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Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

@sakbari.bsky.social

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Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog.

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is a medievalist, recognised for her global and comparative approach to medieval literary history. She was a Professor in English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto from 1995 until 2019, when she joined the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. .. more

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 14h

“Europe, in its entirety, has become one of the major arenas in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict plays out, especially in the realm of public opinion. It is a substantial part of Europe’s own identity—its interpretation of the past and the shaping of its future—that is now at stake.”

Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 15h

Full program of the canceled conference here. There is absolutely nothing problematic in there.
But as Patrick Wolfe shows, Zionism requires the "elimination of the native" not only in the present, but also in the past 2/
www.college-de-france.fr/sites/defaul...

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 15h

Full program of the canceled conference here. There is absolutely nothing problematic in there.
But as Patrick Wolfe shows, Zionism requires the "elimination of the native" not only in the present, but also in the past 2/
www.college-de-france.fr/sites/defaul...

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 17h

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram

Real Question from The
NY Times
As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true?
This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason.

It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.

six pairings of words or passages the songwriter drew directly from the magazine article

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump asks Supreme Court to let people starve.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block full SNAP payments

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's emergency request for a stay of a lower court's order to pay full food stamp benefits during the government shutdown.

www.politico.com

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

decolonialfutures.uva.nl/annual-lectu...

@biidaasamose.bsky.social in the netherlands lets go!

2025 | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Decolonial Futures

Save the Date: On Wednesday the 3rd of December 2025, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will give the 2nd Decolonial Future's Annual Lecture.

decolonialfutures.uva.nl

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled that Kelly Wisecup and Christopher Pexa will present at the next meeting of the Am Lit & Culture seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard, Nov 12, 6pm. This event is co-sponsored with the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar. Join us if you are in town!

Poster describing the event. Title of talk: ‘your own work eats up trees’: Birchbark Bookmaking, Settler Memory, and Paper Histories

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 4d

yes definitely

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday in Chicago ICE abducted a preschool teacher.

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 4d

From 2018. Still good.

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 4d

This piece argues that Israel's dependency, rooted in a long history of imperial patronage, underpins its genocidal campaigns. The path to ending Israel's violence lies in targeting the enablers who sustain its brutality.

By Rhys Machold in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

buff.ly/uBWoZvS

The Myth of Israeli Innovation

Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

Aside from absolutely everything else having to do with them, I am ecstatic to see the end of Giuliani, whose name I mistyped every freaking time, and the arrival of Mamdani, whose name is crazy easy to type.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski

Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

Austen, Melville, Twain, Parker, Eliot, and Hawthorne couldn't have done it better

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”

Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 5d

Melville goes off on a 30-page tangent about whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Nancy Knowlton, Neil Pederson , and 6 more Brian J. Enquist, Nancy Knowlton, Neil Pederson, Cathy N. Davidson, Silvia Secchi, Trevor A. Branch, Julia Lynch, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Vincent Raoult

Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 5d

I am no fan of Ackman, but this is how to respond to loss with some level of grace and we should let him rather than constantly dunk

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani

Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 5d

“When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them. A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme, and let us build a shining city for all.”

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.