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Caitlin Howarth

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Conflict Analytics Director @ Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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...
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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.
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Y’all DORA is the cover star for this weekend’s New York Times Magazine!!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯🥹🥹🥹
An image of the cover of New York Times magazine, featuring a gorgeous photo by Jasper Doest of sled dog Dora, in harness, running toward the camera in a forest with an exceptionally long tongue swinging out to the side. There’s a slight mist in the middle of the image, from her breath fogging the camera lens.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Look, I’m dealing with enough atrocities at the moment without this.
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Bittersweet to read for anyone who has followed and loved @blairbraverman.bsky.social and her incredible pack, but the best changes are always so.
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Igivearod Fundraising Drive @igivearod.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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!
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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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. ❤️💔❤️
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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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/
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026
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.
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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...
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I think phase 3 is just “profit!” but what do I know
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/02/2026
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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...
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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.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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.
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‘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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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/01/2026
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:
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨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.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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."
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/01/2026
Our researcher @godin.bsky.social has collated our analysis so far on the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into one shareable article. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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Analysing Footage of Minneapolis ICE Shooting - bellingcat
Synced up footage of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal agent in Minneapolis helps a fuller picture of events to emerge.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 05/01/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "today is international stop being a fuckface day"
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/01/2026
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.
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
UN 🇺🇳 Humanitarian Coordinator for #Sudan described #El-Fasher #Darfur as “a crime scene” ““The town was not teeming with people. There were very few people that (they) were able to see," she said, describing a visit to al-Fashir by U.N. staff on Friday” www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Survivors reported ethnically-motivated mass killings and widespread detentions during and after the takeover. Many people remain unaccounted for in al-Fashir and surrounding areas.

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Denise Brown, the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, described al-Fashir as a "crime scene".

"The town was not teeming with people. There were very few people that (they) were able to see," she said, describing a visit to al-Fashir by U.N. staff on Friday that lasted several hours.

Source: Aid workers find little life in Sudan's al-Fashir after paramilitary takeover - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/aid-workers-find-little-life-sudans-al-fashir-after-paramilitary-takeover-2025-12-29/
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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...
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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...
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Tis the season when we repeat "peace on earth" -- even as a massacre has been unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, apparently claiming tens of thousands of lives. It may have slaughtered as many people in seven weeks as the Gaza war did in two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
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Opinion | As We Speak of ‘Peace on Earth,’ We Seem Indifferent to a Mass Atrocity
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23/12/2025
⚡️ 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.
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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.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
💫 30+ years of impact 🎒 400+ student fellows from UC campuses 🤝 350+ partner orgs 🌎 88+ countries & territories Apply to be a part of HRC's 2026 Student Fellowship today! 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 17 🔗 Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔗 Learn more: humanrights.berkeley.edu/programs-and...
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Outstanding reporting @60minutes.bsky.social and huge appreciation to @hrcberkeley.bsky.social team for their great investigation 👏👏👏
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/12/2025
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Important, rigorous, and devastating report by @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social on RSF atrocities in El Fasher files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/00...
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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
An honour to participate in this very well-attended forum at Harvard, only hours after the latest disastrous turn of events in #Sudan (fall of Babanusa to RSF). And to meet so many concerned students & community members. Note: event starts at the 10m 40s mark. www.youtube.com/live/Y9E3z3g...
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Sudan's Silent Genocide: An Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster
YouTube video by Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Honored to join the outstanding team @iphr.bsky.social today to confront Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s future: its children 🇺🇦 Up next
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IPHR @iphr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
IPHR, Harvard IHRC, New Lines Institute, @giwps.bsky.social, @slpjustice.bsky.social & Eurasia Center host intl conference "Intent to Destroy". ⏰ 19 Nov 09:00–17:00 EST / 15:00–23:00 CET Event Info: iphronline.org/articles/int... Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/9XZoefP...
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Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s Campaign to Erase Ukraine and Its People - IPHR
A one-day conference identifying strategies to halt Russia’s campaign to erase Ukraine and its people.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Updated with comment from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨NEW REPORT🚨 RSF’s systematic arson attacks in Daraja Oula between 4-8 October mark the next phase of mass atrocities in El Fasher. RSF completed the berm around the city while targeting a community kitchen & market 🛰️@Planet @vantortech #KeepEyesOnSudan medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
Daraja Oula Neighborhood, El-Fasher
Conflict-related Damage observed Between 04-08 October 2025

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Satellite Imagery: 04 October 2025 © 2025 Maxar Technologies; 08 October 2025 © 2025 Planet PBC
Analysis Conducted by Yale HRL

Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 04 and 08 October 2025 over El-Fasher shows thermal scarring due to likely intentional razing affecting several structures in the Daraj Oula neighborhood.
Smoke plumes were detected from this location in low resolution Sentinel-2 imagery at on 07 October 2025 at 08:37 UTC.Community Kitchen, Daraja Oula, El-Fasher
Conflict-Related Damage observed Between 27-30 September 2025 and 30 September – 4 October

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Satellite Imagery: 27, 30 September 2025 © 2025 Planet Labs PBC, 04 October 2025 © 2025 Maxar Technologies
Analysis Conducted by Yale HRL

Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 27 September and 30 September and again between 30 September and 04 October shows damage to a location identified as a community kitchen due to a likely munition impact in the Daraja Oula neighborhood of El-Fasher.El-Fasher | 04 October 2025

Berm construction surrounding the city

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Satellite Imagery: 26 September, 04 October 2025 © 2025 Maxar Technologies
Map Baselayer: Map Base Layer Data: © 2025 OpenStreetMap Contributors
Analysis Conducted by Yale HRL
          
Analysis of satellite imagery collected on 04 October 2025 shows the ongoing construction of a berm surrounding the city of El-Fasher has extended by approximately 5 km on the southwestern side of the city since 26 September 2025 and now measures 57 km in length.

The southwestern berm segment extends to the Golo reservoir where it connects to the western berm segment originally constructed between 14-24 July 2025.

As of 04 October 2025, the berm now appears to encircle the entirety of EL-Fasher.Melit Gate, El-Fasher

Checkpoint Berm reinforcement observed Between 26 September and 08 October 2025

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Satellite Imagery: 26 September 2025 © 2025 Maxar Technologies, 08 October 2025 © 2025 Planet Labs PBC
Analysis Conducted by Yale HRL

Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 26 September and 08 October 2025 over the northern access point of El Fasher shows that a checkpoint created in a berm gap at the Melit Gate has been reinforced with semi-circular berm extensions.
This new construction is a likely control measure for traffic on both the north and south sides of the Melit Gate at the northern access point of El-Fasher.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It can’t be said plainer than this —>
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚨Report🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH confirms bombardment attacks on Naivasha Market in Abu Shouk IDP Camp in satellite imagery. 40+ people including children, a pregnant woman, + an ERR volunteer were reportedly killed by RSF bombardment between 11-17 August. 📸@Maxar medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
Naivasha Market, Abu Shouk IDP Camp, El-Fasher

Copyright: Satellite Imagery 18 August 2025 © 2025 Maxar Technologies
Image enhanced with MGP Pro HD image enhancement. Analysis Conducted by Yale HRL.

Conflict-Related Damage Observed between 11-18 August  2025

Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 11 and 18 August 2025 over El-Fasher shows damage from likely munition impacts  to buildings in the Naivasha Market  located within the Abu Shouk IDP Camp.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We must refuse to allow the U.S. government and the media to normalize mass censorship in response to a manufactured moral panic about technology and social media.
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The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Important background information: bsky.app/profile/wesl...
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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 25/07/2025
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza.

This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively.

Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
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Caitlin Howarth @caitlinhowarth.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
There is no justification for total siege and starvation. reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
Just outside Gaza, in warehouses – and even within Gaza itself – tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them. The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death. An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2025
On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
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