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.

"¿Qué pasó con ese enorme archivo lleno de documentos sobre atrocidades contra los derechos humanos que descubrieron en Guatemala?" Respuestas, de @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

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.

"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.

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

Dueling notifications 🧐

@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

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 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.

The history that haunts… From @nsarchive.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Ps8gE...

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

Among my absolute favorite summer poems. From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805 #poetry #books #writing

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.

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 www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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

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...

“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….

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...

Shame on CUNY for not standing up for its students and faculty. 🐑 🐑 🐑 🐑 mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny...

Guess what?… www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

On the no paper or data trail culture.

¿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". @ctxt.es ctxt.es/es/20250701/...

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! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

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...

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.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

“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.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“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

We should really be asking why the BBB slashes healthcare to millions and closing rural hospitals, while giving $45 Billion to build immigration detention centers, likely in those same towns.

This latest episode of @brihreed.bsky.social and Robin Simeon’s “Question Everything” is SO DAMN GOOD. Reasons to be hopeful (four of them). Listen up! 👂 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!

el pueblo unido jamás será vencido

@elfaroenglish.bsky.social is among best journalistic outlets—essential info on Central America—and has outdone itself with this look at an enemies list of a former Salvadoran dictator. An excellent demonstration of reading outward from a single primary source. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...

“How long until mainstream media–or even industry-focused media–highlight how common bomb threats are becoming and how absurd it is that so few states have common-sense laws protecting library workers from such threats?”

Another day, another dozen migrants were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, the offshore immigration detention site that has the capacity of housing fewer than 200 immigration detainees. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

Every day another door closes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

These journalists at @elfaroenglish.bsky.social are the real deal, and fearless. A model for all of us.

“Milford high school students walk out to support classmate Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, with teachers following: ‘We are inspired by the brave young people.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Power to the people!

If you're not a banker, a real estate heir, a Republican or a cop, you have no reason to rank Cuomo. None.

Keep protesting n fighting! #freemarcelo #impeachtrump

Migrants are to the USA what Uighers are to China: a population to be surveilled, threatened, punished, enslaved, sometimes disappeared. Here’s something we are doing to migrants every day: taking and storing indefinitely their DNA. Even from children as young as 4. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Strongly suggest that members of Congress (ideally) or their staffs (if members cannot) stop by their local immigration courts, these awful stories are showing up everywhere. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a....