Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
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I wrote about U.S. policy on Afrikaner "refugees" and how a similar kind of coddling has crept into politics across the board.
I wrote a thing about Backrooms, Us, the underground labyrinths of the Bay Area where I grew up, AI slopplegangers, and what's really lurking underneath Silicon Valley.
It's my first for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
$70 billion more for ICE and CBP in the bill being signed into law today. We'll have an analysis out ASAP.
You shouldn't be able to lead an IPO and a pogrom in the same week.
Yesterday morning on the Estela de Luz in Mexico City.
it’s an illegitimate agency built for grift and cruelty, nothing more
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
I wrote about U.S. policy on Afrikaner "refugees" and how a similar kind of coddling has crept into politics across the board.
really upsetting coda to the case of Calvin Duncan, an exoneree who, as I wrote last month, was elected by New Orleans voters in a landslide, prompting state Republicans to pass a law *abolishing* his position:
Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the law last week
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
"The spectacle of violence and dehumanization provides the architecture for the heist: enemies to punish, spoils to claim, repression to normalize, and a public too demoralized and exhausted to track every hand in its pocket." organizingmythoughts.org/the-heist-st...
White solidarity as a primary political principle dooms democracy.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
Why is the Bay Area emerging as the preeminent setting for underground labyrinth horror?
A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millio...
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White solidarity as a primary political principle dooms democracy.
Congress voted to give ICE and CBP another $70 billion through 2029.
"There is no question that this bill passing will make it incredibly difficult to reverse the creation of a huge deportation machine at the hands of President Trump,” @naynagupta.bsky.social tells @washingtonpost.com.
The reward for assaulting democracy and condemning millions of the most vulnerable people on earth to death should not be a trillion dollars.
Puff the Magic Hater
ICE and CBP will be able to keep spending money at a scale that will transform immigration enforcement and with fewer checks and balances.
www.washingtonpost.com
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So:
*Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish.
*The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position.
*The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law.
cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...
