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...
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.
Do it!
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...
Ukrainian drone tactics have reached Guatemala via Mexican cartels, marking a “technological leap” in the capabilities of organized crime, experts warn. #CentralAmericaLens 📷️
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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...
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...
The table showing ICE data for Oct. 2022 through early March 2026. From the Deportation Data Project.
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: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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
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...
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.
