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David Kaye
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californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.

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David Kaye is an American politician who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression between August 2014 and July 2020, succeeded by Irene Khan. .. more

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 6d
prepare for today's blizzard of distraction!

while the trump administration engages in the most comprehensive attack on free speech in american history, jim jordan's house judiciary committee launches "part 2" of its head-fake on european regulation.

short 🧵
Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II
judiciary.house.gov

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 11h
macron getting feisty

Reposted by David H. Kaye

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11h
EU-US tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over, says Macron ft.trib.al/ClQ5HTl
EU-US tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over, says Macron
French president calls on bloc to take the necessary steps to become a true global economic power
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h
"advances have come at a rate of just 15 to 70 metres per day in Russia’s most prominent offensives since it gained the upper hand on the battlefield in 2024 — slower than in almost any war in the last 100 years"

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 12h
remarkable figures in this story - including an estimated 325k russian soldiers *killed* - highlight putin's abject cruelty to his own people and increasing inability, it seems, to achieve a 'breakthrough'.
Russian army casualties in Ukraine surge
Rising number of men killed or missing in action makes a military breakthrough for Moscow less likely, officials say
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 16h
now's the time to prebunk this insane disinformation about the 2020 elections. tear it apart now so it lands as it really is - propaganda & pretext, not reality.
aselrod.bsky.social Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20h
So I just listened to @ariberman.bsky.social articulate the same theory @jvl.bsky.social has: that there’s a real chance the Trump admin is going to lean on Maduro or offer him some sort of deal to say Venezuela did interfere in the 2020 elections.

open.spotify.com/episode/1cPG...
Trump Starts the Steal
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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, David H. Kaye, Richard Ashby Wilson

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20h
So I just listened to @ariberman.bsky.social articulate the same theory @jvl.bsky.social has: that there’s a real chance the Trump admin is going to lean on Maduro or offer him some sort of deal to say Venezuela did interfere in the 2020 elections.

open.spotify.com/episode/1cPG...
Trump Starts the Steal
open.spotify.com

Reposted by David H. Kaye

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 21h
The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.

Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.

Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
niche skeeting for sure

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
same same
davidakaye.bsky.social David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
i absolutely love that the super bowl, two years running, provides a definitive response to maga divisiveness and hatred.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
highlight wasn't bad bunny falling twice (into a house and a crowd, though 🫡) but this
dytsras.bsky.social Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d
In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

Reposted by Peter Thorne, David H. Kaye, Daxton R. Stewart

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d
In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
i absolutely love that the super bowl, two years running, provides a definitive response to maga divisiveness and hatred.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d
that was 🔥.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
there isn’t jurisdiction over the US for crimes in the US

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
did you eat a lot of plov?

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
i see no way around that characterization, whether it’s torture or persecution or arbitrary detention or any number of other crimes, it’s systematic policy.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
in case you’d like an example of the extensive reporting of this basic fact of trump/miller crimes
The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center
How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations.
www.newyorker.com

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
accountability for these crimes against humanity should be a platform for any dem who wants my vote. and i don’t mean truth and reconciliation. i mean the force of criminal justice. abolish the gulags, punish the perpetrators.

Reposted by Robert C. Richards, Anne Norton

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d
authoritarians can build statues to themselves and affix their names to monuments and pretend that’s lasting power and prestige. but history typically shows us otherwise. and anyway pulling them down is and will be 🥳.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d
the IOC’s anti-protest rules are fundamentally disproportionate and unnecessary to protect ‘the spirit’ of the games, designed to be broken. and i look forward to some statements of resistance, even modest ones.

Reposted by David H. Kaye, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d
Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.

It's harrowing stuff:

newrepublic.com/article/2062...

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 4d
ah, i see italy is opting for prior restraint of the right to protest. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...
The decree allows the police to detain people for up to 12 hours when there are reasonable grounds to believe that they may jeopardize the peaceful conduct of a protest, the interior minister, Matteo Piantedosi, said at a press briefing on Thursday evening. Mr. Piantedosi said the decree would take effect within days, meaning that it could affect demonstrators who plan to gather on Friday and Saturday in northern Italy to protest the disruption caused by the Olympics and the deployment of ICE agents to Italy as part of the security team protecting the United States delegation.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
it normalizes 'unpredictability as a strategic feature' without providing context for what's driving his fundamental unreliability in any given situation, whether its corruption or 'brain rot' or anything else.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
this is 100% the solution, but maybe bezos actually decided he wants to kill the post (from ruth marcus' excellent report in @newyorker.com - www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...)
Bezos may be tiring of the Post, but he has not seemed inclined to sell the paper. Nor is it clear that would be a better, or at this point even feasible, outcome. Newspapers across the country are being bought up by private-equity firms that are essentially selling off the valuable parts. But there is another model for Bezos to consider: turning the Post into a nonprofit, endowed by Bezos but operating independently of him. For Bezos, this would reduce the role of the Post as a headache and a threat to other, more favored endeavors, such as his rocket company, Blue Origin. For the Post, assuming the endowment is sufficient, it would provide that continuing runway.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
there are a few outlets that require owners who see them as a public trust. the post is (was?) one of them, a national institution of accountability and public knowledge. nobody should ever forget what bezos has done, & i truly hope he faces consequences.
davidakaye.bsky.social David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
bezos' destruction of the post reminds me so much of trump's destruction of our democratic institutions. it's mindless, it's pointless, it's got nothing to do with affordability, & it does great harm to all of us. oligarchs suck.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
"A Kirkland & Ellis lawyer who helped Jeffrey Epstein avoid federal child sex crime charges in 2007 later invited him to his son’s bar mitzvah..." WTAF?!
Kirkland & Ellis lawyer sought use of Epstein helicopter after securing plea
Jay Lefkowitz also invited sex offender to son’s bar mitzvah two years after his prison release, emails say
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
a congressional foreign policy leader from a bygone era, lee hamilton always seemed driven by a commitment to the public interest, government accountability, and honesty. RIP.
Lee H. Hamilton, a Foreign Policy Power in Congress, Dies at 94
www.nytimes.com

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 5d
definitely he could do those things & his failure reminds us that he's one of the worst individuals in corporate america. but if it's performative, it's a performance for one person.