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ZeeshanJaanam

@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
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Columbia University trained poet & translator. MFA @Columbia. Author of The Minister of Disturbances (@DiodeEditions, '20) Former Poetry Editor @pestemagazine

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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Julia Kristeva: “The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.”
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Adrienne Rich on my mind!
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Milton Avery - White Moon - 1957
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Americans are against this w4r. Americans want Healthcare, affordable and good schools, and representatives who do the work of democracy & not tyr4nny.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Early Voting Dates!
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blue Wave is coming.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Degas - Angel Blowing a Trumpet - 1857/59
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liberatio
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Far from the tyrannical kingdom the yellow bird without wings counted its mangled hours. Maybe soon under the weight of its own corruption a detestable throne would fall. The wind whispered all around into the blighted air and the peasants rejoiced, one and all.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Picasso
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Titles of paintings are not explanations, and paintings are not illustrations of titles. —René Magritte
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ángel Zárraga
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do not marvel at all at the faithlessness of the world, O you who are forever filled with wonder. —Mirzadeh Eshghi
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Georges Seurat - A Meadow - c. early 1881
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are you friends still using Bluesky? Should I start regular updates again? 💙
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
There is no sea after this sea. —Ghassan Zaqtan Palestinian poet 🇵🇸
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"The day is ours, the sun is ours, the fire within our hearts is ours. That day we stand hand in hand—our laughter is ours. Yesterday is ours, tomorrow is ours, to love in burning passion is ours. The longing we carry in our eyes—heart upon heart—is ours." —Sezen Aksu 🇹🇷
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Things are so ugly politically, so violent, so merciless, so frightening. I want to run towards poetry and song to escape. But I do think of those who cannot run anywhere. For whom there is no refuge.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Professor Robert Pape at University of Chicago talks to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now that the w4r has completely backfired against Rvmp leaving 20 percent of the world's oil supply in Iranian control effectively and another 11 percent in Russian control. youtu.be/ecjRTJ1YVeM?...
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"The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power": U. of Chicago Professor Robert Pape
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
newrepublic.com/post/208815/...
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
According to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University: "The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary..." Just take that in today.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Regardless of what your faith is or is not, this rings true today: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." —Gospel of Matthew 5:9
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#AllEyesOnLebanon
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Beirut is under heavy @ttack as some ratchet up attempts to destroy the ceasefire(s) and continue w4rs.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spain's PM is one of the only Western leaders who showed any moral courage or took any public risk at all to stop this insane war ON Ir@n.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
CEASEFIRE DAY 1: peace will come when imperi@lism ends. when sovereignty is respected. when humanity is protected.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Solidarity to all the oppressed peoples. You are not alone.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism at NYU:
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Samuel Sinyangwe is an American policy analyst and racial justice activist. And Stanford University Alum. 👇
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Critical supplies of energy and other necessities for modern life are still in a tight squeeze. Expect supplies to run short from here on out until recovery. 👇
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Solidarity to all the oppressed peoples. You are not alone.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
While we celebrate the news of ceasefire in Iran, we cannot forget about Cuba, Lebanon, G@za, Sudan, and many others who have struggled under oppression while the elites in Western capitals pretend that they never existed at all!
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brandon Weichert is a former congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who occasionally serves as an expert for various organizations.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Global South countries must band together and secure their sovereignty. Otherwise the G@za doctrine is what the West will impose. We all know the truth now.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You cannot subjug@te everyone all the time. That's not acceptable anymore in 2026 in a multipolar world.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Historian and professor & scholar of the Holocaust:
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Goodnight friends. Hope is not lost.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
👇👇💯
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Finally it must be said that if certain countries had not put themselves to the task of getting a ceasefire the entire world would suffer exponentially more. This is why diplomacy matters!
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Goodnight friends. Hope is not lost.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Former Advisor to President Obama:
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NATHAN LEAN is a cultural historian and scholar of religion. He teaches at North Carolina State University.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
China is leading while Rvmp is... well, you know.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
All the world powers are acting rationally except for Rvmp / Dvmp.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Washington Post: "Pope Leo XIV escalated his criticism of the war in Iran, declaring President Trump’s threat to destroy “a whole civilization” unacceptable and suggesting Americans could contact their representatives in Congress to stop the conflict." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Pope Leo denounces Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilization’
The Chicago-born pope suggested fellow Americans call their congressional representatives and ask for peace, not war.
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Former US National Security Official 👇👇
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA):
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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In the fog of war... nothing is certain. There are reports of a possible ceasefire negotiated by Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey. Let's see. The horror of nuclear escalation must be averted at all cost.
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