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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1h

This is for someone who had a black walnut tree in their childhood yard, too! (I had them sometimes as a kid, but was never totally sold on them...)

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta admit, black walnut pie is not my favorite. But sometimes you’ve got to make room for requests.

A picture of a homemade pie with a golden crust and a layer of brown nuts on top. It is sitting on a kitchen counter atop a wire cooling rack.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 13h

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 23h

As promised, the PSB Detention Tracker now also contains information on ICE's massive $8 billion construction initiative. Use our interactive tracker to see where ICE is expanding — and who is doing the work.

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ICE Detention Purchase Tracker

Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23h

It's me! I am one of those people. Thank you, cities.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think about this more often than I'd like to.

A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why no, my soul isn't trapped in this empty ketamine vial I'm clutching in my fist. Why do you ask?

A photo of a very pale, uncanny-looking Elon Musk addressing someone while clenching his right hand into a fist and holding a microphone in his left.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I understand the advantages of lard but prefer butter myself, and so am handing down that knowledge.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Trump administration is carrying out wide-scale family separations, far more than in the first Trump term. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXN...

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A ‘MASSIVE CRISIS IS UNFOLDING’: The hidden family separations happening under Trump’s second term

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Making it, I mean. Not just eating it.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Teaching offspring the ancient wisdom of homemade pie crust.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This site is one of the most contaminated sites in the entire country. It's a former military barracks where forever chemicals in drinking water have been found to be 575,000x over the federal limit. It's run by LaSalle Corrections foundation, the "charitable" arm of the LaSalle.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."

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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security

The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! I also include some highlights from the new paper on competitive authoritarianism by Levitsky and Way, which uses their scale for the rest of the world to assess the political condition of the U.S.

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October 2 Friday roundup

Links to the podcast! Also, a few thoughts on where we're at now.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 02/10/2026

Don't forget the link to donate to all of them as well (I still have to update the graphic but the've been added to the page itself)!! secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

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Chip in!

Show your support with a contribution.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great news! Bust out your wallets in this critical moment for the fabulous and ready-to-lead @bethmacy.bsky.social.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, this is by far the biggest weapon that a new Democratic majority will have; full subpoena and contempt power and multiple members that are extremely eager to hold the admin's feet to the fire. The biggest issue re: immigration is that there's SO MUCH else going on for Congress to investigate.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read the piece! I talk directly about the benefits of people who won't necessarily turn their backs on Trump, but are discouraged enough to not vote on November 3.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot

After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Flotsam and jetsam on the morning walk with Area Dog.

A photo of a suburban gutter, with a single woman’s black dress shoe visible at left and a sprig of crabgrass growing in the crack between the blacktop and cement at right.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about those who are being forced by events to see at least some of the damage Trump is doing, and the ways that his skyrocketing unpopularity opens doors for the rest of us.

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Opening the blinds

Authoritarians reveal themselves, even to followers who prefer not to see.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would love an investigative tick-tock, second by second, of how Schmitt managed to shut his dick in a car door today. Because I'm guessing there's an interesting origin story behind his conspiracy theory.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's stunning to me how many corporate and elected leaders are showing their asses regularly these days. Not only through their corrupt actions, but also in a basic bare-bones lack of any capacity to think at even a rudimentary level.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Area Kid is reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time, and I'm anticipating entertaining commentary (though I have no predictions about what it will be).

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I didn't think to look to see if anyone had already posted something similar!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pretty sure this is a lost lyric from Warren Zevon.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wait--you're still living in/near Parkersburg? Somehow I'd forgotten that.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BRB, working on a screenplay for a new Justice League movie.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Area Dog, Area Dog’s +1, and Neighbor Dog.

Three dogs stand on grass, their bodies pointing more or less toward each other. One, a little Sheltie, is inside a chain-link fence. The other two are black and white larger dogs on leashes trailing back toward the photographer.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! Also, god help me, I wrote about recent discourse. "You do not help your own cause when you show up to an argument with little or nothing in the way of receipts."

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September 25 Friday roundup

Links to the podcast! Also: what we talk about when we talk about Mao.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you get to the castle on a rainy night and knock, here's who opens the door.

A photo of Melania and Donald Trump in dark attire, both looking menacingly at the camera.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The reason that there’s always a box is because when the prime goal is punishment, the long-term detention of people is always going to create a space for the next worse thing."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

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