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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 1h

I am proud and honored to have been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers since 2015. It is a privilege to work with the brilliant young Palestinian writers I have met through this program.

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Why write in a genocide? - We Are Not Numbers

Emerging writers have flooded WANN with their stories and poems—documenting their lives, asserting their identities, and changing the world.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! 🇦🇲 🇵🇸🇱🇧

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 1d

"I am exhausted. We are exhausted. If fatigue can be worn, we are all wearing threadbare shirts. We long for the Gaza we once knew, for the lives we once lived, and for the selves we once were."
~ Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 3d

“Trump may just throw his weight behind an agreement even more meaningful than the recent peace treaty he concluded between Armenia and Cambodia.” I laughed when I read that line, but it’s all too grim.

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Hamas Responds to Trump

The Palestinian movement appears to have, for the moment, successfully thrown the ball back into the US-Israeli court.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 4d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12d

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 12d

The hell our government has co-created. And as much as we have done to try to put an end to this depraved criminality, it hasn’t been enough. 💔

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’ The terrorism case against the Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. The 27-year-old, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused of displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, last November. Continue reading...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12d

As the Israeli invasion of Gaza City advances, al-Shifa Hospital is facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies, leaving patients untreated and vulnerable. Staff and patients fear an imminent Israeli attack.

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No medicine, no beds, no food or water: inside Gaza City’s main hospital

As the Israeli invasion of Gaza City advances, al-Shifa Hospital is facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies, leaving patients untreated and vulnerable. Staff and patients fear an imminent...

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12d

At least 16 people have died in ICE custody so far this year.

At least 1,250 people detained by ICE are now missing.

Almost half of the people arrested by ICE have no criminal record.

This is fascism, and Trump made sure his oligarchs are profiting from it.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14d

#OtD 24 Sep 1883 during his Address to the National Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky, Frederick Douglass criticised trade unions that refused to organise Black workers. But most unions continued to be whites-only, with exceptions like the @IWW. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9696...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14d

Death toll surges in early Israeli bombardment with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City.

Dozens killed in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify on main city

Death toll surges in early Israeli bombardment with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City.

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 17d

Is the world going to let them get away with this?

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 17d

The recording of The Markaz Review Book Club’s discussion of my novel is now available. I loved talking with Rana Asfour, who asked some great questions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3o...

🎥 Replay: TMR Book Club Discusses “The Burning Heart of the World” with author Nancy Kricorian

YouTube video by The Markaz Review

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 18d

Here is the recording of The Markaz Review Book Club discussion of my novel The Burning Heart of the World. I loved talking with Rana Asfour, who had some great questions for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3o...

🎥 Replay: TMR Book Club Discusses “The Burning Heart of the World” with author Nancy Kricorian

YouTube video by The Markaz Review

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 19d

Read this powerful piece by my mentee Nadera Mushtha who is in Gaza City wearenotnumbers.org/we-counted-t...

We counted the days of war, until they started counting us - We Are Not Numbers

Now they have decided to occupy all of Gaza. And the world does what? The world is still silent.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Nancy Kricorian @nancykric.bsky.social · 21d

A friend sent me this photo of my novel in the window of the Armenian Museum in Watertown

A pile of books in the front window of the museum

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless.

Shocking.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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