Polly Pallister-Wilkins
@pollypw.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
What the fuck is going on at Schiphol and why is the queue for passport control out into the shopping area?
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
What the fuck is going on at Schiphol and why is the queue for passport control out into the shopping area?
Heated Rivalry
Star Trek Academy
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Heated Rivalry
Behold Koch money in action and its sinister effects…
Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
February 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Behold Koch money in action and its sinister effects…
That Miller is Jewish of European descent makes what he is saying here even worse, just ignoring hundreds of years of European antisemitism, and no doubt the reason his family ended up in the US, to pursue the leopard of white supremacism that will one day eat his face.
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 PM
That Miller is Jewish of European descent makes what he is saying here even worse, just ignoring hundreds of years of European antisemitism, and no doubt the reason his family ended up in the US, to pursue the leopard of white supremacism that will one day eat his face.
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Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
Everyone, I made a cross between pastitsio and manestra and well damn…
jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a diaper
Alt: jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a nappy rubbing his tummy and saying yummy for my tummy
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Everyone, I made a cross between pastitsio and manestra and well damn…
Well on hearing the news about Catherine O’Hara…
a woman in a black coat says " if that 's not cause for alcohol "
Alt: Moria from Schitt’s Creek played by Catherine O’Hara saying “if that’s not a cause of alcohol I don’t know what is”
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Well on hearing the news about Catherine O’Hara…
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I wrote about the racism, violence, and impunity of the Border Patrol in my book Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States if you want to learn more www.counterpointpress.com/books/nobody...
Nobody is Protected
Now more resonant than ever amid escalating ICE raids and enforcement crackdowns targeting immigrants and American citizens alike, Nobody is Protected is an urgent examination of the U.S. Border Pa…
www.counterpointpress.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I wrote about the racism, violence, and impunity of the Border Patrol in my book Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States if you want to learn more www.counterpointpress.com/books/nobody...
This stupid argument from Reeves is inversely an argument for why corporations should pay more tax as they benefit from the university educations of their employees.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
This stupid argument from Reeves is inversely an argument for why corporations should pay more tax as they benefit from the university educations of their employees.
A constitution is just a collection of words unless human agency turns those words into actions.
The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
January 30, 2026 at 9:47 AM
A constitution is just a collection of words unless human agency turns those words into actions.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Ummm that's not the University of Pretoria lovelies, that's UNISA in Pretoria. Wrong uni babes.
January 28, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Ummm that's not the University of Pretoria lovelies, that's UNISA in Pretoria. Wrong uni babes.
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There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
Get fucked. No.
Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 27, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Get fucked. No.
I mean of course he has... of course!
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I mean of course he has... of course!
“We” did nothing of the sort Louise you weirdo
January 27, 2026 at 8:38 AM
“We” did nothing of the sort Louise you weirdo
Absolute cinema…
January 27, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Absolute cinema…
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
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A message from Greenland…
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 AM
A message from Greenland…
I was thinking about this today but didn’t have the bandwidth to put it into words…
This is a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I've been percolating on it for over a year, so here goes.
I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly.
Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.
I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly.
Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I was thinking about this today but didn’t have the bandwidth to put it into words…
Oh god, he actually makes Macron look cool
January 26, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Oh god, he actually makes Macron look cool