Sarah Kay (she/her)
Human rights lawyer (national security, warfare); humanitarian law, civilian protection, and the occasional rant about Belfast. 🇮🇪 / 🇩🇿📍Belfast / Paris / NYC
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- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees
- By a vote of 54-40, the #Senate confirmed the nomination of David Clay Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. Dems voting in favor: Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Shaheen, and Whitehouse.
- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
- New territory. Must read story from a colleague. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)Josh Shapiro is not cutting the mustard. unfit for leadership at any level www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- And now, prosecutors want to question Musk. He is not summoned - this would be under audition libre, he is not under arrest - and I suspect the world’s first trillionaire won’t exactly cooperate. Will Trump attempt to threaten French prosecutors the way he did over Le Pen’s appeal trial?
- Follow live reporting here as French cybercrime prosecutors, in collaboration with EuroPol, are currently conducting a raid of Twitter France’s offices, following a long investigation on fraudulent data extraction and abuse of algorithms - as well as extending to Twitter’s AI bot, Grok
- QUB should have removed the bust and the name plates when Giuffre first testified. The fact it endured that long after we knew should be a source of shame.
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- The Cut, a mag focused on fashion editorials and entertainment, published a guide to assisting MN during ICE raids: signposting to fundraisers, supporting volunteering for school and grocery runs, legal observer training. Immigrants are “sheltering in place”. Those events should shock us more
- Pretty was a RN tending to critically ill veterans. As part of his community work, and the love he had for his city and neighbour, he tended to a woman who had been pepper sprayed by ICE. Even once he was on the ground, the agent kept shooting 8 more times. This is about vengeance.
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- Tony Blair was already an absolute lack of self-awareness. This is simply unreal
- The cumulative wealth of the 12 billionaires worldwide is “more than the poorest globally, ie. more than 4 billion people”. You’re not poor or struggling because of immigrants or asylum seekers. You’re poor and struggling because 12 people are hoarding unimaginable wealth.
- Just like Starmer wading into contradictory waters, NATO feels tied to US membership more than it does stonewalling the absolutely abject planned invasion of Greenland. Surely someone knows the difference between effective diplomacy and a fawning response.
- Starmer, asked what he thinks of Trump’s plan to invade Greenland, states he is committed to the strength of the US-UK relationship, and that in times of turmoil, this is an important step to keep a “close ally”. Somehow the UK was part of the joint statement, denouncing US threats.
- This is where we are at now
- Marine Le Pen, currently undergoing her appeal trial for misuse of European funds and fraud, is now claiming that it was the fault of the EU for not having the appropriate safeguards that would have detected her fraud sooner. Remarkable. www.rtl.fr/actu/politiq...
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- This should be a much bigger news story, a much bigger area of interest, esp since to this day we do not know where/who the non intervention orders came from. How do we commit to accountability and transparency when families are terrified to call the police and feel their only option is to leave
- Beyond the double standard, it’s the dismissive approach to both radicalisation and the very serious issue of child criminal exploitation. No threat assessment; no effort to disarm and disband; even PEACE funding goes to “community leaders”. We have accepted paramilitarism as part of our ecosystem.
- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)Prosecutors want the military judge overseeing the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay to designate 1/11/2027 as the start of jury selection. Three of his four predecessors have declined to set a trial date so far out. A rundown on why it's not as simple as it sounds...
- Queer bookstore Violette and Co, in Paris, was the subject of a search conducted with 5 uniformed police officer and a judge from the prosecution’s office in Paris. The book in question was a children’ colouring book was titled “from the river to the sea”. www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/202...
- Having a brain injury is frankly humbling. What do you mean I have loose motor skills now?
- Ah so they’re just moonlighting as Proud Boys. Can carry their activities so much better with a 50K signing bonus
- Really wasn’t worth it for the US to threaten to issue sanctions against French prosecutors regarding Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial considering she just admitted she indeed committed fraud with public funds. But she says she didn’t intend to - I find that odd, fraud requires some work. anyway.
- Legal realists consider more the politics than the enforcement of international norms. It is extremely frustrating to engage with a position because those norms were established for a particular reason and the law does not enforce itself. A pessimistic approach that it would inherently fail is odd
- Re: Abu Zubaydah’s ongoing detention in Guantanamo
- Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo detainee imprisoned since 2003 (the article has the date wrong) has just been awarded compensation by the UK government. Held in CIA black sites and subjected to torture, MI5 and MI6 collaborated by sending questions they expected to be answered during interrogation.
- Heba Muraisi is on day 69 of her hunger strike. That’s day 62 for Kamran Ahmed. At this stage, in the event of survival, organ damage is all but assured. The remand prisoners are still asking for bail conditions as they have been detained long past the 6 months limit for pre-trial detention.
- Reposted by Sarah Kay (she/her)The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
- Where is @infinitescream.bsky.social
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- “They want their immigration laws enforced, legally and peacefully” so is CBS engaging in alternative reality equivocation now?
- Stunning, irreplaceable, historical address here imo. “They terrorise us and dehumanise our neighbours (…) do not let them desensitise that part of your soul. We will get through this.” See, this is the purest form of antifascist messaging I have heard in a long time.
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- Another day, another demonstrably false and ignorant statement.
- From IL to CA, ICE shootings are in fact frequent, and many are fatal. Detention is also fatal - 32 people have died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. This mass mobilisation couldn’t have happened any sooner. The fact our countries are bowing to Trump while he does this at home is sickening.
- ICE will always be *someone’s* immigration enforcement agency. The legitimacy doesn’t apply to its political leadership, it applies to the very nature of its activities and the authority under which it was created - both should have been repealed by now. But it won’t because of this.
- Even the title of the order says it all: treaties “against the interests of the state”, which is interesting considering a state can only enter a treaty by consent. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- After ten years of “take back our countries”, the far-right in Europe continues to open the door to such unlawful and unjustifiable influence
