Juan Cole

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 […]

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

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 […]

Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities

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 […]

A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men and Rage

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

on my Flipboard app I just muted CBS news.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

capitalism requires labor; empire helps determine where it comes from

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.

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...

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

YouTube video by Energi Media "Useful Energy": The Real Driver of the Energy Revolution

"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...
youtu.be/QQDj1ja1CT4

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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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#TruthBombTuesday

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

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

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

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

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

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

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