Alistair Kitchen

please stop

Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

I believe I was on this list when I was deported. If you have more information, please reach out. Signal in bio, identities protected.

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Academia dot com... I do not care

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

We've got @jessielilley.bsky.social back and we're chatting with @alistairkitchen.bsky.social so you know it's gonna be good un. Join us on Spin Cycle from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social

Brad Lander… what a guy

The detention, interrogation, phone search and deportation by CBP of journalist @alistairkitchen.bsky.social at LAX in retaliation for his reporting is a blatant attack on press freedom and a tactic of an authoritarian state.

This is a shameful stain on the DHS and this whole administration.

One hell of a week Hi, hello, and thank you

One hell of a week open.substack.com/pub/alistair...

My thanks to Chris and to the curly girl method.

Here I tell @chrislhayes.bsky.social my story of detainment and deportation.

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.

"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

When the writer @alistairkitchen.bsky.social was stopped by C.B.P. last week, an officer told him it was because of what he had written about the protests and Columbia. Kitchen was detained, his phone was searched, and he was eventually deported. nyer.cm/miKH6aK

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.

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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

Thank you, everyone, for the support. You can now read my full account at The New Yorker.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Journalist Who Decried Trump's 'Deportation of Dissent' Says He Was Deported for Dissent | Common Dreams "Alistair Kitchen's deportation is a clear case of retaliation in connection with his reporting, and such action sends a chilling message to journalists," said one press freedom defender.

The agents just came out and said it: 'We both know why you've been detained…it's because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia.' @alistairkitchen.bsky.social

But Smartraveller still says nothing about the risks to Australians with anti-Trump views.
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Deportation of Australian Writer For Speech Fits “Disturbing Pattern” of U.S. Border Agents Screening Visitors For Their Viewpoints - PEN America Australian writer detained at border for speech critical of Trump and Israeli administrations and part of a growing censorship trend.

"Writers, artists, and scholars must be free to express their views openly without compromising their free movement across borders," said PEN America's @jonfreadom.bsky.social following detainment and deportation of Australian writer Alistair Kitchen for his personal writings pen.org/press-releas...

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social I learned from the best

Kitchen Counter | Alistair Kitchen | Substack Essays about the world we create. Click to read Kitchen Counter, by Alistair Kitchen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I'll be writing all this up with more detail shortly. For now I'll just say---I believe what I say and say what I believe. The offending posts are all online. Find out for yourself if my words post a danger to the US and *subscribe to my substack*

www.kitchencounter.blog

They just came out and said it:

“We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”

- My phone contents were immediately downloaded, on threat of deportation
- In retrospect I should have denied search and accepted immediate deportation; in general I was too compliant, too trusting, too hopeful

If you are deleting social media ~48 before your flight to the US, *it is already too late.*

- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane
- They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me
- I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication
- Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir

15 hour flight + 12 hour detention + 15 hour flight = one of the harder experiences of my life

I had it easy, one woman had been in that detention room 4 days when I arrived, she’s still there

@qantas-official.bsky.social held onto the phone for the duration of the flight at the request of the Trump administration

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

If ketamine made you right wing Bushwick would look like Nuremberg in 1936

I get the temptation to use whatever weapon is available but the Musk-specific moral panic about ketamine is starting to sound like a DARE campaign. We gain nothing from displacing the realities of fascism with fantasies about drugs

“Elon destroyed the government because he does drugs” is both wildly mistaken and wrongly exculpatory

too easy and too scary. much more comforting to deny the possibility of mass redundancies than to face what's coming down the pike

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