That line ... "the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide" ... what an indictment.

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.

As the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike enters its 48th day — surpassing the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strike — the eight political prisoners in British jails are now at risk of death.

"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today is Day 50 of the Palestine prisoners’ hunger strike. This Labour government must release all remand prisoners on bail immediately. If they die, more blood will be on the hands of David Lammy and Keir Starmer.

Palestine Action activist on hunger strike taken to hospital

W, and I stress this, TAF? Are they going to start shooting down civilian airliners going in and out? Do airports just shut down? How is this even possible?

"The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system" via @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...

Bayan Haddad, of Birzeit University's School of English, just delivered a very moving talk at QUB on the scholasticide in Palestine. One line resonates in particular: "Palestine is like a lighthouse"; the genocide has shined a very revealing, scorching light on the terrible ills of the global North.

The colonizer invents the lie of civilization so that he can call his crimes ‘progress’.

Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."

“Only those blinded by ignorance, naivete or a lack of genuine experience of northern affairs would maintain that propping up a unionist veto or setting wildly unrealistic demands as a condition for Irish unity are appropriate at this time.” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐

Some boyo. Amazing stuff.

Oh my god what is happening.

I don't like this new idea of Ireland being maybe a bit good at football again, it's too stressful

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Katie McCabe Praised For Poppy Stance In Arsenal’s Win Over Leicester https://www.eucup.com/1345591/ With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’. The remembrance poppy has become an increasingly integral part of the English game …

"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were. It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck. That’s the only kind of fast that matters." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

This should be interesting: a lecture at Queen's by Professor Dan Hicks, anthropologist/archaeologist, whose internationally-recognised work is shaping public debates on museums, monuments, colonialism and cultural violence. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Imagine saying Greta Thunberg is Hamas. The sheer, unadulterated, mendacious evil of the Israeli regime.

Normally I couldn’t care less about golf. But seeing a toxic MAGA mob silenced is sweet whatever the occasion.

79. American citizen.

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Hate the way people talk about autism. Deeming it unhealthy is eugenics. Is it really the worst thing a child could be? You think vaccines cause autism so you'd rather risk your child dying of meningitis? You'd prefer your child to die than be autistic? Horrible ppl.

“Racism was hard-wired into this place by Carson and Craig, and it has been nurtured since then by successive generations of unionist leaders who have risen to power on the backs of loyalist hardmen” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐

Make America Grift Again.

16% of Britons have no savings. 39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income. Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go. A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...

Today - along with colleagues from Ulster University UCU and regional @ucu.org.uk representatives - we had a productive meeting with @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social, the Minister for the Economy in the Executive, about a sustainable and accountable Higher Education sector for Northern Ireland.

All the right-wing whackos when they discover the alleged Kirk killer allegedly donated to Tump ...

Worth remembering for the next few days: When people say "political violence is never acceptable", they invariably mean TOWARDS THEM, and those who agree with them. Everyone else is fair game.

Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports

Love teaching this course at Queen's.

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.

"The ideas exchange with Palestinian educators comes as they consider the monumental challenge of rebuilding and sustaining an education system under the pressures of ongoing conflict". Important work for Palestine from @QUBelfast and @StMarys_Belfast www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

#SocialistSunday ✌️✊ to all.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Just reading about a doctor called Paddy Randles in Navan in the 1960s who wrote to all the newspapers to raise awareness of the number of his young patients with injuries from corporal punishment at school. He was denounced from the pulpit and had the tyres on his car slashed.

Great launch of An Clogán, a new socialist republican magazine. So important to be able to shape a vision of a new Republic together. Loved the synergies between Martina’s and my essays. Different backgrounds, but we both want a just, equal & regenerative Republic, bringing power closer to people.

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