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In case you missed today’s Weekly Round Up live ft. Russ McSpadden, we’ve got you covered! Click the link below to get caught up, and not miss this week’s stories and updates! 🗞️🦂 open.substack.com/pub/theborde...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Many thanks to @jeremystahl.bsky.social for his editing prowess and toleration for “wtf!” emails.

In the border city of Brownsville, Texas, Josie Del Castillo, a figurative painter reflects her experiences growing up Mexican- American. Del Castillo is an artist and single mother who has been impacted by the SNAP delays . Read the full story below🦂🔗 open.substack.com/pub/theborde...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

An interview with Russ Mcspadden. In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌 Read the full interview below 🦂

This will be a disaster > "Unlike in Venezuela, the mission being planned for Mexico is not designed to undermine the country’s government, the two current and two former U.S. officials said."

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

“Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Today's Border Chronicle post is a bit different.🦂🧐 We have ambitious plans for change on this horizon but we need your help! Please fill out this survey and help us take that next step. It's short and painless. We promise!

Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Here are some of the major cases on the Supreme Court's docket this term. The Court will face a choice: Stand up for the Constitution or lie down for Trump.

Treasury Dept. tells employees not to share any photos of the White House as Trump demolishes it (The Treasury Dept is next door to the WH) www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Good to get official confirmation — basically everything happening in Chicago right now is being coordinated by Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol Chief who started doing indiscriminate raids even before Biden left office, because he knew he could get away with it.

New in The Border Chronicle🦂 A powerful essay by longtime border journalist Michelle Garcia on the role of journalists as fascism takes hold.

We've been slowly uploading four years worth of Border Chronicle podcasts to YouTube. And it's wild what we've accomplished with so few resources. Very proud of us. Take a listen 🦂🔥

I am totally here for this. A much needed break from the doom scrolling!

This photo, from Anthony Vazquez in yesterday's @chicago.suntimes.com. Caption: "A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Keeping a running resource at adamisacson.com/boat-strikes.

We don’t know who these people were, and even if they had tons of drugs—you board the motorboat, you don’t murder people on the open ocean. This is like watching a serial killer count his victims.

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military. theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

This exchange lends a ton of support to this New York Times story from January that the White House previously denied. Trump reportedly joked in 2024 that Stephen Miller wants to purge the country of anyone who doesn't look like him — and Trump fully supports what he is doing.

EXCLUSIVE: Our friends at @lighthousereports.com obtained a secret data trove. It revealed a vast global surveillance empire whose tech has been used to target politicians, journalists, tech execs, and Jared Leto. The story only gets wilder from there.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

ICYMI: Trump’s deployment of troops and federal agents to U.S. cities run by his political opponents is dangerous and unconstitutional. But it’s a familiar move to Texas border residents, who have lived under occupation since 2021. Now, they have advice for Chicago, Memphis and other cities.🦂

New in The Border Chronicle by @pablodelarosa.bsky.social 🦂 Healing Traditions: How Curanderismo is Reviving Cultural Connection in the Borderlands Mexican folk medicine is being reclaimed during a time of deep uncertainty in the U.S. political climate.

A recent article by @mdelbosque.bsky.social explains this really well. havanatimes.org/features/tru...

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂 More Border Security Means Less Food Security As cuts to food assistance take effect, the U.S. government has canceled the publication of its annual hunger report.

Border wall construction has begun in the vital wildlife corridor of the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona. Devastating for the environment, communities and wildlife.

Yesterday, Trump declared war on American cities. Since 2021, Texas border communities have been the testing ground for a MAGA military occupation. Now, residents say they have some advice for the rest of the country.🦂

Where have we seen this before?

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Reminder the FCC is being weaponized against the American people. Brendan Carr is still Chair and holding a public FCC meeting today which will include plans to allow *further* consolidation of broadcast TV station ownership: Sinclair / Nexstar the winners. #BreakUpBigMedia youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

Border communities have lived under militarization for years—and learned hard lessons in defending their rights.🦂 Read: Trump’s Troops and the Border “Learning Lab” How the Republican-led Operation Lone Star in Texas became Trump’s model for sending troops into Democratic-led cities.🦂

In an unhinged speech, Pete Hesgeth says he's tired of "fat troops" and says the U.S. military needs to go full AI www.404media.co/in-unhinged-...

The Mexican government wants to pass an indiscriminate, dangerously vague surveillance rule granting authorities real-time access to data digital platforms have in their systems. RD3mx and @article19mxca.bsky.social urged Congress to reject the proposal.👇 🧵 articulo19.org/reforma-al-...

It’s a pay to play disaster relief system at FEMA under Noem.

Argentina's Javier Milei is battling the worst crisis of his presidency ahead of midterm elections. In October, the public will deliver its verdict on economic policies that pulled the country back from the brink of hyperinflation but have weighed on growth in recent months. on.ft.com/3VDP2CC

It didn’t go unnoticed in Dallas as Feds talked about the ICE office shooting, there was nary a mention of the immigrants who were killed, injured in a cycle of violence & dehumanization that community and migrants told us, is getting out of control: t.co/U2QU73lap4

Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 26🦂 Our 4th anniversary party was a blast, Filmmaker Alex Rivera on his border sci-fi cult classic 'Sleep Dealer.' And humanitarian Scott Warren talks about his high-profile trial and the aftermath. 🦂

Requires I post the best NM sheriff story sheriffs.substack.com/p/the-dongco...

New in The Border Chronicle podcast🦂 Scott Warren was arrested for providing humanitarian aid in the desert during the first Trump administration and endured a high-profile trial before being exonerated. Now, he's ready to tell his story.

New on The Border Chronicle podcast🦂👂 Filmmaker Alex Rivera on his Cult Classic "Sleep Dealer", and Creating a New Cinema for the Border 🦂🎥 @alex-rivera.bsky.social