“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

The teen faces up to eight years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine 🔗 bit.ly/4nagMLa

Nueva mapa de inundación en Reynosa y Matamoros (frontera de México y EEUU): flujos-472021.projects.earthengine.app/view/mapa-de...! Construimos el mapa como parte del proyecto FLUJOS (Flood Justice Utilizing Sat. Obs.) por yo, @socialpixel.bsky.social, Zhijie Zhang) y 5 org. de justicia ambiental.

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido -

Absolutely horrific what’s happening to queer and trans children in Texas, and in San Antonio no less.

"The fact that we just saw the highest toll from a flash flood in 49 years should be a warning sign that we need to do more to safeguard people from #flashflooding." - #YaleClimateConnections

Must-read reportage on ICE tactics in Sacramento: “volunteers were escorting a man from his hearing when ICE officers swooped in, pulling up their masks to hide their faces and forcefully snatching the man out of the grasp of the women…” 1/2 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. ⬇️

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

“Is there any sign of life?” “Have we heard a heartbeat?” Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

In this audio feature for The Border Chronicle, I speak with people in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley to explore what life now looks like under the constant threat of a surge in ICE workplace raids and arrests — part of Trump's plan to deport millions. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/audio-feat...

Dozens protest after Tulane environmental researcher resigns alleging censorship - nola.org www.nola.com/news/educati...

NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

Trump cuts hundreds of EPA grants, leaving cities on the hook for climate resiliency | Grist grist.org/cities/trump...

NASA is entering a period of uncertainty. Proposed budget cuts and the withdrawal of its administrator nominee raise serious questions about the agency’s future, especially as its faces competition from commercial companies owned by Musk and Bezos. buff.ly/AI7uif4 #NASA #SpacePolicy

❌👑We demand due process for ALL people in the U.S., an end to the terror of the ICE Gestapo and modern day Concentration Camps, and respect for immigrant communities. Find or host a protest on 6/14 to remind Trump there are NO KINGS in America, and we the People are pissed! NoKings.org #NoKings

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.

New article in PHG! In this essay I highlight the incredible work of queer theorists on critiquing systems of gender, sexuality, and race within our built environment. Next I argue for the epistemic potential of overlooked spaces, namely the borderland, to rethink how we build our world, literally.

You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.

A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the Trump administration deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The toddler remains in foster care in the U.S., officials said. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Disappointed that my alma mater, Trinity University, didn’t sign this letter. We could have been a power voice of resistance in South Texas.

Arizona State University erased the TQ from LGBTQ on their website. www.statepress.com/article/2025...

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Great, so we’re not only deporting US citizens but toddlers.

BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing. Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway. FREE PALESTINE!

Just your daily reminder that people are being disappeared. When we call ICE the 21st century Gestapo we aren’t being hyperbolic.

It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

“This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists.”

On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities.

Cameron Co officials are pushing back hard on 2 bills that would give @SpaceX control of Hwy 4 to Boca Chica Beach. Local activists are calling foul & county leaders say state Rep. Janie Lopez & Sen. Adam Hinojosa didn’t consult them. #RGV For @mysanantonio.com www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

The volunteer cuts, which included young people who told WIRED they were tasked with making forests more resilient to wildfires and helping out FEMA staff at the agency’s headquarters, come just weeks before the official start of hurricane season.

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

“That to me is like burning all the books in a library, but even worse because U.S. taxpayers paid for all those books then the government decided to burn them.” www.jconline.com/story/news/e...

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Glad to see people in the RGV standing up. We need more of these protests in South Texas!

With a new demonstration titled "No Kings!" planned for Saturday, people in the Rio Grande Valley continue to speak out as fear over civil liberties and deportations hits home. www.acrosstheamericas.com/no-kings-pro...

This is happening at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, TX and appears to be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Supreme Court's ruling requiring notice "afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief." It's been <24 hours.

#OTD 200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay for its own freedom—150 million francs, extorted under threat of war. That ransom bled the world’s first Black republic dry and still reverberates through Haiti today. Now Haitians are asking: When will France pay reparations? buff.ly/UCpHhS1

When Rep. Adriano Espaillat began to see reports of Puerto Ricans and other citizens being questioned and arrested by ICE agents, he demanded answers from the Trump administration. That was more than 10 weeks ago. He has not received a response. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

New fascism level achieved: disappearing hundreds of people without due process or recourse.

A sweeping wave of removals from a federal immigration database has altered the legal status of at least 252 international students enrolled at Texas universities, according to officials and news reports.

Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.

The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.

Check out this article on the FLUJOS RGV project, we go-created a flood mapping tool with community based organizations in South Texas.

Republican legislators are entertaining proposals to sap hundreds of millions of dollars from Dallas Area Rapid Transit and thwart the voter-approved expansion of public transportation in Austin known as Project Connect.

NEW: Trump aides fire USAID workers in Myanmar's quake zone. We obtained an internal email saying the overall USAID situation is "challenging and uncertain." At State, Rubio puts junior Trump loyalist Lew Olowski in charge of personnel. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...