Michael Pierse

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?

Gaza reveals how Britain is run, and why we must change it The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system

"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 only dangerous minority is the rich

#Marxistmonday

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

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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

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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 - European Football - EUCUP.COM With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’.

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 …

Colin Sheridan opinion piece in Examiner, opening section.

"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.

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 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...

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.