Juan Cole

Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

If the 2C threshold is breached, the new dataset indicates the number of people experiencing extreme heat will increase from 1.54 billion people (which was 23% of the world population in 2010) to 3.79 billion (41% of the projected world population in 2050).
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“Once dead you never shall return:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:34 It gave its mouth to mine and whispered, / Have some wine, since once you're gone, you won't be back.

“Once dead you never shall return:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:34

Is the End of the UN Relief & Works Agency for Palestinians the End of the Int’l Order? Israel seeks to demolish the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA in the occupied territories, in the war against the poorest in the Global South

Is the End of the UN Relief & Works Agency for Palestinians the End of the Int’l Order?

Climate Change: 55 Weather Disasters costing a Billion Dollars Each hit our Earth the Past Year The total damage wrought by weather disasters in 2024 was $242 billion, with 47 billion-dollar weather disasters

Climate Change: 55 Weather Disasters costing a Billion Dollars Each hit our Earth the Past Year

Iran’s Biggest Centers of Protest also have Extreme Pollution and Water Shortages 2003-2019, Iran, facing water bankruptcy, lost an estimated 211 cubic kilometres of groundwater, or twice its annual water consumption

Iran’s Biggest Centers of Protest also have Extreme Pollution and Water Shortages

seen at Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase @a2comedy http://dlvr.it/TQZhzS

am officially off TikTok; let's see how I do at Upscrolled

Israel shells and bulldozes Gaza City as it finds remains of last captive Dozens of Palestinians injured or killed in search for Ran Gvili, a Yamam commando killed on 7 October 2023

Israel shells and bulldozes Gaza City as it finds remains of last captive

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region Both Syrian Gov't and Kurdish forces must Respect Civilian Rights, Allow Aid, Investigate Alleged Abuses

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes ICE agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

much worse; Fox doesn't know where you are or what you're doing or what you like

Not true in first term. You could trust what NIH and HHS Directors were saying. You could trust what Secretary of State was saying. Even Rex Tillerson (I'm no fan!) was far more trustworthy than Rubio. What we face now is qualitatively worse and more dangerous. I'm concerned people don't get that.

‘I wish I had the power to ease his suffering’: Gaza’s cancer patients trapped by war and blockade Thousands of Palestinian cancer patients are living without treatment as they await medical evacuation

My patient here in Gaza w/ a rare vaginal cancer has been waiting 6 mo on the evacuation list. She won't make it out. She's in her early 20's and an english translator, sweet and kind. She deserves to get treatment and live. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Most of my life, if someone made a key breakthrough on a technology that might run everything on the planet, it was the USA. Our having to buy it from someone else makes us a third world country

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region Both Syrian Gov't and Kurdish forces must Respect Civilian Rights, Allow Aid, Investigate Alleged Abuses

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes ICE agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

we Americans are so effed

It's way down the list, but as a political historian I'm obligated to note that calling his 2024 win a "historic landslide" is laughable bullshit.

Trump did not even clear 50% of the popular vote. His margin of victory was a narrow 1.48%, which means that Jimmy Carter had a much bigger win in 1976.

That was the point of taking it over

(next to an image of masked ICE agents) NO KINGS MASS CALL EYES ON ICE: DOCUMENT AND RECORD GET THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS AS FEDERAL AGENTS TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITIES. MONDAY, JANUARY 26 8PM EST / 5PM PST (No Kings logo)

Exercising our constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents is more important than ever. This call will give you the tools to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I was just talking about this with my family. China having access to all my data never bothered me. Larry Ellison, though? Nah. I'll delete the app first.

I like tiktok. Woodworking videos, knife-making, blues music. But to hell with it. Deleting my account and uninstalling. Right-wing billionaires are why we can't have fun things

That is a profound analogy.🤔

This well known anti Israel extremist seems to agree

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The people of Palestine are occupied by the Israelis. In my experience most Americans do not even know this basic fact. Ignorance of it makes it impossible to underst...

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied www.juancole.com/2026/01/minn...