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The lemon-orange in this new daffodil is sweet & bittersweet. The Italian for lemons & oranges -all citrus- is “agrumi” from agro or pungent, bitter, acrid, sour. Naomi Shahib Nye’s poem “That Mysterious Word Holy” starts from a place of bitterness that so many of us know.

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Phil’s former student Emily got us into a Friends & Family pre-opening of the Frick where she is an educator. What a treat to go through the terrific renovation with such a lively, knowledgeable guide. Here are just a few scenes from a happy visit.

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Gaza. Omer Bartov's bracing condemnation of how "Never Again" permits most Jewish Israeli citizens to see themselves as occupying the moral high ground as they, their army, their sons & daughters, & their grandchildren pulverize every inch of the Gaza Strip. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Bronx Bulbs: Rain on & off all day. #HandsOff on all day. Fifth Avenue from 42nd to 22nd New Yorkers filled 5th Ave. Mahmoud Darwish once vowed “I will slog over this road.” The tulip buds broke through today.

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I was joined by @slate.com as I campaigned across NYC for Chaand Raat last Saturday.

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Washington, DC, with the props!

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In this spirit, please contact us if you know of colleges and universities who have had students with Visa revocations. Contact info on our website: wearehighered.org, or DM.

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Shabbat Shalom to everyone out here fighting hard for a safer, more affordable & welcoming NYC 🙃 Help keep up the fight by joining JFREJ? ➡ jfrej.org/join

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Bronx Bulbs. There was rain. The air warmed. The blooms shrugged off their downward nods. The sun set. The sun rose. The daffodils stiffened their necks, made ready for resistance, for reading May Swenson's "A City Garden in April"

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I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

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Bronx Bulbs. Squirrel-snatched. Uprooted-ruin. Thinking of Mark Jarman poem. “Lord of the returning leaves, of sleepers Waking in their tunnels among roots, Of heart and bush and fire-headed stag, Of all things branching, stirring the blook like sap, Pray for us in your small commemorations.”

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Bronx Spring Bulbs’ Progress: Athena lent a hand, making him seem Taller … with crisping hair In curls like petals of wild hyacinth.// Just so she lavished Beauty over Odysseus’ head & shoulders. Then he went down to sit on the sea beach In his new splendor. The Odyssey 6.229-238, Fitzgerald, trans.

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Bronx Spring. This fall, I planted 3x more bulbs than usual. You never know how many will emerge. This painful winter required patience & forced hope. Hope is elusive. I’m now studying the little leaves & buds every day. Maybe they can make meaning for me.

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Good morning #AWP25. I’ll be signing books at table between 11 and noon. Hope to see you then.

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NEW: The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen has accused the Israeli government of blocking journalists from Gaza because of scenes “they don’t want us to see”. Says he’s been there for half a day in 18 months, escorted by Israeli forces. Story:

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This man is my congressman. He is a disgrace. Not sure if @ritchietorres.bsky.social ever purported to be progressive but I have never been fooled

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Why do we have professional organizations and unions? Because they’ll stand up for our work when the bosses and owners won’t

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To Harvard Alumni. First Columbia, then... Please read & sign below w. your OK & preferred form of name & alumni identification (e.g. " '70" or "MD '02") form.jotform.com/250795937135... Publicity will include only the letter w. the list of those IDs, not your email.

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Israeli settlers violently attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” today. After an ambulance arrived to take him to a hospital, Israeli soldiers forced the ambulance to stop and abducted him. Since then, Hamdan’s whereabouts and condition are unknown.

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Not in my name

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I’m off to #AWP25 in LA. Hope to see you there!

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Thanks to all the brave and brilliant Columbia faculty for standing at the front lines of resistance

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Every voice counts

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Newspeak

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You can’t hold the armed forces together this way. Or the country.

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For 8 of his 10 years as Governor, Andrew Cuomo cut a deal to let a Republican minority run the New York state legislature. No wonder they want him to run NYC.

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“It’s so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with federal government,” this congresswoman tells a room full of her own terrified booing constituents

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In continuing our Light the Way BK series, my office is hosting a Bystander Training session led by Right To Be on Sunday, 3/23, at 2 PM at Camp Friendship. Join us to learn various methods for supporting individuals experiencing harassment in public spaces.

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Toward a Gender-Conscious Translation In our first "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Marilyn Booth discuss the outlines and possibilities of gender-conscious translation, how a translator can be transparent about their choices, and Marilyn's translation of Alis…

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Andrew Cuomo pocketed $5 million for a book written by his New York State taxpayer-funded staff, on government time. When the state ethics board started investigating, he tried to shut it down. New Yorkers deserve better than another corrupt politician.

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2) With her visionary press early in the days of the Orange revolution.& with her bookstore and programs in Lviv. With her support of soldiers and families at home. Marjana know us, Americans, very well. We need to listen & support her. Support Ukrainian culture when culture worldwide is at risk

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Marjana Savka has worked harder than anyone I know to build a literary culture in Ukraine in the Ukrainian language for all people, all levels of readers K-12 and beyond. For everyone. home.

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"If you are reading this, I am asking you to understand that Ukrainians will sooner die than kneel. We only kneel for our fallen warriors." Please read & share this powerful piece by Marjana Savka, translated by Oksana Lutsyshyna: writersforda.substack.com/p/crooked-ru... #Ukraine #SupportUkraine

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So many of Ukraine’s best and brightest have been sacrificed in the goal of freedom. Now is the time to honor their vision and keep pushing for the Ukraine they imagined

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Ukrainian writer and soldier Oleksandr Osadko was killed in a mortar attack in 2022. "It's easier to light a small candle than to curse the darkness," says one of his characters. Read his story by Arrowsmith author Yuliya Musakovska: theukrainians.org/spec/peopleo... #ukraine

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Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

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Three more people got killed in an air strike on their tent in Khan Younis. Five more people got killed in an air strike on their house in Jabalia.

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Let this be known: Detaining & attempting to deport Mahmoud Khalil & threatening that i’d be first of many were all timed to occur a week before Israel’s cruel attack on Gaza this night It is an aggressive message to those on campuses and elsewhere who may want to protest the new cycle of genocide.

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Two cowardly shits

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Zohran Mamdani—the NY assemblyman who went viral last week for publicly confronting Trump's Border Czar—raised more than $840,000 over the last two months and has more than 16,000 total donors to his mayoral campaign, per the NYT. Hell yea.

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Calling all readers of poetry. Mosab abu Toha is in the house

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This is a Leader.

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The point of repeating antisemitic tropes while claiming to fight antisemitism is to evacuate any meaning from the term "antisemitism" My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

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