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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 3h

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable sources of energy have now overtaken coal for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The second is that […]

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 4h

Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

2 Years Since October 7, 2023 Highlights Need to Protect Civilians Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – United States President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” announced on September 29, 2025, is no substitute for the urgent action governments need to take to protect civilians and support justice after two years of grave abuses […]

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 4h

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to. In […]

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 6h

Rudolf Ernst, "Occupations of the Seraglio," 1885, Syracuse University Art Museum http://dlvr.it/TNXkTh

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 12h

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history: New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to m...

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history: New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to m...

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 12h

Nathan Tabor, City of Lyrics
Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi uncpress.org/978146969022...

City of Lyrics

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushāʿirah i...

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 4d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13h

on my Flipboard app I just muted CBS news.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13h

Air traffic controllers working without pay begin to call out sick, leading to flight cancellations and delays nationwide flip.it/DhdU0l

Air traffic controllers working without pay begin to call out sick, leading to flight cancellations and delays nationwide

Controllers are considered essential workers and are exempt from being furloughed during a shutdown.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 13h

three journalists from three different venues have told me that most academics won’t talk to them anymore, not even off the record. but i guess Tom here wants us to be more patient, because the SA is only in some cities, not all the cities.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13h

An account given in court by the attorney of a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent “really makes it sounds like” the agent “tried to murder an anti-ICE protester in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him,” said one researcher.

Attorney Says Video Betrays DHS Account of Border Patrol Shooting in Chicago

An agent shot a woman after federal officers accused her of driving toward them in the Brighton Park neighborhood.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13h

capitalism requires labor; empire helps determine where it comes from

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

All year, we’ve seen this administration treat appropriations bills less as laws-to-follow and more like Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. What should make this moment any different? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump in has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13h

Schlafly's mother supported the family during the Great Depression when her father was out of work. She herself worked in a factory and then did a BA, MA and law degree. She talked traditional but acted like a feminist

Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 14h

I think it would be a mistake to believe that the Trad Wife influencers are living the lifestyle they advocate in general. Take Charlie Kirk's wife for example. We can go back to Phyllis Schlafly, too, who advocated trad marriage on many levels yet had a media-heavy career

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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 13h

"Useful Energy": The Real Driver of the Energy Revolution

Burn gas in your car, get ~20% efficiency. Fuel your EV with electricity, efficiency rises to ~80%.

Electrify, and the global economy needs LESS energy to do MORE work.

Code broken...
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"Useful Energy": The Real Driver of the Energy Revolution

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 15h

the Pakistanis felt the same way about the British cantonments before they moved into them

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Karl Ittmann @kittmann.bsky.social · 15h

When I landed in England in 1984 and told the customs agent I was going to Bradford W. Yorks he said “why, it’s full of Pakis.” Got the same response from a cab driver spouting Reform lies this summer.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

Staffing shortages have caused flight delays in several U.S. cities this week, as essential workers like air traffic controllers and TSA officers continue working without pay during the government shutdown.

Airport staffing shortages cause flight delays a week into shutdown

The delays came after Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy warned the shutdown could add to the strain on air traffic controllers and lead to cancellations.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 15h

Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/07/s...

Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV

Researchers have tested a 9 x 11 floating box array for offshore photovoltaics in a large wave flume, under regular and irregular wave sequences. They have placed wireless gyroscopes on three of the b...

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 16h

The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 16h

nothing says hypocrisy like white Britishers complaining about foreigners after having occupied and ruled hundreds of millions of Indians for 2 centuries, mandating their curriculum and making their laws

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23h

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social · 17h

OMB has deleted the reference on its website to the 2019 law that mandates back pay to all federal workers who were not paid during a government shutdown. This is like when babies play hide and seek but only cover their eyes because if they can’t see you, you can’t see them.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 16h

very grateful for your support; when one deals with thousands of readers it isn't a perfect process & my apologies

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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 17h

People in the US who have no connection to Canada or Canadians have no idea how pissed they are at how the Trump administration has betrayed them and how determined they are to reject all US-made products

Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17h

US liquor exports to Canada drop 85 percent flip.it/GEhWwq

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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 17h

The irony writes itself. Trump’s own memo says “anti-Christianity” is a marker of domestic extremism. Fed agents then tear-gassed and shot pepper pellets at a praying minister. By his logic, that’s terrorism. By moral logic, it’s hypocrisy.

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Protesters arrested at Broadview anti-ICE demonstration have been released

Ten people arrested during a clash Friday with federal immigration agents have been freed, a spokesperson for the National Lawyers Guild said. But there was no word on whether any of them had been cha...

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