Michael Pierse
@michaelpierse.bsky.social
Academic at Queen's University Belfast. Irish Studies. Working-class writing. Left politics. Gaeilge. Tweets own opinions. RTs not endorsements.
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"The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system"
via @declassifieduk.org
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...
via @declassifieduk.org
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...
Gaza reveals how Britain is run, and why we must change it
The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system
www.declassifieduk.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system"
via @declassifieduk.org
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...
via @declassifieduk.org
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-reveals...
Bayan Haddad, of Birzeit University's School of English, just delivered a very moving talk at QUB on the scholasticide in Palestine. One line resonates in particular: "Palestine is like a lighthouse"; the genocide has shined a very revealing, scorching light on the terrible ills of the global North.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Bayan Haddad, of Birzeit University's School of English, just delivered a very moving talk at QUB on the scholasticide in Palestine. One line resonates in particular: "Palestine is like a lighthouse"; the genocide has shined a very revealing, scorching light on the terrible ills of the global North.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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The colonizer invents the lie of civilization so that he can call his crimes ‘progress’.
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The colonizer invents the lie of civilization so that he can call his crimes ‘progress’.
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Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."
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“Only those blinded by ignorance, naivete or a lack of genuine experience of northern affairs would maintain that propping up a unionist veto or setting wildly unrealistic demands as a condition for Irish unity are appropriate at this time.”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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November 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“Only those blinded by ignorance, naivete or a lack of genuine experience of northern affairs would maintain that propping up a unionist veto or setting wildly unrealistic demands as a condition for Irish unity are appropriate at this time.”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
☕️🥐
Some boyo. Amazing stuff.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Some boyo. Amazing stuff.
Oh my god what is happening.
I don't like this new idea of Ireland being maybe a bit good at football again, it's too stressful
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh my god what is happening.
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I don't like this new idea of Ireland being maybe a bit good at football again, it's too stressful
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I don't like this new idea of Ireland being maybe a bit good at football again, it's too stressful
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When the shakedowns just start happening in public.
$NVO
$NVO
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
When the shakedowns just start happening in public.
$NVO
$NVO
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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Katie McCabe Praised For Poppy Stance In Arsenal’s Win Over Leicester
https://www.eucup.com/1345591/
With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’. The remembrance poppy has become an increasingly integral part of the English game …
https://www.eucup.com/1345591/
With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’. The remembrance poppy has become an increasingly integral part of the English game …
Katie McCabe Praised For Poppy Stance In Arsenal's Win Over Leicester - European Football - EUCUP.COM
With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’.
www.eucup.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Katie McCabe Praised For Poppy Stance In Arsenal’s Win Over Leicester
https://www.eucup.com/1345591/
With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’. The remembrance poppy has become an increasingly integral part of the English game …
https://www.eucup.com/1345591/
With the calendars having now tipped into November, English football has officially entered ‘poppy season’. The remembrance poppy has become an increasingly integral part of the English game …
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"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
This should be interesting: a lecture at Queen's by Professor Dan Hicks, anthropologist/archaeologist, whose internationally-recognised work is shaping public debates on museums, monuments, colonialism and cultural violence. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
06.11.2025 Annual Public Anthropology Lecture | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This should be interesting: a lecture at Queen's by Professor Dan Hicks, anthropologist/archaeologist, whose internationally-recognised work is shaping public debates on museums, monuments, colonialism and cultural violence. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
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Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.
October 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Imagine saying Greta Thunberg is Hamas. The sheer, unadulterated, mendacious evil of the Israeli regime.
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Imagine saying Greta Thunberg is Hamas. The sheer, unadulterated, mendacious evil of the Israeli regime.
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Normally I couldn’t care less about golf. But seeing a toxic MAGA mob silenced is sweet whatever the occasion.
September 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Normally I couldn’t care less about golf. But seeing a toxic MAGA mob silenced is sweet whatever the occasion.
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
79. American citizen.
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My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
September 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
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Hate the way people talk about autism. Deeming it unhealthy is eugenics. Is it really the worst thing a child could be? You think vaccines cause autism so you'd rather risk your child dying of meningitis? You'd prefer your child to die than be autistic? Horrible ppl.
September 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Hate the way people talk about autism. Deeming it unhealthy is eugenics. Is it really the worst thing a child could be? You think vaccines cause autism so you'd rather risk your child dying of meningitis? You'd prefer your child to die than be autistic? Horrible ppl.
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“Racism was hard-wired into this place by Carson and Craig, and it has been nurtured since then by successive generations of unionist leaders who have risen to power on the backs of loyalist hardmen”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
☕️🥐
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“Racism was hard-wired into this place by Carson and Craig, and it has been nurtured since then by successive generations of unionist leaders who have risen to power on the backs of loyalist hardmen”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
☕️🥐
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
☕️🥐