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Longreads @longreads.com · 15d

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."

@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Edge of Paradise | Broadcast

In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.

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Ben Hess @benhess.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve had the opportunity to interview fabulous executives, nonprofit leaders, and writers over the years. I’m always impressed when @billmckibben.bsky.social speaks about our fragile earth and solar energy. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social did an excellent job moderating tonight’s talk in #SanFrancisco!

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for coming! 🧡

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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · Aug 21

Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...

ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers

Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is part of the greater war on education and expertise that’s ongoing. A professional class of law enforcement is anathema to the people in power who want blunt weapons with which to beat the undesirables, not people who can think, and question, and refuse.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Aug 16

Apart from firearms, the part of training we spent the most time on (if I am recalling correctly) was legal instruction. Now the FBI is hiring people with no college degree and slashing training time in half (reducing academics, guessing ethics also). Absolute disaster www.nysun.com/article/fbi-...

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Michael Smerconish @smerconish.bsky.social · Jul 29

Michael sits down with journalist @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to unpack her fascinating piece in The Guardian on Italian towns offering homes for €1. Are Americans falling for a fantasy, or is the life swap dream real?
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 28

“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.”

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene

“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · Jul 28

New Tool: Detention Reports Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities

Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.

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New Tool: DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities

Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool providing real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thank you!!!

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · Jul 15

You’re the best 😘💕

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · Jul 15

A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · Jul 4

Olive farmers are noticing the effects climate change is having on their harvest, and many foresee a struggling future.

Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.

Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ

Although you can see the natural regrowth beginning around Evia, Father Christos acknowledges that for many young people, the struggle that awaits in the fields is no longer worth their while. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

An olive grove in Greece’s Mesogeia region. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

The old ways are still in use. Here, an olive grower picks the fruiting crop from the trees, then gathers them from her net into a bucket, preparing to screen them and remove any leaves, twigs or dirt. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · May 20

Robyn, our indefatigable production editor, is loving IMMEMORIAL by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and published by @transitbooks.bsky.social

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · May 30

Thank you so much for this xo

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · May 16

@jennitaur.bsky.social and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social's discussion of "Immemorial," recently published by @transitbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...

Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · May 15

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Apr 30

I've been an immigration reporter for a long time. I've never seen communications from DHS appear quite this unhinged, unprofessional, and just wholly unconcerned with seeming legitimate.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Apr 29

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"

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Longreads @longreads.com · Apr 28

"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...

Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Do you ever have experiences, though, where you're like, 'am I just a high idiot thinking all of this is connected?" @laurenmarkham.bsky.social speaks with @jennitaur.bsky.social about people, books, and places as inspiration for "Immemorial." lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...

Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Apr 20

The weird, vague grammar of “you won’t have a country anymore.” Its deliberately awkward phrasing makes response impossible. What does it mean to “have” a country? If one doesn’t have it, where does it go?

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · Apr 14

If you are or you know a USCIS officer at the Vermont Service Center, pls contact me on signal at tanvim.05. I've been covering immigration for 10 years, did it under Trump 1.0, and have a track record of protecting my sources' identities.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 14

The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.

El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.

It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 14

Pam Bondi: “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him…If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.”

Nayib Bukele: “How can I return him to the U.S.? Like, I smuggle him into the U.S.?”

No, you put him on the plane the AG just said the US would provide!

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Apr 8

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Apr 11

The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA.
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

www.science.org

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