Juan Cole

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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Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

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( 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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A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

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

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

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

City of Lyrics

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on my Flipboard app I just muted CBS news.

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

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

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

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

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Truthout

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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.

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

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capitalism requires labor; empire helps determine where it comes from

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

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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 · 12h

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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"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.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder

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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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Juan Cole

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

Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV

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

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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The Washington Post

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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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Karl Ittmann

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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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Juan Cole

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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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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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Juan Cole

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

Protesters arrested at Broadview anti-ICE demonstration have been released

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Kirsten Grady

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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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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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Audrey Truschke

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A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean

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Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean flip.it/kywOfO

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

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Esther Ciammachilli

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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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Two years after Hamas attack, Israel's economy weakened by its international isolation

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Two years after Hamas attack, Israel's economy weakened by its international isolation flip.it/kaveTE

Having long sold itself as the ‘start-up nation’, Israel is now in economic turmoil, with the war it is waging in Gaza resulting in the withdrawal of long-standing partners. Declining growth, a brain…

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

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The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices

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Green power is sometimes the cheapest power — despite what Trump says flip.it/o2-oE9

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

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Juan Cole

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I've tried other methods but they were all a real hassle for me and contributors. Will check POB & thanks so much!