Bekah Hinojosa
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Brownsville, TX, and with Sotxejn.org
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steven monacelli
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New from me and
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: 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 PeƱitas. 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. Noemās Visit and Installation of Death-Trap Bouys in the Rio Grande
For months, border communities have denounced DHSās 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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Heather Vogell
8 days ago
Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year ā twice raining down debris over busy airspace. āIt literally looked like the sun coming out,ā one passenger said. Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
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āWeāre Too Close to the Debrisā: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Muskās Starship would cause āminor or minimalā 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
8 days 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 Trumpās 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
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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
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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
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By me: Itās easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Hereās what gives me hope - my swan song for
@theguardian.com
, at least for now
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Itās easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Hereās what gives me hope | Nina Lakhani
Iāve spent six years writing about environmental justice. The uncomfortable truth is that weāre not all in it together ā 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
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Ken Klippenstein
about 1 month ago
šØPam 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 āExtremists,ā 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
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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 wonāt 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:
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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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Kit O'Connell (š³ļøāšBig & Bright Queerdoš½)
about 2 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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Iām a Trans Journalist Choosing to Live in Texas. Hereās Why That Matters.
My name is Kit OāConnell. Iāll be covering queer and trans life in Texas for Big & Bright ā The Barbed Wireās first underwritten vertical.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/transgender-journalist-living-in-texas/
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San Antonio Express-News
about 2 months ago
The new city of Starbase is suing Texas AG Ken Paxton over his officeās 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
about 2 months ago
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for āsuspiciousā 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...
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United Farm Workers
2 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
2 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 worldās 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
3 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 ā we believe this was the plane carrying Mr. Juarez prior to his wrongful removal to MX.
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NowThis Impact
3 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
3 months ago
Australian company announces lithium refinery plans at the Port of Brownsville āThe timing is ideal to establish a foothold in Texas,ā 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 ā 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
3 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
3 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
3 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. š§µ
www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-ar...
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Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, Heās Left the Country.
Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. Heās also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the presidentās mass deportation agenda anyway.
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-arrested-whistleblower-sexual-assault-detention/
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Guillermo del Toro
3 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
3 months ago
Gov. Greg Abbott admitted in an X post that Texas is purging professors with āleftist ideologiesā ā and people are not happy.
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Gov. Abbott Admitted to Purging āLeftistā Professors. People Are Calling It the āDefinition of Fascism.ā
Students and professors have protested firings of āleftistā 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
3 months ago
This is the first time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the āantifaā labelā¦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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āAntifaā Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two āantifaā 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
3 months ago
āThis is the first time Iāve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,ā said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project.
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southpaw
3 months ago
Ten years and five months apart
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steven monacelli
3 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
3 months ago
In April, the Trump admin deported āRosarioā & 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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āThey never told me where I was goingā: a family falls into Louisianaās āblack holeā of deportation
Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children ā including one with stage 4 cancer ā 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
3 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
4 months ago
President Trumpās 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 āextremismā on race, gender, and migration.
trib.al/M7ZbuWE
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Texas Tribune
4 months ago
New: A federal judge has ordered ICE to immediately release 28-year-old Catalina āXochitlā Santiago, a Mexican immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, because she is protected from deportation under DACA.
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Judge orders the immediate release of El Paso DACA recipient
The El Paso federal judge said the Trump administration is violating the constitutional rights of Catalina āXochitlā Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/01/texas-daca-deportation-el-paso-catalina-xochitl-santiago-court-ruling/
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steven monacelli
4 months ago
How can 17 people face charges for the alleged actions of a single shooter? How can an officer sustain shots from a rifle to the neck and torso and be released from the hospital in 24 hours? Are anarchist zines evidence of a plan to commit an ambush? There are many questions still unanswered.
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"He was flown back to the U.S. and is being detained in El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas.
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unraveled
4 months ago
At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago. Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor. Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.
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Puff the Magic Hater
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CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
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Oliver Laughland
4 months ago
Iām at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside. Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:
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Democracy Now!
4 months ago
"What really kept me strong was my anger." In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
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Rio Grande Valley folks will be in NYC next week. come check out our panel about resisting Elon Musk & SpaceX Colonization during
#NYCclimateweek
at The People's Forum RSVP
bit.ly/FrontlinesRe...
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NYC Panel: Frontlines Resist Elon Musk and SpaceX Colonization
Hear from a panel of directly-impacted South Texans and members of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas about resisting Elon Muskās colonization of the region, including his company town of āā¦
https://bit.ly/FrontlinesResistSpaceX
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Stop the Money Pipeline
4 months ago
T-Mobile knows that by partnering with Musk, they are funneling billions of $$ into the pockets of the most destructive far-right billionaire. This is why weāre calling for a
#BoycottTMobile
We need your help to collect pledge signatures! Sign up here:
stmp.link/collecttmobi...
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Maanvi Singh
4 months ago
Andry HernĆ”ndez Romero ā the Venezuelan makeup artist deported to a Salvadoran megaprisonĀ āĀ was one of several detained immigrants I interviewed. Here's his chaotic path across the US. When Andry boarded these flights, no one would tell him where exactly he was going. (Illo by Andrew Witherspoon)
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Prism
4 months ago
Today, Prism is publishing a monthslong investigation by
@laubast.bsky.social
in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, that takes a deep dive into the experiences of repression that Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists face in the U.S. while attempting to cover the genocide.
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The Border Chronicle
4 months ago
New in The Border Chronicleš¦ Communities Push Back against SpaceX in Tamaulipas A Mexican conservation group says Elon Muskās rocket launches from South Texas are killing turtles, damaging homes, and littering Tamaulipas beaches with debris.
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Communities Push Back against SpaceX in Tamaulipas
A Mexican conservation group says Elon Muskās rocket launches from South Texas are killing turtles, damaging homes, and littering Tamaulipas beaches with debris.
https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/communities-push-back-against-spacex
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