Tessera

🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙

@decoycuttlefish.bsky.social

🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙@decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It seems like the Bolivian right is taking this opportunity to settle grievances by conducting an operation with the US like in Venezuela and Cuba. This should have all of the Americas (or at least 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇴) talking seriously about security cooperation

Michellemm@michellemm-1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1️⃣🧵Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_ BREAKING: US armed forces & Bolivian police are preparing a joint operation to kidnap Evo Morales and massacre the indigenous communities in the vicinity. Police officers opposed to the plan have leaked documents confirming the operation.

rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this culture is rotten. we are cruel to each other and cruel to others. we are mindlessly violent. we are literally a danger to ourselves and others

Jordan @slclunk.com · 5mo ago

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5mo ago

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

bit.ly

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 7mo ago

If you loot your enemy's challenge coins, you own their soul in the afterlife.

Zooples@zooples.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE special accomplishment tokens for the most successful and sadistic nazi terrorists. #Minneapolis #ICE #USA

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary? RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 7mo ago

The US invasion of Venezuela is a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter. Celebrating the capture of Maduro, Donald Trump went further, calling it an “attack on sovereignty” itself. Countries the world over must work together to rein in the United States before it’s too late.

The United States is a rogue state

Donald Trump’s “attack on sovereignty” in Venezuela has terrible consequences for the world

disconnect.blog

Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 7mo ago

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙@decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really seems less like *terrorism* as it’s usually conceived and more like part of the ongoing blowback of 1/4 of US mass shooters having military experience, with all that could entail (in this case, witnessing or committing war crimes)

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan “The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On U.S. complicity in the unfolding massacres: "The U.S. should halt arms transfers to the UAE, which is supplying the RSF with the weapons used to carry out atrocities in Darfur. Failure to take action could condemn hundreds of thousands more civilians to death at the hands of genocidal forces."

US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan

The US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan.

truthout.org

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙@decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

pelvic thrust frog is my role model, what a powerful aura

competentposter@competentposter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

wizard frog is insane

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10mo ago

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

YouTube video by New York Daily News

youtube.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11mo ago

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

unraveledpress.com

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12mo ago

This, from @erininthemorning.com's latest piece about Gavin Newsom helps explain why Newsom-loving libs' "erm, then enjoy Trump again!!!" stuff doesn't work on trans people who've been paying attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

Some may argue, as they often do when transgender people raise concerns about Gavin Newsom, that the alternative would be worse. And in many respects, Trump or whatever Trump-like candidate emerges in 2028 would be worse than Newsom on a host of issues. But even here, for transgender people, the calculation is not so straightforward. Right now, the community has one thing going for it: one major political party still passes protective legislation and has not joined the litany of anti-trans policies escalating in red states. If that fragile dichotomy collapses—if Democrats too decide that transgender people can be sacrificed for political gain—the result will not be a lesser evil. It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse.

One only has to look to the United Kingdom to see what happens when both major parties decide transgender people are expendable. For years, right-leaning parties targeted trans people relentlessly, while Labour offered tepid, lukewarm support. In the lead-up to recent elections, that support collapsed. Multiple Labour leaders determined that trans people were safe to sacrifice, culminating in the party leader’s now-infamous declaration that he does not believe transgender women are women. Today, the country is pursuing a nationwide bathroom ban, and youth care has been practically outlawed. In a political environment where both left and right agree that your existence is negotiable, there is no one left to fight for you. It is untenable—and if such sentiment takes root inside the Democratic Party, it could take generations for transgender Americans to claw back even the most basic of rights.

Transgender people have watched this performance before, and we know exactly where it leads. Whatever one thinks of Newsom as a politician or a future candidate, it is crucial to understand that for many in our community, his rise provokes as much fear as the Republican Party itself. The damage he can inflict is in some ways greater: Republicans attacking us keeps allies on alert, ready to resist. But when Democrats begin to adopt the same rhetoric, that resistance dissolves. Transphobia inside the party is not a treatable wound inflicted by the far right—it is a malignancy, slow-moving but devastating, one that threatens to hollow out decades of progress from within. If it spreads unchecked, it could mark the end of so much our community has fought to preserve.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I think the issue is that "crime" is the right-wing equivalent of what "harm" is to left-wing discourse. it's an all-encompassing category

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Here's the thing: If you believe that Republicans can always win on crime by simply declaring there to be a crime emergency in a major city, irrespective of any actual policing or criminal justice policies being pursued by the city government, then you are just saying that Democrats can't win.

NPR @npr.org · last yr.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

n.pr

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · last yr.

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · last yr.

JFC. Even after what the Trump regime has done to LA, the state of California, both Schiff & Padilla (!!) decided to vote with Republicans to give Trump a massive gift on crypto. Same goes for Gillibrand and NY. Also shame on Booker, Kim & Warnock. A disgraceful list - especially this week.

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---68
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Booker (D-NJ)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
NAYs ---30
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Paul (R-KY)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 2
Cotton (R-AR)
Kelly (D-AZ)

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last yr.

In recent weeks the Trump regime arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayor • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC. Schumer's Sen. Dems have returned the favor by voting with Republicans to gift Trump a massive shady crypto bill to sign making him richer.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · last yr.

So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained. prospect.org/justice/2025...

“What was going on in those courtrooms is absolutely unacceptable,” Barnette said, adding that the judge “chastised” them for entering a public courtroom and said that in the future she was planning on locking her door at night. “It is a place of intimidation, it is a place of fear.”

She and Lander sat in a number of courtrooms, watching defendants getting their cases dismissed “with completely inadequate explanation” of what that meant. No one told defendants, for example, that a dismissal of their case subjected them to forcible removal by anonymous masked agents once they stepped out of the courtroom, Barnette said.

“That is not the rule of law. That is not due process. That is not acceptable in this country or anywhere else,” she said. “I am very rattled, frankly.”

In one instance, the proceeding for a man whose native language was Yoruba was held in French. The judge dismissed his case and “it was clear he had no understanding” of what had happened, Barnette said. Then he was sent out into the hall, where immigration agents were waiting.

Edgardo, the person Lander was helping when ICE agents attacked, spoke Spanish. The judge dismissed his case but said he had the right to appeal and gave him a date in July.

“So the guy thinks he has a month to appeal,” Barnette said. “Nobody says, ‘ICE is waiting for you on the other side of the door

It’s not only the courtroom treatment of defendants that’s egregious. So are the living conditions at 26 Federal Plaza. In an interview with the Prospect, Daniel Coates, director of public affairs at Make The Road New York, said that ICE is using the building to hold people for multiple days before transferring them elsewhere, packing them in so tightly that some have no room to sleep except for on the bathroom floor. The rooms are hot because the air conditioning is inadequate, detainees have “no opportunities to get a change of clothes or clean themselves,” have no access to medical treatment, and cannot maintain their dietary restrictions, said Coates, who spoke at the press conference held after Lander’s detention.

“The space is exploding,” Coates said, “and it’s sort of a black hole there because ICE is refusing entry to members of Congress,” who are supposed to be allowed to oversee such buildings. It’s an open question of “what actually 26 Federal Plaza is being used for,” he said.

🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙@decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · last yr.

That cute (?) little drone, I’m dying wtf

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · last yr.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · last yr.

In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch

The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police proves the current system is broken beyond repair.

inquirer.com

Bolts @boltsmag.org · last yr.

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE

In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.

boltsmag.org

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE harassed a lawyer who provided advice to an undocumented family about their immigration case, including *shutting off his wifi so his Ring camera couldn’t record the interaction.* radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc: www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...

404media.co

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · last yr.

Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them. 🧵

New Gaza medic attack video contradicts Israel military claims

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

Ti @tir2.bsky.social · 2y ago

dunno how much has been translated to English, but the Brazilian philosopher Safatle wrote a lot about how Cynicism is one of the major factors in our day and age that cause "speaking truth to power" to not work. our time is one of "atheist priests" who see sincerity as a weakness.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.