Claire Dorfman
@cldorfman.bsky.social
Analyst, Asst. Director, Mexico Project @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
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My comment in this week's @newyorker.com is about an American nightmare two decades in the making. DHS agencies that have long operated with relative impunity are becoming the personal army of an authoritarian President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable
For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
www.newyorker.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:25 AM
My comment in this week's @newyorker.com is about an American nightmare two decades in the making. DHS agencies that have long operated with relative impunity are becoming the personal army of an authoritarian President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Incredible piece from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social today on Bill Barr, Noriega, and the kidnapping of Maduro. Barr can also be remembered for dismantling the Cienfuegos case in 2020 by dropping drug trafficking and money laundering charges against Mexico's former SecDef. The more things change..!
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Incredible piece from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social today on Bill Barr, Noriega, and the kidnapping of Maduro. Barr can also be remembered for dismantling the Cienfuegos case in 2020 by dropping drug trafficking and money laundering charges against Mexico's former SecDef. The more things change..!
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BTW, this video is getting scrubbed by CBS/Weiss on copyright claims all over the place. As usual,
@ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down:
www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
@ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down:
www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
BTW, this video is getting scrubbed by CBS/Weiss on copyright claims all over the place. As usual,
@ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down:
www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
@ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down:
www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
The "rock 'n' roll asault" on Noriega: during the invasion of Panama, U.S. troops blasted music over loudspeakers at the Vatican Embassy, where Noriega had taken refuge. We got the SOUTHCOM playlist through FOIA. It's kind of...amazing
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The "rock 'n' roll asault" on Noriega: during the invasion of Panama, U.S. troops blasted music over loudspeakers at the Vatican Embassy, where Noriega had taken refuge. We got the SOUTHCOM playlist through FOIA. It's kind of...amazing
Bill❤️
Today we mourn our beloved colleague Bill Burr, a giant in the field of nuclear history, who passed away last week. Click below to read tributes to Bill that have poured in from around the world.
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In Memoriam: Dr. William Burr, 1949-2025
Washington, D.C., December 15, 2025 - The National Security Archive mourns the passing of our beloved colleague William Burr, the documentary leader of the nuclear history field, on December 11, 2025....
nsarchive.gwu.edu
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Bill❤️
Today we published our 40 top documents to celebrate 40 years of @nsarchive.bsky.social. One of my favorites: Kissinger tells Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs "the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Today we published our 40 top documents to celebrate 40 years of @nsarchive.bsky.social. One of my favorites: Kissinger tells Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs "the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
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Eugene Hasenfus, whose 1986 capture in Nicaragua exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84. The National Security Archive has published important documents on Hasenfus and the "off-the-shelf" covert operations run by the Reagan White House to sustain the Contra war.
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Eugene Hasenfus, whose 1986 capture in Nicaragua exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84. The National Security Archive has published important documents on Hasenfus and the "off-the-shelf" covert operations run by the Reagan White House to sustain the Contra war.
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"The heroic excavators of government secrets" - Author Stephen Kinzer on 40 years of the National Security Archive
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/o...
The heroic excavators of government secrets - The Boston Globe
For 40 years, document nerds at the National Security Archive have been discovering things our leaders would rather you didn’t know. Today their job may be harder than ever.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
Release the Hostages! Break the Siege!
Nearly 500 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla—including my friend and comrade Logan—have been taken prisoner by Israel for attempting to deliver aid to the victims of US-backed genocide in Gaza.
maxgranger.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read)
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
September 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south.
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
Gaza Journalist Fund
Supporting Journalists Evacuating Gaza City and Surviving Displacement in the South
gazafund.dropsitenews.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south.
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario
Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pe...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
How climate change researcher Rachel Santarsiero makes FOIA work
The challenges are steep, but persistence can pay off
freedom.press
August 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
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"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
August 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.
July 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.
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NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I have so many questions
🚨The Trump administration says it has arranged with the Maduro regime to be able to bring back any of the deported Venezuelans for legal proceedings if ordered by a court. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have so many questions
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The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates.
FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
Opinion | It's not just the Epstein files. The Trump administration is withholding all kinds of public records.
Freedom of Information Act requests are regularly being ignored and rebuffed.
www.msnbc.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates.
FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
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As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn
Trump’s ‘cuts and chaos’ to agencies are opposite of what’s needed for era of worsening weather disasters, experts say
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.
Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses
Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.
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My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Spying on Climate: Inside the Intelligence Community’s Environmental Legacy
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses on peo...
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June 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.
At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment - ICIJ
The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
www.icij.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.