Notes from the Faultline
@faultlinenotes.bsky.social
We live along faultlines: places where rights, power, and principles collide.
Some cracks are loud. Others are quiet. All of them shape the world we live in.
These are our Notes from the Faultine.
Some cracks are loud. Others are quiet. All of them shape the world we live in.
These are our Notes from the Faultine.
ICE is leaving Minnesota.
What remains:
Ttrauma that will outlast this operation 🧠
Children and families pulled into fear 🧒
Citizens left to carry the costs 🧾
Remaining impunity for killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ⚖️
One more crack in democracy, in the US and beyond 🗳️
What remains:
Ttrauma that will outlast this operation 🧠
Children and families pulled into fear 🧒
Citizens left to carry the costs 🧾
Remaining impunity for killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ⚖️
One more crack in democracy, in the US and beyond 🗳️
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
ICE is leaving Minnesota.
What remains:
Ttrauma that will outlast this operation 🧠
Children and families pulled into fear 🧒
Citizens left to carry the costs 🧾
Remaining impunity for killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ⚖️
One more crack in democracy, in the US and beyond 🗳️
What remains:
Ttrauma that will outlast this operation 🧠
Children and families pulled into fear 🧒
Citizens left to carry the costs 🧾
Remaining impunity for killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ⚖️
One more crack in democracy, in the US and beyond 🗳️
“Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government's convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place.“ 💪🇺🇸
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Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 AM
“Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government's convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place.“ 💪🇺🇸
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Putting a name to a faultline: when “security” becomes a moral blank cheque, and courts, media, universities, and policing start bending around fear 🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇱
Notice the slide, by @janinedigi.bsky.social @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Notice the slide, by @janinedigi.bsky.social @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel | Janine di Giovanni
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Putting a name to a faultline: when “security” becomes a moral blank cheque, and courts, media, universities, and policing start bending around fear 🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇱
Notice the slide, by @janinedigi.bsky.social @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Notice the slide, by @janinedigi.bsky.social @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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2025 may be seen as a tipping point for global human rights. With the US undermining the global human rights system, who will rise in its defense? #Rights2026
Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4aagjDl
Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4aagjDl
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
2025 may be seen as a tipping point for global human rights. With the US undermining the global human rights system, who will rise in its defense? #Rights2026
Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4aagjDl
Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4aagjDl
Welcoming this @ilgaeurope.bsky.social analysis linking LGBTQ organising with the wider engagement to protect democracy and freedoms 🏳️🌈⚖️
Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️
www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...
Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️
www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...
How LGBTI activism is defending democracy | ILGA-Europe
Co-chairs on democracy and freedom across Europe and beyond.
www.ilga-europe.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Welcoming this @ilgaeurope.bsky.social analysis linking LGBTQ organising with the wider engagement to protect democracy and freedoms 🏳️🌈⚖️
Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️
www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...
Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️
www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...
Positive news ❤️
But these are the kind of headlines we shouldn’t have to read and pictures we shouldn’t have to see in this context ⚡️
#StopICE
But these are the kind of headlines we shouldn’t have to read and pictures we shouldn’t have to see in this context ⚡️
#StopICE
February 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Positive news ❤️
But these are the kind of headlines we shouldn’t have to read and pictures we shouldn’t have to see in this context ⚡️
#StopICE
But these are the kind of headlines we shouldn’t have to read and pictures we shouldn’t have to see in this context ⚡️
#StopICE
#OnThisDay February 1, 1947, the newly established UN Commission on Human Rights created a special drafting committee to write the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, this committee drafted the document that sets out universal human rights.
Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, this committee drafted the document that sets out universal human rights.
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
#OnThisDay February 1, 1947, the newly established UN Commission on Human Rights created a special drafting committee to write the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, this committee drafted the document that sets out universal human rights.
Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, this committee drafted the document that sets out universal human rights.
Human rights lawyer Onesmo Olegurumwa would be first Tanzanian national to become United Nations special rapporteur, were he selected to succeed @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social.
#StayTuned 🇹🇿💪🇺🇳
#StayTuned 🇹🇿💪🇺🇳
Tanzanian candidate ranked among top contenders for UN human rights role
https://www.europesays.com/africa/57723/
Dar es Salaam. A Tanzanian human rights lawyer and advocate, Mr Onesmo Olengurumwa, has emerged as one of the…
https://www.europesays.com/africa/57723/
Dar es Salaam. A Tanzanian human rights lawyer and advocate, Mr Onesmo Olengurumwa, has emerged as one of the…
Tanzanian candidate ranked among top contenders for UN human rights role - Europe Africa
Dar es Salaam. A Tanzanian human rights lawyer and advocate, Mr Onesmo Olengurumwa, has emerged as one of the leading global contenders for the position of
www.europesays.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Human rights lawyer Onesmo Olegurumwa would be first Tanzanian national to become United Nations special rapporteur, were he selected to succeed @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social.
#StayTuned 🇹🇿💪🇺🇳
#StayTuned 🇹🇿💪🇺🇳
#OnThisDay February 1, 1960: four students from North Carolina A&T State University sat at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro.
They stayed; and sit-ins spread across the South.
Courage is contagious, and change can start with taking a stand ✊🏾
They stayed; and sit-ins spread across the South.
Courage is contagious, and change can start with taking a stand ✊🏾
February 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
#OnThisDay February 1, 1960: four students from North Carolina A&T State University sat at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro.
They stayed; and sit-ins spread across the South.
Courage is contagious, and change can start with taking a stand ✊🏾
They stayed; and sit-ins spread across the South.
Courage is contagious, and change can start with taking a stand ✊🏾
After joining Board of Peace, with reports of a $1bn buy-in, Azerbaijan is already diverging from Donald Trump on Iran protests 🇦🇿🇺🇸
Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
February 1, 2026 at 11:03 AM
After joining Board of Peace, with reports of a $1bn buy-in, Azerbaijan is already diverging from Donald Trump on Iran protests 🇦🇿🇺🇸
Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
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This ⬇️
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
This ⬇️
If Azerbaijan wants a seat on Trump’s “Board of Peace”, it should stop jailing peace activists and release Bahruz Samadov 🕊️⚡️🇦🇿
Peace activist, PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov to be moved to the high-security Umbaki prison 🇦🇿
He should not be transferred. He should not be in prison. He asked internationals to attend the hearing ⚠️
📆 29 January 2026
📍 Baku Court of Appeal
➡️ free-anar.site/political-pr...
He should not be transferred. He should not be in prison. He asked internationals to attend the hearing ⚠️
📆 29 January 2026
📍 Baku Court of Appeal
➡️ free-anar.site/political-pr...
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
If Azerbaijan wants a seat on Trump’s “Board of Peace”, it should stop jailing peace activists and release Bahruz Samadov 🕊️⚡️🇦🇿
If Trump tries to “make peace” the way he handles everything else, we are in deep trouble 🌍⚡️
January 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
If Trump tries to “make peace” the way he handles everything else, we are in deep trouble 🌍⚡️
Accountability for police violence matters everywhere. ICE in Minneapolis too⚡️
Julia Gegenheimer on what a proper investigation looks like @justsecurity.org
Secure scene. Preserve evidence 📸
Facts first. No hindsight 🔎
Independent review. Protect witnesses ⚖️
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...
Julia Gegenheimer on what a proper investigation looks like @justsecurity.org
Secure scene. Preserve evidence 📸
Facts first. No hindsight 🔎
Independent review. Protect witnesses ⚖️
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...
What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti's Killing Would Look Like
Former prosecutor in Criminal Section of DOJ Civil Rights analyzes evidence and need for proper investigation of Alex Pretti's killing.
www.justsecurity.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Accountability for police violence matters everywhere. ICE in Minneapolis too⚡️
Julia Gegenheimer on what a proper investigation looks like @justsecurity.org
Secure scene. Preserve evidence 📸
Facts first. No hindsight 🔎
Independent review. Protect witnesses ⚖️
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...
Julia Gegenheimer on what a proper investigation looks like @justsecurity.org
Secure scene. Preserve evidence 📸
Facts first. No hindsight 🔎
Independent review. Protect witnesses ⚖️
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...
Today is Holocaust Memory Day.
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — as a day to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote human rights education. Never forget.
#Holocaust #Shoah
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — as a day to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote human rights education. Never forget.
#Holocaust #Shoah
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Today is Holocaust Memory Day.
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — as a day to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote human rights education. Never forget.
#Holocaust #Shoah
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — as a day to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote human rights education. Never forget.
#Holocaust #Shoah
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If you care about the UN and a rules-based international order, read this:
Mona Ali Khalil in @passblue.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to break the system financially and politically, and replace it with the Board of Peace 🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳
passblue.com/2026/01/25/p...
Mona Ali Khalil in @passblue.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to break the system financially and politically, and replace it with the Board of Peace 🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳
passblue.com/2026/01/25/p...
President Trump Is Sending the UN to Hell - PassBlue
President Trump Is Sending the UN to Hell - PassBlue
passblue.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 AM
If you care about the UN and a rules-based international order, read this:
Mona Ali Khalil in @passblue.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to break the system financially and politically, and replace it with the Board of Peace 🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳
passblue.com/2026/01/25/p...
Mona Ali Khalil in @passblue.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to break the system financially and politically, and replace it with the Board of Peace 🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳
passblue.com/2026/01/25/p...
The Club of Autocrats continues to grow 🕊️⚡️⚖️
Trump 🇺🇸
Putin 🇷🇺
Aliyev 🇦🇿
Al Sisi 🇪🇬
Bin Zayed 🇦🇪
Lukashenko 🇧🇾
Milei 🇦🇷
Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿
Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Orbán 🇭🇺
Trump 🇺🇸
Putin 🇷🇺
Aliyev 🇦🇿
Al Sisi 🇪🇬
Bin Zayed 🇦🇪
Lukashenko 🇧🇾
Milei 🇦🇷
Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿
Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Orbán 🇭🇺
Aliyev’s Azerbaijan is paying USD 1 billion to join Trump’s Board of Peace. Buying international recognition is what Aliyev’s system knows best 💰
➡️ Join us today to discuss how to stop the international community trading away its principles ⚖️🇦🇿 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd72...
➡️ Join us today to discuss how to stop the international community trading away its principles ⚖️🇦🇿 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd72...
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
The Club of Autocrats continues to grow 🕊️⚡️⚖️
Trump 🇺🇸
Putin 🇷🇺
Aliyev 🇦🇿
Al Sisi 🇪🇬
Bin Zayed 🇦🇪
Lukashenko 🇧🇾
Milei 🇦🇷
Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿
Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Orbán 🇭🇺
Trump 🇺🇸
Putin 🇷🇺
Aliyev 🇦🇿
Al Sisi 🇪🇬
Bin Zayed 🇦🇪
Lukashenko 🇧🇾
Milei 🇦🇷
Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿
Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Orbán 🇭🇺
Obama left power nine years ago, today.
This 2016 poster feels like a postcard from another era 🇺🇸
He did not fix everything. But he understood that civic space is part of democracy, not a threat. And he was decent. Another era.
@barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social
This 2016 poster feels like a postcard from another era 🇺🇸
He did not fix everything. But he understood that civic space is part of democracy, not a threat. And he was decent. Another era.
@barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Obama left power nine years ago, today.
This 2016 poster feels like a postcard from another era 🇺🇸
He did not fix everything. But he understood that civic space is part of democracy, not a threat. And he was decent. Another era.
@barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social
This 2016 poster feels like a postcard from another era 🇺🇸
He did not fix everything. But he understood that civic space is part of democracy, not a threat. And he was decent. Another era.
@barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social
Trump is pushing the Europe-US alliance towards a precipice, The New York Times writes this morning 🇪🇺⚡️🇺🇸
Is that what Americans want?
If not, Congress should put country, and the world, before party and act. Now.
Is that what Americans want?
If not, Congress should put country, and the world, before party and act. Now.
January 20, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Trump is pushing the Europe-US alliance towards a precipice, The New York Times writes this morning 🇪🇺⚡️🇺🇸
Is that what Americans want?
If not, Congress should put country, and the world, before party and act. Now.
Is that what Americans want?
If not, Congress should put country, and the world, before party and act. Now.
Trump has now invited Alexander Lukashenko to join the Board of Peace 🇧🇾
An illegitimate ruler, in power for three decades.
Responsible for systemic repression, torture, mass imprisonment and forced exile.
Trump's Club of Autocrats is slowly coming together ⚡️
An illegitimate ruler, in power for three decades.
Responsible for systemic repression, torture, mass imprisonment and forced exile.
Trump's Club of Autocrats is slowly coming together ⚡️
January 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Trump has now invited Alexander Lukashenko to join the Board of Peace 🇧🇾
An illegitimate ruler, in power for three decades.
Responsible for systemic repression, torture, mass imprisonment and forced exile.
Trump's Club of Autocrats is slowly coming together ⚡️
An illegitimate ruler, in power for three decades.
Responsible for systemic repression, torture, mass imprisonment and forced exile.
Trump's Club of Autocrats is slowly coming together ⚡️
#WEF2026: A new low for @weforum.org⚡️
🇮🇷 Quiet bid to bring Iran’s foreign minister to Davos (under the radar)
🌍 Few senior leaders beyond the usual capitals
🇺🇸 Denmark pulls out as Trump politics sets the tone
We need real dialogue, not pay-to-play.
🇮🇷 Quiet bid to bring Iran’s foreign minister to Davos (under the radar)
🌍 Few senior leaders beyond the usual capitals
🇺🇸 Denmark pulls out as Trump politics sets the tone
We need real dialogue, not pay-to-play.
January 19, 2026 at 11:54 AM
#WEF2026: A new low for @weforum.org⚡️
🇮🇷 Quiet bid to bring Iran’s foreign minister to Davos (under the radar)
🌍 Few senior leaders beyond the usual capitals
🇺🇸 Denmark pulls out as Trump politics sets the tone
We need real dialogue, not pay-to-play.
🇮🇷 Quiet bid to bring Iran’s foreign minister to Davos (under the radar)
🌍 Few senior leaders beyond the usual capitals
🇺🇸 Denmark pulls out as Trump politics sets the tone
We need real dialogue, not pay-to-play.
What does Trump really want with the “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place”?
A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation.
Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️
A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation.
Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️
January 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
What does Trump really want with the “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place”?
A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation.
Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️
A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation.
Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️
About Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place:”
Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵
Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰
Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴
Trump to appoint his successor 😵💫
Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵
Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰
Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴
Trump to appoint his successor 😵💫
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 AM
About Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place:”
Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵
Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰
Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴
Trump to appoint his successor 😵💫
Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵
Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰
Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴
Trump to appoint his successor 😵💫
More about Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.” 🌍⚡️⤵️
Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on Peace Board www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board
The Trump administration is asking countries that want a permanent spot on his new Board of Peace to contribute at least $1 billion.
www.bloomberg.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 AM
More about Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.” 🌍⚡️⤵️