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Suzanne Conklin Akbari
@sakbari.bsky.social
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Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog.

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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 · 2h
“Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities. Apollo Global Management, which Rowan co-founded in 1990, own[s] the for-profit University of Phoenix.”
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 3h
Private equity gets its toothhold into firms through economic squeezing, devalues them, then breaks them into parts to sell off. This compact is the squeeze that will simultaneously advantage for-profit ed *and* make it easier to PE-ify non-profit ed. The ideological component is a means to an end.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 4h
an article with more context
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 3h
Private equity gets its toothhold into firms through economic squeezing, devalues them, then breaks them into parts to sell off. This compact is the squeeze that will simultaneously advantage for-profit ed *and* make it easier to PE-ify non-profit ed. The ideological component is a means to an end.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 4h
an article with more context
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...
Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report
Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...
www.republicreport.org
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 22h
Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...
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Nick @nicholasclayton.bsky.social · 22h
The Dem party establishment has also been outright hostile to nearly every young candidate that has built their own grassroots support structure: AOC et al, Mamdani, etc.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h
Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h
Breaking news: MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values.
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
wapo.st
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Lisa Noble @nobleknits2.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
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Comrade Quill @quillbo.bsky.social · 2d
DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

Vlad and Papi coming together to hate. A-Rod and Jeter just having to sit there and take it.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d
Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:

Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d
The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention
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Jim Bliss @jimbliss.bsky.social · 4d
Something that's been going on for a while now. This is Einstein writing in 1949...

monthlyreview.org/articles/why...
Paragraph from Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein. It reads: "This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 8d
doing Ovid’s Metamorphoses for #inktober
1. Creation
Abstract ink illustration with shapes suggesting rocks, water, flagella, moons, stars
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Marloes 🌷✨🍉 @marveloesje.bsky.social · 8d
The Flotilla has achieved several remarkable victories. But the one thing that hits the hardest is that for the first time in years, Palestinians were able to go fishing due to the Flotilla keeping the IOF distracted. May it be the first of many wins ♥️
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d
A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10d
before and after hegseth's directive
Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy. William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 11d
September Native News Roundup is out today. News from Palestine, repeating history, federal cuts hit tribal radio and Native students, plus resources for supporting Trans folks. Read and subscribe:
September 2025 Native News Roundup
News from Palestine, repeating history, federal cuts hit tribal radio and Native students, plus resources for supporting Trans folks.
open.substack.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12d
The whole outrageous story:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 13d
Grateful my son has an English teacher thoughtful enough to assign works on Greek mythology including passages like this.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14d
FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 15d
saved this clipping since 28 Sept 1988 smdh

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d
ICE advanced again, started firing at photographers/press intentionally. Took a nasty lick to the face, unsure if pepper ball or rubber bullet.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d
Protesters sing “we will not be moved”
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d
A line of protesters blocks the lot chanting , “No ICE! No KKK! No fascist USA!”

The lot is also used by businesses here. When non-ICE vehicles approach they shout “real jobs!” and move to let them pass.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d
Protesters who had been gathered at the end of Harvard Street are now well down the street, closer to the ICE building. ICE agents stand at the fence.
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