Jeanne Carstensen

@sandiproy.bsky.social has written an astonish and entertaining book about Chapal Rani, India’s great female impersonator. I’ll be interviewing him tonight. Join us!

Mission Local is the 20th most-read nonprofit news site in the country!

That's according to Nieman Lab. We're in the rankings next to outlets with much larger budgets, covering much larger areas.

Thank you all for helping us get here—onward and upward.

I keep thinking how Amazon got its start — selling books. The loss is devastating for the books ecosystem

Don Lemon says the feds came to arrest him in the middle of the night at his home in LA. Prosecutors told the judge Lemon is a “threat to the community”. Unbelievable.
Judge didn’t believe them.

Lemon says he won’t stop covering the news. He has to be back in court on February 9th.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

I can’t believe I’m posting this. Not only in the US deporting people with no due process, essentially kidnapping them, they are often using full body shackles. This is sick.

Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... MSF halts operations in Gaza City as Israeli offensive intensifies, hospitals overflow and civilians face dire shortages of care, shelter and essentials.

As tanks closed in and relentless airstrikes occurred within a kilometre of our clinics, it was impossible to continue our vital work.

Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support.

Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Sotomayor: "Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse ...."

DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving' Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.

Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

Thanks for reading!

Barrio Obrero, el corazón dominicano de Puerto Rico, se desgarra por las redadas de ICE: “Es una ciudad sitiada” La política del presidente Donald Trump aterroriza en una zona del territorio estadounidense considerada el epicentro migrante de la isla

"En pocos meses se ha roto la percepción de que Puerto Rico era un santuario para inmigrantes, donde las comunidades extranjeras llevaban años conviviendo y enriqueciendo a la boricua." elpais.com/us/migracion...

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

This is deplorable. The human rights abuses against migrants in Libya have been clearly documented. @sallyhadden.bsky.social

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

“Alarm bells must ring, Loudly.” Indeed

New Yorker’s @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social on Trump’s plan to deport 7 million by suspending the rule of law shorturl.at/ijEdg

Here it is — A Greek Tragedy: The Official Book Trailer! Thank you to my dear friend, filmmaker Paul Lundhal, for making this beautiful visual introduction to my book — including the mesmerizing animation of Orpheus’s head washing up on Lesvos.

Eighteen more migrants, including at least four children, drowned today trying to cross from Turkey to Lesvos. I mourn for the families and loved ones of the deceased. These senseless deaths must stop.

What a great night at The Commonwealth Club! Huge thanks to @cwclub.bsky.social and the incredible Tyche Hendricks of KQED for such a thoughtful conversation about A Greek Tragedy and the human cost of failed migration policies.

007 Jeanne Carstensen: A Greek Tragedy The story of a shipwreck off Lesbos — the worst refugee disaster in the eastern Aegean — ten years on

I discuss my new book (A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis) with journalist and author @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social on his tremendous podcast, Radio Free Mike. Check it out!

How a 2015 shipwreck off the Greek coast shows the human cost of the refugee crisis NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.

Listen to my interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. I spoke with host Scott Simon about the October 28, 2015 shipwreck that took 76 lives, the heroic response of the Greek islanders, and the ongoing global migration flow.

So thrilled to have an excerpt from my book A Greek Tragedy in @literaryhub.bsky.social.

It’s finally happening – today is publication day for A GREEK TRAGEDY. And yes, it’s available between two beautiful covers, as an eBook, and as an audio book read by Cassandra Campbell.

You can order from all the usual online booksellers – or from your favorite neighborhood bookshop.
#NewBook

We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.

Dalia Lithwick: “We are now at the place, only eight weeks into this presidency, at which judges must decide if they will take the necessary steps to enforce their decisions, including sanctions and contempt, or if they will agree to be made irrelevant. Those are the remaining options.”

Thank you to @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social, one of this country’s best writers on migration, for supporting A GREEK TRAGEDY. It means a lot.
A GREEK TRAGEDY is out in just 5 days—March 25, 2025! Hit the link in my bio to pre-order! 📖 #newbook #bookrelease

Trump hates accountability & certainly doesn’t want oversight. He fired about 17 independent lawyers in Gov’t whose job is to neutral and forever the public against govt abuse of power. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Ask yourselves why he attacks an org that has way less money & powder than he does?

Trump Administration Appears to Launch 'Alien Enemies Act' Deportation Program Trump administration appeared to start the process of carrying out the deportation of Venezuelan nationals pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act.

This is some serious shit. The Alien Enemies Act led to the internment of US citizens of Japanese descent during WWII. www.justsecurity.org/109133/alien...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

ICE brutalized this man, a legal resident of the US from Germany. They “violently interrogated” him at Logan and tried to take away his green card. First Khalid, now Schmidt, next?

“Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic,& women veterans.The website for Arlington "unpublished" links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and educational material pertaining to Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as some Medal of Honor recipients.”

A Greek Tragedy is coming to The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco! @cwclub.bsky.social

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW at the Commonwealth Club website or follow the link in my bio under EVENTS.

I hope to see you there!

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

“DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does.”