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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An archived New Yorker article for more: archive.ph/aaIh4
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Way too many; here’s an overview (although a bit old and some of the links are dead). www.ncsl.org/immigration/... Basically legal representation for unaccompanied minors is mostly provided though nonprofits and pro bono work with limited capacity. Federal $ for this is also more or less gone rn
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Legal Aid for Unaccompanied Children in the U.S. Illegally
Children entering the United States alone are afforded certain protections under U.S. immigration law, but legal counsel is not one of them. Congress and several states have created or proposed legisl...
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s worse actually: no one is entitled to legal representation on US imm. court, so this was already common pre-Trump. (More common bc he reduced funding for private rep. for minors.) In general though it seems the norm is (increasingly) for immigration to be excepted from liberal legal norms
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In the thread linked (xcancel.com/lymanstoneky... to read w/out logging in) he’s definitely sounding pretty racist but in a weird and more specific way. This is the first time I’ve seen someone specifically rant about “pastoralist Africans” lol
xcancel.com
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
??? Do you think someone’s possibly impersonating him?
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Putting a cross up where Jesus can see it like you’re leaving a bullet in someone’s mailbox
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
but tbh I’m not optimistic and I don’t know what it’ll finally take
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Is this an attempt to make bail fund organizers criminally liable for a recipient missing their court date? This is clearly meant to attack bail funds but idk how
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
EARRINBG,
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I understood OP as referring to *Trump supporters* making that argument for him over Harris (something I did run into repeatedly in 2024, even specifically citing her association with Liz Cheney), but it looks like everyone assumed it meant an argument from the left. Idk
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Black South Africans weren’t legally citizens post-1970. They had their citizenship stripped and reassigned to one of the (not really sovereign, often noncontiguous) Bantustans formed from a small amount of SA’s total land area, and their movements outside of those areas was tightly regulated
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/02/2026
The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.
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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.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Image on the left weirdly looks like the tents are spelling out something in Arabic (“… Gaza…” since I can’t actually read Arabic)
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Lawlessness, arbitrariness, limited access to due process etc. have also always been features of immigration enforcement, which is what makes it such a convenient tool for general repression
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
News outlets really love using “clashes” to describe police violence at protests to the point that I’m convinced it must be in style guides somewhere. It’s nearly a meaningless word, but it implies a two-sided conflict
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/01/2026
If you loot your enemy's challenge coins, you own their soul in the afterlife.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
OTOH there are the results from this related question that are a lot less lopsided, which makes me think Americans have a negative reaction to a question that sounds so blatantly antidemocratic (as they should!) but are open to something framed a bit more skillfully
Would you support or oppose the US taking control of Venezuela and choosing a new government for the country?

Support 24%
Not sure 30%
Oppose 45%

Republicans: Support 47% Not sure 32% Oppose 21%
Democrats: Support 9% Not sure 19% Oppose 72%
Independents: Support 18% Not sure 27% Oppose 45%
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026
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.
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The United States is a rogue state
Donald Trump’s “attack on sovereignty” in Venezuela has terrible consequences for the world
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/12/2025
"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.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Exactly. Despite the “basic biology” language they talk about sex and gender like they’re metaphysical truths, so they can dismiss trans and intersex people as unnatural deviations that *shouldn’t* be accounted for
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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)
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Undead Khomeini remains undefeated to this day in the great foreign leader spelling wars
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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."
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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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025
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
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
There are flex cuff cutter tools made for the purpose, although I have no idea how well they work on different restraints. They seem to have very smooth blades unlike trauma shears.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
pelvic thrust frog is my role model, what a powerful aura
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
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...
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Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I really want to see that poll done again with colorful pie charts to give examples of percentages. It would break my brain if people actually believe those numbers. Maybe widespread innumeracy accounts for (a lot of) this
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/09/2025
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:
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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.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a country with rule of law, it implies a legal process. But “deportation” is also used to describe expulsions more broadly, for example even “internal deportations” in the USSR. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deporta...
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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush - Wikipedia
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NPR @npr.org · 06/07/2025
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
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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.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
It’s more that exploited migrant labor isn’t (usually) on the level of prison labor or chattel slavery, where people can be directly forced to work and don’t even theoretically have rights as workers
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Presumably so some private company can rent them back to USPS? If this was even thought through beyond “electric vehicles are woke” anyway
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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)
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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 doorIt’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.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
That cute (?) little drone, I’m dying wtf
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
(Not Bier or an expert, but) The Trump admin has arbitrarily decided that everyone who used the app to enter (legally) is now illegal and deportable, and they’re conveniently documented so they’re probably just easy targets
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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-...
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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.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/05/2025
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...
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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.
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🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
tag yourself, i’m the case reports (better than consensus statements??)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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.”
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