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ELI5 BSI
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
The Darién isn’t a natural crisis. It’s political. Border theater hides it, but @theborderchronicle.bsky.social reports it.

Subscribe: www.theborderchronicle.com
Blurry jungle background with bold orange headline: “So what now?” White text reads: “The truth is simple: the Darién Gap is not a natural crisis. It is the result of political choices. Deterrence does not stop migration — it only makes it deadlier. While border theater won’t tell you that, The Border Chronicle does, and ELI5 BSI wants to make sure you hear it.” Bold orange text highlights the CTA: “Subscribe to The Border Chronicle on Substack. Support border journalism that refuses the ‘crisis’ script.” At the bottom, a references list in white text cites Human Rights Watch (2023), Miller (2025), and Runde & Bryja (2024).
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
Fallout: Indigenous villages overwhelmed. The rainforest trashed. Local economies forced into smuggling. A humanitarian crisis and an environmental one — by design.
Blurry jungle background with bold orange headline: “The fallout for people and planet.” White body text explains: “The flood of migrants overwhelms Indigenous villages in Panama, where thousands arrive daily seeking rest and food. The rainforest itself is being destroyed by the passage — littered with plastic, waste, and even bodies. Local people are being pulled into smuggling economies just to survive. Border policy has managed to create both a humanitarian catastrophe and an environmental one at the same time.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
Journalist Belén Fernández calls the Darién “an extension of the US border.” Sanctions fuel collapse. Deterrence makes crossings deadlier. Passports equal privilege, not freedom.
Blurry jungle background with bold orange headline: “Why is the US responsible?” White text underneath reads: “Journalist Belén Fernández calls the Darién Gap ‘an extension of the US border.’ That is because US policies have criminalized migration, shut down safer asylum routes, and forced people into the jungle. US sanctions have also wrecked economies like Venezuela’s, leaving millions desperate to flee. Meanwhile, wealthy travelers cross borders with a passport swipe, while the poor are treated as disposable.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
Inside the jungle: corpses on the trail. Assaults and robberies. Nearly 700 sexual assaults reported in 2023. Drownings, broken bones, exhaustion. “Deterrence” is just cruelty.
Blurry jungle background with bold orange headline: “What happens inside the jungle?” White body text says: “The journey takes days or even weeks. Migrants stumble past dead bodies. Armed groups rob and attack them. Doctors Without Borders recorded nearly 700 cases of sexual assault in 2023, and that is only the people who reported. People drown in rivers, break bones on steep cliffs, or collapse from exhaustion. Survivors describe it as a trail of death that no one would take unless their lives at home were already unbearable.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
2023: Over 520,000 crossed the Darién. 40× more than a decade ago. Most from Venezuela, Haiti, Ecuador. One in five was a child.
Blurry aerial jungle background with bold orange headline: “How many people cross, and who are they?” White body text reads: “In 2023 alone, more than 520,000 people entered the jungle. That is forty times more than just a decade ago. Most are from Venezuela, Haiti, and Ecuador — countries hit by violence, hunger, and economic collapse. One in every five people crossing is a child. Some are babies carried on their parents’ shoulders through mud and rivers. These are not ‘invaders.’ They are people who have run out of options.” Top banner repeats: “The border doesn’t stop at the border — it devours people.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
The Darién Gap is 60 miles of roadless jungle. No roads. No cell service. No safety. Once “impenetrable.” Now a funnel for migration north.
Dark blurred jungle background with bold orange headline: “What even is the Darién Gap?” White body text explains: “The Darién Gap is sixty miles of jungle, mountains, and rivers that blocks the only highway connecting South and Central America. There are no roads, no cell service, no police, and no safety. For decades, almost no one tried to cross it. But now it has become a funnel for migration north, because governments have shut off safer routes.” Header text at the top reads: “The border doesn’t stop at the border — it devours people.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
The border doesn’t stop at the border. It devours people. Families are forced into the Darién Gap — a deadly rainforest between Colombia & Panama — because US. policy blocks safer paths.

Read more: bit.ly/3Ko5ZhZ
Aerial photo of hundreds of people walking in two long lines through a dense green jungle path. Bold headline text in black on yellow blocks reads: “The border doesn’t stop at the border, it devours people.” Below, white text on a dark overlay says: “While politicians scream ‘border crisis,’ the real crisis is in the Darién Gap — a roadless jungle between Colombia and Panama. Families, children, whole communities are forced into one of the most dangerous places on earth because US policy blocks every safer path.” Top banner reads: “An ELI5 BSI × The Border Chronicle Carousel.”
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · 13d
Finally find the right password to log back in… 🫠
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jul 6
Thank you so much!
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jul 2
Uni Caps is doing full Thanos cosplay, selling vitamins while backing a bill that snaps 17M people off healthcare. 💊💀

Tell them what you think!

📧 [email protected]
☎️ 714-529-8400

#VitaminsOrViolence #BigBadBill #ELI5BSI #PeopleOverProfits
A satirical Instagram-style graphic featuring Uni-Caps, LLC. The background shows the inside of a vitamin and health supplement store. On the right side is a large image of Thanos from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, standing confidently with his Infinity Gauntlet raised — clearly a metaphor for the destructive impact of the company’s political contributions. On the left side, within a black text box, bold white text reads: UNI-CAPS, LLC: Selling vitamins while funding healthcare destruction! Below that is a colorful comic-style explosion graphic that says: SNAP!, mimicking the infamous Thanos snap that wiped out half the universe. Body text below reads: “Uni Caps is out here doing their best Thanos cosplay, funding policies that’ll make 17M people vanish from healthcare rolls. All while slinging vitamins!” Then in white text: Tell them how you feel about it! 📧 info@unicapsllc.com ☎️ 714-529-8400 At the bottom, a footer reads: URL eli5bsi.com | IG & Threads @eli5bsi | Bsky @eli5bsi.bsky.social Background image credit: Les Stockton The tone is mocking, urgent, and anti-corporate, using pop culture to highlight the absurdity of a supplement company supporting mass healthcare cuts.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jul 2
Energy Transfer Partners = Lex Luthor vibes.

Destroying the planet and your Medicaid.

Clean energy? Cut.
Utility bills? Up.
Healthcare? Gone.

Call the supervillains:
☎️ 214-981-0700

#BigBadBill #EnergyTransfer #ELI5BSI #PeopleOverProfits
A dystopian-themed Instagram-style graphic with a bleak, dusty background resembling a climate apocalypse wasteland. In the lower-left corner is a comic-style image of Lex Luthor, the classic supervillain, smirking while crushing a tiny Superman figure in his hand — symbolizing Energy Transfer Partners’ villainous corporate energy. To the right of the Lex Luthor image is the Energy Transfer logo. Below is a dilapidated, rusting car in a destroyed landscape, reinforcing the consequences of anti-environmental policy. The top half of the graphic features a bold black box with the following text: ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS: Destroying the planet and your Medicaid! Lex Luthor Vibes = Billionaire energy bros pushing a bill that hikes your bills and kills your care. Body text: “Energy Transfer Partners is backing a bill that kills clean energy credits, spikes your utility bills, and axes healthcare for millions.” Final line: “Time for a supervillain call-out! ☎️ 214-981-0700” At the very bottom is a white footer strip with contact and social info: URL eli5bsi.com | IG & Threads @eli5bsi | Bsky @eli5bsi.bsky.social The tone is satirical, direct, and rebellious — calling out corporate greed with superhero-level dramatics.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jul 2
Advance Beverage is cosplaying Mr. Burns, backing a bill that kicks 1.4M seniors off care.

$18K says, “let the peasants suffer.” 

Nothing pairs with beer like avoidable death. 🍺💀

Let ‘em know!
☎️ (661) 833-3783

#UnbottleTheTruth #BigBadBill #ELI5BSI #PeopleOverProfits
A colorful, satirical Instagram-style graphic featuring the logo for Advance Beverage Company at the top. Below it, in a cartoonish yellow font, is the headline: “Excellent… Now Cut Grandma’s Medicaid!” referencing the catchphrase of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. To the right, a smug cartoon version of Mr. Burns stands in front of a government building, fingers steepled in classic evil fashion. On the left side is a black box with the following text: 💀 Co-signing a bill that kicks 1.4M seniors off health care. 🍺 Because nothing pairs with beer like avoidable death. Beneath that: “Advance Beverage is doing their best Mr. Burns impression, funding a bill that’ll leave millions uninsured and seniors out in the cold. $18K says ‘let the peasants suffer.’” Then in bold: Want to roast them? ☎️ (661) 833-3783 Footer text includes social handles and site info: URL eli5bsi.com | IG & Threads @eli5bsi | Bsky @eli5bsi.bsky.social The overall aesthetic is cartoonish, irreverent, and sharply critical of corporate influence on deadly healthcare policy.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jul 2
General Atomics makes drones AND now bankrolls healthcare cuts so brutal they’d make Skynet blush.

27% of nursing homes are at risk. 

Call ’em: (858) 455-3000. 

Defunding care isn’t “defense.” It’s a disgrace.

#BigBadBill #GeneralAtomics #PeopleOverProfits #ELI5BSI
A bold, dystopian-themed Instagram graphic styled like a tech-noir warning. On the left is a glowing red-eyed Terminator-style robot head, clearly referencing Skynet from The Terminator franchise. A small red Skynet logo is below. On the right is a black box with white and bold text, under the General Atomics corporate logo. The headline reads: “GENERAL ATOMICS: BUILDING DRONES & TARGETING NURSING HOMES.” Text below reads: “You trusted them to build drones, and now they’re funding healthcare cuts so aggressive they’d make Skynet blush. 27% of nursing homes could shut down thanks to General Atomics’ $19K donation.” Final line in bold white text says: “Let them know that defunding nursing homes isn’t ‘defense,’ it’s disgrace.” A red phone emoji is followed by the phone number: (858) 455–3000. Bottom footer includes website and social links: “URL eli5bsi.com | IG & Threads @eli5bsi | Bsky @eli5bsi.bsky.social” The overall vibe is urgent, darkly humorous, and anti-corporate.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jun 24
ICE isn’t broken.

It’s doing exactly what it was built to do: disappear people for profit.

We don’t melt ICE by playing nice.
We melt it by fighting back. 🎶

We’re Gonna Melt ICE by Lamby & The Bears. #AbolishICE #MeltICE #ELI5BSI
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Sha Merirei @merirei.com · Jun 22
🛰️ The “war on terror” never really ends. It just mutates into border tech, drones, and mass surveillance. 📡
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jun 22
US bombs Iran.
No Congress. No debate.

Every “war power” fuels the border & surveillance industry.

Drones. Biometrics. Profit.

The war on terror didn’t end, it just pivoted. 📡

#ELI5BSI #Iran #SurveillanceState #WarOnTerror #NationalSecurity
Graphic with a dark transparent overlay on a zoomed-in map of the Middle East, showing Iran prominently, with a red pushpin marking its location. Overlaid white text reads: WAR POWERS = SURVEILLANCE POWERS Presidents don’t “declare war” anymore. They call it “national security” and expand:     •    Drones     •    Border tech     •    Biometrics     •    Private contractors     •    Permanent surveillance The war on terror never ended. It just mutated. At the top center is the ELI5 BSI logo in black, magenta, and teal. At the bottom of the graphic, smaller white text reads: “MORE ACCESSIBLE CONTENT AT ELI5BSI.COM.” The graphic’s design uses ELI5 BSI’s minimalist, bold, tech-dystopia aesthetic with high contrast and clean sans-serif font, creating a serious tone that emphasizes the connection between war powers and growing surveillance.
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Sha Merirei @merirei.com · Jun 22
The only regime change I’m interested in is for the US… 🫠
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jun 22
US bombs Iran.
No Congress. No debate.

Every “war power” fuels the border & surveillance industry.

Drones. Biometrics. Profit.

The war on terror didn’t end, it just pivoted. 📡

#ELI5BSI #Iran #SurveillanceState #WarOnTerror #NationalSecurity
Graphic with a dark transparent overlay on a zoomed-in map of the Middle East, showing Iran prominently, with a red pushpin marking its location. Overlaid white text reads: WAR POWERS = SURVEILLANCE POWERS Presidents don’t “declare war” anymore. They call it “national security” and expand:     •    Drones     •    Border tech     •    Biometrics     •    Private contractors     •    Permanent surveillance The war on terror never ended. It just mutated. At the top center is the ELI5 BSI logo in black, magenta, and teal. At the bottom of the graphic, smaller white text reads: “MORE ACCESSIBLE CONTENT AT ELI5BSI.COM.” The graphic’s design uses ELI5 BSI’s minimalist, bold, tech-dystopia aesthetic with high contrast and clean sans-serif font, creating a serious tone that emphasizes the connection between war powers and growing surveillance.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · Jun 12
Incognito Mode = cosplay for privacy.
Google logs. ICE buys. NSA watches.
You’re not hiding, just wearing a trench coat in Times Square.

Inspired by Repression in the Digital Age by Anita Gohdes.

#CyberColonialism #ELI5BSI
A neon-green, cyberpunk-style digital illustration depicts a hooded figure typing at a computer in a Guy Fawkes mask. The main monitor displays green code and a stylized terminal with Python-like script that reads: print("Me: Uses Incognito Mode") print("The Government: LOL") Behind the figure, a massive surveillance interface shows glowing data streams, government logos, masked agents, and shadowy men in suits wearing sunglasses. At the top of the screen is the ominous message: “Incognito Mode Won’t Save You From Google, ICE, or the NSA.” Social handles for @eli5bsi and @eli5bsi.bsky.social appear prominently on the interface. The aesthetic evokes state surveillance, digital policing, and the illusion of online privacy. The image critiques the false sense of security provided by private browsing.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 21
Borders glitch when there’s oil or land to steal, but they stay “real” when people need safety.

They’re imaginary lines enforced by violence, redrawn for power, not protection.

Inspired by Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future by Candace Fujikane.

#ELI5BSI #AbolishBorders
This is a digital graphic simulating a distorted surveillance interface titled “GEOMANCY REAL-TIME BORDER CHANGE DETECTION SYSTEM.” The central visual is a grayscale world map with heavy glitch effects in magenta, teal, and white, evoking a sense of instability and digital interference. The continents appear warped and fragmented, as if the landmasses are shifting in real time. Above the map, a bold magenta header bar contains the system name in white, pixelated text. At the bottom of the image, a dark horizontal terminal bar displays text in a typewriter-style font: “If borders are real, why do they keep moving? Colonial land grabs, resource extraction, and gerrymandering say hi.” The message is a critique of the artificial and manipulative nature of borders. Below that are social media handles in bright magenta: @eli5bsi (Instagram) and @eli5bsi.bsky.social (Bluesky), framed in a retro-computer style footer. The entire image is overlaid on a blue grid background reminiscent of digital topography or blueprint paper, reinforcing the tech-meets-cartography aesthetic.
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 19
The USPS postal cops are helping ICE spy on immigrants with mail data & surveillance tech. This isn’t public safety—it’s digital deportation.

Scan the in-video QR. Call your reps using @5calls.org!

#eli5bsi #meowlitiarising #NoTechForICE #EADProtocol #AbolishICE
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Sha Merirei @merirei.com · May 14
As a High Court case seeking to block sale of British munitions used by Israel in Gaza begins, one of the campaigners involved — former UN Assistant Secretary-General @ajgilmour.bsky.social — argues that Britain’s role in the process must end immediately.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/brit...
Britain Must Stop Arms to Israel Now
As a High Court case seeking to block sale of British munitions used by Israel in Gaza begins, one of the campaigners involved — former UN Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour — argues that Brit...
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 6
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No Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report...
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 6
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US Postal Service Now Aiding Trump's Mass Deportation Effort | Common Dreams
The USPS, once a symbol of American unity, now aiding in Trump's cruel deportation machine. Postal inspectors took part in a recent raid in Colorado. Is there no agency left untouched by fascism?
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 6
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USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show
The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtaine...
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ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social · May 6
USPS is working with ICE to surveil immigrants using mail scans & user data.

Surveillance tech is the villain.
📢 Organize. Anonymize. Mobilize.

Use the #EADProtocol ➡️Encrypt, Anonymize, Decentralize.

#eli5bsi #AbolishICE #NoTechForICE #SurveillanceState
A bold infographic with a cyberpunk aesthetic featuring dark gradients, glitch elements, and neon accents. The header reads #SNAILMAILSNITCHING in glowing white text with a purple glow. Below, white text states: “The USPS is working with ICE to surveil immigrants using mail data. Mail tracking just became another tool of deportation. Surveillance tech is the villain. Organize. Anonymize. Mobilize.” At the bottom, the Instagram handle @eli5bsi is framed in a white rectangle. The source is cited in small turquoise text: Source: washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations/ The design features vibrant glitch-style borders and electric pink and teal accents, reinforcing a dystopian, resistance-focused theme.
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