At the risk of repeating myself: there’s no bargaining with these people. What they’re calling for now is mass expulsions of long-term residents deemed insufficiently economically productive. There’s no way these demands won’t get even more extreme by election time.

Judith Butler on the legal & moral shambles & capitulation at Berkeley ‘Lucky that I still have my books. But it cannot be utterly foolish to resist injustice when you so clearly see it, as, I presume, you must’ www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...

We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians. We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more

A social worker at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital put up a small postcard at her desk bearing the words “Gaza Must Live.” Her superiors asked her to take it down. She refused, and on July 31st, Mount Sinai fired her. jewishcurrents.org/mount-sinai-...

BBC now apologising for calling a racist a racist

Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

UK HE: "where nobody admits how much things actually cost,nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil & goodwill of underpaid academics, foreign students...are treated as if they are somehow on the fiddle, [&then there's] graduate debt" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well here's a weird one... Key sections from the U.S. Constitution have gone missing from the U.S. government's official website, including sections 8 through 10, which include legal provisions like habeas corpus (aka due process). The White House hasn't commented.

"We don't believe in erasing American history—we honor it," says the guy working for the government that mandated that the website for the Stonewall National Monument erase all mentions of the word "transgender."

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

The attacks on #DEI, institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom are not going away, writes Delta College president @michaelhgavin.bsky.social. He calls on US #highered to stand firm, examine legal obligations closely and work in coalition for the benefit of all students: ow.ly/Erlf50WxRYW #Trump

Over 100 humanitarian groups sound alarm on starvation of staff in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-100-humanitarian-groups-sound-alarm-starvation-staff-gaza

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero: “Israel is starving to death those it hasn’t already killed with bombs in Gaza.” “90% of the population is in phase 5 famine, and soon 400 people a day will die of hunger.” “This is extermination.” “And Europe is on its knees before Israel.” 🇪🇸 🇵🇸

DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA. This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

😍"Island of strangers"😍

Wait ages for an article then 2 come along at once: w @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social "Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities" on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Student antiracist activists working with Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social& Anna Numa Hopkins in Warwick Sociology, have created an online archive of student-led #antiracist activism, to pass on experiences and knowledge to future generations in #HigherEducation : warwickantiracism.org

New article from Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social w/ Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social, "Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People’s Political & Civic Resistance"👇🏼: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #CultureWar#LGBTQ #antiracism #schools

New article out with @ckulz.bsky.social :"Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People's Political and Civic Resistance" #CultureWar #CultureWars #ChildQ #LGBTQ #antiracism #AcademicSky #Sociology #OpenAccess rdcu.be/euZdt

📣Warwick Antiracism Archive Launch! Come discover our new resource on knowledge b/w generations of student antiracist activists at Warwick. 20/06 2-4pm in R0.12. Register & details: link.outsavvy.com/antiracism led by @uncomfiest.bsky.social w/ support from Anna Numa Hopkins & 6 student researchers.

Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wonder where the self-ordained "Free Speech" Warriors are when our colleagues are being told by management they can't discuss the fact that same management are about to screw them over?

Incitement much? “There are some places where, when people behave in that way, a mob turns up and burns their homes down, and then they know that they can’t do that sort of thing,” says Badenoch www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Left: Mel Stride, "Kemi has very clear direction.. She knows what he conservative principles are" Right: That time Kemi Badenoch admitted to breaking the law and then laughed about it

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK: "If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."

👀 www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-government...

UPDATE: NYPD have arrested at least two of those faculty members. Arrests ongoing!!

This seems like what national industrial action ballots should be called on tbh. Even if regressive TU law prevents national ballot on local redundancies (do they?) there must be a way of framing this as the key fight. Employers certainly frame redundancy and pay freezes as linked. #UKHE #UCU

The news coming out of Coventry is 🤯 Fire-and-Rehire: numerous staff are pushed onto teaching-only contracts via a subsidiary. They're made to re-interview for roles that will increase teaching and move them onto a different pension scheme: from TPS to AVIVA, with far lower employer contributions.

Everyone in Birmingham next time the Tory Party Conference is in town. #moistbread

Today! We will be joined by some wonderful poets who will be reading generously from their work and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and I will speak about the process of writing and stunned language #Gaza #KeepTelling

Border controls against bodily autonomy

OHCHR says that speaking out on Gaza must be allowed, & express alarm at the worldwide wave of attacks, reprisals, criminalisation & sanctions against those who publicly express solidarity with the victims of the ongoing conflict between Israel & Palestine. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Enjoyed finally meeting @kevinsmets.bsky.social in person and hearing his @sociowarwick.bsky.social Research Seminar paper today, including getting to see one of the many brilliant short films about borders to come out of his ERC Reel Borders project: vimeo.com/783186118

yesterday our Derya Ozkul @deryaozkul.bsky.social and colleagues launched their collaborative 'Digitising Identity' project & held their first stakeholder event exploring how digitalisation impacts migrants' lives.👇🏽

When I got to the end of this article, I found myself choking back angry tears. Cruel artists (artists of cruelty). And an even more sadistic class of journalists and readers, who revel in the fruit vendor's distress. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/n...

20,000 (TWENTY-THOUSAND!!) are protesting the destructive and ideological cuts to Dutch Higher Education in The Hague at the moment. Legends, all of you. Brilliant to see the sector sticking together for each other like this. Sending much solidarity to #WOinActie

depressing but useful live overview of redundancies and restructures in HE from @qmucu.bsky.social (i'm darkly cackling at exeter calling their VS program the 'exeter release scheme')

Our book Brexit and Citizens' Rights is now out. We discuss Brexit and its impact on the rights of different groups of citizens: British, EU27, third country nationals, in the UK and in the EU.

She discusses in particular how racialised, colonial and gendered aspects of migration intersect with the concept of family, as well as the implications of looking into citizenship by ancestry in the Brexit context.

In her chapter, @uncomfiest.bsky.social looks back at the Referendum campaigns, and at the use of the 'European family' on the Remain side. She discusses how this concept relates to the wider intersections of migration and family.

The reality is representations urging Israel to stop the killing are ignored by Netanyahu & the Trump election gives signal to the IDF it can continue to act with impunity. Only a new boycott, disinvestment & sanctions strategy could have any effect. It should be a core demand on UK.

Really look forward to next IRIS (@irisbirmingham.bsky.social) talk with prof Hannah Jones (@uncomfiest.bsky.social). Hannah will be talking about student antiracist activism on 2 Dec, 3-4.30pm, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham. Book a place at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-f...

Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax. 🧵

Culture wars are one thing, but a war on sandwiches? Actually, Sandwich Wars sounds like a winning concept for a reality TV show. 🪖🥪🤺 #WokeFillings