll be picked out for a ‘random’ security check at the airport every single time I travel

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.

‘the us is *now* positioned as an imperial power’ is possibly the funniest sentence ever

Considering they decided not to give me the MacArthur Genius Prize, I no longer feel an obligation to be a pure genius

Grok is so much worse than you think.