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

Novartis is laying off thousands in the US and expanding their European workforce. Part of a larger trend in the life sciences.

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 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%.”

I tried to write about what these two years have done to us, on being human after Gaza and the 7th October

🇸🇩 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

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.

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...

An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact. Other universities should do the same.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …." www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for membership. The UN General Assembly will elect members in a noncompetitive vote on October 14. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

"A transition to sustainable peace in #Gaza lacks four elements: (1) a mutually hurting stalemate; (2) effective leadership on both sides; (3) committed international guarantors; and (4) a viable DDR program for disarmament amid an open-ended IDF withdrawal plan" youtu.be/7GhxRS9ohgs

The ceasefire in Gaza, now in effect, depends on the promise given by an inveterate liar and conman (Trump) to a ruthless terrorist organization (Hamas) that he will prevent another serial liar, conman, and war criminal (Netanyahu) from resuming the war:

Brazil's left is having a meltdown over the Nobel award. Too many of them still think Maduro is a legitimate leader. Too many of them see Machado as a tool of the right (and the Americans) rather than someone fighting a vicious dictatorship that has destroyed Venezuela.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has praised Donald Trump as a "visionary" and approves of his military attacks on Venezuelan civilians

I’ll add that in the Venezuelan context (like the Cuban) it’s unsurprising that you’ll see mobilization *for democracy* coded within right-wing frames, given how the government portrays itself

‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine capital triggers blackouts and sets high-rise alight

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Lmaoooo. Major move. Were not even 5 minutes into this thing and she trots out the corpse of Hillary, Tony and Mike Pompeo to talk about something all 3 of them have already fucked up on their own.

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

Aid will finally surge into Gaza. The needs are massive. Over 90% of Gaza’s housing has been destroyed by Israeli bombardment. That’s made 1.9 million homeless. They’re sleeping in hallways & garages of still-standing buildings. And they’re paying to “rent” tiny sand plots where they put up tents.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign. Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities (to give up academic freedom in exchange for favorable treatment by the Trump government): “This ‘compact’ is more like an invitation to borrow money from the mob, with substantial control and future penalties assured.”

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China’s “god’s-eyes view”

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

An analysis of dozens of 3D animations published by the Israeli army discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries and content creators as far afield as Scotland and Port Orchard. www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @mekomit.bsky.social

Good lord. @apnews.com

I spoke with The Daily about the judiciary's response to Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard into US cities, and the question of whether simply declaring a "rebellion" makes it so, for legal purposes: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Italy’s ruling Brothers of Italy party has said it plans to introduce legislation seeking to ban the burqa and niqab face and body coverings in all public spaces nationwide, calling it a bill against “Islamic separatism.”

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Applications for the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance's postdoctoral fellowship program for 2026-2027 are due Monday, October 13. Details here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

The Trump administration is expected to announce a bail-out for American farmers hurt by his trade war. What the industry wants, however, is a deal with China, not a government handout

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

The Trump administration appears to be engaged in a dramatic project to replace the United States’ traditional European alliances, with tech policy and culture wars over social media a key to the effort, Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson writes:

This story is somehow not on either CNN's or the NYTimes' main page...

I remember when New Yorkers put up posters in a desperate attempt to locate loved ones after 9/11. Now they are desperately looking for loved ones disappeared by the government of this country.

Recently India and America have seen a downward spiral in relations. American officials say that fixing the question of Russian oil will mend ties. India seems to echo that in public. But dig deeper and it’s clear that trust between the two has unravelled

Mixed readings so far on viability of ceasefire. On the one hand, IDF is standing down a considerable amount of reserves, & defence officials are briefing potential hostage release timetables. On the other, IDF intensified airstrikes and artillery, and Israel Katz, an idiot...

93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I am old enough to remember Disney lawyers coming down on a daycare for a Mickey Mouse mural on their wall.