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Caitlin Howarth

@caitlinhowarth.bsky.social

Conflict Analytics Director @ Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

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Melissa Barber@mbarber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF

Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

doctorswithoutborders.org

Caitlin Howarth@caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Bittersweet to read for anyone who has followed and loved @blairbraverman.bsky.social and her incredible pack, but the best changes are always so.

Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's hard to think about retiring from racing, because mushing is, and will always be, a huge part of my life. So I took a journey with my older dogs, who have retired themselves. They've taught me so much over the years; now, they're teaching me to live with change. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...

Espy@esp1371.bsky.social · 6mo ago

All of the beans are together again. I know that Refried sang Fava and Hari home and they are all young and strong and running together again. We are lucky to have known them and their stories and are blessed to carry them with us always. ❤️💔❤️

Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Oh Addison, she is so happy in this photo. You have given her the best life. I am so sorry for your loss; I know you must miss her terribly. Hari, sadly, just passed too. They are running together with Refried once more.

Espy@esp1371.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Time for my annual story time!! The TL;DR is that the links below will take you to donation opportunities for schools and other charities across Alaska that will be open for the duration of the Iditarod (starts Sunday). So bookmark the post below if you don't want to lose it. 1/

Igivearod Fundraising Drive@igivearod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hello all! There will be more posts to come in the next few days but we're ready to go with igivearod 2026! - www.igivearod.com - bit.ly/igivearod2026 - www.donorschoose.org/igivearod26 We're more stretched than usual at wrangler HQ so apologies & please let us know if you spot any issues!

404 Media@404media.co · 6mo ago

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

404media.co

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 6mo 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.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo 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.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo 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.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo 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...

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.

ajc.com

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo 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

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, 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…”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7mo 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.

‘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

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 7mo 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:

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

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Joe@joealv.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7mo 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.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure 4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo ago

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo 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."

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 8mo 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.

Caitlin Howarth@caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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...

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...

reuters.com

Caitlin Howarth@caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 8mo 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.

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.

kyivindependent.com