The Yes Men

12/19/2025

Caudillo Andiliano Bichlbauma takes the throne. https://news.theyesmen.org/p/one-joyful-sh*t-ton-of-work

¡Adelante, artistas!

12/06/2025

🟣DEFENSOR DENUNCIA CAMPAÑA DE ODIO; COMUNIDADES MAYAS ACUSAN INTERESES INMOBILIARIOS DETRÁS

Lo que comenzó como una ola de ataques digitales escaló hoy a un punto crítico. El director de la Fundación Yansa A.C., Sergio Oceransky, denunció públicamente una campaña de difamación, amenazas de muerte y el presunto pago de hasta 40 mil pesos para movilizar “acarreados” a una protesta en su contra, organizada —según testimonios— por personas que afirmaron estar vinculadas a la inmobiliaria Ciudad Maderas.

A la conferencia de prensa acudieron y mostraron su respaldo representantes de Dzitnup, Ixil, Kinchil, Molas y Sisal, así como integrantes de colectivos de defensa del territorio, abogadas y miembros del equipo de la Fundación Yansa, quienes exigieron frenar la escalada de agresiones y la criminalización de defensores.

La denuncia, presentada ante el CONAPRED y la Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE), exige una investigación inmediata y advierte sobre el riesgo creciente de violencia no solo contra Oceransky, sino también contra su equipo legal y colaboradores.

De los ataques digitales a los intentos de movilización pagada

Durante la conferencia, realizada frente al Palacio de Gobierno, Oceransky exhibió mensajes de redes sociales que incitaban abiertamente a la violencia: llamados al linchamiento, amenazas de as*****to, agresiones físicas y hasta referencias a prender fuego a propiedades o al propio defensor.

“Esta campaña ya cruzó la frontera del mundo digital al terreno real”, señaló. “El ofrecimiento de dinero para llevar acarreados a una protesta en mi contra demuestra que hay un intento organizado, con recursos y con objetivos muy claros”.

La marcha, convocada para las 5 de la tarde, fue cancelada de última hora tras la difusión pública de las denuncias.

Posible vínculo con Ciudad Maderas

Oceransky detalló que el ofrecimiento de hasta 40 mil pesos provino de personas que aseguraron tener relación con Ciudad Maderas, empresa contra la cual la Fundación Yansa obtuvo recientemente una suspensión definitiva mediante una demanda de amparo.

“Le corresponde a la Fiscalía investigar si realmente se trata de operadores de Ciudad Maderas o si hay otros intereses económicos escondiéndose detrás de su nombre”, advirtió.

Representantes de las comunidades mayas presentes subrayaron que estos patrones de presión, desinformación y criminalización coinciden con prácticas atribuidas a proyectos inmobiliarios que buscan intervenir en tierras comunales.

Comunidades mayas cierran filas y denuncian criminalización

Los representantes de Dzitnup, Ixil, Kinchil, Molas y Sisal, quienes estuvieron hoy acompañando al defensor, condenaron la apertura de carpetas de investigación sin sustento por parte de la FGE, señalando que estas se utilizan como herramientas de intimidación para obstaculizar la defensa territorial.

Activistas señalaron que mientras se fabrican cargos contra quienes protegen el territorio, “los verdaderos responsables de devastación ambiental y daño patrimonial operan con total impunidad”.

Desconfianza en la FGE y exigencia de garantías

Oceransky explicó que presentó primero su denuncia ante el CONAPRED debido a la falta de confianza en la FGE, que previamente abrió procesos en su contra y contra defensores de Ixil por supuestos despojos que las comunidades afirman nunca existieron.

10/03/2025

WTF, ?

Under pressure from far-right loonies you pulled ICEBlock, a 100% legal tool for people to post sightings of ICE raids and thereby slow America's slide into fascism.

Yet you keep hosting Waze and Maps, which track police speed traps - cuz far-right loonies like to drive fast?

Thought you were pretending to be something other than evil. Or was that the other big corporation?

10/03/2025

WTF, Apple?

Under pressure from right-wing loonies you pulled ICEBlock, a 100% legal tool for people to post sightings of ICE raids and thereby slow America's slide into fascism.

Yet (because right-wing loonies like to drive fast?) you keep hosting Waze and Google Maps, which track police speed traps.

And you also keep hosting a whole bunch of apps PROVEN to (a) undermine democracies and (b) lead individuals to depression and su***de.

Thought you were pretending to be something other than evil. Or was that the other big corporation?

09/14/2025

Looking for someone going from from NY-London in the next couple of weeks who could transport a costume for us. Some compensation available. DM us if you are that person or know someone! Thanks!

08/20/2025

(New post at https://news.theyesmen.org/p/the-transformative-power-of-immigration)

Like most people, I knew the many phenomena of today’s incipient fascism: the cowing of law firms and universities, the cancelling of critical TV shows, the threats to people the executive branch doesn’t like, the takeover of cultural institutions and whole cities, the increasingly authoritarian economic and foreign policy. I knew all those things, and how their progression parallels that of well-known fascist movements in history.

I knew from family history too just where this can lead: The Gestapo took my grandfather away from my father, forever, and the rest of his family survived only by hiding for years. In a nation of immigrants, many of us have similar connections to what’s going on now.

Yet none of my knowledge, both abstract and personal, prepared me at all for seeing ICE thugs brazenly disregard the ruling — by a judge who works for the same boss as them, no less — that Andrés was entitled to an asylum hearing. The whole “they came for me” thing made sudden and total sense: If they can do this, they can do anything.

Fascism breaks the American brain. Unlike most people in the world, Americans, and especially white Americans, don’t even get hints, early on, that widespread violence by government thugs is a thing. When we do at last find out about criminal episodes in American history, we believe them the way we believe most other facts — which is to say, abstractly. Even recent family history doesn’t always make much of a difference.

Some of us need first-hand experience to break out of our mental framework that authoritarianism can’t happen here. Fortunately, that experience is available, and at very low risk, especially for those of us with certain privileges.

08/11/2025

See news.theyesmen.org for full post (by Andy).

"Last week I went to NYC immigration court with a coalition of groups (among others, JFREJ) that’s trying to mitigate the harm ICE does to immigrants showing up for their scheduled immigration-court hearings. The immigrants imagine they have a right to due process (which, as it happens, they do), and never imagine they’re going to be kidnapped—and yet they often are, regardless of the outcome of their hearing or any other factors.

My grandfather having been taken away from my father by the Gestapo, forever, I don’t feel the right to stay silent when something analogous is happening here in my country.

The ICE agents I saw last week at the downtown courts seemed entirely different from everyone else—from security guards, immigration court “judges” (actually lawyers), even police. And then I realized why: they’re thinking extremely hard, and that changes the way they look.

What strenuous mental effort it must take for an ICE man (they’re almost always men) to see what he’s doing not as thuggery, not as pointless and cruel attacks on obviously vulnerable human beings, but as patriotism, valor, and helping other “good citizens” like themselves.

They’re not stupid, or no stupider than the rest of us. But they're marshaling their intelligence to support some incredibly stupid conclusions against the evidence of their eyes."

Are their pastors out skating? Visit news.theyesmen.org for the rest.

08/10/2025

New posters - print your own at the QR code on the right!
Also, last day of F**k ICE cream shop at 279 Broome. Fun, music, ice cream, smashing ice (bring your own) and learning about courtwatch!

08/10/2025

Head over to for discussion

08/09/2025

Come raise money for the support of detained migrants. Make your own smashed-ICE drink, and find out how to join a community critical support work.

To quote : "The ICE Gestapo is terrorizing our community members in the NYC courts. Many of them are not from here, but came for big bonuses and have no problem kidnapping people and separating families.

NYC welcomes newcomers, but ICE needs to G**O of our city."