The Threads Icon Who Dared to Tangle with ICE

ByBNW TEAM

She is witty, striking, and unapologetically calls herself a Threads.com slut. Online, she is known as @nomadnovelswithtea, a creator who first captured attention with her infamous “vibrator self-humiliation at the airport” story — the viral anecdote that announced her to the wider world.

Today, though, although she comes from a country that voluntarily sided with the Nazi and paid to eliminate millions of its own minorities, she is in the headlines for something on the other side of the world from her backyard: a direct, public campaign trolling one of the most feared agencies in the West — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Challenging Power in Public

ICE’s stated mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and illegal immigration. Yet to her, the agency represents fear, suppression, and institutionalised intimidation. By mocking ICE openly on public platforms, she is not simply provoking controversy — she is deliberately testing the boundaries of state power.

And she knows the risks. Her full name already sits in public archives. In the digital age, tagging systems ensure that her posts will be linked directly to her passport identity. Once that link is made, ICE’s automated systems — and those of allied agencies — can trigger instantly.

The Silent Machinery of Watchlists

It is no secret that anyone who disrupts, mocks, or undermines state authority risks being flagged inside the Universal Security Profiling System. This system is not limited to the U.S.; it is shared across Western security networks.

Passports are quietly linked to international watchlists that feed into:

  • ETIAS (the EU’s traveller pre-screening mechanism)

  • APIS (Advance Passenger Information System)

  • ATS (Automated Targeting System, which assigns hidden “risk scores” to every passenger)

The individual never sees their score. Instead, they feel it — during hours-long airport interrogations, unexplained detentions, strip or cavity searches. The punishment is silent, bureaucratic, and inescapable.

Defiance at a Cost

In this landscape, @nomadnovelswithtea’s trolling is more than performance. It is a calculated act of defiance — a reminder of the price that comes with openly challenging the system.

To stand up for undocumented people while knowingly attracting the scrutiny of international watchlists requires unusual audacity. It is a statement that repression only works if people remain silent.

A Larger Lesson

Her stand raises a difficult question: what if more people were willing to risk personal humiliation, bureaucratic harassment, and the quiet machinery of state control in the name of principle?

Perhaps then, the balance between power and justice might finally begin to shift.

https://www.threads.com/@nomadnovelswithtea/post/DN0V-Pf2Oq- 

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