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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Sep 4

"¿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...

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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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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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · Aug 18

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.

How Trump Brought Home a Murderer

Law and order: outside the law, no semblance of order.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Aug 20

"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...

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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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · Aug 9

When you sign up to support your local @pbs.org be sure to stream the Hannah Arendt episode of American Masters.

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · Aug 3

I’m definitely going to watch this Hannah Arendt documentary now streaming on PBS.

Arendt was a political theorist who coined the phrase “banality of evil,” which inspired the famous Milgram experiments into how every day people could suppress their own morals in the face of authority.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Jul 29

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...

In some cases, parents report to service providers that they are being removed without even getting a chance to communicate with their families at all. “They want to punish them for entering the United States, and they do it by targeting what they love the most—separating them from their families. It’s not a coincidence; it’s something that’s been well planned,” said a social worker who works with deported families.

Service providers spoke of these parents’ great anguish and mental health crises. “It’s a lie that they’re giving them the choice to bring kids back with them,” one told us. “Every day, women arrive crying, but what can we do? I don’t know how to help.”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 30

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lauraflanders.org @lauraflanders.org · Jul 29

@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

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 26

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/...

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers (Gift Article)

Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.”

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr despite his family’s opposition

About 200,000 pages of surveillance records released despite objection from slain civil rights leader’s family

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · Jul 21

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.

Chloe Hadavas @hadavas.bsky.social · Jul 21

We released our Books of the Summer list @foreignpolicy.com over the weekend—with new titles from @hofrench.bsky.social, @emmamashford.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, @tim-weiner.bsky.social, @thantmyintu.bsky.social, & more: foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/s...

FP’s Books of the Summer

The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 17

The history that haunts…
From @nsarchive.bsky.social
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80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945

YouTube video by nsarchive

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Project On Government Oversight @pogo.org · Jul 17

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.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jul 17

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.

Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jul 17

"I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It": Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza

We speak with leading Israeli-American Historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for the New York Times headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United Nations...

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Jul 17

Among my absolute favorite summer poems.

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805

#poetry #books #writing

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

Out of Reach

#OOR25 shows how difficult it is for renters to find affordable housing. Find out how much a renter must earn to afford a modest home at https://nlihc.org/oor

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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Exclusive: El Salvador rights group flees Bukele's deepening crackdown

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian organizations has forced a leading human rights organization to suspend operations in the country and go into exile, the group told Reuters.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 12

Its existence signaled that the US took human rights seriously, even as other US policies destroyed human rights and democracy. A contradiction this country has wrestled with for more than half a century.

No need to wrestle anymore, we’re embracing our authoritarianism now.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 12

Rubio calls it “a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against ‘anti-woke’ leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes.”

Your lies can’t change what it was for almost 50 years, Marco.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 12

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...

Trump Administration Live Updates: State Dept. Begins Firing Nearly 1,400 Workers

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · Jul 12

…This much is clear: Recovering from the damage will be even messier and more difficult than preventing it in the first place.”

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