🚨BREAKING: Reynaldo Mata-Rios, the man suspected of murdering Texas Facilities Commissioner Eddy Betancourt last Saturday, may be in Mexico & Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to extradite him. My latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.

One guess where I am right now. Covering @bobbypulido.bsky.social’s campaign kickoff for @mysanantonio.com in Edinburg. Sister Norma is set to give the invocation shortly, & Lucky Joe is warming up the crowd with some Tejano music while Bobby stands for photos with supporters.

A teenager. A U.S. citizen. Detained by ICE at a courthouse. This isn’t law and order—this is intimidation. It doesn’t protect our communities; it undermines them.

Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to use your private data to jack up prices with AI. I introduced the first federal ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ because companies using private info to rip people off is unacceptable.

"Israel" shares we are getting ready to harvest the celery that many will use while making their Thanksgiving stuffing. "I'm proud of the work I do that brings food to tables across the US. With our hands we do the hard work that feeds America." #WeFeedYou

NEW: Federal prison workers are jumping ship & heading to ICE for better pay + bonuses. Already BOP lost >1400 people this year, reversing all of 2024’s staffing gains. It’s an unintended consequence of Trump’s push for mass deportations My 1st for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The rare occasion where I’ve waited until #ElectionDay to cast my ballot & I’ve been met with the LONGEST line of voters I have EVER seen at @utrgv campus in Edinburg. I’ve been voting here for decades and I’ve never seen the line this long. #RGV

🚨🚨🚨 It’s official: @bobbypulido.bsky.social is running for Congress, challenging Republican Monica De La Cruz for District 15. #RGV I spoke with the Tejano superstar about what it’ll take to win back rural South Texas voters. You can read more @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/p...

RFK Jr. posted this with his official gov’t account yesterday. In the video, he says “Should doctors make decisions based on what’s best for their patients, or based upon what makes them the most money?”. Hours later a man who believed the COVID19 vaccine harmed him opened fire on the CDC.

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Breyer to close next week's trial on the Trump admin's possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act to remote public access, arguing that it endangers DoD/DHS/ICE officials to let the public see who they are. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I don’t think any state lawmaker is gonna be hurting for $600 a month. The $6,630 total per diem for the duration of special session’s 30 days, on the other hand…….

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/m...

WOW. Internal emails obtained by @haleaziz.bsky.social reveal how the State Department scrambled to figure out a PR strategy after they realized the implications of having gotten a triple murderer released from prison decades early. He is current living free in the U.S. thanks to the Trump admin.

how it's going in texas

Hijinks! A judge calls juror in for a venire - including people with him he has a grudge - and then has them arrested for violating Texas law about juror residency. Likely all an elaborate set up to eliminate 3 voters in a county with only 64 residents! /1 www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

🚨NEW: Yesterday, @krgv announced the immediate end of Spanish language news brand @NoticiasRGV. What they didn’t announce is that News Director Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo was ousted a day before. #RGV #RGVNews You can read about it in my latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

🚨NEW: Officials have ID’ed the man who died aboard a Carnival cruise ship that departed from Galveston last week. The man was Euyelester Villarreal Jr., 48, of Rio Grande City #RGV. You can read more about it in my latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

NEW: TX republican redistricting chair admits he hasn’t looked at census data | from @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

JUST IN: bit.ly/4kpEPU7 Nineteen adults and 17 children have yet to be identified, as well as "one additional person" pending identification, according to officials.

Yesterday, a Michigan man opened fire on #BorderPatrol in #McAllen. Today, I learned his dad tried to warn police he was armed. #RGV Read more, including a timeline of events leading up to Ryan Louis Mosqueda’s death, in my latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

🔗 bit.ly/4l8XG7a Just like they did during the 2021 freeze, Uvalde and Harvey, H-E-B is on the way.

If the area had a signature dish, this would be it 🍴😋 bit.ly/4ewTcoq

A year ago today, Tabatha Sullivent was enjoying the 4th of July on South Padre Island #SPI in #RGV when the unimaginable happened: she was attacked by a shark. This week, I got a chance to speak with her about that life-changing moment. For @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

The path is very clear: Republicans are creating a system to allow anybody—you, me, whoever—to have their citizenship revoked, sent to a prison camp in the Everglades, then exported to a labor camp in a third-world country. That entire pipeline could be in place in 24 hours.

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... @mattlanza.bsky.social

Today DHS Sec. Kristi Noem signed a waiver allowing 17 miles of buoys to be placed in Rio Grande near #Brownsville. Noem cited “high levels of illegal entry” in #RGV justifying move. There’s just 1 problem—her assertion is untrue. My latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

CBP is moving forward with a border wall at Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, NM (next door to El Paso). I spoke to local environmentalists about what this could mean for wildlife and water flows @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0107202...

Since Colin Allred is running for Senate again, and because I am a sicko, I spent my afternoon watching 2007 Tennessee Titans games to answer a nagging question I've had: Was Allred actually any good while he was in the NFL? www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Indeed, and Kristol is correct. DHS is using tactical teams to scoop up day laborers at Home Depot and children at schools. That culture of excess and impunity in a law enforcement agency is by itself reason to scrap the whole thing. But it's only the tip of the iceberg of problems there.

On Friday, I attended funeral of Navy sailor Angelina Resendiz, whose body was found in Norfolk in June. Resendiz’s mother, Esmeralda Castle, is demanding answers for the military’s multiple failures before & after her daughter’s death. For @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

U.S. Navy sailors fold an American flag and deliver it to Esmeralda Castle, mother of Seaman Angelina Resendiz, whose body was found in Norfolk, VA days after she went missing from her barracks. #RGV Story TK @mysanantonio.com

Monday’s Starbase City Commission meeting made one thing abundantly clear: there’s a growing divide between the relatively new SpaceX employees who founded the town & #RGV locals who have lived at Boca Chica for generations. 🔗 My latest for @mysanantonio.com: www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

Breaking News: Iran's state-run agency Tasnim says Tehran has launched missile attacks on US bases in Qatar and Iraq.

NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

Part of my role as @mysanantonio.com’s South TX reporter is to produce vignettes of Rio Grande Valley that may be unfamiliar outside this region. This week, I took a look at the historic Arroyo Colorado Lift Bridge (w/ some help from TxDOT’s historical archives. www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

NEW: Hidalgo County has responded to wrongful death lawsuit filed by family of a woman who died after spending a month in pretrial detention at county jail. County admits jailers blamed woman’s illness on eating Hot Cheetos & Takis, but says they weren’t joking. www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...

Texas A&M paid to send *2,000* cadets to march in Trump's ridiculous military parade. Wonder what the total tab was for this brazen act of sycophancy? What an embarrassment for all involved. www.chron.com/politics/art...

🌠 Watch a giant fireball light up the sky! Story on @mysanantonio.com via @photogdina.bsky.social

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.