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Conflict Analytics Director @ Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
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404 Media
8 days ago
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/
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Mike Hixenbaugh
9 days ago
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
13 days ago
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
13 days ago
Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
13 days ago
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/02/ice-to-begin-detaining-immigrants-inside-social-circle-warehouse-in-april/
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WeRateDogs
12 days ago
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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ProPublica
14 days ago
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
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Robert Reich
20 days ago
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/28/ice-detaining-moving-minnesota-children-to-texas-faster-than-courts-can-respond
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Merriam-Webster
23 days ago
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Bellingcat
about 1 month ago
Our researcher
@godin.bsky.social
has collated our analysis so far on the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into one shareable article. Read here:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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Analysing Footage of Minneapolis ICE Shooting - bellingcat
Synced up footage of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal agent in Minneapolis helps a fuller picture of events to emerge.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01/13/analysing-footage-of-minneapolis-ice-shooting/?utm_source=bluesky
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Effin' Birds
about 2 months ago
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
about 2 months ago
The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
about 2 months ago
UN 🇺🇳 Humanitarian Coordinator for
#Sudan
described
#El-Fasher
#Darfur
as “a crime scene” ““The town was not teeming with people. There were very few people that (they) were able to see," she said, describing a visit to al-Fashir by U.N. staff on Friday”
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Breaking 📰 from
#El-Fasher
#Darfur
—> Int’l aid staff who accessed the city for 1st time since RSF takeover in Oct confirm
@hrl-yalesph.bsky.social
findings that few people remain. Acute concern re those still in the city
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Aid workers find little life in Sudan's al-Fashir after paramilitary takeover
International aid staff who accessed Sudan's al-Fashir for the first time since its takeover by a paramilitary force found the city largely deserted, with a few people sheltering in buildings or under...
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/aid-workers-find-little-life-sudans-al-fashir-after-paramilitary-takeover-2025-12-29/
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Nick Kristof
2 months ago
Tis the season when we repeat "peace on earth" -- even as a massacre has been unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, apparently claiming tens of thousands of lives. It may have slaughtered as many people in seven weeks as the Gaza war did in two years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
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Opinion | As We Speak of ‘Peace on Earth,’ We Seem Indifferent to a Mass Atrocity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/sudan-genocide.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.nWzM.Tnyd8mJpWri6&smid=url-share
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Bingo, Ringo 🎯 Also included are tools that churn up tons of results with insufficient sorting filters, so now we just have a pile of echoes pretending to be signals
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The Kyiv Independent
2 months ago
⚡️ Entire oblasts in Ukraine 'almost completely without power' after mass Russian missile, drone attack. At least three people have been killed, and 12 others injured.
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Entire oblasts in Ukraine 'almost completely without power' after mass Russian missile, drone attack
The attack comes as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Ukrainians should brace for mass Russian missile and drone strikes over the Christmas period.
https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-as-russia-launches-missiles-drones-towards-western-cities-hundreds-of-kilometers-from-front-line/
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Joseph Cox
2 months ago
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline
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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/
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Human Rights Center
2 months ago
💫 30+ years of impact 🎒 400+ student fellows from UC campuses 🤝 350+ partner orgs 🌎 88+ countries & territories Apply to be a part of HRC's 2026 Student Fellowship today! 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 17 🔗 Apply now:
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Outstanding reporting
@60minutes.bsky.social
and huge appreciation to
@hrcberkeley.bsky.social
team for their great investigation 👏👏👏
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ProPublica
2 months ago
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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Tom Dannenbaum
2 months ago
Important, rigorous, and devastating report by
@hrl-yalesph.bsky.social
on RSF atrocities in El Fasher
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/00...
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Nick Coghlan
3 months ago
An honour to participate in this very well-attended forum at Harvard, only hours after the latest disastrous turn of events in
#Sudan
(fall of Babanusa to RSF). And to meet so many concerned students & community members. Note: event starts at the 10m 40s mark.
www.youtube.com/live/Y9E3z3g...
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Sudan's Silent Genocide: An Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster
YouTube video by Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y9E3z3gieGE
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Honored to join the outstanding team
@iphr.bsky.social
today to confront Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s future: its children 🇺🇦 Up next
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3 months ago
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IPHR
3 months ago
IPHR, Harvard IHRC, New Lines Institute,
@giwps.bsky.social
,
@slpjustice.bsky.social
& Eurasia Center host intl conference "Intent to Destroy". ⏰ 19 Nov 09:00–17:00 EST / 15:00–23:00 CET Event Info:
iphronline.org/articles/int...
Livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/9XZoefP...
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Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s Campaign to Erase Ukraine and Its People - IPHR
A one-day conference identifying strategies to halt Russia’s campaign to erase Ukraine and its people.
https://iphronline.org/articles/intent-to-destroy-russias-war-on-ukraine/
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Joseph Cox
5 months ago
Updated with comment from
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Joseph Cox
5 months ago
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
5 months ago
🚨NEW REPORT🚨 RSF’s systematic arson attacks in Daraja Oula between 4-8 October mark the next phase of mass atrocities in El Fasher. RSF completed the berm around the city while targeting a community kitchen & market 🛰️@Planet @vantortech
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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jamelle
6 months ago
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
6 months ago
It can’t be said plainer than this —>
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
6 months ago
🚨Report🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH confirms bombardment attacks on Naivasha Market in Abu Shouk IDP Camp in satellite imagery. 40+ people including children, a pregnant woman, + an ERR volunteer were reportedly killed by RSF bombardment between 11-17 August. 📸@Maxar
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Taylor Lorenz
7 months ago
We must refuse to allow the U.S. government and the media to normalize mass censorship in response to a manufactured moral panic about technology and social media.
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The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/uk-online-safety-act-internet-censorship-world-following-suit
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Brian Finucane
7 months ago
Important background information:
bsky.app/profile/wesl...
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International Committee of the Red Cross
7 months ago
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President:
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Marisa Kabas
7 months ago
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by
@cnorristrent.bsky.social
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There is no justification for total siege and starvation.
reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
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ProPublica
7 months ago
On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇
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United Farm Workers
8 months ago
Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
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Vittoria Elliott
10 months ago
Some great concurrent reporting from
@404media.co
www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
10 months ago
Already weakened by famine, the most vulnerable are reportedly falling and dying as they attempt to flee. They have been encircled by RSF and its aligned forces from multiple directions, and what they had systematically left set on fire 🔥
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/60...
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
10 months ago
‼️🆘 Attacks on medics, humanitarian staff, and their facilities have all been confirmed. @SAPA_ORG losses have been profound Report —>
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/60...
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
10 months ago
EMERGENCY 🆘 HRL confirms the already vulnerable population living in famine conditions was encircled by RSF from multiple directions when the 11 April ground assault began. RSF is positioned to launch imminent full-scale attack on El-Fasher
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
10 months ago
🆘🚨Sudan 🇸🇩| Darfur - Zamzam, the largest IDP camp (population est 500,000 - 1.2mil) is being systematically destroyed 🔥 and inhabitants displaced by RSF over 48 hrs NEW REPORT —>
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
10 months ago
‼️‼️🇸🇩 Sudan: Zamzam IDP Camp is overwhelmed by RSF + aligned forces. Majority has fled. The camp is being razed 🔥to the ground. Population count was last estimated btwn 500,000-1.2 million.
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Bec Hamilton
11 months ago
This is wrongheaded cruelty. The vast majority of South Sudanese in this country (or, frankly inside South Sudan, right now) have no say in what their government does. They are here working, studying, building skills essential for their nascent country.
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Bec Hamilton
11 months ago
South Sudanese are part of congregations across the United States. I hope the voices of those congregations will be heard loud and clear at The White House.
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