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Meg Smaker was held hostage in Colombia by an anti-FARC militia for about ten days in 2003. She exlpains how her short kidnapping led her to the topic of her most controversial film, Jihad Rehab / The UnRedacted.
Michael Scott Moore
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Michael Scott Moore
@MichaelSctMoore
Bestselling author of The Desert & the Sea (2018); Too Much of Nothing, a novel about LA; and Sweetness & Blood, a surf travelogue. Host of Radio Free Mike.
Joined December 2011
- Somali pirates gave me toothpaste & soap.A Trump official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody
00:00 - Replying to @MichaelSctMoore2/ And the best short essay on America's border camps that I've seen so far is this one by @andreapitzer over at @nybooks :
- Replying to @MichaelSctMoore3/... And here are some things you can do, including donations to RAICES, a nonprofit, for legal services to people who may have none: raicestexas.org/donate/ lifehacker.com/how-to-protest…
- “The atmosphere has grown so contentious, Raffensperger said, that he and his wife have received death threats ... including a text to him that read: ‘“You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.’”
- Replying to @MichaelSctMoore1/ Dang this blew up. For roundedness, here's some more of my work: radiofreemike.net/books/
- Auschwitz liberated by the Russians ~75 years ago, & this amazing e-tutorial on the role of concentration camps is available online: auschwitz.org/en/education/e… @AuschwitzMuseum #Auschwitz75 Also an AP photo series of the ovens and the camps: apnews.com/70257e76e3c67d… @kugrieshaber
- I was held in the bush, on a ship, and then in various houses in a town. I should say I was never allowed near an unofficial pirate phone (for proof-of-life calls). The exception was when a pirate guard let me watch part of "Captain Phillips" on his fancy smartphone.
- #TheDesertandtheSea published in the UK: "His elegant, 450-page account of life in Somalia's hostage machine conveys suffering on an epic scale, a hotter, dustier version, perhaps, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." @colinfreeman99 @Telegraph
- Replying to @dianelyssa @bigbabyJamaican and 4 othersIf this thread somehow kick-starts a Progressive-Christian-Democratic campaign I'll be tickled.
- “Veritas” sure has lost its weight as a venerable word in the last few years. Through sheer abuse.Amazon's paid Twitter army was handpicked for their "great sense of humor" under a program codenamed "Veritas," internal company documents leaked to me reveal: theintercept.com/2021/03/30/ama…
- I would rather impeach the president than go to war with Iran.US-Iran standoff: almost too worrisome for words - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2019/06/us-ira… via @BulletinAtomic
