Michael Pierse

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.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

“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

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Make America Grift Again.

Average Savings by Age in the UK 2025: by Age, Income & Region It is important to have some savings aside, but are you putting away enough? Check the 2025 average savings by age and income in the UK here.

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.

UN leaves genocide deniers with nowhere to go A new UN report cements the consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers must now be ostracised

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 👇

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Local and regional representatives of UCU pictured with the minister for the economy of Northern Ireland.

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.

a man is driving a yellow vehicle in a tunnel ALT: a man is driving a yellow vehicle in a tunnel

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.

Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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.

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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.

Queen’s Delegation travel to Cairo to support Palestinian Educators A delegation from Queen’s University Belfast travelled to Cairo this week to meet with Palestinian educators from Gaza for a series of discussions focused on rebuilding and shaping the future of educa...

"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.

He's subservient to America's barbaric, child-murdering allies too.

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.

Cover of An Clogán, a new socialist, republican magazine

Pic of Martina Anderson, Robbie McVeigh and me

Contributors to An Clogán. There are many!

Pic with the panel, some of the An Clogán lads and some of the brilliant Féile an Phobail team.

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.

This week's Andersonstown News

Why Israel's airdrops on Gaza are just an illusion of aid Why Israel's airdrops on Gaza are just an illusion of aid

New research shows that Israel's airdrops of aid in Gaza cover only 0.4% of what the population requires to survive. It is pure PR cover, with an approach that is designed to dehumanize Palestinians.

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