Nicole Əntēbī
@antwithacapitala.bsky.social
I make things that move, loop, and sometimes hold.
www.nicoleantebi.com
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Our top story: “In reading these treaties, I continually trip over the word ‘friendship.’ Ostensibly, it’s like saying, ‘We are friends, so I’m taking your land,’ or, ‘Now that I’ve taken your land, we can be friends.’”
Reclaiming ‘Friendship’ Across Borders
In reading U.S.-Mexico treaties, I trip over the word “friendship.” Ostensibly, it's like saying, “We are friends, so I’m taking your land.”
www.texasobserver.org
My animated essay for The Texas Observer:
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you think folks would have learned after press in minneapolis were intentionally targeted and several were permanently injured or blinded that cops do not give a fuck about press
I thought I would be safe if I positioned myself with all the cable news crews off to the side away from all of the protesters. But nope. I was wrong. The feds shot pepper balls at us, forcing us down Alameda Street with everyone else. @lataco.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
you think folks would have learned after press in minneapolis were intentionally targeted and several were permanently injured or blinded that cops do not give a fuck about press
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Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities
Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE
Sackets Harbor demanded that Tom Homan return three children and their mother. Why did he cave?
www.bloomberg.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities
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TWO REMINDERS:
1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating).
2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.
1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating).
2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.
Donate to #FreeBlackMamas
With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
TWO REMINDERS:
1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating).
2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.
1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating).
2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.
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New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🦅 in collaboration w/ @highcountrynews.org by @cetracey.bsky.social
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
Searching for Sparrows in the Sky Islands
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
www.theborderchronicle.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🦅 in collaboration w/ @highcountrynews.org by @cetracey.bsky.social
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
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For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...
America's Gulag
In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”
www.theborderchronicle.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...
The best news this week: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic
Space rock now has 2.3% risk of collision – up from 1.3% in December – but danger is likely to fall with more data
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The best news this week: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
this country is about to find out all the ways in which immigrant labor from the farms to high end restaurants (and everything in between) keep USians fed.
January 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
this country is about to find out all the ways in which immigrant labor from the farms to high end restaurants (and everything in between) keep USians fed.
YOLANDA M. LÓPEZ (1981)
January 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
YOLANDA M. LÓPEZ (1981)
I WAS JUST LOOKING UP H-1B VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLEAGUE HB1, AND HERE I FIND THE EXCEPTION FOR MELANIA
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING
January 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I WAS JUST LOOKING UP H-1B VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLEAGUE HB1, AND HERE I FIND THE EXCEPTION FOR MELANIA
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING
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Worth resharing this today, WIRED’s guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Worth resharing this today, WIRED’s guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance
Here I weigh two cow skulls (one found in Sonora, one in Arizona) using Border Monument no.133 as a fulcrum. Can you tell which is which?
January 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here I weigh two cow skulls (one found in Sonora, one in Arizona) using Border Monument no.133 as a fulcrum. Can you tell which is which?
I’m holding this scene from Hero frontal in my mind. It’s the scene in the calligraphy school when the class is targeted with a barrage of arrows. The teacher keeps teaching, the learners keep learning. This is my promise to my profession no matter what happens from here on.
January 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I’m holding this scene from Hero frontal in my mind. It’s the scene in the calligraphy school when the class is targeted with a barrage of arrows. The teacher keeps teaching, the learners keep learning. This is my promise to my profession no matter what happens from here on.
I contain multitudes of conflicting truths.
December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I contain multitudes of conflicting truths.
THROUGH A SERIES OF EMBODIED GESTURES EXPLORING CONFLICT, DESIRE, AND THE DELIMITATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WHILE TRYING TO POSSESS A GLASS OF WATER, LEYVA AND ANTEBI WILL QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM NORMAN MCLAREN'S CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TITLED "NEIGHBOURS" (1952) AN ALLEGORY FOR THE KOREAN WAR. 1/3
November 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
THROUGH A SERIES OF EMBODIED GESTURES EXPLORING CONFLICT, DESIRE, AND THE DELIMITATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WHILE TRYING TO POSSESS A GLASS OF WATER, LEYVA AND ANTEBI WILL QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM NORMAN MCLAREN'S CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TITLED "NEIGHBOURS" (1952) AN ALLEGORY FOR THE KOREAN WAR. 1/3
History is a relentless ghost haunting us with the injustices our ancestors endured and wrought
November 12, 2024 at 1:14 AM
History is a relentless ghost haunting us with the injustices our ancestors endured and wrought
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Oops it's the Rio Grande/Río Bravo, but this map comes up in the essay:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)
How I Mapped the Fluid Border Between El Paso and Juárez
In El Paso, we call it the Rio Grande; our neighbors in Juárez know it as Río Bravo. It’s supposed to be a national border, but the river had its own ideas.
www.bloomberg.com
October 25, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Oops it's the Rio Grande/Río Bravo, but this map comes up in the essay:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)
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Look for @antwithacapitala.bsky.social's animated version of this map! It's amazing
Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist & cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 & the results are mesmerizing. ⚒️🧪🪨👇🏼
October 25, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Look for @antwithacapitala.bsky.social's animated version of this map! It's amazing
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Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
October 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
Adding “How not to be a robot “ to the title of my classes.
October 16, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Adding “How not to be a robot “ to the title of my classes.
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@leximcmenamin.bsky.social puts today's New York Stock Exchange anti war protest in context and explains the historic reference to an ACT-UP protest in 1987 for @teenvogue.bsky.social
Jewish Protesters Target Wall Street Over U.S. Funding Israel's War on Gaza
“As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms,” "Bottoms" director Emma Seligman told Teen Vogue from the action.
www.teenvogue.com
October 14, 2024 at 7:03 PM
@leximcmenamin.bsky.social puts today's New York Stock Exchange anti war protest in context and explains the historic reference to an ACT-UP protest in 1987 for @teenvogue.bsky.social
My animated essay for The Texas Observer:
Our top story: “In reading these treaties, I continually trip over the word ‘friendship.’ Ostensibly, it’s like saying, ‘We are friends, so I’m taking your land,’ or, ‘Now that I’ve taken your land, we can be friends.’”
Reclaiming ‘Friendship’ Across Borders
In reading U.S.-Mexico treaties, I trip over the word “friendship.” Ostensibly, it's like saying, “We are friends, so I’m taking your land.”
www.texasobserver.org
October 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM
My animated essay for The Texas Observer:
We need new frames
On everything
On everything
October 13, 2024 at 1:10 PM
We need new frames
On everything
On everything
I have used
the a.i.
Forgive me
there were data sets
so cumbersome
and so unintelligible
the a.i.
Forgive me
there were data sets
so cumbersome
and so unintelligible
October 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I have used
the a.i.
Forgive me
there were data sets
so cumbersome
and so unintelligible
the a.i.
Forgive me
there were data sets
so cumbersome
and so unintelligible
My illustration students want you to protect their future by voting.
October 10, 2024 at 5:21 PM
My illustration students want you to protect their future by voting.