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Independent journalism with analysis and context from the US-Mexico borderlands. Founded by @mdelbosque.bsky.social & @memomiller.bsky.social Read more and listen to our podcasts at https://www.theborderchronicle.com/
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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! 🗞️🦂
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Click the link below to get caught up, and not miss this week’s stories and updates! 🗞️🦂
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 7
A loss of SNAP benefits has rippling effect in border communities, Russ McSpadden conjures poetry from the devastation of border wall construction, plus meet our new Border Chronicler, Brenda Machado
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November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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! 🗞️🦂
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Click the link below to get caught up, and not miss this week’s stories and updates! 🗞️🦂
open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
Starting now! Do not miss this interview with Russ McSpadden.🦂🎙️
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LIVE SOON: The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 7
Starting Nov 7 at 1:00 PM EST
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November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Starting now! Do not miss this interview with Russ McSpadden.🦂🎙️
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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🦂🔗
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Del Castillo is an artist and single mother who has been impacted by the SNAP delays .
Read the full story below🦂🔗
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Dreams on Hold
How a SNAP Delay Ripples Through One South Texas Household
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November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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...
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...
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Thoughtful interview! It’s a great book www.artspeakpress.com/shop/p/borde...
Borderlings by Russ McSpadden — ARTSPEAK PRESS
OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE FOR ORDER! NEXT BATCH OF BOOKS WILL SHIP MONDAY 10/27/2025 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Essential poetry of witness from the front lines of border militarization in Southern Arizon...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thoughtful interview! It’s a great book www.artspeakpress.com/shop/p/borde...
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 🦂
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 🦂
“We pay for borders with everything"
An interview with Russ McSpadden about his debut poetry collection, Borderlings.
www.theborderchronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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 🦂
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 🦂
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to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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!
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!
Please Take Our Survey: Help The Border Chronicle Improve
If you're a longtime reader, or just newly subscribed, we'd appreciate your feedback. This survey won't take long. We promise!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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!
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!
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Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:
"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’
YouTube video by PIX11 News
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October 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:
"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
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Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
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“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
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From 1965 through 2017 when Obama made a deal with Cuba in his last days in office, Cubans on U.S. soil could not be deported to Cuba. There are senior citizens ordered deported in the 1970s who are still here decades after serving their time. Now Trump is dumping some of them in Mexico.
Cubans with criminal records in the U.S. are being quietly deported to Mexico
The Trump administration is quietly sending hundreds of Cubans and other immigrants with significant criminal records in buses across the border to Mexico, in an expansion of third-country deportation...
www.miamiherald.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
From 1965 through 2017 when Obama made a deal with Cuba in his last days in office, Cubans on U.S. soil could not be deported to Cuba. There are senior citizens ordered deported in the 1970s who are still here decades after serving their time. Now Trump is dumping some of them in Mexico.
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Once again: "There's no law that authorizes the president to use federal troops for local crime control," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social.
San Francisco threatens legal action against Trump over National Guard
Top officials say local police are already adept at tackling public safety and warn against federal troop deployment.
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Once again: "There's no law that authorizes the president to use federal troops for local crime control," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social.
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In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
wwnorton.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
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A powerful essay by longtime border journalist Michelle Garcia on the role of journalists as fascism takes hold.
A powerful essay by longtime border journalist Michelle Garcia on the role of journalists as fascism takes hold.
Writing in the Era of Exhibitionist Violence
A longtime border journalist reckons with a democracy under siege.
www.theborderchronicle.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New in The Border Chronicle🦂
A powerful essay by longtime border journalist Michelle Garcia on the role of journalists as fascism takes hold.
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 🦂🔥
The Border Chronicle
The Border Chronicle is a weekly newsletter that publishes original, on-the-ground reporting, analysis, and commentary. Every Tuesday and Thursday subscribers will receive our latest dispatch in their...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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 🦂🔥
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U.S. elections are secure and accurate, but now the federal government is threatening that infrastructure. The Brennan Center is closely tracking the White House’s efforts to undermine election integrity: bit.ly/3IZMSdG
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
U.S. elections are secure and accurate, but now the federal government is threatening that infrastructure. The Brennan Center is closely tracking the White House’s efforts to undermine election integrity: bit.ly/3IZMSdG
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Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
www.eff.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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"Newsom had warned that the Marine Corps’ plans to fire artillery shells over Interstate 5, the West Coast’s main north-south artery, could pose hazards for motorists on the stretch between Los Angeles and San Diego."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Newsom had warned that the Marine Corps’ plans to fire artillery shells over Interstate 5, the West Coast’s main north-south artery, could pose hazards for motorists on the stretch between Los Angeles and San Diego."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
It's The Border Chronicle's weekly roundup with our latest articles and news from across the border region. 🦂
Many are turning to Mexican folk healing in the borderlands in this uncertain era, and Cabeza de Vaca reincarnated as a cactus? An irreverent, surreal documentary perfect for our times.🦂
Many are turning to Mexican folk healing in the borderlands in this uncertain era, and Cabeza de Vaca reincarnated as a cactus? An irreverent, surreal documentary perfect for our times.🦂
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: October 17
Many are turning to Mexican folk healing in the borderlands in this uncertain era, and Cabeza de Vaca reincarnated as a cactus? An irreverent, surreal documentary perfect for our times.
www.theborderchronicle.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's The Border Chronicle's weekly roundup with our latest articles and news from across the border region. 🦂
Many are turning to Mexican folk healing in the borderlands in this uncertain era, and Cabeza de Vaca reincarnated as a cactus? An irreverent, surreal documentary perfect for our times.🦂
Many are turning to Mexican folk healing in the borderlands in this uncertain era, and Cabeza de Vaca reincarnated as a cactus? An irreverent, surreal documentary perfect for our times.🦂
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📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
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“The family added that when they confronted agents, Border Patrol reportedly told them they were working from an anonymous tip tied to the previous owners of the home, who lived there two years ago.” kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The family added that when they confronted agents, Border Patrol reportedly told them they were working from an anonymous tip tied to the previous owners of the home, who lived there two years ago.” kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"
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Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.
Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.
Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.
Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.
Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.