Juan Cole

@jricole.bsky.social

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Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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John Ricardo Irfan "Juan" Cole is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com). .. more

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · Mar 9

Juan Cole, new book - Gaza Yet Stands - order through your local bookstore or www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DL...

Gaza Yet Stands

Gaza Yet Stands [Cole, Juan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Gaza Yet Stands

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 3h

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 5h

UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women. Women won for her dedication to international peace

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 6h

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

Keir Starmer's government suffered a resounding blow from the UK Supreme Court, which struck down the ban on the activist group Pal Action

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 6h

Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

The court found that various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, were “pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act.

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Bryan Godbe @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 9h

MSN and the rest of the media need to start reporting about the Climate Crisis and turn this damming media trend around.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 9h

Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...

A deadly meningitis outbreak is threatening Gaza’s children

Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the…

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tempura13.bsky.social @tempura13.bsky.social · 13h

“Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates” NYT, 9/3 2025

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timefornow.bsky.social @timefornow.bsky.social · 13h

It's shocking but believable. I knew someone who was an undergrad in biology at Harvard and who wanted to write his senior thesis debunking Darwin. But somebody had tried that the year before and it was rejected. This put his graduation in peril. This guy decided to shelve his New Earth Creationism.

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tempura13.bsky.social @tempura13.bsky.social · 14h

Nursing schools in Florida require students to get measles, chickenpox, tetanus, mumps etc vaccinations unless SG Ladapo has abolished this requirement.

Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 14h

nursing students?

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 14h

Nearly 50 people including students at Ave Maria University in Florida have contracted measles, as health officials report a growing threat nationwide. The university is implementing quarantine and offering free vaccinations.

Nursing students hit by measles outbreak at Florida university

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 14h

Columbia University, Cuny most 'hostile' campuses for Muslims: Cair - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-cuny-university-most-hostile-campus-cair

Columbia University, Cuny most 'hostile' campuses for Muslims: Cair

None of the 51 campuses investigated received an 'unhostile' rating, the organisation said

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Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social · 14h

Hind Rajab was afraid of the dark. After killing her family & wounding her, Israel prevented her rescue & left her to die alone in the dark. I write about those critical hours & the film that brings back her voice to induct the world’s silence @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...

Hind Rajab and the Dying Light

Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14h

Excellent, but lost the punchline: slowing clean energy drives the grid to fossil; higher-cost fossil drives money from customers to Trump donors.

What Energy Secretary Wright gets wrong about the grid

Chris Wright trashed solar and wind for not providing much power during Winter Storm Fern — and ignored basic facts about how much renewables contribute…

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 14h

Nursing students hit by measles outbreak at Florida university

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 15h

"Israel is actually advancing annexation and that's something that we've seen for three years, but what is also significant in this case is that Israel has also decided to weaken the Palestinian Authority."

Outrage grows over Israel's plans for West Bank www.france24.com/en/live-news...

International outrage grows over Israel's plans for West Bank

International outrage was growing on Monday at Israeli plans to tighten the country's grip over the occupied West Bank, with the United Nations chief saying he was "gravely concerned".

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h

Friends!

The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.

We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Interested? Fill the interest form here!

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World Cup Waitlist — RESISTANCE STUDIES SERIES

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 20h

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

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Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d

Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

White people are not being "replaced" by invading non-whites, who have been here all along--because the U.S. incorporated them as we expanded

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d

The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

With the genocide in Gaza, Israeli rhetoric fully reflects a state of exception where the law is not just ignored, but structurally suspended.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

Donald Trump considers international law nothing more than a trifling impediment by which the weak try to drag down the strong.

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Truthdig @handle.invalid · 1d

Over 300 federal judges have ruled against the administration's detention policies. Judges are ordering the government to release immigrants or give them bond hearings.

Immigrants File Record Number of Habeas Cases - Truthdig

In the last year, federal courts have received 18,000 habeas petitions, representing people who in the past would have been released on bond or not been detained in the first place.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d

Pamela Weiss, "Welcome Tea, Hotel Morocco, 2024, Rice University, Houston http://dlvr.it/TQwT2s

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link, apologies for the garbagey string.

"No longer acting like an occupying army, the Department of Homeland Security now operates like secret police."

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