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Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com

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https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3ll65ziebss2x

Published: March 25, 2025 01:54

Today's mess makes me think about a post I wrote last week, in which I suggested that Republicans are now so accustomed to Democrats cleaning up their messes that they've come to believe our government is stable and self-sustaining, and that whatever harms…

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkt4yr3ufk2m

Published: March 20, 2025 16:36

I've been thinking a lot about this, from @swin24.bsky.social for Rolling Stone. While it's true the courts don't command an army, this adviser fails to consider the potential for mass protests to become a kind of people's army, simultaneously backing up…

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkriwhfmf22q

Published: March 20, 2025 01:04

Shake out the ruffle, turn and go, Over the trellis blow the kiss. Some of the guests will never know Another night to shadow this... O dark come never down to you. I look away and look away; Over the moon the shadows go, Over your shoulder, nebulae. …

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkp2v32jjc2x

Published: March 19, 2025 01:47

I wrote about what else you can do right now other than protest, and new ways to think about cautionary words you've heard a thousand times. What if we read them not as a warning but as *strategy*? https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/unbreaking-things

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkojvzktpk2y

Published: March 18, 2025 20:44

In YOU CAN'T SAY YOU CAN'T PLAY, Vivian Paley looked at ending kids' exclusion of classmates. She had her grade schoolers discuss it. IIRC, one girl claimed losing her boss position would be more painful to her than exclusion would be to the kid she…

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lklqdhpphc2u

Published: March 17, 2025 18:01

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes.…

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkjbhvrpa22d

Published: March 16, 2025 18:29

Researching concentration camps, I often saw governments justify atrocities and genocide against a violent opposition by saying "they would do worse to us if they could," without acknowledging that these opponents lacked any real capacity to rival the…

https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitzer.bsky.social/post/3lkiuu6nkqs23

Published: March 16, 2025 14:44

At the gym, a guy on the leg press finished and went to the leg curl next door. After I got on the leg press, he came back to steal plates from my machine. He left me enough to do HIS max on leg press but not my max. I shot him a look but was in the middle…