Excellent blog by Kadji Amin on how the US fascist regime's attacks on trans people are no distraction but "at the heart of a three-pronged strategy for the creation of an anti-social authoritarian state": concentrate power, feed culture war, defund social programs. lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...

How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State

The Trump Administration's anti-trans policies should be seen as central, rather than peripheral, to the creation of what Melinda Cooper has called “an anti-social state” — a state that would abandon…

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Brixton Market is at risk of being bought by private equity developers, which could push out independent traders and bring in chain stores. Locals are launching a counter-bid to bring it into community ownership. Add your name to help keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...

Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent

Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk

Read the whole article - but also bring it to your departments, your unions, your senate committees.

Opinion | The Faculty Workload Myth

Politicians think faculty members don’t teach enough. Here’s what the data says.

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This. All of it: #AI minus data theft, environmental destruction, intentional opacity, un-ethics. All packaged in a research ethics course. Of course 👇

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · last mo.

Accidentally in a two day research ethics course aimed at scientists really. Everyone’s concerned for their own fields but all, including the course leader, agree that psychology is the absolute worst for non-reproducibility and design opacity.

Out in force at the picket lines today at LSBU, The Union will never be broken

Excellent news from Australia where union pressure forces Deakin University senior management to U-turn on the proposed ‘Major Workplace Change’ aka fire and rehire + massive redundancies ✊🏼

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Deakin community was the big winner today. Some individuals grossly underestimated this community. May this serve as an example and warning to other universities and their leaders. It's well past time for trust in university leadership across Australia to be restored!

Picket lines at LSBU campus off Borough Road open at 9 with a rally at 12 this hot sunny Monday June 22nd. There may also be some good old protest singing if I have anything to do with it. Come join us! @kclucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social

UCU LSBU@uculsbu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UCU LSBU have voted overwhelmingly in support of industrial action, striking on 22nd and 25th June. Come and join us for some chat, food & music! Thank you for messages of solidarity & donations to our local strike fund. It's been invaluable, strengthening our members' resolve ✊

LSBU is one of those universities, which is why our dispute is of national significance. To add insult to injury, the latest version of the 'Academic Transformation' plan presents this as an 'individual decision' that new staff can now make: join a crappy DC scheme or join no scheme at all. Even.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 2mo ago

Universities up and down the UK are quietly moving staff out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to cut costs. Christine Blower co-chair of our Parliamentary Group, put it straight to the government. Pensions aren’t a cost cutting exercise. They’re staff’s terms and conditions. Hands off.

Amazing victory for comrades at Sheffield Hallam, whose extended industrial action halted management plans for a subsidiary which would have seriously undermined working conditions & pension entitlements. A powerful message for us at LSBU & nationally, showing what collective strength can achieve

UCU Hallam@ucuhallam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

Seen in a social space at London South Bank University today. An apt comment on the stealth fire and re-hire scheme branded #AcademicTransformation Coming soon to a Uni near you! @kclucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @uculsbu.bsky.social

See under #pussilanimous #spineless #gutless #weathervane #bootlicker #collaborationist #turncoat #centristscum

Jae H@considermycat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The @hayfestival.bsky.social has intentionally relabelled its (fully-enclosed single unit) gender-neutral toilets as men’s or women’s only. There is one ungendered toilet on the entire site – which doubles as the only accessible toilet, too. On the entire site.

Trans people have understood this for a very long time: we raised the alarm repeatedly calling out this trans-eliminationist agenda. We have pointed to the intimate links across a proliferation of such agendas. Embedding and expanding solidarities is more urgent than ever

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2mo ago

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

Just moved to LSBU where they propose to: move most staff to teach only contracts outside collective bargaining, impose workloads in excess of national agreements, make senior lecturers re-apply for a reduced number of lower grade posts, employ new contracts through a subsidiary. We are the canaries

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'“LSBU has launched one of the most serious attacks on academic staff in higher education,” said LSBU UCU branch secretary Federica Ross. “If these measures are allowed to proceed, they risk setting a dangerous precedent. That is why we are fighting to stop them.”' 1/3

James Esses' how-to for "eradicating gender ideology from British society" essentially proceduralises the far right vision of eradicating trans life altogether.

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Many people still think we’re exaggerating when we speak of annihilationist projects against trans people in Britain

Literally what a senior academic/line manager said to me once at 12 hours before a report deadline. (Note: this is in applied health research so it is not uncommon for junior researchers to be expected to simply do as they’re told)

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 4mo ago

Just rewrite every single word and then you're done

In these ghoulish tactics, we can see the true hate--how they fear and loathe our humanity, our legendary hospitality, our inexhaustible generosity, our dust-stained fingers, our calloused hands reaching again and again into the rubble. They aim to destroy humanity itself. They will not succeed.

Liberation not segregation Taken at @transpridescotland.bsky.social (Trans Pride Scotland) 2026, 28th March 2026

A state has comprehensively failed when it is unable to stop such ongoing fascist frenzy. There is no way for it to find a way out of/back from this from within itself

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.” The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

Has anyone written a review of the restructuring going on across UK HE? Trying to understand what is common across institutions: large, team-taught courses, centralised workload models, limited to no research time, promotion directly tied to grant income. How many consultancy firms are pushing this?

My god did we need this good news! #Gorton&Denton #VoteGreen

Yet another deadly Labour initiative: making the NHS accountable for patients' employment status and adding employment to Integrated Care Boards' performance targets. www.ft.com/content/6943...

NHS in England to be set targets on getting people back to work

Ministers also planning to link patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics

ft.com

It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.

📢Wow community-led social justice oriented research on queer and trans healthcare klaxon

Asylum Magazine@asylummagazine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Fierce article from '24 where Andrea Long Chu calls for leaving behind appeals to gender identity & fighting for a revolutionary redistribution of sex itself: "the freedom to bring sex & gender into whatever relation one chooses" nymag.com/intelligence...

The Right to Change Sex

The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.

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Palestine Action activists granted bail Activists released on bail include four hunger strikers. “Despite the state’s best efforts to break each and every one of them, they will walk out today with their heads held high,” - Filton24 Defence Committee www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Twelve Palestine Action activists granted bail

Bailed activists include four former hunger strikers: Teuta Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Qesser Zuhrah and Heba Muraisi.

aljazeera.com

Exactly: what starts with removing trans people's healthcare does not end with removing trans people's healthcare 👇

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For all of you who kept quiet when Wes Streeting banned puberty-blockers for trans kids because you believed the pseudoscientific Cass Review. This is what happens if we let them remove healthcare from one group. Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.

Once again Hilary Cass on the BBC weaponising notions of 'care' & 'best interests of the child' to insist (with no evidence) that only a tiny number of children presenting at gender clinics are 'really' trans & that 'locking them in' a trans trajectory is harmful. Trans eliminationism at its finest.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Cass Review’s purpose is graphically demonstrated today. The drivel Cass spouted about social media and trans kids is unquestioningly reported in mainstream media, with no fact-checking or opportunity for trans people to challenge this hooey… 1/3