Just entirely normal unbiased independent journalists who hate political violence at the White House doing the normal thing journalism work of calling for the government to destroy people with whom they disagree

Really stoked that I got to launch YOU CAN KILL EACH OTHER AFTER I LEAVE at @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social w/ @stevanzetti.bsky.social and a great discussion of fascism and borders, plus had a great turnout this week at the University of North Texas.

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My new book made it onto a list of newly published titles in yesterday’s print version of the NY Times Book Review. YOU CAN KILL EACH OTHER AFTER I LEAVE ( @melvillehouse.bsky.social ), my years-long look at the Greek far right & the refugee crisis, is out tomorrow.

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JD Vance's Munich speech reached its audience.

Here, the currently imprisoned Ilias Kasidiaris, a former parliamentarian with the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, seems to take Vance's comments to heart. He says Vance called out EU "rodents" for "undemocratic blockades of nationalist parties."

This morning, the watchdog Alarm Phone (@alarmphone.bsky.social) reported on X an apparent pushback of a refugee boat by the Greek coast guard near Pasas island. As of Monday, UNHCR says 61,480 people have reached Greece this year.

And Germany is already, almost immediately, hoping to use the occasion to deny Syrian asylum applications and ramp up deportations to Syria.

Really grateful to have a short story I wrote included in the new issue of Epiphany alongside so many great pieces

North of the main town, there is a cemetery that has a small section for refugees & migrants.

The first time I went there in 2016 (1st photo), there were only a handful of graves for people who drowned in the Aegean. Now there are several dozens, including many for small children (2nd photo).

Per EfSyn, camp authorities have forbade these residents sleeping outside from making tents to protect against increasingly cold winter weather.

In early 2020, thousands at Vial were sleeping outside (photo), and they endured harassment as local tensions spiked.

But arrivals are up once again…

With the recent escalation in fighting in Syria, it’ll be extremely telling if EU leaders continue the campaign to designate it a safe country and move forward with the push to deport refugees there

And if you were especially generous, you could order my last book, about US border militias and titled "The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands," also at 30% off until Monday.

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With early (and much appreciated) praise from @shaneburley.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, and Antony Loewenstein:

As part of @melvillehouse.bsky.social's flash sale, you can preorder my book, "You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece," for 30% off until Monday. Preorders help a lot, and this book has nine years of reporting in it.

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Elsewhere on campus, graffiti of the anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, murder by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in September 2013.

The Polytechnic campus, Friday night, as the early comers paid homage to the students the junta killed in November 1973.

A motorcade of Pakistani food delivery drivers joined the Polytechnic march to commemorate the 1973 student uprising. In the front was the brother of Muhammad Kamran Ashiq, whose brother died in an Athens police station in September.

“Resist fascism forever,” read the banner in the front as the march moved toward the US and Israeli embassies

Today, at the 51st anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic student uprising, the former exiles and political prisoners of Greece’s military junta led the march chanting, “Freedom to Palestine.”