Kate Doyle
Kate Doyle
@katidoyle.bsky.social
Declassified documents nerd, senior analyst National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social, Latin America, human rights
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Just filed: Our opening brief in @aaup.org v. Rubio, asking the First Circuit to affirm Judge Young's conclusion that the Trump administration's policy of targeting pro-Palestinian protesters for arrest and deportation violates the First Amendment. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ex...
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Effectively, we no longer have a true asylum or refugee system in the United States.
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.
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“Worst of the Worst”: ICE and the Case of Chilean Intelligence Operative Armando Fernandez Larios nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Freedom of Information at 60 nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...
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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.
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"
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"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/
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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!
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.
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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...
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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.
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
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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...
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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-...
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...
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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: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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
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...
The Court's ruling begins with the words: "In memoriam: desaparición forzada de Josué, Ismael, Steven y Nehemías" esacc.corteconstitucional.gob.ec/storage/api/...
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“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.
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QEPD Myrna, siempre Y para Beteta y los autores intelectuales que lo controlaron… QAEEI (Que ardan en el infierno)
#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.
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This is an astounding and irresponsible and obvious lie by the Commander in Chief. This feels like another unthinkable red line crossed.
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.
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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
By me: Today marks 10 years since the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, a rare leader whose death marked a before and after for many including me. Despite some justice, the extractive economic model and its criminal modus operandi continues apace. drilled.media/news/berta
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so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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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/...
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.
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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.
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.
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The FOIA strikes again! Excellent reporting, great collab. Don’t believe the DHS lies.
The Trump admin claims they have been arresting the worst of the worst. But the Guardian, working with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the govt for docs that show that isn't true. 77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction My latest:
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Protesters were outside hotel in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan
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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...
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looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social: