Andrea Pitzer
Books! Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com
- I sincerely believe we can build a better country than a Dollar Store goon-squad police state.
- I wrote about standing in close proximity to Death. And the tiny ribs of toddlers.
- This is the kind of thing you say if you're looking to reach a quota of senseless cruelty rather than any rational legal result.
- Reposted by Andrea PitzerApparently I’m the first Northern resident ever to host this shindig! Pretty excited about it.
- 🎉 The 2025 #NationalMagazineAwards Gala is on June 13! 🏆 Awards hosted by @evaholland.bsky.social 🎟 Get your ticket: zurl.co/l1Mdl #NMA2025 #CanadianMagazines
- Reposted by Andrea PitzerI always thought that habitual offender laws and three strikes laws emerged in the 1990s as part of the tough-on-crime era. But then I was looking through old state codes and I saw a three strikes law from 1923. Then I found dozens from around this time, and wondered (naively) what was going on.
- Reposted by Andrea PitzerUS may soon deport migrants to Libya on military flight, sources say From an old playbook —Ibn Sheikh al-Libi was stashed in Libya following his #torture and false claims there was al-Qaida in Iraq — used to justify war. Libya claimed he then committed suicide. - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
- Reposted by Andrea PitzerBig in NC: Republican Jefferson Griffin has ended his efforts to overturn the state supreme court race he lost in November. He just conceded to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs. Background: GOP judges in NC's state courts were agreeing toss thousands of ballots until a federal judge intervene.
- Reposted by Andrea PitzerDon’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
