Kate Doyle

ICE's sociopathic tactics makes it easier for criminals to pose as ICE agents - obviously.

Great article that's not paywalled because of @wired.com's commitment to making FOIA-based reporting free (and great work by @propertyofthepeople.org).

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pe...

"¿Qué pasó con ese enorme archivo lleno de documentos sobre atrocidades contra los derechos humanos que descubrieron en Guatemala?"
Respuestas, de @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pe...

el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social

nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

How Trump Brought Home a Murderer Law and order: outside the law, no semblance of order.

Trump ignored a judge, sending hundreds of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador. Last month, they were released in exchange for 10 US prisoners, including a murderer, who is now free.

I spoke with @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who says the constitutional crisis isn't over, for @slate.com.

Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...

"Whatever happened to that huge archive full of documents about human rights atrocities that they discovered in Guatemala?"
Answers, from @nsarchive.bsky.social

nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

When you sign up to support your local @pbs.org be sure to stream the Hannah Arendt episode of American Masters.

In some cases, parents report to service providers that they are being removed without even getting a chance to communicate with their families at all. “They want to punish them for entering the United States, and they do it by targeting what they love the most—separating them from their families. It’s not a coincidence; it’s something that’s been well planned,” said a social worker who works with deported families. Service providers spoke of these parents’ great anguish and mental health crises. “It’s a lie that they’re giving them the choice to bring kids back with them,” one told us. “Every day, women arrive crying, but what can we do? I don’t know how to help.”

I promised to send updates from the field. Here’s what we learned in Honduras, from those who work with deported migrants, about what they experience in ICE custody.

Family separations. Maternal and infant health. Abuse of trans people. Valuables and cash seized.

Read: www.wola.org/analysis/dis...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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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
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

…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…
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

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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