Caleb Crain
@calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
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Caleb Crain
@calebcrain.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Hi, new followers! I wrote "Necessary Errors," a gay coming-of-age novel set in Prague a year after the Berlin Wall fell, and "Overthrow," a novel about Occupy protesters aswim in surveillance. My short stories have won n+1's Anthony Veasna So prize and the Paris Review's Susannah Hunnewell prize.
“The worker compared the scenes to ‘pictures that I saw in elementary school of how they brought the slaves from Africa.’ ”
Concentration camps:
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."
Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
“The worker compared the scenes to ‘pictures that I saw in elementary school of how they brought the slaves from Africa.’ ”
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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In the room the women come and go,
Asking what time is the Superbo
Asking what time is the Superbo
February 11, 2024 at 6:42 PM
In the room the women come and go,
Asking what time is the Superbo
Asking what time is the Superbo
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This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
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The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
February 7, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
In theory I have reservations about puns but then there’s calling “Pillion” a “dom-com.”
In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
In theory I have reservations about puns but then there’s calling “Pillion” a “dom-com.”
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It just guts me that the Washington Post lost a *quarter of a million* subscribers because of Bezos's sucking up to Trump, and his reaction is, "Obviously the Post should stop covering books and international affairs."
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
After non-endorsement, 250,000 subscribers cancel The Washington Post
Post staffers press for answers on loss of readers and trust after owner Jeff Bezos explained why the paper would no longer endorse presidential candidates.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:34 AM
It just guts me that the Washington Post lost a *quarter of a million* subscribers because of Bezos's sucking up to Trump, and his reaction is, "Obviously the Post should stop covering books and international affairs."
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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Building on @espiers.bsky.social's post, I am again respectfully requesting a Zohran version of the photo shoot Ed Koch did with the Muppets in 1983. You should know I'm a very persistent person & will keep making this demand until someone makes this happen
January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Building on @espiers.bsky.social's post, I am again respectfully requesting a Zohran version of the photo shoot Ed Koch did with the Muppets in 1983. You should know I'm a very persistent person & will keep making this demand until someone makes this happen
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this man will rule for a thousand years
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
this man will rule for a thousand years
“Several people said that Mr. Rosen vowed not to ask anyone to do anything illegal—an assurance that normally, the people said, would go without saying.”
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
“Several people said that Mr. Rosen vowed not to ask anyone to do anything illegal—an assurance that normally, the people said, would go without saying.”
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Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
Immigration process turns sour for an Antioch woman - Nashville Banner
Terez Metry, a dental assistant in Middle Tennessee with no criminal history, was detained by ICE during an interview as she followed legal steps toward citizenship.
nashvillebanner.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
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This is flawless and I feel like Marc Chagall would love it
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
This is flawless and I feel like Marc Chagall would love it
Now only 9!
Only 10 copies on hand
@mzspress now has signed editions of film critic Melissa Anderson's paperback anthology The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2014, gathering work from The Village Voice, 4Columns, Artforum and other cultural journals. ONLY 10 COPIES IN STOCK. Link: mzs.press/History-&-Cr...
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Now only 9!
Hmm. If mining a Bitcoin costs more than it's worth, then new transactions won't get added to the blockchain, right? And if you can't validate the trade of existing Bitcoins, don't they become, practically speaking, worthless?
Surely I'm missing something, but please don't disillusion me.
Surely I'm missing something, but please don't disillusion me.
"The average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently...far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition. It’s a massive wipeout as investors continue to sell off their reserves...."
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
Bitcoin's plunge has made it far less economical to mine the digital token. Some companies are starting to unplug their equipment.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Hmm. If mining a Bitcoin costs more than it's worth, then new transactions won't get added to the blockchain, right? And if you can't validate the trade of existing Bitcoins, don't they become, practically speaking, worthless?
Surely I'm missing something, but please don't disillusion me.
Surely I'm missing something, but please don't disillusion me.
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birds from the marcel schurman company, n.d.
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
birds from the marcel schurman company, n.d.
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Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.
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LFG
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
(1/2 🧵)
(1/2 🧵)
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
LFG
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A modest proposal for Jeff Bezos: donate the Washington Post to ProPublica to operate as a non-profit readers-revenue supported news outlet.
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A modest proposal for Jeff Bezos: donate the Washington Post to ProPublica to operate as a non-profit readers-revenue supported news outlet.
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Here’s a question for Elon: have you seen the documentary Rovina’s Choice, in which a mother weeps as her little girl dies of malnutrition because of cuts to USAID?
Elon Musk will have to testify over his role in shuttering USAID, a federal judge has ruled.
The DOJ tried to protect Musk from testifying, arguing it would “intrude on White House activities," but given Musk wasn’t a secretary or agency head, this reasoning doesn't excuse him. trib.al/MAY31hu
The DOJ tried to protect Musk from testifying, arguing it would “intrude on White House activities," but given Musk wasn’t a secretary or agency head, this reasoning doesn't excuse him. trib.al/MAY31hu
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Here’s a question for Elon: have you seen the documentary Rovina’s Choice, in which a mother weeps as her little girl dies of malnutrition because of cuts to USAID?
Could the moral failure of America’s elite be any greater
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Could the moral failure of America’s elite be any greater
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Pup waits in deep boredom while its humans are meaninglessly absorbed by non-edible objects. Dog's-eye view of art & rarity collecting, c/o Cornelis de Bailleur. Born in Antwerp OTD 1607.
February 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Pup waits in deep boredom while its humans are meaninglessly absorbed by non-edible objects. Dog's-eye view of art & rarity collecting, c/o Cornelis de Bailleur. Born in Antwerp OTD 1607.
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Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public.
Not great. Really not great.
h/t Sahil Kapur
Not great. Really not great.
h/t Sahil Kapur
February 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public.
Not great. Really not great.
h/t Sahil Kapur
Not great. Really not great.
h/t Sahil Kapur