Bekah Hinojosa
@bekahbot.bsky.social
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Brownsville, TX, and with Sotxejn.org
Border communities urged officials to condemn deadly buoys in the Rio Grande. Most officials haven't responded to our letter. We will protest against these murder buoys in Brownsville on Feb 26. Press release ->
sotxejn.org/2026/02/19/p...
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Press Release: Border Communities Oppose Trump’s ‘death-trap’ Border Buoys in the Rio Grande
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2026 Contact: Bekah Hinojosa,
[email protected]
at 956-975-6634 Border Communities Oppose Trump’s ‘death-trap’ Border Buoys in the Rio Grande Organizations based…
https://sotxejn.org/2026/02/19/press-release-border-communities-oppose-trumps-death-trap-border-buoys-in-the-rio-grande/
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Deceleration
19 days ago
"The Brownsville area suffers from crumbling infrastructure due to inadequate funding, mishandling of city resources, and various forms of exploitation. ... Climate change impacts, such as flooding and extreme heat, make it worse." From
@bekahbot.bsky.social
deceleration.news/disaster-kit...
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We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival
As climate 'shocks' increasingly puncture wealthier parts of the U.S., they lengthen like a shadow across this borderlands region.
https://deceleration.news/disaster-kits-rio-grande-valley-daily-survival/
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It's Going Down
23 days ago
Member of neo-Nazi group tied to acts of violence and hate crimes across the US (in 2017, a member murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville at a white supremacist rally) is unmasked as a federal security contractor.
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Mica Rosenberg
23 days ago
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
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Mica Rosenberg
23 days ago
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/
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ProPublica
23 days ago
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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“It is absolutely disgusting for our public officials to consider signing non-disclosure agreements with corporations, especially the Eneus Data Center, which the community clearly opposes,” - South Texas Environmental Justice Network Stop Data Centers!!
myrgv.com/local-news/2...
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https://myrgv.com/local-news/2026/01/30/emails-show-data-center-exec-officials-held-december-meeting-in-harlingen/
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Luanne Tifá Platter
about 1 month ago
Omg! Local San Antonio news is at a protest in Dilley, Texas at the Family Prison where Liam Ramos is being held. Y'all I'm crying so hard. These young people are so brave. I'm guessing most are from San Antonio. Absolutely clear video proof that the cops were the only violent actors here.
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Protesters detained, hit by tear gas near Dilley family detention facility
YouTube video by KSAT 12
https://youtu.be/PAQk_taCzm4?si=NVSr4SK1OASc0UWn
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Oliver Laughland
about 1 month ago
Our latest episode of Anywhere but Washington is from Minneapolis. We observed ICE’s racial profiling during traffic stops in the suburbs, embedded with neighborhood watch groups, spoke to folks at a GOP gubernatorial forum, and spent time with Somali-American community leaders:
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The occupation of Minneapolis: resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' | Anywhere but Washington
YouTube video by The Guardian
https://youtu.be/CFBvYve92_M?si=NOINksFqDZZJ6lDO
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Nina Lakhani
about 1 month ago
If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
about 1 month ago
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
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Sam Levin
about 1 month ago
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
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steven monacelli
about 2 months ago
New from me and
@tristanl.ee
with a bit of help from
@wileydcope.bsky.social
: We identified companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that are operated either by members of Patriot Front or individuals with multiple connections to Patriot Front
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou...
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Revealed: Four Businesses with Ties to Patriot Front Operating in North Texas
The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. Through publicly available information, interviews, and in-person observation, the Observer has identified c...
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/
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DHS Noem visited Brownsville to spew racist propaganda. CBP's comment period to install 500 miles of deadly buoys in the Rio Grande. DOW installs razor wire in Peñitas. DOW Hegspeth in Brownsville. 2 weeks of border militarization in the Rio Grande Valley, TX. Statement:
sotxejn.org/2026/01/09/s...
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South Texans Condemn DHS Sec. Noem’s Visit and Installation of Death-Trap Bouys in the Rio Grande
For months, border communities have denounced DHS’s plans to eventually install more than 500 miles of barrier bouys in the Rio Grande.
https://sotxejn.org/2026/01/09/south-texans-condemn-dhs-sec-noems-visit-and-installation-of-death-trap-bouys-in-the-rio-grande/?fbclid=IwVERTSAPTZP9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR56eE23ZF7u_fs82J1QB58ZCkqP80QGMdasA-GyYjPIBuekNwA_4yWQ6g3D3Q_aem_F8oG-UX8OcwaW5OTReMvgg
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We oppose the installation of death-trap buoys in our river because they are unnecessary & will seriously injure or kill people. These buoys would also cause irreparable damage to the river habitat. We urge electeds @BTxRGV to condemn these buoys & demand their immediate removal.
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about 2 months ago
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Heather Vogell
about 2 months ago
Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year – twice raining down debris over busy airspace. “It literally looked like the sun coming out,” one passenger said. Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean
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Candice Bernd
about 2 months ago
New: I spoke to Rice University Latin American Studies Professor Luis Duno-Gottberg and
@sdonziger.bsky.social
about the history of U.S. oil adventurism in Venezuela and the role Chevron is set to play in Trump's blood-for-oil imperial venture.
www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-...
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Why Houston Oil Majors Are Hesitant to Go All In on Venezuela
Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to leap at Trump’s invitation to join his war on the climate and the internatio...
https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-majors-hesitant-venezuela/
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Antonia Juhasz
about 2 months ago
Yes, this is a war for oil, Exxon & other U.S. oil corps are direct beneficiaries. Like all wars for oil, there are other objectives as well, with regime change in Cuba certainly high on the Trump administration's list, accomplished via cutting off oil flows from VZ.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes
Blasts, aircraft and black smoke could be seen across Caracas overnight.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03/?lctg=613658ec93919a4efd73784d
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Antonia Juhasz
about 2 months ago
Venezuela has massive oil reserves (estimated the largest, but also tough to extract), but this isn't just about VZ's oil. VZ threatened the entire region's oil, particularly Guyana, which also happens to be Exxon & Chevron's largest biggest newest easiest pot of oil in the world after TX Permian.
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Nina Lakhani
2 months ago
By me: It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope - my swan song for
@theguardian.com
, at least for now
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope | Nina Lakhani
I’ve spent six years writing about environmental justice. The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/31/environmental-justice-ordinary-people-power?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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SpaceX will keep approaching state & fed agencies to try to occupy more of our sacred, pristine coastline inch by inch. We in South Texas will fight back at every step because this colonizer must be stopped.
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Today, we SUED the regulator, FERC, for approving Rio Grande LNG & the Rio Bravo Pipeline. This methane gas facility would be the biggest polluter in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
earthjustice.org/press/2025/t...
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Texan Nonprofits Sue FERC for Approving LNG Terminal and Pipeline
Groups ask FERC to better evaluate the air pollution impacts of the TX project
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/texan-nonprofits-sue-ferc-for-approving-lng-terminal-and-pipeline
3 months ago
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Ken Klippenstein
3 months ago
🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming
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molly taft
3 months ago
a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for
@motherjones.com
- an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:
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Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/12/abandoned-oil-wells-texas-tiktok-hawk-dunlap-sarah-stogner-well-watchers/
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Today, the US Department of War is working with masked contractors to install border militarization buoys in the Rio Grande River. This is just the start; the Trump Admin plans to eventually install 17 miles of deadly "murder buoys" to maim people in this part of our river. Pics by me:
3 months ago
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Sharing this hilarious video of someone yelling "Fuck you" at Congressman Henry Cuellar on the streets of Laredo, TX.
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3 months ago
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
3 months ago
I'm here, I'm queer, I belong in Texas, too.
thebarbedwire.com
asked me to take a moment to introduce myself, and why our state needs reporters like me, and media where we can see our stories reflected. This one starts when I'm just 13 years old...
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I’m a Trans Journalist Choosing to Live in Texas. Here’s Why That Matters.
My name is Kit O’Connell. I’ll be covering queer and trans life in Texas for Big & Bright — The Barbed Wire’s first underwritten vertical.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/transgender-journalist-living-in-texas/
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San Antonio Express-News
3 months ago
The new city of Starbase is suing Texas AG Ken Paxton over his office’s ruling that it must release public information requested by a media outlet in the Rio Grande Valley.
bit.ly/3LWQgaw
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
https://bit.ly/4ibcn8Z
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Where's the US news report about this? Someone placed signs on Matamoros, Mexico's beach near the US-Mexico border & SpaceX launchpad, declaring it a "restricted area" in accordance with directives issued by the Secretary of Defense.
www.hoytamaulipas.net/notas/605347...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/n...
4 months ago
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United Farm Workers
4 months ago
Farm workers are proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers. Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Absolutely disgusting. Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, has his own company town in the poorest community in the country, the Rio Grande Valley, TX
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Candice Bernd
4 months ago
NOW: A small group of protesters briefly blockaded the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin to demand shareholders reject a $1T pay package for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. The blockade dispersed after a Travis Co. Sheriff threatened to arrest protesters without any official warning.
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ICE Flight Monitor
4 months ago
Alejandro Juarez was mistakenly deported to Mexico despite a pending court hearing,
@nytimes.com
reports. On Sept. 20, we tracked an Eastern Air Express flight from Newark, NJ to Harlingen, TX — we believe this was the plane carrying Mr. Juarez prior to his wrongful removal to MX.
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NowThis Impact
4 months ago
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was beaten, choked, and subjected to racial slurs by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Houston, who did not identify themselves before tackling him and his father to the ground.
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Dylan Baddour
4 months ago
Australian company announces lithium refinery plans at the Port of Brownsville “The timing is ideal to establish a foothold in Texas,” the company chairman said
www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/ne...
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Lithium Universe unveils Texas refinery plan to expand North American footprint
Lithium Universe Ltd (ASX:LU7, OTC:LUVSF) has unveiled plans for a second lithium carbonate refinery in Brownsville, Texas — a move that expands its North...
https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/1080248/lithium-universe-unveils-texas-refinery-plan-to-expand-north-american-footprint-1080248.html
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Francesca D'Annunzio
4 months ago
While Menijivar was held at the Corley facility facing possible deportation, another detainee sexually assaulted him twice with the help of an accomplice, he said in an official complaint and in interviews with me this year, and other media in 2017:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Group claims ICE ignores claims of sexual assault of immigrants in custody
Ultimately, in an internal affairs review, ICE's own deportation and detention agents concluded there was insufficient evidence to support Menjivar's allegations, according to a one-page letter of...
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Group-claims-ICE-ignores-claims-of-sexual-assault-11069820.php
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Francesca D'Annunzio
4 months ago
Menjivar, a 50 yo master mechanic originally from El Salvador, had lived in the US for most of the last twenty years. He spent 2013 to 2015 in immigrant detention, including at the Houston-area Joe Corley Detention Center, operated by the for-profit prison contractor GEO Group.
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Francesca D'Annunzio
4 months ago
A decade ago, Douglas Menjivar became a whistleblower and activist after he was raped in ICE detention. He married a US citizen, but wasn't able to get a green card. In June, agents arrested him just before his 50th birthday. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-ar...
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Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.
Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-arrested-whistleblower-sexual-assault-detention/
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Guillermo del Toro
5 months ago
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: Guillermo del Toro's longtime passion project 'Frankenstein' is its own marvelous monster
Jacob Elordi's yearning creature breaks spines and hearts in a violent, kinetic adaptation that co-stars Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-10-16/frankenstein-review-oscar-isaac-mia-goth-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro
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The Barbed Wire
4 months ago
Gov. Greg Abbott admitted in an X post that Texas is purging professors with “leftist ideologies” — and people are not happy.
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Gov. Abbott Admitted to Purging ‘Leftist’ Professors. People Are Calling It the ‘Definition of Fascism.’
Students and professors have protested firings of “leftist” professors at major universities in recent weeks.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/gov-abbott-admitted-to-purging-leftist-professors/
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Natasha Lennard
5 months ago
This is the first time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the “antifa” label…The Prairieland case has so far provided a convenient testing ground for state repression. Latest
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/a...
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“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two “antifa” protesters.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/17/antifa-ice-protesters-terrorism-texas-prairieland/
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South TX EJ Network is with Matamoros organizations on a boat flotilla off the coast of Playa Bagdad to protest the SpaceX launch that just happened ¡fuera SpaceX, fuera Elon musk!
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The Intercept
5 months ago
“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project.
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southpaw
5 months ago
Ten years and five months apart
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steven monacelli
5 months ago
Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time
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At the march in Memphis happening now. From the Rio Grande Valley to Memphis, no more Elon Musk, ICE, & National Guard in our communities. ¡Fuera!
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Oliver Laughland
5 months ago
In April, the Trump admin deported “Rosario” & her two US citizen children, one of whom is being treated for stage 4 kidney cancer. The case drew national and international attention. Rosario shares her story for the first time with
@theguardian.com
- another chapter in our Ice Air investigation:
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‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation
Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/03/ice-detention-facility-alexandria-louisiana-deportation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Mondoweiss
5 months ago
READ: Two activists in Texas are facing hate crime charges for graffiti criticizing Israel. Their lawyers say these cases represent extreme government overreach and could set a dangerous precedent for Palestine activists nationwide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/stat...
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State prosecutors in Texas seek to make anti-Israel graffiti a hate crime
Two activists in Texas are facing hate crime charges for graffiti criticizing Israel. Their lawyers say these cases represent extreme government overreach and could set a dangerous precedent for Pales...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/state-prosecutors-in-texas-seek-to-make-anti-israel-graffiti-a-hate-crime/
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The New Republic
5 months ago
President Trump’s sweeping national security memo directs feds to investigate and prosecute any person, non-profit, or entity displaying what Trump calls political violence: anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and “extremism” on race, gender, and migration.
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