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TODAY: A UN delegation managed to reach northern Gaza for the first time There is not a single building standing It's a wasteland of rubble and destruction The Palestinians have suffered unimaginable horror This couldn't have happened without the support of America

A sampling of what the US State Department has said over the past 202 days about the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab:

Different studies have detected tiny shards and specks of plastics in human lungs, placentas, reproductive organs, livers, kidneys, knee and elbow joints, blood vessels, and bone marrow. NIH Leo Trasande, MD, MPP The New Lede thenewlede.org/2024/08/its-sc…

How can civil society support community-based organizing that puts ways of knowing and being at the heart of food systems change? #agroecology doi.org/10.1525/elemen…

"AI is a form of computation but it is also an apparatus, in the sense of a configuration of concepts, investments, policies, institutions and subjectivities that act in concert to produce a certain kind of end result...The apparatus of AI embeds the logics of empire."

"Exclusive: Here is the speech the Uncommitted movement wants to give at the DNC" --and they should be allowed to give it. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

before AI's bubble bursts, & as folks go back to school, I'd like to share w/ educators my AI policy - an attempt to engage my students using a critical narrative approach: bit.ly/AIpolicy_UCSC Pls use, adapt, & share w/ credit. I'd love to hear if & how you find it useful.🤖

10 month old baby. As in: a child born into war, whose only experience of life is war, becoming paralyzed from war. Life itself defined by war, and now suspended by war.

New in our Special Feature, *Land and Sustainable Food Transformations*: Commoning, access, and sovereignty: Disentangling land–food relations in the case of peasant livestock farmers in Romania doi.org/10.1525/elemen…

my heart hurts

4 P۸lestini۸n journalists have been nominated for 2024 Nobel Peace Prize This is for their courageous reporting on the ground - Motaz Azaiza - Wael al-Dahdoun - Hind Khoudary - Bisan Owda

New in our special feature on land and sustainable food transformations: "Land sovereignty in depressed and contested agro-territories: The cases of Portugal and Brazil," from Lanka Horstink, Kaya Schwemmlein, and Gabriela Abrahão Masson doi.org/10.1525/elemen…

I'm excited to be recruiting for two fully funded phd positions to join our team to advance our work on transformative agroecology.

As Israel continues its brutal attacks on Palestinians, I wanted to learn more about how major US tech companies are enabling it all. I really appreciate Mohammad and Gabi from No Tech For Apartheid coming on the show to explain it and discuss their organizing efforts.

Biden climate+housing tax credits: "highest-earning 25% of households — those with taxable incomes of $100,000 or more — got 66% of the tax credits, worth a total of $5.5 billion. Meanwhile, the lowest-earning 25%, with taxable incomes below $25,000, received just $32 million."

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy describes the conditions in which 61-year-old Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar is being held by Israel. She is in total isolation. She has been accused of no crime since she was arrested a year ago. 'Her cell has no windows. There is no air, no fan,

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

U.S. policy in Gaza is not a “failure.” It is a terrible success. Washington’s real policy has always been to support Israel in the destruction of Gaza, to render it unlivable, and to lay the ground for its ethnic cleansing. The ceasefire negotiation charade, the fake pier, the

As the new academic year begins, we must recommit to stand with our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza and to hold Israeli universities accountable for their role in destroying Palestinian campuses #AcademicBoycottNow

This is my joint new paper on the politics of evidence, using gene editing in agriculture for climate change as a case. Look at Maywa's thread for a summary of what we've found...