NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Silencing Dissent: #Academic #Freedom & Transnational Suppression of #Palestinian #Solidarity By Sevgi Doğan, Donatella Della Porta & Federico Alagna doi.org/10.1017/S153...

In @foreignaffairs.com, Jaser Abu Mousa argues that Hamas has been weakened beyond repair and that allies and enemies alike exaggerate its current power. www.foreignaffairs.com/palestinian-...

The End of Hamas

The convenient fiction of continued menace.

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Good morning. Nothing to see here, just the possible end of American scientific research as we know it. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The Trump Administration's Existential Threat to Scientific Research

You want a request for comment?! I got your comment right here.

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Jeffrey Lewis@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · last mo.

This new translation of Clausewitz is 🔥. "Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance or, where throwing proves taxing, to prevail narrowly on points."

Demonstrators chant "Albania is not for sale," challenging coastal projects tied to Kushner amid environmental concerns https://aje.news/q28j7f

Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi

Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi

The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investment, says author and academic Lea Ypi

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My people doing a better job than most US institutions ❤️

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2mo ago

Environmental organisations have called for the project's suspension, citing threats to biodiversity.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

A single fire ant nearly killed me and to add insult to injury, I had to deal with our broken medical system. When you can’t fight them, expose them, I guess.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3mo ago

A bug bite and a severe allergic reaction sent Silvana Toska to the emergency room, where she had a couple of brief chats with a doctor and a dose of medicine. Then the bill came.

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

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a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

On Iran, see the larger context. Five of the seven countries that the Trump admin has militarily attacked since Jan. 2025 are significant oil producers, even though petrostates are rare. It's not a coincidence. I explain why @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/is-oil-...

Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran?

Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? To understand the Trump administration’s military targets, take a closer look at the petrostate pattern.

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW — Bill Nye, at "No Kings" in DC, on Gaza: "There's something wrong when you have one country ruining, leveling another country…the whole thing just makes you furious." "In the US, we had an agreement…we're going to leave religion out of our government. There's some value there, I think…"

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

buy genocide low, sell genocide high

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.

Israel killed al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif & 3 other members of his reporting team today when they were in a marked press tent outside of al-Shifa Hospital.

CPJ calls for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection in face of Israeli smears - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military ...

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Whoever was involved in this should be so very ashamed: "Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action."

Alexa Gagosz@alexagagosz.bsky.social · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE: Brown University has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to restore the university’s federal research funding and address allegations that it failed to do enough to stop the harassment of Jewish students. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors? Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."

Christopher Nugent@cmbnugent.bsky.social · last yr.

And the following language: "Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action."

Stopping the starvation of Sudan would require military intervention, delivering a vast amount of food across contested space, and rebuilding a shattered state. That’s true of almost every forced famine the world has faced. Stopping the imposed starvation of Gaza would require a phone call.

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

There is still time to apply to the MENA Methods Workshop, to be held in Amman, Jordan. Deadline is approaching fast: April 27 ! Good luck to all who apply.

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for Applications: MENA Methods Workshop: Addressing Decolonization and Extractivism in Academic Research in the MENA Region | Deadline: April 27, 2025 Call for Applications: Addressing Decolonization and Extractivism in Academic Research in the MENA Region August 16-20, 2025 – Amman, Jordan…