Alka Pradhan
@alkapradhan.bsky.social
Int'l human rights lawyer at Guantanamo & ICC. Penn Law prof. Chai, cheese, and hotteok connoisseur. I had hot sauce in my bag long before Beyoncé. No DoD opinions here; reposts are not confirmation/denial of classified info. She/Her
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Alka Pradhan
@alkapradhan.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Alka Pradhan - Shifting the mindset to end torture and coercion
YouTube video by APTGeneva
www.youtube.com
This is a pretty good encapsulation of my work on torture prevention and litigation against use of torture evidence. I hope that practitioners/judges in every forum will read and train on the #MendezPrinciples to make our legal systems more just.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9U...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9U...
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I watched this video, you don’t have to, but it does indeed appear to have been released by the government to be exculpatory, and it is infinitely more damning. She is kind and hopeful, and after Ross kills her seconds later he yells “fucking bitch.”
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I watched this video, you don’t have to, but it does indeed appear to have been released by the government to be exculpatory, and it is infinitely more damning. She is kind and hopeful, and after Ross kills her seconds later he yells “fucking bitch.”
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
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Just saying aloud. The new colonialism. The US will "control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela." What might the people of Venezuela have to say about that?
WATTERS: Taking out a dictator in Venezuela -- how does that help the average American?
JD VANCE: First of all, what it means is we're gonna be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela
JD VANCE: First of all, what it means is we're gonna be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Just saying aloud. The new colonialism. The US will "control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela." What might the people of Venezuela have to say about that?
As all of us still dealing with the illegal post 9/11 muck keep saying…
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 4:06 AM
As all of us still dealing with the illegal post 9/11 muck keep saying…
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
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I tell my friends in Korea that right now, living in US is like living during the Chun Doo-hwan times, minus the mass murder. But at this rate, we are not even that far away from a mass murder.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I tell my friends in Korea that right now, living in US is like living during the Chun Doo-hwan times, minus the mass murder. But at this rate, we are not even that far away from a mass murder.
Reminder that DHS did not exist until 2002, and was part of the USG's reaction to the intel failures of 9/11 (other reactions included torture, illegal detention, extrajudicial killings, unconstitutional surveillance). It's not just ICE - the entire agency should be scrapped and the earth salted.
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that DHS did not exist until 2002, and was part of the USG's reaction to the intel failures of 9/11 (other reactions included torture, illegal detention, extrajudicial killings, unconstitutional surveillance). It's not just ICE - the entire agency should be scrapped and the earth salted.
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
The intentional misinformation for the purpose of causing harm to political opponents is stunning.
This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The intentional misinformation for the purpose of causing harm to political opponents is stunning.
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Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Remember: Federal officials do not enjoy categorical, absolute immunity from state-level prosecutions. They are entitled to removal to federal court. But conduct that is unreasonable or unnecessary for the execution of their law enforcement duties is susceptible to criminal prosecution.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Remember: Federal officials do not enjoy categorical, absolute immunity from state-level prosecutions. They are entitled to removal to federal court. But conduct that is unreasonable or unnecessary for the execution of their law enforcement duties is susceptible to criminal prosecution.
The saga of the 9/11 plea deals will go down as one of the biggest illegal betrayals in the history of the Guantanamo military commissions. Prosecution and DOJ should be deeply ashamed.
News in brief: A federal appeals court has declined to consider whether to reinstate a plea deal in the 9/11 case at Guantánamo Bay, leaving the Supreme Court as the last place to potentially consider the question.
U.S. Appeals Court Won’t Take Up Case to Resurrect 9/11 Plea Deal
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The saga of the 9/11 plea deals will go down as one of the biggest illegal betrayals in the history of the Guantanamo military commissions. Prosecution and DOJ should be deeply ashamed.
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This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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In a healthy democracy, there would bipartisan Articles of Impeachment on the floor of the House by tonight
But we are neither a healthy democracy nor, I would argue—given the end of our separation of powers and our rule of law—a democracy at all anymore
But we are neither a healthy democracy nor, I would argue—given the end of our separation of powers and our rule of law—a democracy at all anymore
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
If this photo is real, it is a straight line from impunity during the Bush and Obama admins for this exact kind of torture and illegal renditions, to the gross crimes we woke up to this morning.
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
If this photo is real, it is a straight line from impunity during the Bush and Obama admins for this exact kind of torture and illegal renditions, to the gross crimes we woke up to this morning.
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A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience.
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
Attorney General James Leads Lawsuit Challenging Federal Attack on Gender-Affirming Care
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 18 other states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit to stop the U.S
ag.ny.gov
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience.
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
Happy holidays to everyone except those who helped keep Gitmo open - going on 24 years.
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Happy holidays to everyone except those who helped keep Gitmo open - going on 24 years.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Monstrous.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Monstrous.
I am just here to say that in order to commit WAR CRIMES, a WAR has to exist.
THERE IS NO WAR.
Therefore, the proper term for killing random people on boats is MURDER.
THERE IS NO WAR.
Therefore, the proper term for killing random people on boats is MURDER.
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I am just here to say that in order to commit WAR CRIMES, a WAR has to exist.
THERE IS NO WAR.
Therefore, the proper term for killing random people on boats is MURDER.
THERE IS NO WAR.
Therefore, the proper term for killing random people on boats is MURDER.
Flag at half-staff for Dick Cheney at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay.
Photo taken after arriving on a flight carrying ICE agents involved in the new illegal migrant detentions, which expanded the Gitmo population for the first time since 2002 - Cheney's very dark legacy.
Photo taken after arriving on a flight carrying ICE agents involved in the new illegal migrant detentions, which expanded the Gitmo population for the first time since 2002 - Cheney's very dark legacy.
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Flag at half-staff for Dick Cheney at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay.
Photo taken after arriving on a flight carrying ICE agents involved in the new illegal migrant detentions, which expanded the Gitmo population for the first time since 2002 - Cheney's very dark legacy.
Photo taken after arriving on a flight carrying ICE agents involved in the new illegal migrant detentions, which expanded the Gitmo population for the first time since 2002 - Cheney's very dark legacy.
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The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
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SHUTDOWN TAKEAWAY: send home as many federal employees as you want, cut off people's food stamps, let health care system career towards a cliff, but don't mess with air travel, especially with holidays looming.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
SHUTDOWN TAKEAWAY: send home as many federal employees as you want, cut off people's food stamps, let health care system career towards a cliff, but don't mess with air travel, especially with holidays looming.