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
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.
Reposted by Nancy Kricorian
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...
bit.ly
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-…
buff.ly
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
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90
Ancient History
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
—Diane di Prima
from Revolutionary Letters
50th Anniversary Edition
No. 27
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Ancient History
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
—Diane di Prima
from Revolutionary Letters
50th Anniversary Edition
No. 27
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
January 9, 2026 at 2:11 PM
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90
Ancient History
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
—Diane di Prima
from Revolutionary Letters
50th Anniversary Edition
No. 27
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Ancient History
The women are lying down
in front of the bulldozers
sent to destroy
the last of the olive groves.
—Diane di Prima
from Revolutionary Letters
50th Anniversary Edition
No. 27
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Paris in the snow
January 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Paris in the snow
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Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 mizna.org/mizna-online...
January 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 mizna.org/mizna-online...
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Now on Mizna Online: Favorite SWANA Books of 2025
To close out 2025, Summer Farah, Samia Saliba, and Mizna staff reflect on the abundance of literature from SWANA authors this year and review some of their favorites!
Read the full review of 2025 SWANA books: mizna.org/mizna-online...
To close out 2025, Summer Farah, Samia Saliba, and Mizna staff reflect on the abundance of literature from SWANA authors this year and review some of their favorites!
Read the full review of 2025 SWANA books: mizna.org/mizna-online...
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Now on Mizna Online: Favorite SWANA Books of 2025
To close out 2025, Summer Farah, Samia Saliba, and Mizna staff reflect on the abundance of literature from SWANA authors this year and review some of their favorites!
Read the full review of 2025 SWANA books: mizna.org/mizna-online...
To close out 2025, Summer Farah, Samia Saliba, and Mizna staff reflect on the abundance of literature from SWANA authors this year and review some of their favorites!
Read the full review of 2025 SWANA books: mizna.org/mizna-online...
I am honored and touched that my novel is on Mizna's list of favorite SWANA books of 2025
mizna.org/mizna-online...
mizna.org/mizna-online...
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...
mizna.org
December 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I am honored and touched that my novel is on Mizna's list of favorite SWANA books of 2025
mizna.org/mizna-online...
mizna.org/mizna-online...
Red-breasted Nuthatch in winter
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Red-breasted Nuthatch in winter
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December's boat strike death toll (so far)...
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
December's boat strike death toll (so far)...
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