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Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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John Ricardo Irfan "Juan" Cole is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com). .. more

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · Oct 26
Gaza Yet Stands: Juan Cole’s New E-Book
Gaza Yet Stands: Juan Cole’s New E-Book
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Many observers have complained that our understanding of the current Mideast War too often begins with the horrendous Hamas attacks on Israelis on October 7, 2023. Historian, here, hand up. I’ve not only studied the history…
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CNN @cnn.com · 8h
A new X feature over the weekend revealed that dozens of pro-Trump accounts with large followings are not US-based, despite content and bios suggesting otherwise. https://cnn.it/4ojNqJX

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 8h
“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25
“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25
How long will sages debate if this world is eternal or created? / Once I have left it, why should I care, either way?
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 9h
The Ecocide of Gaza
The Ecocide of Gaza
Well before October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip had progressively been isolated from the West Bank and the outside world overall
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Popehat of Serious Proportion @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h
The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this.

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British columnist Melanie Phillips lashes out at Palestinians at pro-Israel NYC event
The controversial columnist and broadcaster also mocked Christianity and claimed the West is facing a 'death cult' in 'forces of Islam'
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 9h
In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom
In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom
I have been in higher education as a student or professor for over five decades, and I have never seen things as bad as they are now.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 11h
@jricole.bsky.social at TomDispatch today: The mystery of why the high-tech sector is now trying to kill climate science in a world that hasn’t yet found a way to get on a trajectory likely to decrease carbon dioxide emissions substantially.
Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, And a Civilization Under Threat
In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 11h
Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords
Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords
The Saudi leader’s plan to normalise with Israel comes with a price. He wants to see a “clear path [towards a] two-state solution”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 13h
Building outside of institutions is hard!! Dealing with censorship is hard!

But teaching Resistance Studies Series @resistanceschool.bsky.social has been one of the bright spots of an otherwise dark year.

I’m going to miss all of my students! 😭
a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in the park .
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in the park .
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Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social · 14h
"During & after the Lebanese civil war, a wave of assassinations targeted militia leaders, intellectual & political figures, & security officials, in the context of the struggle for influence between Syria, other Lebanese actors, & Israel."

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Lebanon: Syria signals readiness to share information on Assad era assassinations - Enab Baladi
Lebanese Justice Minister Adel Nassar said that Syria is showing a positive attitude toward providing his country with information on […]
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 15h
likely Betar targeted him www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Pro-Israel Organization Takes Credit for Momodou Taal’s Requested Surrender to ICE
Betar US, a pro-Israel and Zionist group claimed responsibility for allegedly reporting pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal to the federal government.
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Newton Grunnion🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺 @newtongrunnion.bsky.social · 15h
Ceasefire - you cease, we fire.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 15h
I met that guy in Heliopolis
drjeball.bsky.social Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 20h
A mummy portrait from #Roman Egypt, depicting a bearded young man dressed in a white tunic with dark red stripes. We don't know his name, but he probably lived & died towards the end of the C2nd AD, & may well have been a soldier in life 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15h
This is a recurring theme among climate deniers & delayers. From The #MadhouseEffect (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15h
Besides arguing that Israel, the U.S., and some European governments have committed genocide in Gaza, prosecutors at the International People’s Tribunal on Palestine told jurors that the environmental devastation in the enclave amounts to ecocide.
Prosecutors at International Tribunal on Palestine Accuse Israel of Ecocide
Prosecutors at the International People’s Tribunal on Palestine decried Israel’s destruction of farms and water sources.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16h
This is horrible news.

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OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · 16h
The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science
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Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, And a Civilization Under Threat
In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h
Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17h
West Bank camp, a symbol of Palestinian resistance, lies in ruins after Israeli campaign flip.it/gkGHRa
West Bank camp, a symbol of Palestinian resistance, lies in ruins after Israeli campaign
Israeli military operations in the Jenin refugee camp have displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, for whom the camp has long been a symbol of resistance.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17h
what ceasefire?

Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire flip.it/s_.qv0
Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire
Israel is allowing more food into Gaza, but aid workers say vital ingredients needed to improve people's diets are still missing.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17h
US sanctions have prevented development of natgas

Tehran shrouded in thick smog as Iran burns dirty fuel amid energy crisis flip.it/e5Ih6x
Tehran shrouded in thick smog as Iran burns dirty fuel amid energy crisis
Nearly 59,000 Iranians die prematurely due to air pollution in year to March, according to officials.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17h
Palestinian minister calls on Israel to release $4 billion of tax revenues flip.it/9CE0Kn
Palestine Authority calls for tax revenues to be released by Israel
Euronews spoke with Estephan Salameh, Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, on the sidelines of the Palestine Donor Group conference in Brussels.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 19h
A new paper shows how social media accelerates extremism by flooding users with emotionally charged, divisive content that algorithms naturally amplify, making extremist narratives far more visible, engaging, and persuasive than they would be otherwise.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 19h
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."

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Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 19h
I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.

Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com

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RalfWise @untravel.bsky.social · 20h
It is 2005. I am reading Juan Cole posts about US miltary adventurism and its consequences.

It is 2025. I am reading Juan Cole posts about US miltary adventurism and its consequences.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 20h
A mummy portrait from #Roman Egypt, depicting a bearded young man dressed in a white tunic with dark red stripes. We don't know his name, but he probably lived & died towards the end of the C2nd AD, & may well have been a soldier in life 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

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Jay Turner @jayturner.bsky.social · 20h
US clean energy manufacturing investments slowed again last month.

We are now tracking 64 projects, $66.8B in investment, and 66,488 jobs at The Big Green Machine that have been delayed, shrunk, paused, or cancelled since Trump took office.

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Infographic from The Big Green Machine showing clean energy manufacturing investments that have advanced and slowed since Trump 47 took office.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
Today, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly released the following statement: "When / was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. / upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since / retired - which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. "In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. "Secretary Hegseth's tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President's posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. "If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution."