Suzanne Conklin Akbari

To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth

FREE LEQAA

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“An open room with 70 people breathing the same stale air. The lights that never quite dim. The strange intimacy of strangers forced to share space, each person trying to carve out a fragment of dignity where none could be found.”

Even this list of Mamdani-focused articles doesn't give a real perspective. 7 of this guy's last 11 pieces are about the mayor.

Which raises a question: what's the editorial decision making here?

Did an editor decide they needed a "Mamdani might be bad, actually" column?

Mamdani acting like a traditional politician in the face of an alleged terrorist attack is a problem for the NYT? He puts out a measured statement & does a serious press conference & that's somehow bad now? I'm so sorry but what the hell?
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Behold NYC's First-Ever Trumpeter Swan A member of the once-near-extinct species has taken up residence in the East River. But why?

Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York City—until now.

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

I live in NJ. The state of NJ, in both percentage and absolute terms, lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state in the union and it's not even close. Every single NJ county lost more jobs than the US average, and most lost >58% of jobs

And yet, nobody interviews "the forgotten man" here.

More evidence for this: reading yesterday's big NYTimes article on last fall's AI-faciliated NEH cuts, and following through the attendant legal filings, I'm reasonably certain that the reason the TEAMS Middle English Text Series grant got flagged as DEI is because they produce "critical editions"

Library and Archives Canada has been hobbled by underfunding for decades, as anyone trying to use their online tools knows. This will effectively be a death-blow to its basic functionality.

A country facing multiple credible threats to its sovereignty but that also cares this little about its own history isn't long for this world.

How Montana tribes are using sovereignty to restore their waterways - High Country News The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.

[October 31st, 1980] The U.S. assured Iran it recognizes Khomeini's regime and would lift sanctions if Americans held hostage are released. Officials denied any imminent breakthrough in the hostage crisis and reaffirmed support for Iran's current government, not the exiled Shah's son.

The self-immolation of Donald Trump YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Feels so weird that I am an Iranologist and that Iran as a country might no longer exist. I know the culture goes way beyond the nation-state, & that I work on the pre-modern period, but it still is a bit odd to be a specialist of a land that everyone seems to hate & gleefully watch being destroyed…

I was there during Nowruz

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

1986.03.08 Sheila E & Prince - San Francisco , Warfield Theatre (Galactus Version) 🌟VIDEO🌟 Prince Concert Video Date:             1986.03.08 City/Venue:  San Francisco , Warfield Theatre ☆Sheila E - Romance 1600 Live☆ ☆Galactus Version☆ Tracks on this recording…

[March 8th, 1986] Sheila E. performed a notable concert at The Warfield in San Francisco, California, as part of her Romance 1600 tour

The essential read for this Sunday is supplied by Cardinal Cupich in Chicago. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

“On International Women's Day, salute to the revolutionary Syrian mother, wife and daughter.” - Aleppo, Syria

March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

#tdih 1971

A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.

They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.

Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
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They have turned this beautiful city into a wasteland. Those who do don’t die from bombs will succumb to unspeakable illness. Most of my close family is in Tehran

Have you ever found yourself in a cemetery getting bullied by an escaped convict who turns out to be your father? omg me too, u will love this

“I went around the park and chatted with people. At the end they said to each other, ‘Stay alive.’ And this might be the most concrete way to describe the reality we are living in Tehran. Don’t die. Stay alive.”

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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was communicated to me by (the Rev'd) Mrs McMurray of C. W. Dumbar The following love story of an Odjibway girl ^ it is founded on a historical incident in the ward of Canada. In 1759 Baigwaineoshee, (the White Eagle driven by the wind,) accompanied as far as the lake of Two Mountains, a party of her tribe, who descended the Utawas to aid Gen Montcalm in the defense of Quebec. While there, she received attentions from a young Algonquin, who, however, never fully declared himself. The attachment was mutual, and continued after her return to the south, where she continued to pour out her affections in these strains, which she composed to an Indian chant and often repeated. A grand niece of hers, thus heard the song, and by [?] frequent re- petition learned it. The term Odishquagumee, meaning a man at the lake of two mountains, or as it [?] literally ? at the end of the chain of water, is the Ojibwe term for an Algonquin. Ia indenaindum - ia indenaindum! Makow we yan ninemooshain wee Odishquagumee [Ah me - ah me! when I think of him - when I bring him to mind, my sweetheart, Odishquagumee, or the Algonquin] Pah bojeaun nebe naubekonig Waube megissun nenemooshain wee Odishquagumee [As I embarked he put the white wampum around my neck, my sweet heart, Odishquagumee] Keguh wejeewin aindah nuk ke yun Neen ge- egobun, ne nenemooshai wee Odishquagumee [I ^ shall go with you, he said, to your native country - I will go with you, ^ he said, my sweet heart - Odishquagumee.]

Nia !nin denau dush, wassahwud gushuh Aindunukkeyaum ke y au neememooshain wee Odishquagummee [Oh, I said to him - it is far away - my native country, my sweetheart, Odishquagumee.] Kai aubik oween, ain aube aunin Kewe naube, ne nemooshai wee Odishquag ummee. [When I [would] looked back again, he would still be looking after me, my sweetheart, Odishquagumee] Apee nay we ne nebow wisheban Aung wash agushing, ne nemooshai wee Odishquagumee [^When he was still standing on a fallen tree, that laid in ^ that had fallen the water, my sweetheart, Odishquagumee] Nyau indenain dum - nyau indenaindum! Makow we yan nin de nain dum we Odishquagumee, [Alas! alas! when I think of him - when I [bring his image to mind] think of him - my sweetheart - Odishquagumee.]

!!! Just found this transcription and translation of a love song by an Ojibwe woman who fell in love with an Algonquin man while traveling near Deux-Montagnes, QC in 1759 during the 7 Years War. I can't quite interpret her name, it looks like Baigwaineoshee "The White Eagle Driven by the Wind"