Effectively, we no longer have a true asylum or refugee system in the United States.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

The Archives goes deep on… kitty cats

National Security Archive@nsarchive.bsky.social · 2w ago

The CIA's Acoustic Kitty Project, Explained www.tiktok.com/@natsecarchi...

“Worst of the Worst”: ICE and the Case of Chilean Intelligence Operative Armando Fernandez Larios nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

“Worst of the Worst”: ICE and the Case of Chilean Intelligence Operative Armando Fernandez Larios

Washington D.C., July 10, 2026 - On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents quietly detained Armando Fernandez Larios, a former Chilean secret police operative living i...

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ICE took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.

Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.

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Freedom of Information at 60 nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...

Freedom of Information at 60

Washington, D.C., July 9, 2026 - Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson reluctantly signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law, Americans enjoy a national transparency treasure in th...

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masks are the new hoods for the Trump klan

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

It’s worth watching Mamdani’s full 13-minute address. THIS is the 4 of July speech the country deserves. If you teach, consider adding it to your curriculum. If you’re a parent, watch it with your kids. This is a weekend to reflect. This speech was pitch-perfect. This speech should be remembered.

Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address Marking America’s 250th Birthday

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

50 years ago, the CIA released a pamphlet celebrating the spies of the American Revolution after it was caught surveilling American citizens. Coincidence? No.

"Fascism" is the only possible word for this, in addition to criminal incitement of migrant genocide; please share widely w/this explicitly in mind, & the need for full accountability of the administration & all who are complicit with its persecution of migrant communities www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Aliens

Search illegal alien arrests in your city and across the US on our interactive map. Discover how the Trump administration is delivering on immigration promises with record enforcement actions and larg...

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The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

Riveting thread on the rich life, intellect, and activism of Coretta Scott. She was - and should always remain in our memory - so much more than Mrs. MLK!

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

A 27 años de la publicación del Diario Militar, las familias siguen exigiendo verdad y justicia. La memoria sigue nombrándoles. #DiarioMilitar #Memoria #VerdadYJusticia #Guatemala

This barely covert op aimed at Latin America’s left manages to combine the venal corruption of Watergate, the fakery and lies of Iran-contra, and the sinister intelligence sharing of Operación Cóndor. english.elpais.com/internationa...

‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments

A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...

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The people saying that gutting the Voting Rights Act has nothing to do with racism are the same people who say overturning Roe v Wade had nothing to do with women

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

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What’s the one thing you think you know about El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele? Tough on crime? Made the country “safe” again? Threw the worse gang leaders into CECOT? And then US deportees - because he and Trump are buddies? Think again - and watch this mind blowing exposé on PBS or YouTube.

FRONTLINE@frontlinepbs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele reached an agreement to imprison U.S. deportees at CECOT, what did Bukele stand to gain? A new documentary from FRONTLINE and El Faro investigates. Watch the opening scene now. https://to.pbs.org/4bXrcux

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts

The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

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Ukrainian drone tactics have reached Guatemala via Mexican cartels, marking a “technological leap” in the capabilities of organized crime, experts warn. #CentralAmericaLens 📷️ beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

Mexican Cartels Export Ukraine’s Drone Warfare to Guatemala

Ukrainian drone tactics have reached Guatemala via Mexican cartels, marking a “technological leap” in the capabilities of organized crime, experts warn.

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This how you spell humanity: One woman meets released prisoners in El Salvador. Minneapolis citizens welcome immigrant prisoners outside #Whipple New Yorkers protest outside #MDC And so on. Repeat until done. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...

When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up

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So much for Biden’s executive order prohibiting US Gov use of commercial spyware. This has terrible implications for all of us. www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware

In a letter sent last week, ICE's top official indicated to members of Congress that the agency is using a spyware tool to intercept encrypted messages of fentanyl traffickers.

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Huge news. The good people @deportationdata.org obtained updated ICE case records through a FOIA lawsuit. The dataset goes from October 2022 through *early March 2026.* deportationdata.org/data/ice.html

Trump to world: climate change? What climate change? World: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Rachel Santarsiero@rsanta.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ODNI's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment is out. For the second year in a row, the intelligence community refuses to mention climate change as a national security threat. www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

Important! since Porras is trying to maintain her grip in the justice system she’s ruined, once her second and final term as Attorney General ends in May

El Faro English@elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: El Faro obtained documents confirming Guatemala’s current AG signed papers in at least eight irregular adoptions in the early 1980s. This year, a record of the position in which she signed off on them is absent from her reelection portfolio. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Reposting this lovely, heart-wrenching piece from 3 mos. ago about four disappeared children of #Ecuador. Yesterday, the Constitutional Court ruled the State is responsible for the crime of enforced disappearance in their case after sentencing 11 officials. english.elpais.com/internationa...

One year on since four children were disappeared by Ecuador’s military: ‘They ripped out my soul’

The first anniversary of the forced disappearance of Nehemiah, Steven, Ismael, and Joshua brought together family members and neighbors, who are anxiously awaiting a verdict in the case

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10/10 take. no notes

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

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We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

QEPD Myrna, siempre Y para Beteta y los autores intelectuales que lo controlaron… QAEEI (Que ardan en el infierno)

@verdadyjusticiag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#CasoMyrnaMack Se reporta el fallecimiento de Noel de Jesús Beteta Álvarez, condenado por el asesinato de Myrna Mack. Su nombre quedó ligado a uno de los crímenes más emblemáticos del conflicto armado en #Guatemala.

This is an astounding and irresponsible and obvious lie by the Commander in Chief. This feels like another unthinkable red line crossed.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: They are very inaccurate with their munitions. It was done by Iran.