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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stoked to talk about book tours and publicity at AWP ‘27 Chicago with these awesome writers—Jared Lemus, Karol Lagodzki , & @agatabrewer.bsky.social ! #awp27 #booktour #bookpublicity

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you’re in Maine next week, come over and chat with us!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/04/2026

Each golden particle, a tiny airborne Judas. I contain multitudes, but mostly mucus. Mucus I wipe away with a CVS receipt longer than my sleeve. My airways are inflamed, and my friends are tired of hearing about it.

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Leaves of Grass (Allergy Edition)

“I contain multitudes, but mostly mucus.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/04/2026

1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

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Elon Musk Is Playing God

The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Czeslaw Milosz "Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Are you a university instructor who would like to support Ukraine? The Flying University for Ukrainian Students organizes remote classes taught by faculty outside Ukraine for students in Ukraine. Those who have done it find it very gratifying. Express your interest here: www.flying-university.org

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Flying University for University Students

Flying University seminars are forums helping Ukrainian students overcome their isolation in the third debilitating year of war, along with expanding their knowledge.

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Amy Carol Reeves @amycarolreeves.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Lovely event last evening at Main Street Books. Good friends Josh and @agatabrewer.bsky.social asked insightful questions and kept the conversation moving. 📚❤️ #bookevent #books #writers #authors

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

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Amy Carol Reeves @amycarolreeves.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just a reminder that I’ll be at Main Street Books in Lafayette this Saturday at 5:30 with @agatabrewer.bsky.social and Josh Brewer. #bookevent #authors #writers

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

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Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 05/02/2026

The billionaire media is laying off great tech journalists in crazy quantities this year - replacing them with AI and sycophants. This would be a great time to throw some dollars, euros, pounds, or dollarydoos to @404media.co, @propublica.org or another independent outlet.

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Amy Carol Reeves @amycarolreeves.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I am so excited about this event at Main Street Books with Josh Brewer and @agatabrewer.bsky.social I have known Josh and Agata since grad school. They are lovely people and brilliant writers. #bookevent #writers #books 📚

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Amy Carol Reeves @amycarolreeves.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Very excited to discuss HOW TO GRIEVE LIKE A VICTORIAN and the process of writing with authors, @agatabrewer.bsky.social and Josh Brewer at Main Street Books in Lafayette, Indiana. #bookevent #writers #books

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ICEBlock Official @iceblock.app · 27/12/2025

Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. It’s called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is it’s Russian. We would never ask for money.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/12/2025

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"One of the reasons that I write is because I'm more interested in looking, as opposed to looking away." ~ Terry McMillan

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Kathleen Lu @kathleenthelaw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

“History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed.”

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Y’all, celebrate this new book with me on Monday, September 29, noon, at Wabash College’s Lilly Library! We’ll feed you!

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

So much fun talking to Rima and Hallie about writing!

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Woooohooo! Today is the official publication date of my new book! Order it for your library!

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

You may have publications listed on your grant proposal, but do you have PUBICATIONS? I do! Follow me for more tips on how to ensure you don’t get the fellowship you desperately need.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

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DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity

The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.

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Special Pleading Service @ftzpltc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Imagine thinking the most disrespectful thing in that office is the guy not wearing a suit, rather than, y'know, the rapist.

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Nicole @natalynicole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The remains of a missing Native American girl were found in the woods near Globe, Arizona. I want this to get as much exposure and out cry as Gaby Petito did. She was only 14. A baby. Our people deserve better.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Enough with the rationalizations and excuses: the Nazi salute is not a troll, and it is not an accident. The neo-Nazi movement is alive and well, and some of the most powerful people in our country have now actively embraced it.

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It’s hard to go on with our daily lives as if the U.S. were not rushing toward dictatorship and fascism, as if global instability as a result of Trump’s echoing Putin’s propaganda were not to escalate, as if genocide were not happening across the pond, supported by taxpayer money.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this. REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.” www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Payday's "Day Without Immigrants" Strike Tracker found strikes in 120 cities & at least 40 states on Monday. While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it. paydayreport.com/map-day-with...

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MAP: "Day Without Immigrants" Strikes in 120 Cities & 40 States

PITTSBURGH, PA. - On Monday, February 3rd, "Day Without Immigrants" strikes were held in at least 120 cities, 40 states, and Puerto Rico, according to strike tracking analysis by Payday Report. This a...

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Friends who are immigrants in the US and can safely strike, here’s the info. I am joining in.

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Hey Jane @heyjane.com · 24/01/2025

Hey Bluesky, we're Hey Jane 👋 We're the leading virtual abortion clinic in the US, and we're excited to get to share info, insights, and updates with you here. We've faced censorship on other platforms, so we're hopeful that we'll find a supportive community here that will help to amplify our work.

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