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Betcy Jose

@betcy.bsky.social
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Associate Professor focused on global norms, IHL, and civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 3h
Destroying our futures and our past with equal gusto
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 5h
In short, if it succeeds, this tactic can help enable Hegseth’s effort to politicize the military and further his aspirations to turn it into a partisan/personal ally. 12/end
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 6h
Belated Caturday post
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 8h
IR norms scholars would call this norm dissemination
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11h
4 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Rika Porcelijn, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
A vintage black-and-white photograph of a young girl standing on a chair, holding onto the backrest. The girl is wearing a dark coat and shoes, and there is a small, fluffy toy dog beside the chair.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11h
Ahead of the November midterm elections, top Democrats are planning for doomsday scenarios for how President Donald Trump and his administration could intervene in the voting process and laying the groundwork for a forceful response. cnn.it/4dj6Zjd
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As someone who feels Halloween is the best holiday, this is absolute brilliant!
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
a photo I took of power embodied
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The funeral ceremony for two Palestinian Christian women at the St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City, Palestine on Oct 03, 2026. Meysa Hidir Ibrahim Abu Dawud and her daughter Marya Hafiz Michel Najjar were killed after an Israeli airstrike. 📸 Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saw reports that in Denver, a school had to go into lockdown because agents drew their weapons during an immigration stop. So this administration seems quite content terrorizing children no matter where they were born.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’d love to hear from South Asians in the administration and its supporters
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saw reports that in Denver, a school had to go into lockdown because agents drew their weapons during an immigration stop. So this administration seems quite content terrorizing children no matter where they were born.
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Hidden Cities @hidden-cities.com · 02/10/2026
@alhakam.bsky.social on returning to Aleppo and his beloved Old City after exile, to save the family home wrecked by war but still standing. “I still have a home here—in Aleppo, in Syria—even if it’s a skeleton that we are slowly putting flesh back on.” www.hidden-cities.com/p/home-again...
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Home Again in Aleppo
On finally returning to Syria from exile to rebuild what was lost.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s worse than that — Keeperman is saying that assimilation is impossible because Of their skin color.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/10/2026
Let's get this party started. #DefendHigherEd Starter Pack:
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was prepping for a public LOAC discussion next week, including on challenges to LOAC compliance. The challenge I cited as an example was sheer brazen disregard for LOAC, as exemplified by Russia. And now Zelenskyy underscores my point.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I assume the threat is actually that these kids *are* assimilated? They're embodying a deeply American culture, & that's alarming to white nationalists trying to cordon off a distinctively white Americanness. Unfortunately for them, even white nationalism isn't the exclusive purview of white people
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’d love to hear from South Asians in the administration and its supporters
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely stunning
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what irritates me the most: the immense level of complicity by so many vital segments of society. The degradation of US democracy doesn't have to be so effortless if these actors stood up for it, instead of focusing (shortsightedly) on their self-interest.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“the U.S. military now has seemingly little capacity to investigate even a relatively small caseload of harm claims. The report also acknowledges 2 of the largest mass casualty incidents in U.S. military history, both in Yemen in 2025, yet demonstrates little appetite to respond to or learn lessons”
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Set on Sri Lanka’s north-central plains, Anuradhapura was the island’s first great capital. Today, it remains one of the most sacred cities in the Buddhist world, known as the first place to adopt Buddhism outside of India. cnn.it/4rCIqDx
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“the U.S. military now has seemingly little capacity to investigate even a relatively small caseload of harm claims. The report also acknowledges 2 of the largest mass casualty incidents in U.S. military history, both in Yemen in 2025, yet demonstrates little appetite to respond to or learn lessons”
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what irritates me the most: the immense level of complicity by so many vital segments of society. The degradation of US democracy doesn't have to be so effortless if these actors stood up for it, instead of focusing (shortsightedly) on their self-interest.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely stunning
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Beyond Compliance Consortium @beyond-comp-cons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📢 Ep8 of S2 of #BeyondComplianceInConversation podcast out now - "Children and Armed Conflict" #CivilianHarm #IHL With hosts @katharinefortin.bsky.social & @weigand.bsky.social 🎧 Listen on our website: beyond-compliance-consortium.org/s2-ep8-child... Also on Spotify and ApplePodcasts.
Text: Beyond Compliance: In Conversation, Armed Groups and International Law Podcast. Two round pictures of the guests and text S2 Ep8: Children and Armed Conflict
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now I know what I'm getting folks for the holidays
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Smit Machchhar was lying on the floor of the flydubai flight deck, covered in blood, when he managed to click the release to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to gain entry, overpower his attacker and save 174 passengers on board.”
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‘Hero’ pilot, plumber and dentist among those who saved flydubai flight to Israel
Swift actions of Smit Machchhar allowed passengers and off-duty pilots to subdue attacker and land plane safely
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now I know what I'm getting folks for the holidays
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Putin is a realist about his capabilities to dominate entire NATO, but he believes that he can dominate European part of it, especially Central Europe, and, following that fact, also the Western Europe, because then the spirit of NATO already will be broken.”
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PBS News Hour | Poland braces for potential confrontation with Russia | Season 2026
Poland braces for potential confrontation as Russia tests NATO defenses
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
latimes.com
His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@wearehighered.bsky.social
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Putin is a realist about his capabilities to dominate entire NATO, but he believes that he can dominate European part of it, especially Central Europe, and, following that fact, also the Western Europe, because then the spirit of NATO already will be broken.”
pbs.org
PBS News Hour | Poland braces for potential confrontation with Russia | Season 2026
Poland braces for potential confrontation as Russia tests NATO defenses
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She and so many others deserved so much better. Their treatment is an absolute scandal, no less by an administration that lazily and cynically trumpets its patriotism.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"some migrants have found themselves imprisoned in countries they'd never heard of before their arrivals... Many have no criminal convictions and have been found to be at risk of torture or persecution" If these justices won't respect the rule of law, how can we expect anyone in the admin to do so?
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 September 1934 | Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Pais, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Video about the first two gas chambers near Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Vintage black and white photo of a young boy resting their chin on their hands, looking thoughtful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Minnesota has been hosting Truth Councils since the end of Operation Metro Surge, to make sure that the horrors of the federal occupation do not go forgotten. Check out today's, which is the fourth and final meeting.
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Muslim ban by another name
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"some migrants have found themselves imprisoned in countries they'd never heard of before their arrivals... Many have no criminal convictions and have been found to be at risk of torture or persecution" If these justices won't respect the rule of law, how can we expect anyone in the admin to do so?
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She and so many others deserved so much better. Their treatment is an absolute scandal, no less by an administration that lazily and cynically trumpets its patriotism.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Muslim ban by another name
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 29/09/2026
🎧 NEW EPISODE | Hold Your Fire! This week, we discuss renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the risks of regional escalation and whether diplomacy can still stop the slide into all-out war. www.crisisgroup.org/pod/africa/e...
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Back to War in Ethiopia? | International Crisis Group
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard speaks with Crisis Group’s Africa director Murithi Mutiga about renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, how the conflict could unfold, the risks of regional escala...
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