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Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC

m23 you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

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Barrister’s powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge

Keir Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury…a vital last defence…

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Niall Ferguson 59 appearances in the Epstein papers database, is it

Turns out you can’t Karen your way to a parliamentary majority though

Watch me give a shit about Labour coming third because they can’t scare people into voting for them lol. Careerist genocide-enabling shits can go fuck themselves. I gave you an out but you didn’t take it ☺️

I’m afraid that’s not true, there is strong polling for the Greens in the constituency and the article quotes: “The MP added: “I am going to need to rely on tactical voting to save my seat … but if people think they can vote Green and get a Green MP then that is much less likely to happen.”

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Happy anniversary to us 1800 academic staff at Cardiff University. One year ago we were put at risk of redundancy by June 2025 in huge meetings flanked by security. Solidarity with Essex, Sheffield, Leicester & all colleagues faced with similar destructive cruelty ❤️

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I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

studies have shown that bodycams have zero impact on police brutality complaints but do lead to higher conviction rates for ‘assaults against officers’ in case youre wondering why they seem to be the one thing politicians push in times like these

Was thinking this last week as the head of a school of creative and critical subjects presented us with a ChatGPT-generated list of teaching topic ideas.

this is fucking incredible

sign below the mailbox, “we don’t dial 911”

Oh yes, and now in my “RG” uni, us In humanities are barred from applying for some Leverhulme etc grants because even if we get them there aren’t enough overheads to make it “financially viable” for the institution 🙃

"The Rapid Killing Stopped, and the Slow Killing Began": A Conversation with Wasim Said Palestinian author Wasim Said speaks from the Gaza Strip about current winter conditions, writing a book during a genocide, and how he sees narratives of reconstruction and resilience.

I interviewed Wasim Said, author of "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide", from Gaza about current conditions in the Strip, the process of writing a book amidst a genocide, and his critiques of popular narratives about Palestinian resilience. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-rapid-...

it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this

lol rude and no

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Thank you Wendy for providing great reasons why all my Cardiff University colleagues should post their votes today in our current industrial action ballot over cuts, closures and horrific workloads ❤️

But Mark, the human rights abuses in Kazakhstan are just “cultural differences” and we should all be the grateful commoners thanking Wendy in the supermarket

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Pro-Palestine activists accused of harassing Welsh Labour MP have convictions thrown out Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned. Ayeshah Behit, 32, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, were found guilty of the...

Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a Welsh Labour MP and Government minister have had their convictions overturned

I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.

This is what happened at Coventry; I did not apply to their fire and rehire scheme because I couldn't stomach the changes they were making to our contracts - not only getting us off the pension but totally changing our academic contracts.

Saint Sinwar said it best.

Man on the left whose name is Saleh al-Jafarawi places his hand on a baby laying on a rocket with a big smile on their face.

RIP Saleh al-Jafarawi

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The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Why?! I mean - not the first time I’ve felt shat upon by our erstwhile leader but