@daviddorantes.bsky.social
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Writer and Journalist in
#Texas
. I'm always hunting for good stories. Email me:
[email protected]
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Brent Toderian
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Horrifying.
#Portland
add a skeleton here at some point
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En
#Portland
,
#Oregon
, se está gestando un gran movimiento de
#Poesía
en
#Español
y mi historia está en
@literalmagazine.bsky.social
de
@rosemarysalum.bsky.social
, va:
literalmagazine.com/en-oregon-se...
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En Oregon se prenden flamas de poesía indispensable - Literal Magazine
Algo muy hermoso, poético e histórico está sucediendo en Portland, Oregon. La Asociación de Poesía de Oregon (OPA, por sus siglas en inglés) eleva la apuesta en estos tiempos convulsos en Estados Unid...
https://literalmagazine.com/en-oregon-se-prenden-flamas-de-poesia-indispensable/
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Mother Jones
21 days ago
Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.
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Hegseth uses unprecedented meeting to fat-shame generals
The US military's top brass were silent as the secretary ordered a return to the "highest male standard."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/hegseth-military-generals-trump-speech-highest-male-standard/
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#DesordenPúblico
#Ska
#Venezuela
in
#Houston
#Texas
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Atti 17.11
about 1 month ago
Don't worry, we all know he's a liar, don't let him intimidate you!!! Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News
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Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
The lawsuit names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published in the lead up to the 2024 election.
https://share.google/decmBowCq6PAU6FpR
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," he claimed in a Saturday speech to a far-right rally in London.
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Elon Musk urges Brits to "fight back" against their political enemies
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/elon-musk-urges-brits-to-fight-back-against-their-political-enemies/
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Dr Adam Levy
about 1 month ago
Causing climate change is killing us. Even if you ignore the climate change bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...
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Why Destroying the Planet is Destroying Us
YouTube video by ClimateAdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2LVum3jM
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Martin Sauerbrey
about 1 month ago
The murder of Iryna Zarutska has shocked me profoundly. The brutality, the bystanders, the social media reaction, the instrumentalization. Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her. Outrage is omnipresent. But... ⬇️ 🧵
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El
#Libro
de
#Cuentos
‘Travesías interiores’, editado por
@literalmagazine.bsky.social
de
@rosemarysalum.bsky.social
, reune obra de varios escritores hispanos en
#Texas
y se presentará en
#Houston
. La
#Literatura
en
#Español
avanza con fuerza en
#EEUU
. Si andan por
#Houstotitlán
vayan!
about 1 month ago
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
“The Fourth Amendment protects every individual’s constitutional right to be ‘free from arbitrary interference by law officers,'” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent. “After today, that may no longer be true."
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Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE
The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/supreme-court-racial-profiling-ice/
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Lene Lovich es una de las figuras más enigmáticas y poderosas del
#Punk
#NewWave
de
#Inglaterra
. Ahora regresa para abrir la gira de Devo y The B-52’s por Estados Unidos. Debido a eso escribí un texto en
@literalmagazine.bsky.social
va:
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Lene Lovich y el fino arte de transgredir - Literal Magazine
Say When Lene Lovich está en la carretera otra vez. Locuaz, vivaracha, irreverente, crítica, mordaz, atrevida. Esas palabras definen la carrera musical de uno de los grandes íconos femeninos del punk/...
https://literalmagazine.com/lene-lovich-y-el-fino-arte-de-trasgredir/
about 2 months ago
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Marc Elias
about 2 months ago
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting.
@redistrictfdn.bsky.social
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🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/texas-redistricting-challenge-lulac/
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Marc Elias
2 months ago
🚨BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Thursday, striking down Louisiana’s state legislative maps for violating the Voting Rights Act.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Federal Court Delivers Major Win for Black Voters in Louisiana State Redistricting Battle
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-delivers-major-win-for-black-voters-in-louisiana-state-redistricting-battle/
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The New Yorker
2 months ago
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/06/03/cookie-oscar-grover-herry-ernie-and-company?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Mother Jones
2 months ago
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-administration-propaganda/
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ProPublica
2 months ago
New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and
@texastribune.org
, brought against state and local governments. We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
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New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to rele...
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-12
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Mother Jones
2 months ago
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-miller-big-beautiful-bill-200-billion-spending-increase/
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Literal, Latin American Voices
3 months ago
Literal Magazine te invita a participar en el taller online de poesía con la poeta mexicana Malva Flores. Lunes de 7 a 9 pm
literalmagazine.com/tallerdepoes...
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Taller de poesía con Malva Flores - Literal Magazine
La poesía es para todos siempre que todos creamos que no hay una sola vía Literal Magazine te invita a participar en el taller de poesía con la poeta mexicana Malva Flores. Objetivos Conocer distintas...
https://literalmagazine.com/tallerdepoesia/
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The New York Times
3 months ago
Breaking News: President Trump’s new tariffs on more than 90 countries went into effect, part of a trade war that has started to affect the U.S. economy.
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Staggering U.S. Tariffs Begin as Trump Widens Trade War
The duties, which the president announced last week, took effect for about 90 countries just after midnight.
https://nyti.ms/4flZ2cA
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺
3 months ago
#standforwolves
#wolfconservation
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Marc Elias
3 months ago
NEW: Cornyn sent a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Kash Patel, asking him to take “any appropriate steps to aid in Texas state law enforcement efforts to locate or arrest potential lawbreakers who have fled the state.”
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Texas AG Will Ask Courts to Vacate Seats of Democrats Halting GOP Map
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-ag-will-ask-courts-to-vacate-seats-of-democrats-halting-gop-map/
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Literal, Latin American Voices
3 months ago
"La banda de ska venezolana cumple 40 años" Daniel Centeno Maldonado
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DESORDEN PÚBLICO - EN LAS BUENAS Y EN LAS MALAS - Literal Magazine
La banda de ska venezolana cumple 40 años, y lo piensa celebrar con toda la pompa posible. A punto de sacar un disco tributo a la Fania All Stars, y en medio de una gira internacional, que los traerá ...
https://literalmagazine.com/desorden-publico-en-las-buenas-y-en-las-malas/
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The New York Times
3 months ago
News Analysis: President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.
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After Trump’s Firing of BLS Commissioner, Republicans Fall in Line With His Criticism
President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.
https://nyti.ms/40NnopS
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En
@literalmagazine.bsky.social
de
@rosemarysalum.bsky.social
se publicó mi
#Poema
“Phoenix, Arizona” y me hacen un honor si lo leen. Va:
literalmagazine.com/phoenix-ariz...
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Phoenix, Arizona - Literal Magazine
Quiso nieve de pistache en la madrugada sus órdenes eran por entonces mis deseos y salimos en la jarley bajo la ventisca negra cuando los perros de la calle nos ladraban. No había nadie más bella qu...
https://literalmagazine.com/phoenix-arizona/
3 months ago
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Punk Rock History
3 months ago
48 years ago CBGB, New York City, August 1977 Dictators - Search & Destroy
#punk
#punkrock
#cbgb
#dictators
#nyc
#history
#punkrockhistory
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Estoy muy conmovido y afectado por la partida del gran Carlos Ramírez, uno de los hombres que le abrió caminos al
#Rock
y el
#Jazz
en los medios de comunicación de
#Guadalajara
en
#México
. Descanse en Paz.
3 months ago
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reposted by
Electronic Frontier Foundation
3 months ago
The Trump administration’s new policy requiring applicants for student and exchange visas to set social media accounts to “public” for government review is a dangerous expansion of existing social media collection efforts. This policy gravely chills free expression.
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You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa
The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-shouldnt-have-make-your-social-media-public-get-visa
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Eye-popping story: A former contractor for US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation wanted to feed Palestinian workers. “Nobody could figure out how to get food." So he used an Israeli app to order Domino’s pizzas to the Gaza border—an example of GHF’s systemic failures, he says. "It’s abhorrent."
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“It’s abhorrent”: A whistleblower contractor speaks out amid Gaza aid chaos.
Retired U.S. Army officer Anthony Aguilar recounts violence and chaos at food sites run by the American group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in this special France 24–Mother Jones report.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-aid-contractor-video-whistleblower
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En qué momento la estupidez se convirtió en ideología política?
#CadaVezEstánPior
#NiCómoAyudarlos
3 months ago
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Marc Elias
3 months ago
🚨BREAKING: Republicans released their proposed Texas congressional map Wednesday, delivering on a request from President Donald Trump that could set off a nationwide redistricting battle between red states and blue states over control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm election.
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Republicans Release Proposed New Texas Congressional Map, Could Add 5 GOP Seats
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/republicans-release-proposed-new-texas-congressional-map-could-add-5-gop-seats/
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via
@missionlocal.org
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ICE arrested these immigrants in San Francisco and sent them 2,400 miles away—to Hawaii
One may be mentally impaired, said a judge who granted him a continuance prior to his arrest.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-arrested-immigrants-san-francisco-hawaii/
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Literal, Latin American Voices
3 months ago
Gradas, de Xirau, “discurre, como la mayor parte de su obra, entre fuerzas de signos contrapuestos pero reconciliados en la red del lenguaje” Mayco Osiris Ruiz
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Ramón Xirau cumple cien años y está bien - Literal Magazine
• Ramón Xirau: Gradas/Graons (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024, 115 pp.) Al revirar, en el pequeño ensayo que condensa su lectura de Cántico, las aseveraciones sobre el artepurismo y la frialdad retórica de Jo...
https://literalmagazine.com/ramon-xirau-cumple-cien-anos-y-esta-bien/
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
“This is what the US has decided is okay.”
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“This is Trump’s famine”: How the US is complicit in Gaza’s suffering
An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel cover as starvation spread.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/gaza-famine-united-states-donald-trump/
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Save Mu'arrajat: Urgent Help for Expelled Palestinian Families
chuffed.org/project/1389...
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Save Mu'arrajat: Urgent Help for Expelled Palestinian Families
This week, armed settlers — backed by the army and police — expelled the residents of Mu'arrajat, one of the last remaining Palestinian villages in the southern Jordan Valley of the West Bank.
https://chuffed.org/project/138940-save-marjat-urgent-help-for-expelled-families?utm_campaign=success&utm_id=138940&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=chuffedreferral
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide pose a risk to the public’s health and well-being. That may sound obvious enough. But in practice, it’s one of the agency’s most important decisions.
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Trump's EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulations
The agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused "years of uncertainty for automakers."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-epa-endangerment-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
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ProPublica
3 months ago
Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law. Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-28
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The New York Times
3 months ago
Palestinians have been forced to routinely choose between risking death by starvation or risking death by gunfire to reach food aid sites where Israeli soldiers have repeatedly fired at the crowds, killing hundreds of people over the last two months, according to the UN.
nyti.ms/3GLjBCH
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
They are in the US legally, pay billions of dollars in taxes, and have parented thousands of children here. But the Trump admin is stripping them of protected legal status, amounting to the single largest delegalization campaign in US history.
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Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/tps-removal-trump-delegalization-status-anxiety-feature-deport-1million-venezuela-haiti-tpsianos/
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
More than a dozen children and adults had died from hunger within 24 hours, as of Tuesday. Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza. Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.
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“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/walking-corpses-israels-blockade-of-aid-starves-gazans-aid-groups-say/
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”
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The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-plot-against-vaccines/
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Punk Rock History
3 months ago
49 years ago -
#knowyourroots
Patti Smith, Lou Reed, John Cale and David Byrne at the Ocean Club in NYC, July 1976. Photo by Bob Gruen
#punk
#punks
#punkrock
#punklegends
#history
#punkrockhistory
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ProPublica
3 months ago
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-25
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Malnutrition during pregnancy can have lasting consequences not only for the future health of the child but for subsequent generations, research shows.
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How famine and starvation can affect Gazans for generations to come
Research on WWII's Dutch “Hunger Winter” has terrifying implications for the region's children—and for their children.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/how-famine-and-starvation-can-affect-generations-to-come/
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david sylvian
3 months ago
democracy is failing us. free palestine (with love and blood)
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Surfer Planet
3 months ago
Deja que tu surf hable por ti 🌊 Let your surfing speak for you 💙
#Surfer
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ProPublica
3 months ago
NEW: Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With
@texastribune.org
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-24
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Barbara J. King
3 months ago
Thank you to the 287 current or former NASA employees who signed this letter (some anonymously, for good reasons): “We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources." 🧪🌍
#NASA
#space
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Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.zo6k.ecuga3aCROn4&smid=url-share
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Carlos Avilez, bajista de
#Cuca
, también tiene una larga carrera paralela como
#Cantautor
de
#Blues
y
#Rock
. Mi historia en
@literalmagazine.bsky.social
va:
literalmagazine.com/carlos-avile...
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Carlos Avilez y las introspecciones en el desierto - Literal Magazine
Paraíso Carlos Avilez salió del desierto, pero el desierto nunca salió de Carlos Avilez. Como cualquier persona de Sonora que se respete, Carlos Avilez siempre saluda con un fuerte apretón de manos y ...
https://literalmagazine.com/carlos-avilez-y-las-introspecciones-en-el-desierto/
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