Jessie Sullivan

doctoral research student at @IOE_London @UCL; research assistant @dpu_ucl; TA @UCLGeography; interested in forced migration, bordering & arts-based methods

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation.

Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

For anyone concerned about racism, note that the worst possible outcome of any racist logic is precisely what’s happening to the Palestinians in Gaza. Dehumanization accepted as common sense to systematically murder, plunder, burn, torture a ppl while blaming them for their death

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza

So here's my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Concentration camps. Open air abductions. Forced disappearances. Paying foreign countries to take deported migrants without judicial process or even identify verification. And people excitedly crowing about how this is exactly what they voted for. It’s sick, sadistic, and scary.

[European Consortium for Political Research @ECPR]

Postdoctoral Position #ECPRMemberJobs
📚 In Political Economy and Geopolitics of East Asia
📅 2 years
🇨🇿 Faculty of Arts, Charles University
⌛ Mon 31 Mar https://t.co/6yQZAhSEMz

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel wiped out this family yesterday in Deir al-Balah

[IMISCOE @IMISCOE]

🗣️Call for Papers - Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum Symposium (24th June 2025) @IASH_Edinburgh
⏰Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2025
👀Find out more: https://t.co/rVsVdXxlnv

[ACSS @acss_org]

The Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism Fellowships.
This program offers fellowships to support highly qualified students from Egypt and the Arab region who are interested in pursuing full-time graduate studies at the AUC.
Deadline: December 15, 2024
More: https://t.co/sJpNEyLZpc

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Dismantling the hateful ideology and structures behind this is one of the most urgent and profound moral imperatives of this century.

[Jessie Sullivan @Jessie1Sullivan]

This is my friend! He is really smart!!

[Win Monroe @WinMonroe]

Hi #EconTwitter! Believe it or not, I’m on the Econ/Finance job market this year at @ImperialBiz.

My JMP studies the role of information in safe asset liquidity crises and is joint work with @RobertCzech8 from the BoE.

🚨A quick summary thread🚨#EconJMP https://t.co/kEiaOdBYvg

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[SOAS BDS @SOASBDS]

📢📢 Following months of student and staff campaigning, SOAS, University of London has divested £1 million from campaigns complicit in Israeli arms manufacturing and military activity: SOAS has divested from Barclays, Albemarle, and FANUC 1/4

[UCL_BDS_Movement @bds_ucl]

Why does UCL have so many ties to one of the world's biggest arms companies?
Our new complicity report is out at https://t.co/tg3r8FTO0D
(Details in the thread below)

[UCL-MRU @UCL_MRU]

We will have our first MRU & PhD Network reading group of the term Tue 12 Nov 12-1pm in Room 108, 26 Bedford Way, discussing our friend Dr Hannah Schling’s @Han_Sch_ article “The body as infrastructure”. All staff & PhD students welcome! https://t.co/SHvUAwIXat

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Imo Trump creates much worse social and political conditions for our struggles and that would inform my vote if I lived in a swing state. But I don’t blame anyone who feels too repulsed to make that choice. Pivoting to the right and doubling down on genocide was Harris’ choice 1/

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

On November 2, just days before the U.S. Presidential election, people will take to the streets across the entire country to say NO VOTES FOR GENOCIDE!

We've been mobilizing every single day for over a year demanding an end to the U.S.-funded and supported Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. This election cycle, we will not forget these candidates' direct support for this genocide.

The US government has the ability to enact an arms embargo, it has the ability to stop this genocide. This is a US war as much as it is an Israeli war on Palestine and Lebanon. We won't be fooled by arbitrary 30-day deadlines and we will not be tricked into believing the political rhetoric of those who could have stopped the genocide with a single phone call to end military aid to Israel.

Join the movement: organize meetings, teach-ins and protests in your cities and join us in the streets on November 2nd to #ShutltDown4Palestine!
Find an action or register one in your city at https://t.co/1lReDchR7M

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am deeply disappointed that various western governments and diplomats appear to have been misled by spurious, recycled allegations against me, just as I prepare to present my latest report to the #UNGA next week. I am profoundly committed to human rights for all people - how could I ever be an antisemite?? Critique of Israel's actions and policies does not render one antisemitic, especially as Israel continues to commit atrocities without respite. If these governments are truly committed to international law, they ought to focus [not on false claims made about me, but] on ending the illegal and catastrophic situation in occupied Palestine. Never again means never again for everyone - including the Palestinian people.

[ACSS @acss_org]

Call for abstracts!
The Arab Council for the Social Sciences is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Conference, “Devastation, Imaginaries and Knowledge: Regional Junctures and Global Repercussions”.
Beirut, Lebanon | May 15-18, 2025.
More information: https://t.co/dzEEpmrdCe