Bob Kopp

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Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣

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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Last night was a shitshow, but I'd still vote for the one who struggles to finish a sentence but has done more for climate than anyone in recent memory over the convicted felon who cannot utter a truthful sentence. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s not enough, but one candidate passed the largest piece of legislation to address climate change in US history. The other repeatedly refused to acknowledge the Earth has a climate.

RIP Dave Rowley, who made pioneering contributions to the long term history of plate tectonics and sea level change (and who I recall leaving in the middle of teaching me undergraduate intro physical geology to do field research in Tibet) news.uchicago.edu/story/david-...

David B. Rowley, geologist who overturned conventional wisdom about Earth’s surface evolution, 1954–2024news.uchicago.edu David Ballantyne Rowley, Professor Emeritus in UChicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences, who specialized in paleoaltimetry, paleogeography, and tectonics, died May 30.

Finally liberated our kitchen from fossil gas

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Very sad to report that George Woodwell, a scientific visionary, ecologist, climate scientist, public communicator, mentor, and friend has passed away. Truly a giant in the field of protecting the planet. www.woodwellclimate.org/dr-george-wo...

Dr. George Woodwell, pioneer in climate science and founder of the Woodwell Climate Research Center passes away at 95 - Woodwell Climatewww.woodwellclimate.org With deep sadness, Woodwell Climate Research Center announces the passing of Dr. George Masters Woodwell.

New paper on the past and future relationship between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and decision-making under deep uncertainty: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

The use of decision making under deep uncertainty in the IPCCwww.frontiersin.org The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) exists to provide policy-relevant assessments of the science related to climate change. As such, the IPCC has long grappled with characterizing and...

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The Democratic candidate in this election has made historic investments in the fight against the climate crisis. The Republican candidate believes the climate crisis is a hoax.

One challenge with limiting university positioning to “core functions of the university” is figuring out where boundaries are. Surely some would argue that speaking out against the destruction of all higher ed institutions in a region is within those functions. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/o...

Opinion | Harvard Should Say Less. Maybe All Schools Should.www.nytimes.com Let’s spare universities from having to decide which world events deserve official statements.

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My latest is on Christian Zionism's role in the current conflagration in Gaza, as encapsulated by the search for a perfect, unblemished animal as dictated by the Book of Numbers:

The Red Heifer, Christian Zionism, and the Dangers Of Nowwww.lifeisasacredtext.com How a Holy Cow encapsulates an unholy zealot alliance

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Answering scientific questions based on lossy compressed images of the Internet may not be the best idea.

I think the takeaway here is that “recession” (and, probably, “economic growth”) means something different to average citizens than to economists, and it would be worth understanding what it is that average citizens mean when they use the term www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Bidenwww.theguardian.com Exclusive Harris poll for the Guardian shows 55% believe economy is shrinking, in troubling sign for president’s re-election bid

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“Rampant” antisemitism at Rutgers? In a word, no. A clear, direct op-ed — by a Jewish faculty member at #Rutgers — about recent activism on campus against the war in Gaza and why we must protect free speech, even if you dislike that speech. www.nj.com/opinion/2024...

“Rampant” antisemitism at Rutgers? In a word, no | Opinionwww.nj.com Conflating anti-Israel sentiment with anti-Jewish sentiment is, in itself, antisemitic.

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Academics who call on their universities to invite police against their students betray their basic duty of care

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Absolutely essential journalism from @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/m...

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israelwww.nytimes.com After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

It is appalling that Rabbi Levy can’t figure out why displaced Gazans, whose universities have all been destroyed, might be more in need of US scholarships than displaced Israelis, who have world-class universities that cost about as much to attend as it would cost to attend Rutgers on scholarship.

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We marched tonight across Israel calling to end the war, stop the killing of innocents in Gaza, and bring back the hostages. We are the peace movement inside Israeli society. We speak in Hebrew and Arabic, and led by Jews and Palestinians. How to recognize us? Look for purple 🟣 Standing Together

Greatest respect to the brave folk of Standing Together taking direct action to protect Gaza aid convoys. www.instagram.com/reel/C6_L6w_...

‎Alon-Lee Green אלון-לי גרין‎ on Instagram‎: "הצטרפו אלינו למשמר ההומניטרי. ביחד נחסום את המתנחלים ומאפשר לסיוע להגיע לעזה Join us in the Humanitarian Guard. Together we'll block the settlers and ma...www.instagram.com 4,982 likes, 467 comments - alonlee on May 15, 2024‎: "הצטרפו אלינו למשמר ההומניטרי. ביחד נחסום את המתנחלים ומאפשר לסיוע להגיע לע�...". ‎

Jewish Professors: We Support Rutgers' [Non-Violent] Handling Of Gaza Protest patch.com/new-jersey/n...

Jewish Professors: We Support Rutgers' Handling Of Gaza Protestpatch.com Separately, on Sunday about 60 graduating seniors walked out during the Rutgers commencement ceremony in a pro-Palestine protest.

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Overview "This is what a police state looks like!" "The Old Hyperbole Is Now Reality." Zeynep Tufekci nails the current repression. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/o...

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It's actually really worth reading this piece for a sense of how the American far right has attempted to court Israel even as they despise Jews

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Richard Spencer tells Israelis they 'should respect' him: 'I'm a white Zionist'www.haaretz.com ***

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One thing this account highlights is how many bad decisions were driven by people who thought campus needed to be “got back under control” and clearly had no idea what was actually going on there. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

‘Bunker mentality’ at Columbia lit protest spark that spread nationwidewww.washingtonpost.com Decision-making at Columbia University, long a magnet for protests, became centralized and shrouded even to high-level administrators as the crisis intensified.

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The @nytimes.com editorial on "campus chaos" needs a spanking for its misinformation, hyperbole and credulity in its embrace of right-wing narratives. Let's take it apart, shall we? 1/

Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic (though it certainly can be combined with antisemitism), and being fanatically “pro-Israel” is no guarantee against being an antisemite.

At UCLA, the group that attacked student anti-genocide protesters included people previously photographed making Nazi salutes and participating in transphobic protests. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Faculty had raised alarms in the days before the attack on pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. That night, one witness called emergency services 11 times before police intervened.

Despite warnings of violence at UCLA, police didn’t step in for over 3 hourswapo.st Faculty had raised alarms in the days before the attack on pro-Palestinian protesters. That night, one witness called emergency services 11 times before police intervened.

Look at all the great people being honored at Rutgers commencements this weekend. Guess what probably wouldn’t be happening this weekend if Rutgers had dealt with protesters Columbia style, as Josh Gottheimer and the AJC apparently prefer. www.rutgers.edu/news/freeman...

Freeman Hrabowski, Educator and Civil Rights Champion, to Address Rutgers University Commencementwww.rutgers.edu

New Jersey DEP releases draft of new coastal resilience, stormwater resilience, and permitting reform rule. dep.nj.gov/njreal/

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Good work here by the Times www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/u...

How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israelwww.nytimes.com Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.