Nancy Kricorian
@nancykric.bsky.social
Novelist. Essayist. Poet. Latest novel THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-burning-heart-of-the-world-nancy-kricorian/21578284
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coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing:
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
January 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing:
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.
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"The decision to decline an artwork in connection with its Jewish artist’s views on Israel has prompted significant dissension... while raising questions in the art world about the influence of powerful donors, and whether the political views of artists should affect the way their work is received."
NEW: The push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a Nan Goldin work last year – which led to four resignations + an internal review – was prompted by AGO trustee + significant donor Judy Schulich, according to newly reviewed documentation
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
AGO trustee, major donor Judy Schulich led internal push to prevent Nan Goldin acquisition
Some gallery committee members alleged Jewish-American artist’s views on Israel were ‘antisemitic’
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"The decision to decline an artwork in connection with its Jewish artist’s views on Israel has prompted significant dissension... while raising questions in the art world about the influence of powerful donors, and whether the political views of artists should affect the way their work is received."
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Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
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Interesting. Stephen Miller is looking increasingly isolated inside the White House as others start realizing that deliberate, concerted ethnonationalist brutality and sadism is hurting Republicans politically.
Per WSJ:
Per WSJ:
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Interesting. Stephen Miller is looking increasingly isolated inside the White House as others start realizing that deliberate, concerted ethnonationalist brutality and sadism is hurting Republicans politically.
Per WSJ:
Per WSJ:
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My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Absolutely heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Absolutely heartbreaking
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Ah, yes. The man who signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law, and the deporter-in-chief. Thank you for your insights.
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
January 26, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Ah, yes. The man who signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law, and the deporter-in-chief. Thank you for your insights.
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“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.
Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
January 26, 2026 at 12:40 AM
“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.
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HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
Scoop: Trump admin plans to remove ~400 individuals, including children and families, to Mexico in first known restart of controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy during Trump’s 2nd term, sources tell me and Jake Traylor @ms.now
They’re set to be removed as early as Tuesday from TX and AZ to Mexico
They’re set to be removed as early as Tuesday from TX and AZ to Mexico
January 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM
HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
Another field execution by federal agents in Minneapolis. Followed by defamatory lies about the person they riddled with bullets.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Another field execution by federal agents in Minneapolis. Followed by defamatory lies about the person they riddled with bullets.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
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Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.
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The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
When the ax came to the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us."
~ Armenian proverb
Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:
~ Armenian proverb
Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:
January 20, 2026 at 11:17 AM
When the ax came to the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us."
~ Armenian proverb
Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:
~ Armenian proverb
Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:
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The man is Hmong. An American citizen. A grandfather. Humiliated and terrified. Returned an hour later with no apology, not that one would have done. As with Renee Good—this could happen to anyone.
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The man is Hmong. An American citizen. A grandfather. Humiliated and terrified. Returned an hour later with no apology, not that one would have done. As with Renee Good—this could happen to anyone.
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Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'
Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'
'Tariff threats to influence our foreign policy are unacceptable and ineffective,' a source close to Macron said on Tuesday, as France intends to decline the US leader's invitation to join his 'board of peace' to rebuild Gaza.
www.lemonde.fr
January 20, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'
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We are so excited to see that two of our Literary Lights 2025 books, @nancykric.bsky.social's The Burning Heart of the World and Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian's Forest Euphoria, have made @miznaarabart.bsky.social's "Favorite SWANA Books of 2025" list! 📚 🌟
Check it out: bit.ly/3Z327at
Check it out: bit.ly/3Z327at
Favorite SWANA Books of 2025: Reflections on Literary Abundance from Mizna Community + Staff - Mizna
This year has been a big year for books by SWANA authors. Big in the sense that we’ve seen an impressive volume of work published in English this year, but also in the sense that those works have rece...
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January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
We are so excited to see that two of our Literary Lights 2025 books, @nancykric.bsky.social's The Burning Heart of the World and Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian's Forest Euphoria, have made @miznaarabart.bsky.social's "Favorite SWANA Books of 2025" list! 📚 🌟
Check it out: bit.ly/3Z327at
Check it out: bit.ly/3Z327at
Mount Sinai Nurses on the picket line in New York City. Fair contract NOW!
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Mount Sinai Nurses on the picket line in New York City. Fair contract NOW!
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BREAKING: I have just received this from the Adelaide Festival Board as a (former) Adelaide Writers Week participant. They have apologised to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, cancelled Writers’ Week, expressed regret and the remaining festival board members will now step down.
January 13, 2026 at 3:41 AM
BREAKING: I have just received this from the Adelaide Festival Board as a (former) Adelaide Writers Week participant. They have apologised to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, cancelled Writers’ Week, expressed regret and the remaining festival board members will now step down.
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Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over “cultural sensitivity” concerns.
Dozens of writers are boycotting the Adelaide festival for booting Palestinian-Australian Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-…
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January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over “cultural sensitivity” concerns.
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Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced