Philippa Burt
@philippaburt.bsky.social
London-based academic and bird feeder
And we’re back to that day of the year when I moan on and on about how the Russell Group isn’t a real thing and is definitely not fetch.
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And we’re back to that day of the year when I moan on and on about how the Russell Group isn’t a real thing and is definitely not fetch.
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How do Keir Starmer and David Lammy sleep at night?
July 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
How do Keir Starmer and David Lammy sleep at night?
Really important statement from some Jewish academics at Goldsmiths. michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...
Open letter from Jewish academics at Goldsmiths in response to the Report of the Independent Inquiry on Antisemitism
15 July 2025 We are an informal group of Jewish staff members at Goldsmiths, University of London. We welcome the Report’s careful and cruc...
michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Really important statement from some Jewish academics at Goldsmiths. michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...
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Stop threatening us with such a good time.
June 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Stop threatening us with such a good time.
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I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.
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The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
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A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing fear of criticizing Israel’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/acad...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/acad...
#Palestine #Israel
Academic censorship on Palestine even extends to discussing Palestinian dance
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing...
mondoweiss.net
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing fear of criticizing Israel’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/acad...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/acad...
#Palestine #Israel
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This is a huge scandal.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe
Former foreign secretary told ICC prosecutor Karim Khan that issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders would be like ‘dropping a hydrogen bomb’
www.middleeasteye.net
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a huge scandal.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
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In which I argue that no act of journalism or archiving is too small. As @prisonculture.bsky.social and friends were saying at our event about 'zines a couple weeks ago -- make your thing! Write your stories down! This is one of our power sources! objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-a...
'No act of journalism ... is too small': Creating necessary archives
Archives are the "slam dunk" purpose of movement journalism. What we create just has to archive the truth for the next generation.
objectivejournalism.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In which I argue that no act of journalism or archiving is too small. As @prisonculture.bsky.social and friends were saying at our event about 'zines a couple weeks ago -- make your thing! Write your stories down! This is one of our power sources! objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/no-a...
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BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
June 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
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Musk has experienced multiple slights lately (from his perspective) at the hands of the administration, so I don't know how this will end up. But the guy struck a Nazi pose and made cuts that will kill millions. He should never know peace. He should only know scorn and blowback forever.
June 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Musk has experienced multiple slights lately (from his perspective) at the hands of the administration, so I don't know how this will end up. But the guy struck a Nazi pose and made cuts that will kill millions. He should never know peace. He should only know scorn and blowback forever.
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In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel destroys Gaza dialysis centre; outrage over killings at aid sites
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.
www.aljazeera.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says move is response to university’s refusal to comply with Trump demands.
Trump blocks Harvard’s ability to enrol international students
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says move is response to university’s refusal to comply with Trump demands.
bit.ly
May 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says move is response to university’s refusal to comply with Trump demands.
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World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.
Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.
Stop arming genocide, now.
Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.
Stop arming genocide, now.
May 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.
Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.
Stop arming genocide, now.
Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.
Stop arming genocide, now.
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Of course the greatest US president of the 20th century served this country from a wheelchair, so using mobility as an indicator of intellectual ability is both stupid and insulting, as is making a clickbait story out of something that didn't happen but someone said someone was thinking about.
Former President Joe Biden's physical deterioration was severe enough that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair if he won a second term, new book says: cnn.it/457f2vV
May 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Of course the greatest US president of the 20th century served this country from a wheelchair, so using mobility as an indicator of intellectual ability is both stupid and insulting, as is making a clickbait story out of something that didn't happen but someone said someone was thinking about.
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Israel has announced Gaza's survivors will be driven into a concentration camp.
They will be left with a choice: leave Gaza, or die.
No genocide was so documented or confessed to as it actually happened 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...
They will be left with a choice: leave Gaza, or die.
No genocide was so documented or confessed to as it actually happened 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...
Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
His colleague, meanwhile, says Gaza will be destroyed. Genocide in plain sight
www.owenjones.news
May 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Israel has announced Gaza's survivors will be driven into a concentration camp.
They will be left with a choice: leave Gaza, or die.
No genocide was so documented or confessed to as it actually happened 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...
They will be left with a choice: leave Gaza, or die.
No genocide was so documented or confessed to as it actually happened 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...
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How about we get 100 drag queens - a mix of c!s women, c!s men, and trans people, all in drag so nobody can tell who’s who, dressed to the nines, and start having sit-downs (lol) in public loos. Let the police come. Let them drag out 100 drag queens into the back of their vans 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
April 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How about we get 100 drag queens - a mix of c!s women, c!s men, and trans people, all in drag so nobody can tell who’s who, dressed to the nines, and start having sit-downs (lol) in public loos. Let the police come. Let them drag out 100 drag queens into the back of their vans 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Trump's deportation force is currently holding three times as many people at Krome as their capacity. Two of the detainees have died. Reportedly more than 40 women are being held at this all-male facility. Reports of lack of water and food, unsanitary conditions and medical neglect.
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Trump's deportation force is currently holding three times as many people at Krome as their capacity. Two of the detainees have died. Reportedly more than 40 women are being held at this all-male facility. Reports of lack of water and food, unsanitary conditions and medical neglect.
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Next month, Trump will have dinner with the top 220 investors in his memecoin. The dinner announcement led to a 54% increase in the value of TRUMP tokens. Trump holds 80% of all TRUMP tokens. This is late stage mafia state shit.
April 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Next month, Trump will have dinner with the top 220 investors in his memecoin. The dinner announcement led to a 54% increase in the value of TRUMP tokens. Trump holds 80% of all TRUMP tokens. This is late stage mafia state shit.
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When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
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We support calls to stop redundancies, end targeting and engage in meaningful negotiation on workload, health and safety, equality and precarity.
Members are upset angry and frankly, absolutely disgusted by behaviour of management. We do not accept nor agree with the way management are approaching the current situation. Management need to stop targeting, stop redundancies, and negotiate on workload, health and safety, equality and precarity.
April 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We support calls to stop redundancies, end targeting and engage in meaningful negotiation on workload, health and safety, equality and precarity.
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ICYMI:
@harvard.edu today filed a 51-page lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., and several other defendants for their unconstitutional and unlawful federal funding freeze.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
@harvard.edu today filed a 51-page lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., and several other defendants for their unconstitutional and unlawful federal funding freeze.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
Upholding Our Values, Defending Our University
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,Over the course of the past week, the federal government has taken several actions following Harvard’s refusal to
www.harvard.edu
April 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
ICYMI:
@harvard.edu today filed a 51-page lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., and several other defendants for their unconstitutional and unlawful federal funding freeze.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
@harvard.edu today filed a 51-page lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., and several other defendants for their unconstitutional and unlawful federal funding freeze.
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.