I hope this is true. If not, we should all just repeat it until it becomes an urban legend

“We’re mad that the poet we assassinated wrote a poem predicting we would do that and calling for others to carry on the struggle after we did that, which they did.”

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This protest at Columbia in Hindi has been posted across platforms as a “sinister” display. Here is the actual translation of what she’s saying:

“What do we want?” (Freedom)
“What do we want?” (Freedom)
“Palestine’s” (Freedom)
“Palestine’s” (Freedom)
“We will grab it” (Freedom)

Solidarity to today’s general strike in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The strike and day of mourning were called
in condemnation of an IOF military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp that killed at least 14 Palestinians.

Possibly the most wholesome and joyous interview in the whole history of football. Young guy makes his first start for the club he's been at since he was 6 years old, is player of the match, and then scores an unexpected 96th minute winner. Beautiful!

uk disabled / sick / crip social media + whatsapps are awash w news / outrage / grief about today’s assault on PIP, a thing without which 1000s of lives will be literally unliveable…. beyond these spaces, I see an absolute failure of solidarity or even attention from the “left”

I’m also being made redundant from @opendemocracy after 11 years.

Solidarity with colleagues, apologies and thanks to readers and funders, mild side-eye to the bosses past & present briefing over blame; good night & good luck x

The poet Owen Gallagher, demonstrating how art can distill the essence of human experience in a few lines better than a thousand rambling speeches.

The #Blacklist

For everyone to have a second home, we would need to build around 27 million homes additional to the ones people need as first homes. At a loss as to how this is even possible, never mind sustainable.

The leaflet sums up just how low Labour has sunk under Starmer

To produce materials that scapegoat some of the most vulnerable people in the world (fleeing God only knows what) is the worst kind of punching downwards

Labour is no alternative & this point a poor Tory tribute act

Minouche Shafik earned millions as LSE vice chancellor while keeping our members on precarious contracts.

Now at Columbia, she calls in the police to arrest her own students for peacefully protesting genocide.

We need to reclaim our universities from these shameful “leaders”

🚨1/Jerusalem District Court orders release of Hebrew University professor, Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

If it comes back into public ownership should be PERMANENT. This isn’t a game of ping pong for the benefit of CEOs and shareholders.

I have never seen anything like this happen before at Columbia. There is no fear left among students. Organizers were arrested en masse & when I got out of jail, I was told students occupied another lawn on their own. Hundreds are willing to risk arrest. I am so filled with hope.

Saw this powerful & harrowing mixed reality installation today. We badly need some sort of vast national inquest under the next government into what happened in the 2010s in the name of Austerity. There’s every reason to do it & very little reason not to, except cowardice

Yesterday, as soon as I saw the police being sent in at Columbia, I thought about how repression encouraged the spread of sit-ins.

#NYC Morning Everyone! I’m reporting inside Columbia’s campus where students have simply rebuilt the encampment zone on the other lawn after yesterday’s sweep.

The original lawn, once a designated ‘free speech zone’ for students, is now just placeholder for construction cargo.

This is what compromise looks like. 👏

The vote by our members to continue with strike action over pay at Education Training Collective was covered on BBC Look North last night
#RespectFE