Jeanne Carstensen
@jcarstensen.bsky.social
Journalist and author of "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis," coming March 25, 2025 from Simon & Schuster / One Signal.
https://beacons.ai/jeannecarstensen
https://beacons.ai/jeannecarstensen
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.
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.
apnews.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
Reposted by Jeanne Carstensen
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...
Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support.
Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
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.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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...
Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support.
Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
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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"
July 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"
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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.
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.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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.
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.
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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 ...."
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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 ...."
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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...
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.
www.wired.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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!
@jcarstensen.bsky.social I read A Greek Tragedy in one sitting on my flight. The way you described these people’s lives before they fled is beautiful, and it is a reminder that everyone has a story. Thank you for giving coverage this one story out of millions.
May 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thanks for reading!
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"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...
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
elpais.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"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...
This is deplorable. The human rights abuses against migrants in Libya have been clearly documented. @sallyhadden.bsky.social
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is deplorable. The human rights abuses against migrants in Libya have been clearly documented. @sallyhadden.bsky.social
“Alarm bells must ring, Loudly.” Indeed
Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention.
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“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
April 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
April 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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.
The tragedy of the Aegean has no end, today 18 people died in two separate shipwrecks north of Lesvos.
25 people were rescued, 9 bodies have been picked up from the sea, and one person is reported missing, believed to also have drowned.
Read full report: www.facebook.com/share/p/16VB...
25 people were rescued, 9 bodies have been picked up from the sea, and one person is reported missing, believed to also have drowned.
Read full report: www.facebook.com/share/p/16VB...
April 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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.
March 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
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!
007 Jeanne Carstensen: A Greek Tragedy
The story of a shipwreck off Lesbos — the worst refugee disaster in the eastern Aegean — ten years on
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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!
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.
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.
www.npr.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
@jcarstensen.bsky.social explores the human tragedy of the refugee crisis and the devastating impact of Europe’s militarized borders.
Beyond the Headlines: Capturing the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis
In the summer of 2012, I stood high up on the rocky cliffs of northern Lesvos gazing out across the Aegean at the Turkish shoreline just five miles away. The international sea border between Turkey…
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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
You can order from all the usual online booksellers – or from your favorite neighborhood bookshop.
#NewBook
March 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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
You can order from all the usual online booksellers – or from your favorite neighborhood bookshop.
#NewBook
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.”
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.
slate.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
A GREEK TRAGEDY is out in just 5 days—March 25, 2025! Hit the link in my bio to pre-order! 📖 #newbook #bookrelease
March 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
A GREEK TRAGEDY is out in just 5 days—March 25, 2025! Hit the link in my bio to pre-order! 📖 #newbook #bookrelease
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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?
March 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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?
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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...
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.
www.justsecurity.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
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?
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.
www.wgbh.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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?
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“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.”
March 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“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!
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW at the Commonwealth Club website or follow the link in my bio under EVENTS.
I hope to see you there!
March 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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!
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW at the Commonwealth Club website or follow the link in my bio under EVENTS.
I hope to see you there!