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David Kaye

@davidakaye.bsky.social
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californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. edu coalition (dm for details) go bears!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 4h
came out blurry, but a colleague who lives in Kiev showed me the missile/drone warning notifications people have on their phones. this is life under putin’s unceasing aggression.
app on phone showing missile and drone warnings in kiev
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 6h
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
nytimes.com
Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 8h
Bad news. Without an agreement to end the Iran war, the entire region is at risk and the costly US military engagement continues.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 8h
for some ppl privacy arguments don't resonate. 'nothing i do is illegal.' ok sure. but the case against surveillance goes beyond individual privacy. it's also abt the huge risks unregulated companies & governments pose to society, and as shown in this illuminating WSJ story, national security.
wsj.com
Video Cameras Are Everywhere—and Now They Are Being Hacked for War
The highly vulnerable devices have turned into tools for combatants to track, surveil and attack the enemy.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Guantanamo Dispatch: All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case at www.justsecurity.org/160118/guant...
justsecurity.org
All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case
A military judge on Wednesday threw out the last disputed confession in the case against the suspected 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo Bay.
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More security breaches traced to AI companies tinkering with experimental or insecure models. The call is coming from inside the house. All the more reason to regulate internal use. My @brennancenter.org brief explains how 👇
brennancenter.org
The Conversation We Need to Have About Regulating AI
Safeguards must address not only public releases but also risky uses of advanced models behind closed doors.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
good short @markleongoldberg.bsky.social take
globaldispatches.org
The Nobel Committee Just Called Israel’s Bluff
Israel spent years attacking Navi Pillay’s credibility. Now she has won the Nobel Peace Prize—and Israel’s furious response reveals why the award matters.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
only parents' interests matter, where you been
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i actually love that on the same day the trump admin did this idiotic thing of trying to destroy the ICC & continue its assault on international law the nobel committee essentially said 🖕and honored a hero in the field. more of that please.
giftarticle.ft.com
US announces sanctions campaign to ‘end’ ICC
Sweeping new measures give companies 180 days to stop trading with The Hague-based war tribunal
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
sanctioning the ICC is an admission of weakness, guilt and dishonesty, yet another sign of rejection of accountability.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"lustration" - it's the only viable approach and your idea of reapplication is spot on
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great message: Respect for human rights and international law are foundations of international peace and order. I fear that those who should get the message won't. But, it remains true nonetheless and their deafness to it is why they are, in the end, enemies of peace.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
awarding the nobel to navi pillay is 100% merited. her career/views is a rejection of trumpism, eg: - international law at center of her career - deep commitment to human rights institutions - leadership of int'l justice (ICC, ICTR) - foreign student earned JSD at Harvard so much to celebrate.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
actually . . . wow! navi pillay, one of the most prominent human rights leaders of our time, former UN high commissioner for human rights . . . so richly deserved. three cheers!
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this looks good, thx for sharing. fyi, on the EU regulatory side and human rights 👇
papers.ssrn.com
Climate Disinformation, the Digital Services Act and Freedom of Expression
Leading international mechanisms and researchers have identified climate disinformation as a threat to the public’s ability to understand the risks posed by cli
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i had missed this, but no, it's not at all connected to administration self-dealing, no way, couldn't imagine
theguardian.com
Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
never too late to note that redefining language & reality are *essential* tools of the propagandist, censor, & fascist. we can laugh at the idiocy of it all but it's happening over and over again and it has a name.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Serbia is an independent country. Republika Srpska is a constituent political entity in Bosnia.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
sometimes the times' subtlety is on point. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...
Mr. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, criticized Western governments that had “opened our borders” in recent decades, a theme he also addressed at a news conference on Wednesday morning.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
there’s something very serious to observe here, but also lol
Rubio urges Europe to awaken from slumber and uphold western dominance
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what a kicker to end this v good @kenvogel.bsky.social story about the maga-trump-dodik relationship. experts on corruption all around
Any affiliation with Mr. Trump is politically potent in Srpska, said Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, whose family is of Serbian descent and whose firm has been paid $1.325 million by Republika Srpska since last March, according to lobbying filings.

“They love Trump in Serbia and Srpska,” Mr. Blagojevich said in an interview. “Being pro-Trump in the Republic of Srpska is a huge political plus.”
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are going to use AI to file public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to reply to the public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to write news stories about the public records, which will be read by more AI. No action will be taken. #civictech
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you think Trump’s “musings” and “jokes” are not worth headlines, no matter how shocking or offensive they may be, then you haven’t been paying attention. The past decade and past week show they're too dangerous too ignore. My new piece at @contrariannews.org www.contrariannews.org/p/dont-dismi...
contrariannews.org
Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’
No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
fake history, fake reality. alabama republicans all in with trump’s propaganda.
insidehighered.com
Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gonna be a lot of people looking up “lustration” in a couple of years
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
always a good time to reup this www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...
The problem? Among other things, it’s not true. There is no censorship. There is no complex. There is no viewpoint discrimination. The administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
definitely, though it’s not a misreading really. it’s a deliberate form of propaganda.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is real, USG censorship, ironically in the context of a conference about disinformation
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Trump Administration's mass removal policies are systematic, pervasive and coordinated with maximum intent to terrorize immigrants." read, share, bookmark this report. it's going to be an essential resource for the post-trump reckoning.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
heather mentions that early founding moment of modern int'l human rights. if you want depth on the subject, i highly recommend @elizabethborgwardt.bsky.social's New Deal for the World
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the human rights system is one of the great legacies of the postwar world but it's seriously at risk. wrote about this recently...
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it's unusual in the american discourse, so it's great to see @hcrichardson.bsky.social connect international human rights norms to our current american moment. 🙏
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 05/10/2026
Shellenberger is seemingly preparing to smear a bunch of people attending a conference on disinformation this week. Ten bucks says he’s gonna claim the researchers there are cEnSoRiNg yOu!!!1 In reality they’re presenting their ideas. Talking. Debating. You know, using their speech rights.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 01/10/2026
If the Trump administration declines to disclose the terms of its oil deal with Venezuela, Congress has legislative tools available to compel it to do so. Mike Mattler on what such legislation should contain:
justsecurity.org
How Will Congress and the Public Learn the Details of Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal?
If the Trump administration declines to disclose the terms of the Venezuela oil deal, Congress has tools available to compel it to do so.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the end of this skit captures their nonsense perfectly
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICYMI, the GWB administration's torture of detainees continues to reverberate in the 9/11 case. between that & indefinite detention & black sites & military tribunals, it's just a total failure of justice for everyone.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
they get the training but most kids haven't experienced a serious quake here - obviously that has to change at some point and then we'll see how prepared they actually are.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
true, tho in LA in the 70s we had had not only the '71 sylmar quake but also lex luthor!
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
grew up doing duck-and-cover but whether my classmates would actually perform in the moment...🤷‍♂️😬
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
strongly recommend this long-read @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social piece. underlying it is the horrible russian war crime of an attack on journalists. but the headline doesn't fully capture the fundamental questions david raises about journalist/outlet choices in getting a story while staying safe.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we are operating in an environment where AI companies & the WH are entwined. no sensible policy will come from washington or self-regulation. where are the immediate sources for protection?
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is a very good/correct piece. still, the problem rn is that imposing & implementing legit, rights-oriented safety will not happen overnight even if there were good faith (which there isn't). so what's the option? pull the plug? dvpt moratorium? close the systems?
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For a book I'm writing about the #IRS: If you are a taxpayer who recently filed a complaint with the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility, or you know a taxpayer who did so, and the complaint went nowhere, I want to hear from you. DM me.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wait, what? SIPA hired Pompeo?
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"conflict of interest" doesn't come close to covering the self-dealing & national security/foreign policy threat trump/kushner/witkopf pose here. is it criminal? 🤷‍♂️ but one way or another they have to pay for their corruption of the public interest.
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
even the WSJ ed board understands a reckoning is coming: "Does the Trump family know what is about to hit them? The subpoenas, the investigations, the calls to testify on Capitol Hill about their investments in crypto and other deals that have enriched them while President Trump is in office?"
wsj.com
Opinion | Don Jr.’s Star Turn Is Coming
The Trump family businesses will be in the spotlight on Capitol Hill for the next two years.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he seems to be the only one multi-tasking. 🫡
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
is merz doing this from his attic?
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
so your position is that forced transfer can never constitute “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”?
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