susana ferreira
@susanaferreira.com
writer. longing across atlantics.
past work in wired, the believer, cjr, the guardian, cbc, pri, time, reuters, wsj, etc. freelancing temporarily on pause while i unravel some things then braid them back together.
past work in wired, the believer, cjr, the guardian, cbc, pri, time, reuters, wsj, etc. freelancing temporarily on pause while i unravel some things then braid them back together.
Wish I could be there. I find myself returning to Amílcar Cabral's writings on/ the PAIGC's approaches to education again and again recently. Sonia Vaz Borges has produced such valuable work on this.
January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Wish I could be there. I find myself returning to Amílcar Cabral's writings on/ the PAIGC's approaches to education again and again recently. Sonia Vaz Borges has produced such valuable work on this.
Among other things, was reminded today that the year* following the 2010 earthquake Canada began hosting joint training exercises with US + British military simulating the invasion of Haiti. Port-au-Prince was still choked with rubble, promised aid undelivered, and they drilled occupation scenarios.
January 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Among other things, was reminded today that the year* following the 2010 earthquake Canada began hosting joint training exercises with US + British military simulating the invasion of Haiti. Port-au-Prince was still choked with rubble, promised aid undelivered, and they drilled occupation scenarios.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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"President Maduro and his wife have been flown out of the country" makes it sounds like they were whisked away on holiday. They were kidnapped.
The U.S. carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela early this morning, capturing leader Nicolás Maduro and flying him out of the country, U.S. President Donald Trump said.
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US strikes Venezuela and captures Maduro, Trump says
President Maduro and his wife have been flown out of the country after “large-scale strike” by American forces, Trump said.
www.politico.eu
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
"President Maduro and his wife have been flown out of the country" makes it sounds like they were whisked away on holiday. They were kidnapped.
Carel Pedre is in ICE custody, apparently being held at the brutal Everglades detention camp. M sezi. haitiantimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
ICE moves Carel Pedre to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as #freecarel calls and girlfriend emerge
Carel Pedre moved to ICE’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida. A source said he was under suicide watch.
haitiantimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carel Pedre is in ICE custody, apparently being held at the brutal Everglades detention camp. M sezi. haitiantimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
"What coup d'etat? There's no coup d'etat in Guiné-Bissau, the president simply invented that coup because he realized that he didn't have a chance of winning the election."
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"What coup d'etat? There's no coup d'etat in Guiné-Bissau, the president simply invented that coup because he realized that he didn't have a chance of winning the election."
I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor @nickhunebrown.bsky.social to investigate their past work. In the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, removed articles from their sites. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.
A little joy for your timeline. The Haitian national team beat Nicaragua 2-0 - and this is the moment they found out they're going to the World Cup! First time since 1974! Grenadye Alasooooooooo
HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A little joy for your timeline. The Haitian national team beat Nicaragua 2-0 - and this is the moment they found out they're going to the World Cup! First time since 1974! Grenadye Alasooooooooo
"Here," he said, "nothing is too precious for you."
Breath left my chest when Madeleine Thien called Muhammed Al-Zaqzouq into the room during her Alchemy Lecture:
www.youtube.com/live/EqpHaaS...
www.youtube.com/live/EqpHaaS...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Here," he said, "nothing is too precious for you."
![Screenshot of Tyco [of Judge Tyco and Goon Scrap fame] with his Jays hat on, of course. Caption reads "inaudible Toronto-based utterances of concern"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mbmw5f5opkbxiayvmmpv23eg/bafkreihhivfqz6olqpcxdbrq43txhpu7recrmexcpjqj3ska64jcqniqvu@jpeg)
"I didn’t understand why he would ask that. It seemed evident to me that 'open air prison' was not a metaphor."
Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker:
bidoun.org/articles/hou...
Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker:
bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"I didn’t understand why he would ask that. It seemed evident to me that 'open air prison' was not a metaphor."
Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker:
bidoun.org/articles/hou...
Ismail Ibrahim on fact-checking Palestinian genocide at the New Yorker:
bidoun.org/articles/hou...
"Many of the Haitians who settled in Springfield had good lives in Haiti before violence forced them to leave, Aimé said. They’d... worked hard and well at jobs locals wouldn’t take, and helped revitalize the local economy. 'They’re not gonna let people treat them anyhow.’” @bhatiap.bsky.social
Haitian migrants brought Springfield, Ohio back to life. Then came the Trump team with its xenophobic lies. In our new issue, @bhatiap.bsky.social demonstrates what happens to the city—and people—on the path of a culture war.
Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia
The residents of Springfield, Ohio, residents have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.
thebaffler.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"Many of the Haitians who settled in Springfield had good lives in Haiti before violence forced them to leave, Aimé said. They’d... worked hard and well at jobs locals wouldn’t take, and helped revitalize the local economy. 'They’re not gonna let people treat them anyhow.’” @bhatiap.bsky.social
i still think about james foley all the time. all the time.
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
i still think about james foley all the time. all the time.
"Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people….[and] experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses."
Nauseous over this.
Nauseous over this.
Al Jazeera condemns killing of its journalists by Israeli forces in Gaza
Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
www.aljazeera.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people….[and] experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses."
Nauseous over this.
Nauseous over this.
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"The first time my three-and-a-half-year-old son, Rafik, asked me 'Are we going to die today?' was in December of 2023, roughly two months after the war began." A gripping account by @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the toll of war on Gaza's children in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The first time my three-and-a-half-year-old son, Rafik, asked me 'Are we going to die today?' was in December of 2023, roughly two months after the war began." A gripping account by @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the toll of war on Gaza's children in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Are CBC journalists allowed to say Palestine on air yet.
July 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Are CBC journalists allowed to say Palestine on air yet.
Gostaria de saber se "a maior recriação histórica medieval da Europa," em homenagem a D. Afonso V, vai mencionar que a invenção e o desenvolvimento do comércio criminoso da escravatura atlântica ocorreu sob o seu reinado. Os restos mortais de 158 Africanos encontrados em Lagos datam da sua época.
Recriação histórica arranca a 29 de Julho, mas alterações na circulação começam bem antes. Munícipes apoiam o maior evento do concelho, que gera um retorno económico de 15 milhões de euros.
Em Santa Maria da Feira perdoam-se os constrangimentos diários com os ganhos que traz a Viagem Medieval
Recriação histórica arranca a 29 de Julho, mas alterações na circulação começam bem antes. Munícipes apoiam o maior evento do concelho, que gera um retorno económico de 15 milhões de euros.
www.publico.pt
July 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Gostaria de saber se "a maior recriação histórica medieval da Europa," em homenagem a D. Afonso V, vai mencionar que a invenção e o desenvolvimento do comércio criminoso da escravatura atlântica ocorreu sob o seu reinado. Os restos mortais de 158 Africanos encontrados em Lagos datam da sua época.
Active and retired members of Portugal's Armed Forces led exercises and gave weapons training to members of several neo-Nazi groups (1143, NOS, MAL) in preparation "for a civil war scenario." #Portugal
Treinos terão ocorrido em 2023 e servido para preparar elementos para um cenário de guerra civil. Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas diz estar “atento a eventuais situações irregulares”.
Militares ajudaram a treinar grupo de extrema-direita para guerra civil em Portugal
Treinos terão ocorrido em 2023 e servido para preparar elementos para um cenário de guerra civil. Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas diz estar “atento a eventuais situações irregulares”.
www.publico.pt
July 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Active and retired members of Portugal's Armed Forces led exercises and gave weapons training to members of several neo-Nazi groups (1143, NOS, MAL) in preparation "for a civil war scenario." #Portugal
The US wasn’t “prompted” to invade Haiti and install a brutal military occupation so much as it actively planned for it, helping create conditions to make invasion seem necessary. The Farnham Plan (named for a VP of now-Citibank) to occupy Haiti was already in place when President Sam was lynched.
July 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The US wasn’t “prompted” to invade Haiti and install a brutal military occupation so much as it actively planned for it, helping create conditions to make invasion seem necessary. The Farnham Plan (named for a VP of now-Citibank) to occupy Haiti was already in place when President Sam was lynched.
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🆕 NEW INVESTIGATION — HAITI 🇭🇹
Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse.
@Ayibopost
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Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse.
@Ayibopost
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July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🆕 NEW INVESTIGATION — HAITI 🇭🇹
Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse.
@Ayibopost
1/5
Today, Forbidden Stories publishes a series of investigations exposing the predators in power behind Haiti’s collapse.
@Ayibopost
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"Stipulations in the bill to increase information sharing between law enforcement agencies also means U.S. authorities could use the rule changes to find out whether an American has accessed private Canadian health facilities to obtain an abortion, for example."
“It would allow the RCMP and CSIS to make information demands from internet providers, banks, doctors, landlords and even therapists, without judicial oversight…. This is not about border security. It is about government overreach and Big Brother tactics, plain and simple.”
Advocacy groups warn federal bill could give law enforcement sweeping powers to access information
Several advocacy groups are voicing concerns that the federal government’s border security bill could grant law enforcement sweeping powers to surveil Canadians and invade their privacy.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Stipulations in the bill to increase information sharing between law enforcement agencies also means U.S. authorities could use the rule changes to find out whether an American has accessed private Canadian health facilities to obtain an abortion, for example."
“It would allow the RCMP and CSIS to make information demands from internet providers, banks, doctors, landlords and even therapists, without judicial oversight…. This is not about border security. It is about government overreach and Big Brother tactics, plain and simple.”
Advocacy groups warn federal bill could give law enforcement sweeping powers to access information
Several advocacy groups are voicing concerns that the federal government’s border security bill could grant law enforcement sweeping powers to surveil Canadians and invade their privacy.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“It would allow the RCMP and CSIS to make information demands from internet providers, banks, doctors, landlords and even therapists, without judicial oversight…. This is not about border security. It is about government overreach and Big Brother tactics, plain and simple.”