Beatings every 30 minutes. Beating genitals. Forcing men to drink filthy bath and toilet water. This is the report that Paramount/Skydance pulled down as part of its campaign to curry favor with the President for its bid to buy Warner Brothers. I'll discuss on @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social tonight.

Well done UC Berkeley. Well done Human Rights Watch. Well done CECOT survivors. Well done 60 Minutes.

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

On Sunday, @60minutes.bsky.social pulled a segment on torture against US deportees in CECOT, El Salvador's mega prison. Curious what the story said? Read HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social's report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Yes and support local and global human rights orgs like @cristosal.bsky.social and @hrw.org who also work to expose the truth. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Make no mistake, this is competitive authoritarianism. The regime is using the power of the state to coerce the press away from critical coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The fact that it's "political" is the problem. Human rights SHOULD be apolitical & non-partisan. Either way, the end result of these manuevers is more attention to the illegality of the deportations and depravity of CECOT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Curious what the story showed? See our @hrw.org research: www.hrw.org/report/2025/.... US gov responsibility for torture and abuse.

It tells me that our @hrw research exposed the truth. The US gov sent people to torture and abuse. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird

If you want to know what CBS backed down from showing, read our research here: www.hrw.org/report/2025/.... There's no sugar coating what the US government did.

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

What? How often does 60 Minutes suddenly postpone a show? As @hrw.org has reported, there's substantial evidence of torture and sexual abuse of the people the US sent to CECOT (most of whom had no violent criminal record). Media should be reporting on it and demanding answers.

With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.

NEW: Bulgaria’s delayed decommissioning of coal-fired power plants contributes to dangerous air pollution, risks breaching new air quality standards, and is slowing down the country’s transition away from fossil fuels. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

As new details come out about follow-up strikes on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, a reminder that each of these attacks sets a dangerous precedent for a United States government that is trying to use a non-existent armed conflict to justify dozens of patently unlawful killings.

So proud of my colleagues @fightforthefuture.org and the massive coalition of local folks that made this happen www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/o...

NEW: The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

NEW: The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. In a new report, HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social provide a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador.

This chart and its implications are absolutely bonkers. From Axios. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...

Has it been 30 yrs? I was at SF show a couple nights prior, aged 16 about to be 17. The Amps record had only been out a week and I freaked out when Kim Deal walked on stage to open. So exciting. Top form SY Washing Machine-era. Opened with EVOL/Sister tracks. No Little Trouble Girl though!

Excellent news. MacArthur Foundation stepping up and supporting an essential project.

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Lawmakers in Rio de Janeiro have approved a bonus for police who kill suspects during raids. Rio police killed almost 2 people per day in 2024—86% of them Black. The bonus will spur officers to shoot instead of seeking arrests. The governor should veto it. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

The United States is "actively trying to dismantle" today's system of international justice. @fborello.bsky.social and @agnescallamard.bsky.social discuss how US sanctions against Palestinian rights orgs and ICC and UN officials puts rights at risk globally:

The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

Immigration beat journalists should absolutely take a look as should immigration advocates, researchers and activists. Come work with me and amazing colleagues and let's fight the good fight.

Human Rights Watch is hiring a senior researcher for its U.S. immigrant rights program. Not many non-newsroom jobs are this similar to the day to day work of journalism. If you’re a journalist and considering getting out, seriously take a look. job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week targeting cashless bail. Lawmakers should be considering ways to preserve and strengthen pretrial justice reforms, not roll them back.

Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful. You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total. And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number. Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.

The US State Department’s new human rights report is in many places an exercise of whitewashing and deception. Entire categories of abuses have been erased, while serious rights violations by allied governments have been papered over. Learn more:

The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination

The bar has plummeted though. Accountability and standards out the window for the most part. And a lot of that cash will go to tech and surveillance. It's hard to find sparks of hope here. Whatever they accomplish as they "try" will be devastating. And hard to rollback as you know.

A 21x increase to ICE's budget means: cranking up mass surveillance to 11 arrests/detention skyrocketing ICE forces that go beyond immigration enforcement (policing of anti-ICE, i.e. anti-administration, dissent), etc. And it's not temporary. It will be incredibly difficult to claw this $ back.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

1/ 🧵 The US Senate just passed a budget that rewards the wealthy while slashing programs essential for human rights They call it the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Here’s what they think is “beautiful” 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... @hrw.org

Aside from this rate issue, anyone working on policing knows that the bar for what can be labelled as an "assault" on an arresting officer can be very low. The specific incidents likely include many things that are questionable. Law enforcement have a monopoly on force during these actions.

US President Donald Trump's executive order purporting to rewrite citizenship laws by decree raises urgent questions about rights. It’s unfortunate for the Supreme Court to use this case to focus on procedural points while leaving parents in doubt about their children’s future.

NEW: 911 audio and EMS records from ICE detention centers reveal a surge in medical emergencies — including staff sexual assaults, suicide attempts, and head injuries. Records also show calls over severe pregnancy complications. Free to read: www.wired.com/story/ice-de... w/ @dell.bsky.social

🚨 Big news from Geneva: the @ilo.org has agreed to develop binding global standards on decent work in the platform economy. This is a major breakthrough—but the real fight is just beginning.🧵 #ILC2025 #GigWorkersRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214

New Method Uncovers Hidden Population Spikes at Some ICE Detention Centers A new method for analyzing ICE data reveals recent spikes in the number of people held in ICE facilities, trends normally obscured by ICE’s year-to-date reporting averages. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-method...