Anya Kamenetz
@anya1anya.bsky.social
Ex-NPR. Writer. New Narratives Fellow, EHRP. Books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Art of Screen Time, The Test, The Stolen Year, and next up: Falling In Love With The World Again. thegoldenhour.substack.com
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Anya Kamenetz
@anya1anya.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Announcing my next book! Via @publisherslunch.bsky.social
" Unless the architects of Alligator Alcatraz are convicted at trial for torture—indisputably illegal by law enforcement on U.S. soil—this will happen again, except worse."
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
" Unless the architects of Alligator Alcatraz are convicted at trial for torture—indisputably illegal by law enforcement on U.S. soil—this will happen again, except worse."
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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“This new investigation is political theater and government overreach. It is not about protecting students. It’s about intimidating and silencing teachers.” www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
Philly teachers say congressional probe into alleged antisemitism is a ‘witch hunt’
A congressional investigation alleges the Philadelphia school district “is rife with antisemitic incidents.” Several educators are asking school leaders to protect staff amid the investigation.
www.chalkbeat.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“This new investigation is political theater and government overreach. It is not about protecting students. It’s about intimidating and silencing teachers.” www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
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a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:
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Enormous mistake as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reappoints Jessica Tisch NYPD commissioner. He calls her a pursuer of police corruption but she promoted John Chell. Calls her an opponent of authoritarianism but she collaborated with ICE. The case against Tisch:
Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch
With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again
www.forever-wars.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Enormous mistake as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reappoints Jessica Tisch NYPD commissioner. He calls her a pursuer of police corruption but she promoted John Chell. Calls her an opponent of authoritarianism but she collaborated with ICE. The case against Tisch:
Holiday cookie party, unsupervised teen edition
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Holiday cookie party, unsupervised teen edition
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
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150,000. Fucking Hell.
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
150,000. Fucking Hell.
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6725165. Check out this cool Bay Area fundraiser!
Careforce Cares About Bay Area Immigrant Families
Brown Paper Tickets - The first and only fair trade ticketing company!
www.brownpapertickets.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6725165. Check out this cool Bay Area fundraiser!
There's a loneliness epidemic, so I wrote about how I made so many friends. thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/im-a-worki...
I'm A Working Mom In My 40s And An Introvert. I Have More, Sweeter, And Deeper Friendships Than Ever In My Life
Here's how I do it
thegoldenhour.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There's a loneliness epidemic, so I wrote about how I made so many friends. thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/im-a-worki...
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BREAKING: The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel just voted to drop the hepatitis B birth dose from its recommendations.
This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy.
A disaster for public health.
This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy.
A disaster for public health.
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
BREAKING: The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel just voted to drop the hepatitis B birth dose from its recommendations.
This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy.
A disaster for public health.
This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy.
A disaster for public health.
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IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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reminder that as activity picks up in places like Twin Cities, Louisiana, Alabama etc, my @propublica.org colleagues & I are still investigating immigration enforcement
I'm particularly interested in use-of-force & am still tracking the detention of citizens
Reach out ⬇️ if you have info to share
I'm particularly interested in use-of-force & am still tracking the detention of citizens
Reach out ⬇️ if you have info to share
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
reminder that as activity picks up in places like Twin Cities, Louisiana, Alabama etc, my @propublica.org colleagues & I are still investigating immigration enforcement
I'm particularly interested in use-of-force & am still tracking the detention of citizens
Reach out ⬇️ if you have info to share
I'm particularly interested in use-of-force & am still tracking the detention of citizens
Reach out ⬇️ if you have info to share
Please Democrats, if and when you take power again totally restructure SCOTUS. It’s broken.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
amazing reporting, must-read thefern.org/2025/12/insi...
Inside the deadliest immigration-related disaster in U.S. history | Food and Environment Reporting Network
The brothers were starting to wonder if their smugglers had left them to rot. For more than two days, Begaí and Mariano Santiago Hipólito had been holed up with roughly two dozen other migrants in a…
thefern.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
amazing reporting, must-read thefern.org/2025/12/insi...
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When Trump & Starmer slash intl aid, kids are killed....
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When Trump & Starmer slash intl aid, kids are killed....
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I wrote this spring about an intriguing idea: Could utilities pay people to electrify their home with new appliances, instead of just swapping out old pipes? nysfocus.com/2025/03/10/n...
@emilypont.bsky.social profiled the woman who’s actually doing this, on her own, for ConEd. Wonderful piece:
@emilypont.bsky.social profiled the woman who’s actually doing this, on her own, for ConEd. Wonderful piece:
Meet Con Edison’s One-Woman Electrification Show
Julie Liu is converting gas customers to heat pumps, one home at a time.
heatmap.news
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wrote this spring about an intriguing idea: Could utilities pay people to electrify their home with new appliances, instead of just swapping out old pipes? nysfocus.com/2025/03/10/n...
@emilypont.bsky.social profiled the woman who’s actually doing this, on her own, for ConEd. Wonderful piece:
@emilypont.bsky.social profiled the woman who’s actually doing this, on her own, for ConEd. Wonderful piece:
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As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
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It’s easy to feel like the sky is falling with the Trump administration's attempts to ban clean, cheap energy.
But there’s reason for hope. We’re making progress lowering costs, building clean energy, and tackling climate change all across the country.
Long thread of wins you may have missed 🧵👇
But there’s reason for hope. We’re making progress lowering costs, building clean energy, and tackling climate change all across the country.
Long thread of wins you may have missed 🧵👇
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s easy to feel like the sky is falling with the Trump administration's attempts to ban clean, cheap energy.
But there’s reason for hope. We’re making progress lowering costs, building clean energy, and tackling climate change all across the country.
Long thread of wins you may have missed 🧵👇
But there’s reason for hope. We’re making progress lowering costs, building clean energy, and tackling climate change all across the country.
Long thread of wins you may have missed 🧵👇
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A court recently ruled that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, which supports libraries and other programs all over the country. Earlier this year, @anya1anya.bsky.social wrote a story on an IMLS-funded program in South Dakota:
A South Dakota museum takes students on flights to the stars, but future trips are in question because of cuts from the Trump administration cuts
The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries like the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre. The Trump...
hechingerreport.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A court recently ruled that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, which supports libraries and other programs all over the country. Earlier this year, @anya1anya.bsky.social wrote a story on an IMLS-funded program in South Dakota:
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Can I just fucking say, imagine if any of these people ever faced any kind of fucking consequence for just blurting out bullshit like this
“In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers”.
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
www.businessinsider.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Can I just fucking say, imagine if any of these people ever faced any kind of fucking consequence for just blurting out bullshit like this
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.