Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/08/2026substack.com/@sarahkendzi...substack.comSarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)"They are stripping down the United States and selling it for parts and trying to convince ordinary Americans that it was their own idea." From THEY KNEW, a history book I wrote about the future. The... 212053 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The nagging question at the back of my mind: WHAT IF, where we see failure, the villain-in-chief in fact is achieving his goals? WHAT IF the actual goal IS disaster, any kind of disaster, as long as it leads to depopulation and giving the ultra rich more "Lebensraum"? 010 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One of my favorite short stories of all time. storyoftheweek.loa.org/2026/08/the-...storyoftheweek.loa.orgThe Outcasts of Poker FlatIn one of Bret Harte's most famous stories, a group of exiles from a Gold Rush town encounter two young elopers heading in the opposite direction. 000 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 05/07/2026An example of how neutral tone in journalism=being out of touch w/reality "In devising the snow room aboard the Serene, [PR] took style cues from the yacht’s owner ... who was said to have wanted a reminder of his subzero homeland in the uplands of central Russia.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/s...nytimes.comTo Beat the Heat, the Wealthy Are Building Snow Rooms 010 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I believe a true test of trump's showmanship will be his own demise. I can see the headlines: Trump finally puts Fun into Funeral. 000 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026People laughed when Trump said the war would only end with unconditional surrender but he's a man of his word and he has now surrendered unconditionally 6653681095 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026In this video, I say the obvious about Trump’s proposal to increase the military budget by nearly 50%: it’s a bribe to officers and soldiers so that they will side with him when he tries to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power indefinitely. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-mil...snyder.substack.comTrump's Military Dictatorship BudgetThe proposal only makes sense as a bribe 521214551 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026At least 51 deaths and 10 alleged suicides in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...;apnews.comICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate, an AP investigation findsImmigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversigh... 1312178 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A wonderful resource on redacted poetry from Terry Pitts's blog focused on fiction using photography. sebald.wordpress.com/redacted-the...sebald.wordpress.comRedacted—The Poetry BibliographyRedacted—The Poetry Bibliography by Terence Pitts is covered by Creative Commons License 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND, which enables reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unada… 010 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026priorities don't include the poors 🤷♂️ 0114 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 25/05/2026"If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, then you have a serious problem." 35 years on, Toni Morrison's words are as raw and poignant as at the time of the interview. She saw the world with the lucidity of love, unclouded by ego or politics. This is also why she remains dangerous. 110 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 23/05/2026@libraryofamerica.bsky.social LoA has brought out some wonderful writers in recent decades, like Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Gary Snyder... It published authors during their lifetime, like Don DeLillo... It's been nearly 7 years since the death of Toni Morrison. When will she be included in LoA? 010 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Having some time to kill, stepped into my local library and picked up the first book that caught me eye. Mayra Montero’s novel (2005, trans. 2008) is a Cuban “Shadow Ticket”. Why isn’t she being more widely read? I’m 40pp in and hooked. 020 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This post from POTUS is impeachable. One lunatic does NOT get to wipe out an entire civilization. THIS is what Hitler did, and all you MAGA fucks call us crazy (well, you use the R word) because we see Adolf in Donald. Well, look no further than here 👇 76936268 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 21/11/202519th c card catalogue at the Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de médecine in Paris 020 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Seems like a good moment to post Brion Gysin’s photo spread of Centre Pompidou being built. ‘77. 073 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 15/11/2025You will be missed, Michèle Audin! In addition to being a mathematician, she was an amazing writer who traced the fates of individuals lost in the interstices of history - from her own father in Une vie brève and Cent et vingt et un jours to Parisians under the Commune in Comme une rivière bleue. 020 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r... 153 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 12/11/2025@sarahkendzior She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither 021 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 11/11/2025@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended? 619488 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Yoko Ono @yokoono.bsky.social · 07/11/2025PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966) www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764 Play it for as long as you can remember who is your opponent and who is your own self. y.o. 1966 16415 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025"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" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...frederickjoseph.substack.comNormal Times in Dire TimesFascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it. 12439831905 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/10/2025They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.chicagotribune.comThey were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children. 391328582 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Fotoplastikon, or Kaiserpanorama in Poznań: stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Paris 030 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The new Olga Ravn book from New Directions reminds me of a 1980s/90s series of books in translation by the Polish publishing house PWN. 030 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 03/10/2025From The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, excerpted in The Serpent and the Fire, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada 020 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Read in March (M.A.) and currently reading (L.M.): two books from Éd. Minuit. The titles could almost be interchangeable: two houses haunted by the past, disappearances, the war(s), and buried secrets. Two beautiful writers taking the scraps of history and constructing a moving narrative. 020 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/08/2025This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵 11072330411407 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 23/08/2025And let's not forget this crook got 8.1 billion dollar richer since grabbing power. chng.it/FPdJR4WFc2chng.itHave you seen this petition yet?🚨🚨🚨 EPSTEIN SCANDAL // REMOVE TRUMP FROM POWER 🚨🚨🚨 010 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Giuseppe Penone at the Serpentine Gallery, London 010 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska NPR @npr.org · 03/08/2025When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq 459147465703 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊ 408204835640 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 02/08/2025I am halfway through vol. ii of Solvej Balle’s Calculation of Volume. The book has an uncanny way of drawing the reader into its labyrinth. I went to @blackwells.bsky.social to see when vols. iii & iv were coming out. Of course, the only day possible: November 18. 000 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 01/08/2025Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/... 14417 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 01/08/2025Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in russian-occupied Donetsk Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the russian FSB have even formally charged the #journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023khpg.orgMelitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied DonetskAlthough there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023 29550 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Steve McQueen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Marian Goodman Gallery www.mariangoodman.com/mgg-presents...mariangoodman.comSteve McQueen and Hans Ulrich Obrist 000 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility 6757432444 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at largemotherjones.comColbert's cancellation is a dark warningCBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large. 1299247167471 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...bbc.co.ukIsrael levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC NewsInvestigation by BBC Verify using satellite images and verified footage to show the extent of destruction in Gaza, where the Israeli military have carried out demolitions to raze entire towns and subu... 089 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025✊🏾✊🏾August 2 ✊🏾✊🏾 📣 Rage Against The Regime 📣 50501 Movement 🗽🇺🇸 ✊🏾💪🏽✊🏾💪🏽✊🏾💪🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #protests #resist #fightfascism #nokings #project2025 #defenddemocracy #resistance #defenddenydepose #wethepeople 0189 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...nytimes.comFanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 000 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com 12253688013341 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The wars had their harvest— What did you gain? Only black trenches. MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003) art by: RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947) 021 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025This can’t be repeated enough: Masked soldiers are disappearing people off our city streets and it’s not some post-apocalyptic, dystopian novel. It’s actual America, 2025. 19458081792 0
Ela Kotkowska @aileverte.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Let’s bomb this thing: fill out the survey as many times as you want! 000 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/07/20256/8 Here’s the link to the DEI-scare survey. Fill it out. If your honest answer is “no” to all, they’ve got their data. 📉 rb.gy/fnrbgcrb.gyMicrosoft Forms 5319 0
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized. 33662092275 0
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