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

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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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
“The myth of the RCMP is that they came to protect us from
the whisky traders and bad guys. They came to protect the conqueror’s property and they still protect the conquerer's property."

-Maria Campbell, 1989
thenewinquiry.com/a-condensed-...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
thenewinquiry.com
londonmikmaq.bsky.social
A Mi’kmaw Elder, sober for 30 years, was tasered twice by two members of the RCMP for refusing to give a breathalyzer:

"Mi’kmaw is Sylliboy’s first language. He said he asked the RCMP for a translator numerous times. "
Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered after refusing breathalyzer
A Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered outside his home in Eskasoni by the RCMP after refusing to take a breathalyzer.
www.aptnnews.ca
jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow
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"All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff
should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
IndyStar.
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The original investigative student
newsroom of Indiana University
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Indiana University fires IDS
adviser amid push to control
student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The DSCC is led by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochest, who have accepted a combined total of more than $7.8 million from the pro-Israel lobby.
TARASC
KIRSTEN
GILLIBRAND
U.S. SENATOR (D)
NEW YORK
$997,622
RECEIVED FROM THE PRO ISRAEL LOBBY AIPAC, DMI
JORPAC]
via opensecrets.ors
@TRACKAIPAC
3/20/25 TARACK
MARK KELLY
U.S. SENATOR (D)
ARIZONA
$505,910
RECEIVED FROM THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY
via opensecrets.org
3/20/25
@TRACKAIPAC TRACK AIPAC
ADAM SCHIFF
U.S. SENATOR |D] CALIFORNIA
$5,234,034
RECEIVED FROM THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY
via opensecrets.org
8/22/25
@TRACKAIPAC † TRACK
AIPAC
LISA BLUNT
ROCHESTER
U.S. SENATOR (D)
DELAWARE
$80,435
RECEIVED FROM THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY
[J Street, JAC]
via opensecrets.org
@TRACKAIPAC
3/20/25
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
I’ve not seen anyone mention this as a factor as to why the Dem establishment isn’t throwing its weight behind Graham Platner, but:

Platner has been outspoken against US military aid to Israel and called its actions in Gaza genocide, whereas Mills has been consistently pro-Israel in her rhetoric.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)
aktange.bsky.social
And the best adaptation of any Dickens that has ever been put onto the screen, or ever will be, is the Muppets Christmas Carol. But I think that is quite possibly the least unhinged opinion it is possible to have about Dickens. It's simply fact.
adriftalchemist.bsky.social
someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding

hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon
markspringer.bsky.social
FB reports of major flood damage in Kipnuk - homes and store floating, people swimming.
Very high water in Quinhagak as well.
jamellebouie.net
vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse
kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
richraho.bsky.social
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
katelynburns.com
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

sakbari.bsky.social
“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.”
louiseseamster.bsky.social
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.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
louiseseamster.bsky.social
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.
nora.zone
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
levostregc.bsky.social
Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!
johnalight.bsky.social
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...
nicholasclayton.bsky.social
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.
chanda.blacksky.app
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!
washingtonpost.com
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
quillbo.bsky.social
DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

Vlad and Papi coming together to hate. A-Rod and Jeter just having to sit there and take it.
levostregc.bsky.social
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
jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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
jimbliss.bsky.social
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."