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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Mor Naaman

carolinehaskins.bsky.social
NEW: A proposal for rebuilding Gaza that's been shared with the Trump admin references Tesla, IKEA, TSMC, and tons of other companies. I reached out to them—none had discussed or agreed to any work in Gaza. Some had no idea they were mentioned in this proposal:
www.wired.com/story/a-plan...
A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved
A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Michael Zimmer, Michael H. Whitworth

markey.senate.gov
Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Simon Lester

bloomberg.com
US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies
Trump Threatens China Cooking Oil Trade as Retaliation for Soybean Boycott
US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies.
bloom.bg
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.
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by Bessma Momani

bmomani.bsky.social
When the US and China both aggressively decouple….the rest of the world are the most to suffer.
en.afp.com
AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d
BREAKING China said on Tuesday it is ready to "fight to the end" in a trade war with the United States after President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100 percent tariff on the world's second-largest economy

by Bessma Momani

bmomani.bsky.social
Borrowing from Egypt’s Sisi and military handbook….
axios.com
Axios @axios.com · 2d
Two conservative newsrooms — Newsmax and the Washington Times — so far have joined a slew of national news organizations in refusing to sign an agreement with the Pentagon that could limit journalists' rights to gather or report information not officially authorized for release.
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon's new press rules
The Pentagon said reporters would need to sign a pledge committing to its rules in order to maintain their press credentials.
www.axios.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

axios.com
Two conservative newsrooms — Newsmax and the Washington Times — so far have joined a slew of national news organizations in refusing to sign an agreement with the Pentagon that could limit journalists' rights to gather or report information not officially authorized for release.
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon's new press rules
The Pentagon said reporters would need to sign a pledge committing to its rules in order to maintain their press credentials.
www.axios.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

en.afp.com
BREAKING China said on Tuesday it is ready to "fight to the end" in a trade war with the United States after President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100 percent tariff on the world's second-largest economy
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Olivier Mannoni

joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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madhupai.bsky.social
Given the absolutely insane levels of disinformation and growing attacks on science and scientists, all scientists must be taught

- how to communicate effectively
- how to engage the public
- how to engage politicians and policy makers
- how to engage with the media
- how to counter misinformation
Quote by Paul Sutter which says "The public needs to see scientists as poeple, rather than simply sources of information"
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Karen O’Leary

bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow
Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Kim L. Scheppele, David Murakami Wood

agreenberg.bsky.social
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Kori Schake, Ben H. Ansell , and 6 more

brianstelter.bsky.social
Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Anna O. Law, Elizabeth Saunders , and 16 more

karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
brendannyhan.bsky.social
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

deanobeidallah.bsky.social
Trump today on Gaza deal: “This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it?” We can't believe it. In reality, Israel was only created by United Nations in 1947. Beyond that, Christianity is only 2,000 years old and Islam is about 1,400 years old. Who was fighting 3,000 years ago?!
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Christian Odendahl, Andrew Scott , and 11 more

bleary.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 5 more

atrupar.com
Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, W Grant

himalmag.bsky.social
🎙️“#India’s rise in its crony capitalism index since 2014 has been spectacular. We are up there with countries like Russia, where it is essentially the world of the leader that determines which companies are able to make a lot of money,” says Aakar Patel to Harsh Mander buff.ly/vcS9CSx
Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindu Rashtra today
In this episode, writer Aakar Patel and journalist Rana Ayyub examine with Harsh Mander whether India under Narendra Modi has transformed into a Hindu Rashtra or, and to what extent, India’s secular…
buff.ly
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by Alan J. Dettlaff — Reposted by Bessma Momani, Anna O. Law, Steven Heydemann , and 11 more

alandettlaff.com
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Amy Bruckman, Tom Clark , and 7 more

davelevitan.bsky.social
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Juan Cole, Mark Rice , and 1 more

mbazzi.bsky.social
An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, W. Andy Knight, Arlene Stein , and 1 more

atrupar.com
Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

sushantsingh.bsky.social
Hindu Right has an Israel envy. It is reflected in the desire to copy Israel's lobbying model in the US. That has failed miserably in the past few months.

In @themorningcontext.bsky.social I look at the reasons for this failure, where Modi wasted a decade of India's foreign policy energies.
When it comes to lobbying in the US, Indian-Americans are not Jewish Americans
India tried to build an Israel-style lobby in Washington, DC. But money, race and ideology have kept Indian-Americans from becoming a political force.
themorningcontext.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

en.afp.com
🇸🇩 A drone and artillery attack killed at least 60 people at a displacement camp in Sudan's El-Fasher on Saturday, activists said, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces intensifies its assault on the besieged western city.
➡️ u.afp.com/Smbd
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mattsteinglass.bsky.social
“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”
Welcome to Zero Migration America
Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
economist.com
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

prospectmagazine.co.uk
“For two whole years we have watched, seemingly helpless, as so little has been done and words, shouted in opposition, have been rendered silent,” writes @aloner.bsky.social.
Two years that broke our world
Since the Hamas attack of 7th October, what remains of big ideals such as our shared humanity?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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economist.com
A younger generation of autocrats have taken the reins. In Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso, military leaders have all changed the rules to cling to power.

Their toolkit includes repression, manipulation, populism and powerful friends
The new age of the African Big Man
Ageing autocrats are not a relic of a bygone age. They are a template for the future
econ.st
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

joseggarcia.bsky.social
Novartis is laying off thousands in the US and expanding their European workforce. Part of a larger trend in the life sciences.
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Reposted by Bessma Momani, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Southern Africa

nisrinelamin.bsky.social
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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Reposted by Bessma Momani

criticalthreats.bsky.social
Russian forces launched a large, combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine on the night of October 9 to 10, primarily targeting energy infrastructure and civilian targets. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
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