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."

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.

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:
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ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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

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.

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...

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

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

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.

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

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.

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 📚

The Hunger Book is 30% off, plus free shipping, now through February 29, with the code OSUMLA, if you order it from the @ohiostatepress.bsky.social ’s website:

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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

I was once picked up by God in a Cape Town Uber

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.

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.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

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.

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

Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities." The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

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

Reminds me of this scene from The Wire:

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

“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.”

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

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