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Tylor Brand

@khayyat.bsky.social
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Historian of awful things at Trinity College Dublin Author of Famine Worlds WWI, Lebanon, Famine and Disaster History

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
that's a lot of CO2, not to mention the other toll - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay dlvr.it/TSQbDF
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval
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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam! This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel hit all over Beirut. Strikes were in nearly all the neighborhoods surrounding my house. Reports saying many injured and dead. Israel seems to be intensifying before a ceasefire is implemented
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There is no pivoting from genocide. There's no refocusing on kitchen table issues--a madman with an itching to drop nukes is threatening to eradicate a country. There is no planning session for this, there is only action.
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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I will repeat this again and again: Israel’s goal in Lebanon is to destroy the country itself. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias - a war crime - to push for civil war in Lebanon
Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shites Must Go
1 day ago • Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shite Muslims from southern towns, the leade...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/04/2026
finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
The new tool should be cheaper than the one
it replaces.
2 It should be at least as small in scale as the
one it replaces.
3 It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably
better than the one it replaces.
4 It should use less energy than the one it
replaces.
5 If possible, it should use some form of solar
energy, such as that of the body.
6 It should be repairable by a person of ordinary
intelligence, provided that he or she has
the necessary tools.
7 It should be purchasable and repairable as near
to home as possible.
8 It should come from a small, privately
owned shop or store that will take it back for
maintenance and repair.
9 It should not replace or disrupt anything
good that already exists, and this includes
family and community relationships.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Attention historians of medicine and/or France: according to the @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social email list, moves are underway to dismantle the incredible Medica-Histoire de la santé digital collection (BIU Santé Médicine). Oppose this move by filling out the "Enquête de satisfaction" at the link🗃️
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Numerabilis · Numerabilis · Université Paris Cité
Numerabilis est la nouvelle bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale des archives, bibliothèques et musées de l’Université Paris Cité. Ses corpus numérisés sont issus des collections de ces services et de plusieurs partenaires.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
'Only 490 patients were evacuated during... February, which Wahidi describes as a "negligible" number of people. "We need to evacuate 400 daily, and at least 200 at the minimum, which would end the file of patients and wounded within six months..."' www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-pa...
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Gaza: Up to 10 Palestinians die daily due to Israeli restrictions on medical evacuations
Around 1,400 Palestinians have died whilst awaiting medical transfers abroad since May 2024, Gaza's health ministry has said
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Israel's long history of incursions and invasions in Lebanon—78 years worth:
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Israel's long history of incursions and invasions in Lebanon
Israel, which has engaged in border warfare with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement for a year in parallel with the Gaza conflict, has a long history of military incursions and invasions in Leba...
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The escalation comes after Israel threatened to take control of a "security zone" in south Lebanon up to the Litani River, raising fears of a deeper and prolonged occupation of the country
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is barbarous. Especially for Eid.
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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: Our editors collected 11 short essays on the war on Iran and the region from our contributors and members of our editorial committee. They encompass the political turmoil in Iran to the role of Christian nationalism in the US drive for dominance in the region. READ NOW
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War Across Boundaries–Perspectives on Iran and a Region Under Siege
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, initiating a war with wide-ranging consequences for Iran and the broader region and devastating effects for their…
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A reckless and insane war by the dumbest and most powerful climate change denier in the world leading to an acceleration of global electrification is very darkly funny.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too
Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth."
"They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..."
"I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off."
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In their lawsuit against NEH, ACLS, AHA, MLA, etc., include as an exhibit the AI-produced DOGE spreadsheet that determined if a project was too DEI for Trump. Here is the spreadsheet www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I often wonder how average Americans go about their day-to-day lives with absolutely no shame or sense of moral responsibility for what their regime has been doing to the world.
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Scott @smadin.net · 05/03/2026
an LLM chatbot cannot "implicate itself" in anything, it is a category error to imagine that it can. It does not "know" or "understand" anything (such as what words mean or whether its output is true or false) because it is not a being and does not have a mind.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/03/2026
And this was a strategy used by Israel against Gazans first www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is true in a sense, but our papers of record have always been complicit in our imperialism. The best way to find out what is happening is to follow good local journalists who actually know what they are talking about and aren't compromised by US politics or racist editorial policies
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Israel is eradicating entire sections of Lebanon's society, like it did in Gaza before. It is erasing the living memories of places that it has no right to touch and destroying countless lives in the process.
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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 05/03/2026
Israel, with America's blessing, just issued evacuation orders to the entire southern suburbs of Beirut, home to nearly a million people. At this point, Israel & the US have forcibly displaced at least a million people in Lebanon—i.e., ONE IN SIX. Imagine this in your town. We cannot accept this.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 04/03/2026
All the Trump administration’s complaints about “woke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation. bit.ly/4cycevT
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Garbage In, Carnage Out
The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gaza fuel running short after Israel closes borders amid Iran war flip.it/PE7.YK
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Gaza fuel running short after Israel closes borders amid Iran war
CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 2 - Gaza is rapidly running out of its limited fuel supply and stocks of food staples may become tight, officials say, after Israel blocked the entry of fuel and goods into the ...
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In Lebanon people are sleeping in cars or sitting in front of schools, which have opened their doors to displaced, because there is nowhere else to go. I witnessed one woman begin screaming outside one school who said they had no more place. People sat along the walls or on motorised scooters.
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saghira efendi @taalluq.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.
Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: 

Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/03/2026
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran aje.news/oe589h
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/02/2026
Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This war could end tomorrow and the US and the region will be living with the consequences for many years. You cannot put what Trump unleashed back in the box.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
BS. This is why Oman’s FM went on CBS News to explicitly revel that negotiations had achieved *unprecedented agreement* from the Iranians not to stockpile nuclear material — ensuring they’d never have a bomb. CNN is blatantly lying (what’s new)
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What a tragedy (please read Dana's work on this)
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zeno @egrettt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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‘Life requires cash’: Gaza’s jobs crisis leaves people struggling to afford basics
Fresh fruit and other items now available but at high prices in territory where unemployment is estimated at 80%
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Every Bite Counts @sandybeach805.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Since launch, more than a dog a day has been found and more than 27 dogs a day every day every year have been shot by the police using your Search Party by Ring cameras to hunt and kidnap your neighbors who they also shoot to the tune of about 4 a day every day every year, as well as the dogs."
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More than Just Collateral Damage: Pet Shootings by Police
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforc...
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... “According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition.”
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Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
Bitcoin's plunge has made it far less economical to mine the digital token. Some companies are starting to unplug their equipment.
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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two men are sitting next to each other in front of a sign that says `` two minutes by yourself and you feel shame you know ''
ALT: two men are sitting next to each other in front of a sign that says `` two minutes by yourself and you feel shame you know ''
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Environmental Toxicology (Rad af, only 1 credit but it made me not want to drink Tucson water) 2. The Black Death 3. The Environmental History of the American West 4. Philosophy of Mind 5. Astronomy
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I just read an amazing new review of my book from someone whose opinion I deeply value, which is frankly a great way to start the weekend. I'm always surprised to hear that someone read the thing, and even more surprised when I hear them say nice things about it.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/01/2026
Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda had her account suspended from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors — including a firm headed by the notoriously pro-Israel Larry Ellison. The journalist had 1.4 million followers on the platform.
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TikTok Takes Down Gaza Journalist Bisan Owda’s Account Mere Days After US Deal
Owda’s account had 1.4 million followers, she said.
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zeno @egrettt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk
AI’s rapid expansion is placing growing pressure on water supplies and public health.
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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The world is a hellhole and everything is getting worse, but tonight my dog spent an hour looking up at me like this pleading for duck scraps, so...
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