Andrea Pitzer

Your regular reminder that I'm not on here much these days. But you can find me on Blu*sky with the same handle! Hope to see you all there...

An American made concentration camp brought to us by @GovRonDeSantis and the current occupant of the White House. Stop using the nonsense name Alligator Alcatraz. This is what it is. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

“Never again” is a promise. But we’re breaking it. @andreapitzer on the global history of camps—and what it says about America today. youtu.be/abhpNL8YigE #BookClub #ItHasToBeRead

Your regular reminder that I'm not on here much these days. But you can find me on Blu*sky with the same handle! Hope to see you all there...

.@andreapitzer talks about the Arctic voyages of William Barents and their impact on Renaissance Europe. Pitzer is a journalist and author of Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World. @ScribnerBooks timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/02/28/rep…

“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#Guantanamo as a Concentration Camp @andreapitzer⁩ on #Gitmo's legacy: "we have a place where there has been #torture, we have a place where there has been riots, we have a place where there have been people held without trial for more than 20 years. commondreams.org/news/gitmo-con…

Fire Elon Musk.

@Olof_Sputnick It was news to me, too!

@andreapitzer I found out today that you are a Dizzying Polyglot, cool. Thanks for being on the Harry Litman show. youtu.be/f6tZcJCKKgs?si…

Amway, DeVos family, John Birchers, Russian money, delusional politics while carrying a Bible... @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"It was 1978. I didn’t realize that this was one of those moments, like Waterloo or Watergate, after which nothing would be the same." I wrote about how my family lost everything after joining Amway, and how characters from my childhood reappeared later in the White House.

“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Concentration Camps (CCamp) Dataset is finally out at JPR! This started as a research project back in 2019 and became my dissertation. I'm super proud of the work @theBraith and @Dan_E_Solo put into this - I'm looking forward to others finally getting to use these data!

It was an honor to talk to the brilliant @andreapitzer about my upcoming book, There Is No Place for Us, the roots of America’s homelessness crisis, and the *real* solutions—not carceral or punitive ones—that would offer a way out of this disaster. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/no-direction…

A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions – the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. #Icebound by @andreapitzer is 99p now! amzn.to/3R2llbJ

Your billionaire gods are losers.

We're about a month from Trump taking office. And we'll never get this time back. In this Next Comes What, @andreapitzer looks at examples from around the world and the US when people in much tougher situations found power by responding collectively youtube.com/watch?v=a5ef9Q…