Thanks to Morgan's for hosting Cello Vida at your annual Visionary Celebration! We had a great time!

Doing our part!

On #Fronteras: The film "Sex Work: It's Just a Job" examines the push by sex workers to organize and decriminalize to reduce violence, police harassment, transphobia, and social discrimination. @alexvitale.bsky.social @sexworkfilm.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4e9y5yzy

Happy 915 Day to my fellow El Pasoans -- current, former, and displaced!

On #Fronteras: Sociologist Joanna Dreby writes about how the U.S. citizen children of foreign-born parents are 'Surviving the ICE Age.' Deportations & detentions have lasting effects on those who are left to pick up the pieces. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/WAUNg

The Bexar Heritage Center is hosting an exhibit and talk on San Antonio's role as the birthplace of Spanish language media in the U.S. @uninoticias.bsky.social We talk with Mari Tamez and Guillermo Nicolás about this rich history. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/DcZRK

love this. I drive by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's herd a lot, and they're so beautiful. shakopeedakota.org/environment/...

Lots of coverage on this in the last couple of days www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Damn rite 🦬 💙❤️ Loved seeing them on ancestral land when I’d do survey across Texas

How can we amplify this message: “Hey, wake up! Look around! The world is in an unfolding climate catastrophe and we all need to pitch in and figure this out! Let’s go!!! We have to try! Ignore the haters!”

Lanzarote 360°-Texas 2025, taking place Sept 4 & 5, aims to forge new business partnerships and celebrate the deep historical connections between the two communities. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/san-antonio/202...

Yocelyn Riojas' artwork, "My Dreams Are Not Illegal," was one of several artworks described by the White House as "divisive" in a new article. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/arts-culture/20...

Buffalo are returning to their ancestral homeland in South Texas to revitalize the earth and strengthen indigenous connections. Hear about the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project with co-founder Lucille Contreras and Ellen Gass of the Conservation Fund. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/D14po

Lanzarote, an island of the Canary Islands, has a 3 century-old history with San Antonio. The event Lanzarote 360°-Texas 2025, Sept 4-5, is a celebration of the 2 communities' culture, food, and trade connections. Guest: Steve Chiscano. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycynjcju

On #Fronteraa: American Indian/Native Studies is now available for TX public schools after its approval by the State Board of Education. It's been a long road. Hear more about the long road to acceptance and what the course offers. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/rtRYd

A real life incident of police brutality inspired the story behind Happy Birthday Mom. This story of separation, injustice, and a mother's love is told in a blending of music, dance, and spoken word at URBAN-15. A talk w/ Jacque Salame & Rosie Torres. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/VRB0L

This prickly pear looks like an Aztec Pac-Man.

Read the latest on efforts to eliminate subminimum wage among individuals with developmental disabilities

On #Fronteras: Trinidad Gonzales has published a report that lists the victims of the matanza killed in a 5-month period in 4 Texas counties in 1915. Hear our conversation and read the report here: @gonzalest956.bsky.social @refusing2forget.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2psmssk5

Sex work is work. That's the argument sex workers are making to decriminalize their trade. "Sex Work: It's Just a Job" screens Sat. 8/23 at 7pm at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center. @sexworkfilm.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/f22jwa82

On #Fronteras: Max & Josh Baca of Los Texmaniacs talked to TPR's Jack Morgan back in March about their career and their admiration of Flaco Jiménez, who at the time was very ill. Hear those memories as we remember the late accordion icon. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/fuL5R

Last night's dinner: mashed potato tacos. Make-ahead lunch today: calabacitas con pollo. And now I have a ton of dishes to wash...

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On #Fronteras: DHS is promising a $1,000 "exit bonus" and a chance to return to the US legally if immigrants w/o legal status choose to self deport. Are these empty promises? Hear more with Muzaffar Chishti of @migrationpolicy.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/TNb42

Chance spent 10 years on the streets fighting for her survival before we found her with her stomach slashed 🔪. It wasn’t easy to catch her or fix her up but she has made immense progress in just 3 months. Many people will say dogs can’t smile but I’m not so sure.

Free pet adoptions in August at San Antonio's Animal Care Services, Animal Defense League of South Texas, and San Antonio Pets Alive! #ClearTheShelters

On #Fronteras: Border Vigil of Eagle Pass memorializes the immigrants who have died trying to cross the Rio Grande. Its volunteers are training to identify and repatriate the remains of the deceased. Our conversation with @amerikaintl.bsky.social: @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/hPkq6

For National Mutt Day, San Antonio Animal Care Services is offering a $25 adoption special for all pets TODAY only, July 31. Flaco and I urge you to find your new best friend here: shorturl.at/C5a4C

I harvested this sad, misshapen cantaloupe from my garden. It smelled amazing, and it turned out to be pretty tasty once I cut off the bad parts. #UglyButTasty

A productive litter pickup on the trails this weekend! 🗑️ A little bit makes a difference if you can join us! @pawsonplastic.bsky.social

- 1 jumper at a time - No somersaults Yeah. This is how you do it.

Sun ejecting Plasma, as captured by the Parker Solar Probe. -Credits: NASA

On #Fronteras: Dozens of people went missing in Nuevo Laredo in 2018 at the hands of Mexican marines. Spring of the Vanishing investigates the disappearances and the families' call for justice. We talk with @glazer.bsky.social & J. Weston Phippen. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/wpmSq

New growth on my nopal is un poco loco.

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

We picked up 12 bags of dog poop 💩 on our 5-mile walk on the trails. 8 of them pictured here, the other 4 picked up on the rest of walk. A doozy of a pickup! @pawsonplastic.bsky.social

The Macondo Writers Workshop founded 30 years ago by Sandra Cisneros returns July 21-27 to San Antonio. @normaelia-8.bsky.social and María-Luisa Ornelas-June preview the workshop and the free public events happening at Trinity University and TPR. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/4wJFf

On #Fronteras: What's the cost to immigrants living undocumented in the US? Alix Dick shares what it has cost her...financially, mentally, and physically in The Cost of Being Undocumented, written with @anterobot.bsky.social. @beaconpress.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/HEQHs

Found the Edwards Aquifer Cow from the #CowParade2025 outside @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

CineFestival (July 9-13) marks its 46th year as the longest running Latinx film festival in the US. Hear a preview with festival director Eugenio del Bosque, director of @Uvaldemomfilm Anayansi Prado, and Adrian Arredondo, co-director of Take It Away. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/kq97n

Never place any part of your body over a lit firework.

If we REALLY love animals we dont drop litter & we pick up some when we can. #dogsofbluesky news.stv.tv/north/dog-ow...

On #Fronteras What does the border sound like? UTEP faculty member Jose Manuel Flores lives life en los dos lados. He uses those experiences to capture the aural history and identity of the frontera and fronterizos with the Border Soundscapes Project. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/sgg5R

The city contracted with Stripe it Up LLC to repave some of the hottest parts of the city with low-heat absorbing pavement.

I often wonder if people know what the responsibilities of the press are.

"Even if it were true ... the First Amendment unmistakably prohibits any government official from withholding a federal benefit in retaliation for his/her displeasure with the viewpoints presented by those speakers."

Kick off Pride Week with a Queer Voices Pachanga on Sunday at the Esperanza. It features a resource fair, music, food, and an evening showcase of drag, poetry, and more. Hear a preview with artist Anel Flores and performance poet Chibbi Orduña. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/W7IvG

On #Fronteras: Latinos in Heritage Conservation went on a road trip last month to discover Untold Stories of the Borderlands. Hear about what they learned on their stops and how your stories can grow conservation efforts. @latinoheritageus.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/Zi2WI

Kick off Pride Week with a Queer Voices Pachanga on Sunday at the Esperanza. It features a resource fair, music, food, and an evening showcase of drag, poetry, and more. Hear a preview with artist Anel Flores and performance poet Chibbi Orduña. @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/W7IvG

In case you missed it — Department of Defense strykers just arrived in the Rio Grande Valley, USBP RGV confirmed on Saturday. NewsNation's Ali Bradley reported two weeks ago that a National Defense Area would be set up along the border in our region.