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Home care workers fighting to end 24-hour shifts were dealt a blow yesterday After opposition from Mayor Mamdani, DC37, & Legal Aid Society, Speaker Menin pulled a bill that would ban 24-hour shifts In the assembly, Mamdani co-sponsored a similar bill documentedny.com/2026/03/18/mam…

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New at @project_polis: From inside a blacked‑out Tehran, journalist Peiman Salehi @peimansalehi_ reports on how weeks of US–Israeli bombing and years of sanctions are reshaping everyday life in Iran.

The news cycle can be overwhelming and confusing. To help you make sense of it all, every week, Polis Project founder Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitrav ) answers three questions breaking it all down.

Reporting from Tehran under blackout conditions Beyond headlines this is about how war and sanctions reshape everyday life @project_polis #IranWar‌ #٢٩رمضان #ایران

75 days into his mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani stood at a Brooklyn press conference and called Palestinian author @susanabulhawa words “patently unacceptable” and “reprehensible.” @suchitrav reflects on what this reveals about power and Palestine open.substack.com/pub/thepolispr… l

New at @project_polis: Zoe Patterson reads Mo Ogrodnik’s novel Gulf as a dangerous, orientalist portrait that turns the Arabian Gulf into a land of monstrous Arabs and helpless victims.​thepolisproject.com/read/gulf-nove…

This is an eye witness account from inside Tehran. Do read

What Zohran’s “Reprehensible” Comment Reveals About Power and Palestine by @suchitrav thepolisprojectinc.substack.com/p/what-zohrans…

A year of powerhouse Palestinian cinema, all by women directors of Arab heritage 🇵🇸👏🏾❤️ radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-at…

This is a rare dispatch from a city under siege, written in real time, insisting that Iranian civilian experience cannot be reduced to maps, strike footage, and press briefings.

This is a rare dispatch from a city under siege, written in real time, insisting that Iranian civilian experience cannot be reduced to maps, strike footage, and press briefings. Read and share:​ thepolisproject.com/read/dispatch-…

The dispatch challenges the claim that this is a “surgical” war. From the killing of more than 160 teachers and schoolgirls in Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh school to thousands of destroyed homes, the civilian toll is undeniable.​ According to Iran’s UN ambassador, more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and nearly 10,000 sites destroyed—including close to 8,000 residential buildings, medical facilities, schools, and commercial centers.

New at @project_polis: From inside a blacked‑out Tehran, journalist Peiman Salehi @peimansalehi_ reports on how weeks of US–Israeli bombing and years of sanctions are reshaping everyday life in Iran.​ 🔗 thepolisproject.com/read/dispatch-…

Dispatch From Tehran: Iranians Amid Bombs And Hardship by @peimansalehi_ for the @project_polis thepolisproject.com/read/dispatch-…

🚨LEQAA KORDIA RELEASED: Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, detained by ICE for nearly a year after the Columbia Gaza protest crackdown, has been released on $100,000 bond, according to the New York Times. 🔹 An immigration judge granted the bond March 13, 2026, the third time a court has ordered her release after the government previously blocked earlier rulings. She was released today (Monday). 🔹 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised Kordia’s case with the White House during a Feb. 26 meeting with President Trump, asking that immigration cases against four Columbia-linked activists be dropped. 🔹Kordia, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was arrested by ICE on March 13, 2025 after attending Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University; her protest-related charges were later dropped.

My new reportage: How climate finance and "fortress conservation" criminalize Indigenous land defenders in Kenya, Colombia & Indonesia, while carbon markets profit. #NaijaTwitter, #BBNaija, #Davido #GenZProtests #WeAreAllKikuyus #RutoMustGo / #RejectFinanceBill