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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 13d

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 13d

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!

On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 23d

How to actually do something about ongoing genocide, a simple guide: www.alanalentin.net/2025/09/18/f...

Fundraising for Gaza: How to get started - Alana Lentin

Since September 2024, I have been raising funds and sending them directly to the Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza. They are Iman and Ibrahim, Joury (8), Hamous (6), Marah (4) and Sanad (2). Here ...

www.alanalentin.net

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 25d

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing evidence of Kasha’s ‘aggressive interview posture’…

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25d

Kash Patel on a note the FBI ‘believes’ existed: “The written note we believe did exist.. evidence of its existence we now have learned existed before the shooting… even though it has been destroyed we have found forensic evidence of the note…”

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 28d

Requiring people to care about the death of one white supremacist is requiring people to care about white supremacy. It’s really as simple as that.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Sep 11

Peter Mandelson was UK ambassador to the US??!! 🤯

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Sep 4

The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Sep 1

Keir Weimar

Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 31

Trouble is - as Stuart Hall so memorably said - as soon as you show scientific racism the door, it creeps around the verandah and back in through the pantry window.

The idea of race is of fundamental difference. It will continually reattach itself to whatever is considered fundamental.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 31

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism

1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes
2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes
3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences
4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula
5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · Aug 30

Israel assassination of Yemen’s Prime Minister exemplifies its politicide in the region, which is aimed at killing all the leaders who resist Zionism and US imperialism. Politicide is the destruction of a people’s political identity, autonomy, sovereignty, & self-determination.

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Daniel York Loh @danielyorkloh.bsky.social · Aug 25

We won’t see his like again

R.I.P. Giles Havergal

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...

Giles Havergal obituary

Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was a pleasure to join an event organised by Decolonizing Economics a week or so ago. The recording is up here. My contribution on why the university cannot be decolonized until the world is, and what that means in relation to Zionist genocide, is the second of three short talks. d-econ.org

D-Econ: Diversifying and Decolonising Economics

Diversifying and Decolonizing Economics

d-econ.org

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 17

‘What on earth could have prompted this outburst?’ nobody wondered.

Headline of article by Zoe Strimpel
from The Jewish Chronicle: ‘Dawn French and the comedians who can resist punching down at Israel’

Headlines of recent articles by Zoe Strimpel in the Jewish Chronicle: Will the BBC learn anything from its latest Gaza disaster? Real Holocaust remembrance requires standing up for Israel. I no longer believe that the UAE is safe for Jews.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our esteemed expert here appears to have gone from just innocently asking (in 2018) “Is Rising Ethnic Diversity a Threat to the West?” to answering (in 2025) that yes, the degenerate races pose an terrible threat to the herrenvolk and should be driven out en masse.

Its not 'a grift'. Its who he is.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 12

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yvette Cooper: Some 'don't know the full nature' of Palestine Action

Defending the group's proscription under terror law, she said the organisation was "not a non-violent organisation".

www.bbc.com

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Aug 12

Starmer's Twitter account is wall-to-wall immigrant bashing, and has been for weeks.

You need to know these things if you're living in the Bluesky bubble and think everything's normal with Labour.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 11

Exactly

Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hmm, this seems like a wise and sensible take on UK university finance until and unless you’re willing to question the austere and impoverished neoliberal logics underpinning its core premises. 🧵 1/7

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · Aug 10

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 11

To say that honest, unbiased reporting has been impossible in Gaza is an insult to Anas Al-Sharif and the at least 186 journalists targeted and killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023. bsky.app/profile/alja...

John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

The world needs honest, unbiased eyewitness reporting to help people make up their minds about the major issues of our time. This has so far been impossible in Gaza. Journalists around the world should support calls for reporters to be allowed into Gaza now.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 11

To say that honest unbiased reporting has been impossible in Gaza is an insult to Anas Al-Sharif and the at least 186 journalists targeted and killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023. bsky.app/profile/alja...

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

As Israel's war on Gaza continues, Al Jazeera staff members, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/qg87g7

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

As Israel's war on Gaza continues, Al Jazeera staff members, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/qg87g7

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Aug 9

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”

We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hahahaha - no. Quite.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 9

Labour MP 🙄

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is what it said before she deleted it.

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Aug 9

Melanie’s deleted her post.