The Court's ruling begins with the words:
"In memoriam: desaparición forzada de Josué, Ismael, Steven y Nehemías"
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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...
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
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.
On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED
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)
This is an astounding and irresponsible and obvious lie by the Commander in Chief. This feels like another unthinkable red line crossed.
Lots of children are being placed in conditions like this. Others are dying in detention, a number that will undoubtedly increase as the number of these warehouses increase.
www.axios.com/2026/01/20/i...
Respect for the people stepping up in Springfield.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
They take from us our best, our brightest, our greatest leaders.
Beautiful piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
QEPD Berta
so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil
The blatant consent-manufacturing lie about Iran possessing nuclear weapons threatens to overshadow the promotion of the Iranian version of Ahmed Chalabi.
Good god yes. Agree.
Deploring the atrocities of the Iranian regime does not = support for a murderous bombing campaign and the return to monarchy
Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.
A++++
“This catastrophe must be recorded in the historical memory of people around the world” - General practitioner, Tehran
Required reading.
“This is not just the worst mass killing in the contemporary history of Iran,” said Mr. Akhavan, now a human rights lawyer and a co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Doc. Center. “It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ramiro Osorio Cristales, massacre survivor, after his testimony in Canada in 2024. Photo: Loubna Chlaikhy/La Converse
I testified in Sosa’s Ottawa trial, along with other experts and one of the only living massacre survivors and witnesses, Ramiro Osorio Cristales.
Click on @nsarchive.bsky.social ‘s website to see the ruling + US and Guate declassified documents used in the case.
If international law is more than just a legal theory, countries like Canada need to find the political will to prosecute perpetrators of the worst human rights crimes in their own courts.
Without justice, universal jurisdiction is a hollow promise.
Former second lieutenant Jorge Sosa Orantes in a photograph from his time in the Guatemalan army. Photo: ProPublica
Jorge Sosa Orantes has never been held accountable for the atrocities committed at Dos Erres. More than 250 men, woman and children were murdered by Kaibil special forces on Dec. 6-8, 1982.
Impunity 101
The good news: Canada ruled against a Guatemalan ex-military officer, calling his actions in the horrific 1982 #DosErres massacre “crimes against humanity.”
The bad news: Canada refused to use its own War Crimes Act, so the ruling strips his citizenship and kicks him out of Canada.
This guy gets it.
The FOIA strikes again! Excellent reporting, great collab.
Don’t believe the DHS lies.
Protesters were outside hotel in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan
In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days. Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”
NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/metada...
looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
They are OBSESSED with this man.
‘From one perspective, the Trump administration is taking up the practices once enabled by the McCarran-Walter Act, but with MAGA’s prejudices, conspiracy theories and obsessions substituted for those of the Cold War.’
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social on ideological exclusion
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40
😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood
