Shablo Pleye
@shablopligh.bsky.social
Interested in life, justice and sustainable society for humanity. Permaculture, ecology, regenerative agriculture. Mostly plants. Non-violent except self-defense. Human rights > upper class/corps.
Posting news, info + insults to fascism.
they/them.
Posting news, info + insults to fascism.
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Shablo Pleye
@shablopligh.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Video: Thousands of crows flying around with a brilliant hot pink n orange sunset backdrop
#Sunset #Birds #Crows #MurderOfCrows
#Sunset #Birds #Crows #MurderOfCrows
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DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 12:18 AM
DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.
This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
The violent criminals who took incel rightwing White men’s jobs in fields, factory farms and hotels.
This is new. “Violent criminal” immigrants are driving Americans’ wages down??????
JD Vance: "What we have consistently said is that we want to deport violent criminals, people who came in under the Biden administration, and get them out of the country so Americans' wages can go up."
February 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The violent criminals who took incel rightwing White men’s jobs in fields, factory farms and hotels.
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We've been waiting for the crypto money to drop this election cycle. Now it has, in attack ads against two state senators in Illinois who voted to regulate digital assets.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Crypto super PAC wades into Illinois House primaries
The seven-figure ad buys provide an early view into how the crypto industry will deploy a $190 million war chest to defeat candidates deemed hostile to its policy interests.
www.politico.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We've been waiting for the crypto money to drop this election cycle. Now it has, in attack ads against two state senators in Illinois who voted to regulate digital assets.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
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For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 AM
For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.
Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.
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🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
ICE Gains Fast-Track Access to Private Prison Giant as It Plans to Nearly Double Detention Capacity
Navy contract allows immigration agency to bypass normal bidding and hire one of its largest detention operators directly as it plans to add 92,000 beds by November
projectsaltbox.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
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This genuinely might be the most important “follow the money” story in the history of journalism, and I deeply worry that the industry is too depleted and waterlogged to stay on it with the ferocity it requires
February 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
This genuinely might be the most important “follow the money” story in the history of journalism, and I deeply worry that the industry is too depleted and waterlogged to stay on it with the ferocity it requires
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I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
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The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
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Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.
This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.
This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.
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1513 #RepublicanSexualpredators
Blake Northway - an ICE Deportation Agent in Medford, Oregon
Raped a child over the course of nine years - incest
goppredators.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/1...
Blake Northway - an ICE Deportation Agent in Medford, Oregon
Raped a child over the course of nine years - incest
goppredators.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/1...
1513: Blake Northway
Blake Northway was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Oregon. He was charged with ten counts of sodomy and one count of incest in 2018 after sexually abusing a child, a member …
goppredators.wordpress.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
1513 #RepublicanSexualpredators
Blake Northway - an ICE Deportation Agent in Medford, Oregon
Raped a child over the course of nine years - incest
goppredators.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/1...
Blake Northway - an ICE Deportation Agent in Medford, Oregon
Raped a child over the course of nine years - incest
goppredators.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/1...
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After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
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seems pretty clear at this point they're trying to exile and murder a (presumably) US citizen infant
So ICE deported a baby with bronchitis who was unresponsive in the hospital last night.
That's just fucking brilliant.
That's just fucking brilliant.
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 12:54 AM
seems pretty clear at this point they're trying to exile and murder a (presumably) US citizen infant
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A friend of mine who works with trafficking victims had this to say.
“They can sell humans over and over again once they've recruited them into this. It's not like drugs where they need to up the supply to keep up with demand. They just keep using them up.”
“They can sell humans over and over again once they've recruited them into this. It's not like drugs where they need to up the supply to keep up with demand. They just keep using them up.”
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 AM
A friend of mine who works with trafficking victims had this to say.
“They can sell humans over and over again once they've recruited them into this. It's not like drugs where they need to up the supply to keep up with demand. They just keep using them up.”
“They can sell humans over and over again once they've recruited them into this. It's not like drugs where they need to up the supply to keep up with demand. They just keep using them up.”
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Sometimes I want to talk about how pedophilia probably wasn't strictly the draw for most of these men (though it certainly was for Epstein himself). It is simply that raping and torturing minors is one of the last frontiers of depravity left to powerful men who can do anything.
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Sometimes I want to talk about how pedophilia probably wasn't strictly the draw for most of these men (though it certainly was for Epstein himself). It is simply that raping and torturing minors is one of the last frontiers of depravity left to powerful men who can do anything.
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Wow.
China wants to dominate critical infrastructure of the future: green tech, AI, robotics, semiconductors, EVs and batteries, critical minerals.
This is an infrastructure war- one that we’ve already lost. And one where we didn’t even know we were fighting.
China wants to dominate critical infrastructure of the future: green tech, AI, robotics, semiconductors, EVs and batteries, critical minerals.
This is an infrastructure war- one that we’ve already lost. And one where we didn’t even know we were fighting.
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Wow.
China wants to dominate critical infrastructure of the future: green tech, AI, robotics, semiconductors, EVs and batteries, critical minerals.
This is an infrastructure war- one that we’ve already lost. And one where we didn’t even know we were fighting.
China wants to dominate critical infrastructure of the future: green tech, AI, robotics, semiconductors, EVs and batteries, critical minerals.
This is an infrastructure war- one that we’ve already lost. And one where we didn’t even know we were fighting.
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As bad as y'all think the pedophile führer's Nazi ICE Gestapo is, they're worse. MUCH WORSE. The terror is real. These horrific sounds are Minneapolis at night — like 1939 Warsaw. 😳👇
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
As bad as y'all think the pedophile führer's Nazi ICE Gestapo is, they're worse. MUCH WORSE. The terror is real. These horrific sounds are Minneapolis at night — like 1939 Warsaw. 😳👇
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Well looks like it won't matter because Judge Pittman declared a mistrial -- because a defense attorney wore a T-shirt with Civil Rights Era-protestors on it. Star Telegram reports 130 new jurors will come in next week. The defense attorneys opposed a mistrial.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/c...
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/c...
February 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Well looks like it won't matter because Judge Pittman declared a mistrial -- because a defense attorney wore a T-shirt with Civil Rights Era-protestors on it. Star Telegram reports 130 new jurors will come in next week. The defense attorneys opposed a mistrial.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/c...
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/c...
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this, btw, is effective messaging:
ICE announced they’re going to spend more than $38 billion to detain thousands of more people.
With that amount of money, we could end homelessness, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, or provide school lunches to every kid in America.
This is totally unacceptable.
With that amount of money, we could end homelessness, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, or provide school lunches to every kid in America.
This is totally unacceptable.
February 18, 2026 at 12:48 AM
this, btw, is effective messaging:
“53% of Americans say Trump is trying to cover up Epstein's crimes, while 29% say Trump isn't
“Half (50%) of Americans think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Epstein; 30% think he was not”
“Half (50%) of Americans think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Epstein; 30% think he was not”
A majority of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump and even more disapprove of his handling of the Epstein investigation | YouGov
Negative views of Trump's handling of his overall job and the Epstein investigation have changed little in recent weeks
today.yougov.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“53% of Americans say Trump is trying to cover up Epstein's crimes, while 29% say Trump isn't
“Half (50%) of Americans think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Epstein; 30% think he was not”
“Half (50%) of Americans think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Epstein; 30% think he was not”
“Democracy Defenders Fund agrees, claiming violations of the Freedom of Information Act and "unlawful withholding of agency records." The FBI, the lawsuit claims, has "unlawfully withheld" video footage and investigation records responsive to FOIA requests.”
FBI sued for 'unlawful withholding' Tom Homan details, including any video footage of probe
Now a group is suing the FBI for answers, through video footage and more, on how a potential bribery and fraud case against Tom Homan went nowhere.
lawandcrime.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:35 PM
“Democracy Defenders Fund agrees, claiming violations of the Freedom of Information Act and "unlawful withholding of agency records." The FBI, the lawsuit claims, has "unlawfully withheld" video footage and investigation records responsive to FOIA requests.”
“The American Farm Bureau Federation’s Samantha Ayoub reported that “the U.S. Courts report that 315 farm bankruptcies were filed in calendar year 2025, up 46% from 2024. While still down from recent highs, this is the second year in a row of increased filings.””
U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Increased 46% in 2025
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s Samantha Ayoub reported that “the U.S. Courts report that 315 farm bankruptcies were filed in calendar year 2025, up 46% from 2024. While still down from recent h...
www.agriculture.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM
“The American Farm Bureau Federation’s Samantha Ayoub reported that “the U.S. Courts report that 315 farm bankruptcies were filed in calendar year 2025, up 46% from 2024. While still down from recent highs, this is the second year in a row of increased filings.””
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Read the full story here: levernews.com/the-compliance-officer-who-flagged-epstein-and-lost-her-job/
The Compliance Officer Who Flagged Epstein — And Lost Her Job
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.
levernews.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Read the full story here: levernews.com/the-compliance-officer-who-flagged-epstein-and-lost-her-job/
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She flagged Jeffrey Epstein’s suspicious transactions.
She warned about high-risk clients.
She says Deutsche Bank fired her.
She warned about high-risk clients.
She says Deutsche Bank fired her.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
She flagged Jeffrey Epstein’s suspicious transactions.
She warned about high-risk clients.
She says Deutsche Bank fired her.
She warned about high-risk clients.
She says Deutsche Bank fired her.