“We are seeing a massive expansion of surveillance and surveillance technology across the borderlands” www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...

"Clearly, #climate change has the potential to severely damage biodiversity, both in isolation and in combination with other anthropogenic threats, emphasizing the need to proactively manage ecosystems to protect them from the multifaceted nature of future global change."

[T]he UK’s planned return-hub approach in the Balkans combines “domestic pressure, political framing, and external cooperation…to shift migration control outward while increasing risk and reducing accountability” static1.squarespace.com/static/5bb60...

New podcast episode: Todd & Melissa on how border tactics such as surveillance, chases, warrantless searches, are moving inland. Plus buoy barriers, walls through sacred sites, and Todd's book on the Rio Grande. We run on subscribers, not ads. Subscribe NOW. Our work depends on YOU. Listen Now🔗🦂:

This will also help because you will be getting much less direct solar radiation and reflected radiation, independent of the air temperature. For the same reasons, if you’re outside, try and stay in the shade and away from hot surfaces.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

"While being 250 y.o. as a nation, this region doesn't have the same birth date as the U.S. We look not so much to 1776 as the starting point for modern U.S. identity. We look at the Mexican-American War in 1848." said Ruben Leyva, a Gila Apache border scholar www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

We have histories of free speech and of property. But where is the long #history of #free #movement? 🥁 coming soon Free movement from Roman antiquity to Brexit -- via Spanish Empire, Holy Roman Empire & Italy w Gagliardi, Salamanca, Simoncini @lscholz.bsky.social @crookedfootball.bsky.social

“[I]t will permanently block certain tribal ceremonies where members cross the border -- with federal permission -- such as an annual walking pilgrimage to Magdalena de Kino.”

The Tohono O'odham Nation has asked a federal judge to immediately halt pending plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to build 62 miles of border wall through their reservation. tucson.com/news/local/b...

This Refugee Week, @profgsgilbert.bsky.social and I have a new article out: 'Après le déluge: Evolving approaches to international protection in the context of climate change and disasters' academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...

I have been invited to this three times, and they sent me most of this list in the recruiting emails. I assumed it was a scam and that the listed people just showed up for lunch sometimes but apparently this was real and I have missed my chance to prepare humanity for the coming of the machine god

“Supply solutions do not ask who will occupy new units, on what terms, and with what legal protections. But these questions determine whether increased housing supply actually improves the lives of the people most impacted by the housing crisis.”

“By sealing off the border with a barrier they cannot pass, not only will this subgroup be impacted by being cut off from the resources…but the entire population will be impacted by the sudden split in their range and lack of genetic exchange” wildlandsnetwork.org/stories/the-...

🦑 Move aside, traditional book reviews!! Seb just made my day 😊 🙏 Thank you for this generous take on 🌊 The Gates of the Sea 🌊 📽️ Seb's review 👉 www.instagram.com/reel/DZPb3GY... 🚵‍♂️ Seb's campaign👉 www.sebbiebikes.org Huge thanks to @pollypw.bsky.social for recommending the book!

“Drawing on official budgets, corporate reports, and specialized literature, the analysis explores how these transformations reconfigure sovereignty and produce new forms of territorial control and securitization.” www.revistanorteamerica.unam.mx/index.php/na...

“Mobility declines are…especially persistent in Hispanic neighborhoods.”

“ICE can delegate federal immigration enforcement powers to local police” and “Customs and Border Protection quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for local law enforcement officers”

NEW: Wildlife advocates feared razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border would harm endangered bighorn sheep. This morning, a biologist found a dead ram tangled in the wire in Imperial County's Jacumba Wilderness. www.latimes.com/environment/...

I just got round to watching Samuel Storey's film on the use of AI technology to prevent and criminalise migration in the Channel. It's super well-researched, well-made and deeply troubling. I highly recommend watching it. migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hos...

Attending now:

“[D]eclining incarceration rates are offset by expanded civil immigration detention” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“[B]ordering practices and state-imposed immobility are sustained by the state’s strategic deployment of geopolitical coordination, temporal–spatial constraints, legal ambiguity, and affective manipulation, as tools for controlling racialized migrants” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The new data suggest these are no longer isolated requests tied to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations, but part of a broader and more routine use of local surveillance systems to crack down on immigration”

From @geoffboyce.bsky.social: “this paper suggests a reading of border and migration policing as a ‘frontier of appropriation,’ and elaborates a broad agenda of research that follows focusing on: the everyday relationship between crisis, devaluation and accumulation” doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Something fun we learned as we were thinking over this one: the border between Piedmont and Oakland is carved with Flock cameras ... (Image courtesy of @deflock.org)

Indeed insightful stuff in here, harking back to my world-system days. Gets around to climate and energy issues, but doesn’t really deal with climate destabilization, leaves us dangling. I liked the Susan Strange non-reductionist elements of empire power. The stakes are high.

"Empires typically do not collapse because of external aggression. They collapse because of some form of suicide. ..Trump is an extreme example of a cadre beginning to think about its own personal wealth at the expense of the big picture" Mad levels of insight packed in this by @thunen.bsky.social

In "why are we surprised when we find, once again, that everything is connected" news... 🪳🪲🧪🌍 phys.org/news/2026-05...

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Recent border wall construction in southern Arizona is visible not only in daytime satellite imagery, but also at night I made this timelapse w/ NASA Black Marble nighttime lights data, showing light signatures along the border next to Coronado National Forest b/w Jan + Mar 2026

Find the full doc here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDB...

From our recent @lighthousereports.com / Al Jazeera Fault Lines documentary on the El Fasher siege The animation here is based on 100s of sat images from Apr - Oct 2025. Via cross-comparison, I mapped the berm’s construction in QGIS, then imported into Blender + animated w/ a custom script

How and why does the routine pillaging of wealth and stability from transnational working class households suppress the value of labor-power and facilitate the expanded reproduction of capitalism? My newest paper explores this question: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At the Border Security Expo, DEA's Terrance Cole said the Maduro removal sent a message: "anybody, anyplace, anytime can be removed." Todd Miller reports on the U.S. border expanding, and the war on terror being reborn. Read the full investigation🔗🦂:

Coast Guard deploys autonomous Saildrones on Lake Erie to enhance border surveillance www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Michigan approves Border Patrol surveillance cameras on state highways www.freep.com/story/news/i...

Tethered aerostat used for Border Patrol operations breaks free in Laredo, drifts into Mexico and crashes www.kgns.tv/2026/05/20/m...

“[W]olves adapted their spatiotemporal behaviour in a way that minimized encounters with humans,” i.e., stayed out of sight nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“What’s going on at the border is just extremely expensive theater” said @maassive.bsky.social www.azfamily.com/2026/05/07/n...

“The border was so locked down, Scott said, that the focus was now on securing the interior of the country — and each and every one of the dwindling apprehensions at the border could help lead to arrests of immigrants further afield.” www.theverge.com/report/92872...

🎙️🎧 In the latest epsiode of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices podcast, I talked with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social about why the Gulf is so geopolitically important? voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/43-new-episode

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Border wall impeding wildlife access to vital water sources in the Lower Rio Grande Valley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #conservation #ecology #geography #borderwall #water

At the 2026 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, CBP & ICE have already contracted $25.8B this fiscal year, nearly 3x the previous record. Border Czar Homan was named Person of the Year. Todd Miller reports from inside. Read the full on-the-ground report.🦂🔗

$25.8B in border contracts. A spending expo. El Paso's forgotten immigrant history. This week we went inside the border industrial complex, and uncovers the stories power doesn't want told. Read full Roundup🦂🔗: