Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There'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. 14584462882 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026An archived New Yorker article for more: archive.ph/aaIh4archive.phWelcome to nginxIf you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. 011 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Way 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 rnncsl.org 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... 100 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’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 110 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 12/07/2026In 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” lolxcancel.com 120 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 11/07/2026??? Do you think someone’s possibly impersonating him? 130 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Putting a cross up where Jesus can see it like you’re leaving a bullet in someone’s mailbox 120 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026but tbh I’m not optimistic and I don’t know what it’ll finally take 020 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026It 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 140 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Is 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 030 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I 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 000 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Black 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 010 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/02/2026this 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 953663 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to 92131655309 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/02/2026The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.bit.lyICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost himThe Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them. 22820507 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Image on the left weirdly looks like the tents are spelling out something in Arabic (“… Gaza…” since I can’t actually read Arabic) 000 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Lawlessness, 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 000 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026News 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 000 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/01/2026If you loot your enemy's challenge coins, you own their soul in the afterlife. 1744577 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 05/01/2026OTOH 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 2311 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I 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. 18749901427 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026The 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.disconnect.blogThe United States is a rogue stateDonald Trump’s “attack on sovereignty” in Venezuela has terrible consequences for the world 121191303 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙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. 66159373252 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Exactly. 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 020 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Really 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) 000 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Undead Khomeini remains undefeated to this day in the great foreign leader spelling wars 020 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 01/11/2025On 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."truthout.orgUS Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in SudanThe US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan. 8247121 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025a 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 273139643256 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025There 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. 110 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 07/10/2025pelvic thrust frog is my role model, what a powerful aura 020 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025In 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...youtube.comSen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun ViolenceYouTube video by New York Daily News 2623068638 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I 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 120 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/09/2025New, 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:unraveledpress.comWhat happened to Silverio Villegas-GonzalezImmigration 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. 11332831961 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I 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 513418 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 21/07/2025In 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...en.m.wikipedia.orgDeportation of the Chechens and Ingush - Wikipedia 120 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙NPR @npr.org · 06/07/2025NPR'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 Baban.prKnives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in GazaNPR'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. 10137411770 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 05/07/2025It’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 110 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025But 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 85134821796 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Presumably so some private company can rent them back to USPS? If this was even thought through beyond “electric vehicles are woke” anyway 030 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025JFC. 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. 901397522 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025So @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... 221388569 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025That cute (?) little drone, I’m dying wtf 221 0
🕶️ 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 1131 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025In 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-...inquirer.comHuman rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will BunchThe nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police proves the current system is broken beyond repair. 9432411386 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/05/2025A 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... boltsmag.orgHow Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICEIn 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. 618172 0
🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙 @decoycuttlefish.bsky.social · 01/05/2025tag yourself, i’m the case reports (better than consensus statements??) 000 0
Reposted by 🕶️ decoy cuttlefish🐙Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025ICE 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... 18771337 0