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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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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18h
Ask me about how easy it is for a community member or other party to “register as a vendor.”
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 18h
It is almost impossible to do the most reasonable thing to do at American college campuses because the system is so utterly broken. Everyone has to register as a vendor for the most minor thing. And filing for a reimbursement for ANYTHING is specifically designed to break your will to live.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12h
A group of House Democrats has called for Israel to release hundreds of health care workers, including physicians like Hussam Abu Safiya, from detention as Israel’s genocide in Gaza reaches into its fourth year.
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Tlaib, Democrats Call for Israel to Release Palestinian Doctors From Detention
Israel has killed over 1,700 Palestinian health care workers in three years of genocide in Gaza.
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 10h
these ten people hold 3 trillion in wealth combined Elon Musk Larry Page Jeff Bezos Sergey Brin Mark Zuckerberg Michael Dell Jensen Huang Larry Ellison Steve Ballmer Warren Buffett
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 12h
Aden Kumler's Mellon lectures from May have just been posted on the National Gallery's YouTube page. Here's the first one: youtu.be/BZs7e6ZTqqM?... They haven't made a playlist yet, but from there you should be able to find the others. #medievalsky @uoftcms.bsky.social
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I. Regio dissimilitudinis
YouTube video by National Gallery of Art Talks
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delightful
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
good review and also, there is still something to be written about Sarah Palin as a key figure in creating the political space that trump seized just a few years later.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-bui... In the spirit of intramural rigor (as in, we are on the same side), I wrote a review of Sarah Longwell’s highly engaging but at times flawed new book on how to build an anti-MAGA coalition.
liberalcurrents.com
You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fantastic news!
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The wanderer above the fog sees the future Are we in it?
Caspar David Friedrich's painting The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

In it, we see a man, dressed in a dark suit, walking stick by his side, from the back, atop a rocky peek, looking out over a mountain range, the valleys below obscured by fog
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
Again, the US isn't structurally racist because people *feel* it is. The US is structurally racist because empirical research across a wide range of fields, from history to sociology to economics, has *shown* it to be. This is the right way to think about US history, and people should be taught it.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good luck with that
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That ys me yn the cornir That ys me yn the spotte lighte Sendinge myself a fyle quicklye yn email and nevirthelesse typinge "best wisshes" by cause it wolde not do to be rude to myselfe
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
gadgetreview.com
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.
Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Claims to indigenous nationhood comprise a form of presentism. The existence of po­liti­cal communities imagining themselves as nations is read back into a time when ­people did not or­ga­nize themselves as such." (Sharma, 2020) A book from 1694 referring to Haudenosaunee nations as "nations"
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
TREATY
BETWEEN
His Excellence
Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Go-vernour in Chief of the Province of New-York, &c.
AND THE
INDIANS
OF THE
Five Nations,
Viz.
The Mohaques,
Oneydes,
Onnondages,
Caionges
and Sennekes, at Albany, beginning the 15th of
August, 1694
Printed & Sold by William Bradford, Printer to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, as she Sign of the Bible in
New - York, 1694
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“nys nat”
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is here:
uc.utoronto.ca
2026-27 W. J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature | University College U of T
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ich sing as it doth rayne, Ich sing as it doth rayne - What a merveilous feelinge! Ich am mirthful agayne. Ich laughe loude at cloudes That glowere above, The sonne yn myne herte Ich am redy for love.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Halumii Ktapihna contains visual art created by Lenape people, along with traditional dress, samples of music, and efforts to revitalize Lenape words and phrases.” 🧡
theguardian.com
Abducted, renamed, but still here – the art of the first Native New Yorkers and their fight for their land
The US tried to forcibly assimilate the Lenape in brutal boarding schools, but a new exhibit proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 30/09/2026
SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never listened to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *plays video* please explain this video of you [SMITH]: That is Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure"
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Back in 2017 I co-organized an event collecting stories of sexual and gender-based misconduct and violence at Yale Divinity School. Several of the submitted stories concerned abusers being able to graduate without penalty etc. despite leadership knowing. Nothing changed. No one really cared.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/09/2026
It’s almost as if there are more ways to measure the value of work than just the amount of money it makes people.
 A country with fewer social workers and teaching aides, with less study of the arts and history, is a country that’s not investing in its own future.
newrepublic.com
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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shameless
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
According to the EndNotes crowd, nothing much happened in the 2000s, until the economic crash of 2008. In reality, the decade kicked off with heightened Indigenous resistance, not only in Palestine but also in North America.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Starting in February 2006, community members from Six Nations occupied the site of the proposed development, which they named in Mohawk Kanonhstaton ([ganũhˈsdaːdũ], English: ‘the protected place.’”
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just gave a lecture on the French and Haitian Revolutions and got to use this amazing 1948 painting by the Haitian artist Dieudonné Cedor depicting the 1791 Vodou gathering in the forest of Bois Caïman, the pivotal ceremony that ignited the revolution.
A priest dressed in bright scarlet robes stands at the center with arms outstretched upward, directing the ritual invocation.
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now that the BBC has picked up this story, it has gone "viral" and gone beyond the bubble of experts on German politics and society. www.bbc.com/news/article... I thought I would add some more context that isn't in the article. #Stoplersteine #Germany #HolocaustMemory
bbc.com
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Today marks three years since the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was illegally felled. We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.
A close-up of sycamore shootsThe stump is hidden by a thick ring of green shootsThick, green shoots surround the stumpShowing tall shoots, growing above the stump
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/09/2026
do they maybe need someone to play guitar and also shoot fire on top of a truck while being held aloft by some sort of bungee cord, asking for a friend
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
tribalbusinessnews.com
Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land return
The Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, the players shouldn't have been put in this position but at the end of the day, everybody is their own moral agent and Bazunu is the only one of them with a backbone.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
thehandbasket.co
I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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