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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 4d

May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸

Nearly 500 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla—including my friend and comrade Logan—have been taken prisoner by Israel for attempting to deliver aid to the victims of US-backed genocide in Gaza.

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 12d

The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read)
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa

Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 27d

⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south.

Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com

Gaza Journalist Fund

Supporting Journalists Evacuating Gaza City and Surviving Displacement in the South

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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · Sep 1

I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Aug 26

“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.

How climate change researcher Rachel Santarsiero makes FOIA work

The challenges are steep, but persistence can pay off

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

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...

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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 20

The National Security Archive calls on the international community to protect and support institutions like the AHPN that are working to preserve it. @nsarchive.bsky.social

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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 20

We found that deteriorating conditions at the archive reflect a broader trend of erasure and neglect of historical memory across the Americas.

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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 20

New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police

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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...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · Jul 23

Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.

Noah Samsen @nsamsen.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is from TODAY. Utter lunacy

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 19

NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"We were kidnapped"

On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · Jul 19

I have so many questions

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨The Trump administration says it has arranged with the Maduro regime to be able to bring back any of the deported Venezuelans for legal proceedings if ordered by a court. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Jul 15

The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates.

FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.

Opinion | It's not just the Epstein files. The Trump administration is withholding all kinds of public records.

Freedom of Information Act requests are regularly being ignored and rebuffed.

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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · Jul 10

As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn

Trump’s ‘cuts and chaos’ to agencies are opposite of what’s needed for era of worsening weather disasters, experts say

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · Jul 5

Glad your people are okay. Several of mine still missing. Terribly sad.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · Jul 1

As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.

Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses

Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases

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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · Jun 30

My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel:
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Spying on Climate: Inside the Intelligence Community’s Environmental Legacy

Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses on peo...

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ICIJ @icij.org · Jun 30

The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.

At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment - ICIJ

The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · Jun 25

I wrote about death and disappearance at the border, and the bipartisan fascism of the US deportation/detention machine.

“I don’t know where the bones come from”

On death and dehumanization at the border, and the long arc of American fascism

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · May 22

Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem

Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · May 21

Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU.
@nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social

www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

La CIA y México espiaron a diplomáticos cubanos y soviéticos hasta 1994

Fueron "reclutados", sin que supieran: Ricardo Garibay, Manuel Carballido, Alicia Reyes y Francisco Zendejas, entre otros intelectuales.

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · May 19

JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico (click below to read the documents and analysis from @cldorfman.bsky.social)
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JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico

Washington, D.C., May 19, 2025 – Mexico welcomed CIA espionage activities in Mexico during the Cold War and even initiated some of them, according to recently declassified documents published today by...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · May 5

23 years ago I published my first @nsarchive.bsky.social electronic briefing book on Colombia. It's way too long (three volumes!), but some of the documents were featured in the @nytimes.com later that month, so all the work was worth it! Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/w...

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · May 2

What does it mean to represent a ghost in court? My latest at @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts

Even as the Administration refuses to reveal the names of those it has deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a network of lawyers and advocates is fighting to keep their cases alive.

www.newyorker.com

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