Becky Vesey
@beckyvesey.bsky.social
You probably know me by another name.
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I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
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King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
February 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
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Sand cat Chelbi doesn't feel like it.
Any of it. At all.
[via Phoenix Zoo]
Any of it. At all.
[via Phoenix Zoo]
February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Sand cat Chelbi doesn't feel like it.
Any of it. At all.
[via Phoenix Zoo]
Any of it. At all.
[via Phoenix Zoo]
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Alt text: Picture of Minneapolis with an ICE agent slipping and falling superimposed in the middle. Above the falling agent is the text: ↘️↗️ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA 1/23/26↘️↗️
Below the falling agent is the text: MINNMAX WILL DONATE $1 TO
THE IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA FOR EVERY REPOST
Below the falling agent is the text: MINNMAX WILL DONATE $1 TO
THE IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA FOR EVERY REPOST
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 24, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Alt text: Picture of Minneapolis with an ICE agent slipping and falling superimposed in the middle. Above the falling agent is the text: ↘️↗️ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA 1/23/26↘️↗️
Below the falling agent is the text: MINNMAX WILL DONATE $1 TO
THE IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA FOR EVERY REPOST
Below the falling agent is the text: MINNMAX WILL DONATE $1 TO
THE IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA FOR EVERY REPOST
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In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.
January 23, 2026 at 11:07 PM
In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.
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Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others.
High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
January 23, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others.
High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
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Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy
It’s really hard to overstate the extent to which conservatives are now just the same type of facebook ogre in every single country with few or no other defining affiliations
January 20, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy
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But again: don’t expect collapse, but rather an impoverished economy. Think affordability is bad? Just wait until interest rates climb up, bc the world is no longer as inclined to park their money here…
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
But again: don’t expect collapse, but rather an impoverished economy. Think affordability is bad? Just wait until interest rates climb up, bc the world is no longer as inclined to park their money here…
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Defund the police cost dems so badly in 2020 they won congress and the presidency
“Yeah but they would have won by more”
“Yeah but they would have won by more”
How well did that kind of statement work out the last time? "Defund the police" cost them. We need Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the Dems can insist on removing qualified immunity, no firearms on American streets, and proper training. And stronger background checks. No Proud Boys as ICE
January 21, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Defund the police cost dems so badly in 2020 they won congress and the presidency
“Yeah but they would have won by more”
“Yeah but they would have won by more”
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I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
bringmethenews.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
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*frantically googling*
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wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
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wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
Who up bending they arc toward justice
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
*frantically googling*
moral arc bent wrong how to fix
wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
moral arc bent wrong how to fix
wikihow diy moral arc fix
moral arc technician near me
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Like @brooklynmarie.bsky.social says: Borders keep you in
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Like @brooklynmarie.bsky.social says: Borders keep you in
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I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
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In Trump's first term, you saw people just completely not able to notice that the US already had a tradition of banning entire groups of people, and nationalities, from immigrating. A precedent going back to 1882.
135 years before Trump's first term.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
135 years before Trump's first term.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
Chinese Exclusion Act - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM
In Trump's first term, you saw people just completely not able to notice that the US already had a tradition of banning entire groups of people, and nationalities, from immigrating. A precedent going back to 1882.
135 years before Trump's first term.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
135 years before Trump's first term.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
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Americans, seeing fascism, will call it literally anything else: communism, anarchism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Americans, seeing fascism, will call it literally anything else: communism, anarchism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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When I told her
that I was worried
she told me to remember:
that this too shall pass,
but after this many years
of this ongoing pandemic
I could not stop myself
from replying with:
but what if it doesn’t?
that I was worried
she told me to remember:
that this too shall pass,
but after this many years
of this ongoing pandemic
I could not stop myself
from replying with:
but what if it doesn’t?
January 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
When I told her
that I was worried
she told me to remember:
that this too shall pass,
but after this many years
of this ongoing pandemic
I could not stop myself
from replying with:
but what if it doesn’t?
that I was worried
she told me to remember:
that this too shall pass,
but after this many years
of this ongoing pandemic
I could not stop myself
from replying with:
but what if it doesn’t?
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My friend,
the climatologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the epidemiologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the historian, told me
this year
is just getting started.
the climatologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the epidemiologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the historian, told me
this year
is just getting started.
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
My friend,
the climatologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the epidemiologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the historian, told me
this year
is just getting started.
the climatologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the epidemiologist, told me
this year
is off to a bad start.
My friend,
the historian, told me
this year
is just getting started.
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My friend
who keeps getting sick
says he knows that he should
wear a mask and take precautions
but he says that doing so
is just too inconvenient,
and I cannot imagine
a better epitaph for humanity
than: we could have
saved ourselves
but doing so
was just too inconvenient.
who keeps getting sick
says he knows that he should
wear a mask and take precautions
but he says that doing so
is just too inconvenient,
and I cannot imagine
a better epitaph for humanity
than: we could have
saved ourselves
but doing so
was just too inconvenient.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
My friend
who keeps getting sick
says he knows that he should
wear a mask and take precautions
but he says that doing so
is just too inconvenient,
and I cannot imagine
a better epitaph for humanity
than: we could have
saved ourselves
but doing so
was just too inconvenient.
who keeps getting sick
says he knows that he should
wear a mask and take precautions
but he says that doing so
is just too inconvenient,
and I cannot imagine
a better epitaph for humanity
than: we could have
saved ourselves
but doing so
was just too inconvenient.
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i think this would print ok
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM
i think this would print ok
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here u go i think this could work! static1.squarespace.com/static/5681b...
static1.squarespace.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 PM
here u go i think this could work! static1.squarespace.com/static/5681b...
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
All reposts and no posts makes Becky a dull follow, so here's the pot of tomato sauce I cooked down from my farm share tomatoes I froze last summer. Not enough to bother canning after they went through the food mill, so freezing again but far more compactly.
January 18, 2026 at 10:22 PM
All reposts and no posts makes Becky a dull follow, so here's the pot of tomato sauce I cooked down from my farm share tomatoes I froze last summer. Not enough to bother canning after they went through the food mill, so freezing again but far more compactly.
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Yeah, body cameras aren't going to inhibit the goons.
Jonathan Ross was literally filming with one hand as he executed an innocent civilian with the other.
All body cams will do is free their other hand up for, what, a second gun?
Jonathan Ross was literally filming with one hand as he executed an innocent civilian with the other.
All body cams will do is free their other hand up for, what, a second gun?
The killer of Renee Good proudly RECORDED THE KILLING. Body cams won't stop this. And "training" just gives ICE more money to train its agents to keep doing what they're doing.
Abolish ICE. Defund it entirely.
If @booker.senate.gov is your senator, please call him what you think. (202) 224-3224
Abolish ICE. Defund it entirely.
If @booker.senate.gov is your senator, please call him what you think. (202) 224-3224
THREAD. Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democrats, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the policing industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE “training” and tech would address any problem that any person of good will has with what ICE is doing.
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Yeah, body cameras aren't going to inhibit the goons.
Jonathan Ross was literally filming with one hand as he executed an innocent civilian with the other.
All body cams will do is free their other hand up for, what, a second gun?
Jonathan Ross was literally filming with one hand as he executed an innocent civilian with the other.
All body cams will do is free their other hand up for, what, a second gun?