Caitlin L Chandler

Writer & journalist. Longform in @harpers, @nybooks @washingtonpost & elsewhere

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[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

For @NYTmag, I wrote about the Busmantsi "special home for foreigners" in Sofia, Bulgaria, one of many EU-funded migrant detention centers near the bloc's borderlands -
https://t.co/rSJq3mWHZs

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Caitlin L. Chandler (@CaitLChandler) on Europe’s incoherent response to the war in Iran https://t.co/MP8UeSQYYe

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

with immense thanks to my editor Sheila Glaser, the entire nytmag crew, and most of all the people who spoke with me for this story.

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

For @NYTmag, I wrote about the Busmantsi "special home for foreigners" in Sofia, Bulgaria, one of many EU-funded migrant detention centers near the bloc's borderlands -
https://t.co/rSJq3mWHZs

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

“We are walking into death. There is no solution. If you want to feed us, feed us. If you Don’t want to feed us, kill us”

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

For almost 2 weeks, Khan Suri was kept in a room without bed & with TV blaring 21 hours/day.
Given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.
Not allowed to spend >than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.
His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

At the Island School of Social Autonomy, @CaitLChandler learned how to build a pirate radio station, how to cook without electricity, and how to reframe her own feelings of powerlessness about an uncertain future.
https://t.co/xGXBhg4GMq

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about a family that lost 15 women and children, and the legal questions these attacks raise
https://t.co/hp3DfmobWS

[Dahlia Krutkovich @krutkovich]

For @nybooks, I chatted with @CaitLChandler about the grim reality of European militarization, Euro skepticism's prospects, and what the euphemism of migrant "detention" really means.

https://t.co/Wz3dy2mwAf

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

In our new issue, @CaitLChandler spends a week at the Island School of Social Autonomy, learning the skills we might need to live together when it all falls apart—and looking for a leftist alternative to doomsday prepping. https://t.co/xGXBhg4GMq

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo_news show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."
https://t.co/3rsGPahSMb

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

The view was grim, a global arms race with few dissenting voices - https://t.co/z4D447HfIl

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

For @thedialmag and @nybooks, I went to the @MunSecConf. Lindsey Graham took credit for telling Trump Ukraine was "literally a gold mine." German politicians called for upholding a "rules based order" (omitting they won't uphold ICC warrants).
https://t.co/03V3OoyQJl

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“The Darfur genocide is generally dated from 2003 to 2005, but war never really stopped. For over two decades the Janjaweed and their successors have attacked rural areas, preventing internally displaced Darfuris...from returning to their farmland.” —Jérôme Tubiana https://t.co/q1NRfataZE

[Jacob Kushner @JacobKushner]

“Now I’m in the greatest country in the world,” Sajjad said, dazed from not sleeping. The policeman laughed. At the Gates of Fortress Europe: @CaitLChandler for @nybooks https://t.co/lmeymOT5Mz

[Valeria Luiselli @ValeriaLuiselli]

A parable: the early Romans called the Mediterranean the Mare Magum, or Great Sea. Later, as Rome spread, they called it the Mare Nostrum, or Our Sea. And later yet, as Rome dwindled and lost grip of its colonies, it became simply the Mare Mediterranium, Sea in the Middle of Land

[Statewatch @StatewatchEU]

🚨 NEW: Frontex, "voluntary" deportations, & anti-solidarity

Special report by @HopeAmeliee & @AnasAmbri reveals how EU-backed & Frontex-led "voluntary returns" blur the line between choice & coercion, especially in detention settings.

Read it here: https://t.co/ynBBLv1Rs8

[Lighthouse Reports @LHreports]

Opaque surveillance tools are being sold to governments with the promise they can predict risky travellers and ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships https://t.co/fSlaf3WycQ

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

With immense thanks to @AndrewCouts & the whole team at Wired & @LHreports especially @cr0ft0n & @daniel_howden

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

According to @hrw's senior researcher Anna Bacciarelli, as these systems roll out in different countries, “The potential for harm here is absolutely massive.” In countries without data protection legislation, traveler data and risk scores can be retained indefinitely by govts.

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

These companies use algorithms on traveler data to issue risk scores for passengers. The algorithms which make these determinations are “black boxes", with one algorithm consisting of 100-150 variables. Travelers have no way of knowing they are tagged or profiled.

[Caitlin L Chandler @CaitLChandler]

For @WIRED & @LHreports, I looked inside the European companies (and one UN agency) selling governments around the world software that claims to predict "risky" travelers using AI:
https://t.co/r9ZWll6AZ5