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@documentedny.bsky.social Senior Labor Reporter @amirkhafagy.bsky.social says he's heard dozens of cases of employers threatening immigrant workers with deportation if they report labor law violations. It's a local & national issue, but commercial media is failing to cover this story: bit.ly/3UtMh67

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers (Gift Article) Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

Portraits of courage. Deep admiration and respect for the women, who never gave up. Thank you Victor Blue for the powerful images and Annie Correal for giving this story voice. Astonishing work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read the English version of this shattering statement from AFP reporters in Gaza in the thread below.

@newseye.bsky.social concludes, “Every foreign correspondent should be demanding that their editorial board publish a front page statement in solidarity with AFP…

“History is taking notes.”

Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr despite his family’s opposition About 200,000 pages of surveillance records released despite objection from slain civil rights leader’s family

Trump 2.0 tríes to distract attention from complicity w/Epstein scandal issues by speeding up release of MLK files; crucial question continues to be longstanding cover-up of US govt’s campaigns to persecute King & black liberation movements & plots to kill him
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Who wants to take a 400-page book about the CIA to the beach? You do! THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century is on Foreign Policy's summer reading list, and I hope it's on yours too.

YouTube video by nsarchive 80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945

The history that haunts…
From @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Time and time again the administration has shown that it will blow through any protections to conduct mass surveillance on migrants.

Data privacy protections are there for a reason: the gov’t isn’t supposed to be able to use our info for unintended purposes. Yet, here we are.

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza We speak with leading Israeli-American Historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for the New York Times headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United Nations...

"I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It": Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza

Among my absolute favorite summer poems.

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805

#poetry #books #writing

Out of Reach #OOR25 shows how difficult it is for renters to find affordable housing. Find out how much a renter must earn to afford a modest home at https://nlihc.org/oor

New from @nlihc.org: Nearly HALF of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment.

When I say the term "working homeless" is no longer a contradiction in America, this is exactly why.

Exclusive: El Salvador rights group flees Bukele's deepening crackdown El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian organizations has forced a leading human rights organization to suspend operations in the country and go into exile, the group told Reuters.

I’m so sad to read this news. Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social has been doing the human rights work most needed in Bukele’s cruel El Salvador. Now forced to leave the country they love to continue in exile.
And they will continue! #heroes

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Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Its existence signaled that the US took human rights seriously, even as other US policies destroyed human rights and democracy. A contradiction this country has wrestled with for more than half a century.

No need to wrestle anymore, we’re embracing our authoritarianism now.

Rubio calls it “a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against ‘anti-woke’ leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes.”

Your lies can’t change what it was for almost 50 years, Marco.

Trump Administration Live Updates: State Dept. Begins Firing Nearly 1,400 Workers

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor was founded under Jimmy Carter in 1977. It will be eliminated by Trump’s lackey, Marco Rubio.

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…This much is clear: Recovering from the damage will be even messier and more difficult than preventing it in the first place.”

“Argentina’s lessons for the current moment are multiple: When tyrants threaten, more people and institutions may cower than resist; the loss of checks on state violence can be catastrophic; and no one knows who the next victim will be….

Bienvenidxs!

Opinion | The Law Is Not Enough to Stop War Crimes

Appreciate this piece. 30 yrs ago, some in the human rts community insisted that truth commissions were too weak to deliver accountability, that only trials could do that. Now we know that both and more are required - truth, justice, education, memory, archives…
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CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been...

Shame on CUNY for not standing up for its students and faculty.
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Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says | CNN Politics “Most” of the names of student protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement was asked to investigate earlier this year were plucked from a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian s...

Guess what?…

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On the no paper or data trail culture.

“Las desapariciones forzadas en Estados Unidos recuerdan a dictaduras latinoamericanas” Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

¿EEUU se está convirtiendo en una dictadura latinoamericana? Hablo del tema con @katidoyle.bsky.social (@nsarchive.bsky.social): "El régimen trumpista ha reventado la idea d q EEUU cuente con una arquitectura moral cimentada sobre una serie de valores compartidos".

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New Yorkers - come on out to hear Tim in conversation with @propublica.org’s Steve Engelberg for launch of @tim-weiner.bsky.social’s new book on the CIA. Powerhouse Books in Dumbo, Monday 7/14. Tickets free, click to register. See you there!

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Truly

Happy Birthday, FOIA! As we head into the July 4th weekend, it is a great time to think about the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. But July 4 th is more than a day that we celebrate our country’s birth – this year, it is…

A reminder that this Friday is FOIA’s 59th Birthday! Cities across the country will commemorate the moment by lighting up the night skies & terrifying local dogs. foia.blogs.archives.gov/2011/06/30/h...

Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project

Because I’m in Ireland, because I’m reading The Irish Times, and… because archives.

On the recovery of pre-Famine records that, “in an act of unparalleled archival vandalism,” the Brits had destroyed so they couldn’t be used for the “gratification of curiosity.”

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The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.

“I’ve never seen this much secrecy and lack of transparency from any leadership, including in the military,” said a nearly 10-year veteran of the General Services Administration. “We don’t know anything until it happens.”

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“Defund the masked secret police grabbing people off of street corners, instead fund cancer research and healthcare funding” seems like a policy most Democrats across the country could run on