Texas Rewilder
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Volunteer with organizations helping refugees and people seeking asylum. Rewilder. Retired state attorney. Grandmother. Texan. Seeker.
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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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Deep dive on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland here. Written in 2023: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
April 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Deep dive on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland here. Written in 2023: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
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Of course they are — good luck putting the cat back in the bag, Bari. All you’re doing is guaranteeing more people will see it. #CBSNewsmax
December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Of course they are — good luck putting the cat back in the bag, Bari. All you’re doing is guaranteeing more people will see it. #CBSNewsmax
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If you missed the 60 Minutes story about human rights abuses of CECOT, because Bari Weiss pulled it, you can still read what the government is doing here. Thanks Ms Weiss for bringing this to national attention. Now we know what you don't what the public to know. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you missed the 60 Minutes story about human rights abuses of CECOT, because Bari Weiss pulled it, you can still read what the government is doing here. Thanks Ms Weiss for bringing this to national attention. Now we know what you don't what the public to know. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”
Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program receives an average of 50 letters each week at its post office box, many of them requesting books about Black liberation, radical poetry, and political history.
Sending Books to Prisons
PW checks in with two prison literacy groups, one of which originated with a publisher and the other with a bookstore.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”
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Absolute evil. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Absolute evil. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.
Border Patrol Boss Bovino Back In Chicago As Agents Target Southwest Side
Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said.
blockclubchicago.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.
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The lawless Hegseth/Trump boat murders continue: “The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people…”https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/politics/us-military-strikes-three-boats-pacific
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The lawless Hegseth/Trump boat murders continue: “The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people…”https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/politics/us-military-strikes-three-boats-pacific
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@bcfinucane.bsky.social @johncarlbaker.bsky.social can you help Marisa?
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@bcfinucane.bsky.social @johncarlbaker.bsky.social can you help Marisa?
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Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender.
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender.
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what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
cbsn.ws
December 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
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“‘This isn’t a new phenomenon, and we’re going to get to a point where there’s [more] people like myself who survived two of these,’ the 20-year-old said.”
“I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock."
“I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock."
“Years prior, Weissman, 20, was a Parkland middle school student when gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and injured 18 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Cruz, 27, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in November 2022.” people.com/student-surv...
College Student, 20, Survived Brown University Tragedy, Years After Parkland High School Mass Shooting: 'I'm Really Angry'
A college sophomore survived the shooting tragedy at Brown University on Dec. 13, years after she was a student during the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018.
people.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“‘This isn’t a new phenomenon, and we’re going to get to a point where there’s [more] people like myself who survived two of these,’ the 20-year-old said.”
“I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock."
“I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock."
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dina. Dina’s family used to own a small grocery store before this but it and their home was destroyed and they are in tents. Dina has 4 children, Sameer, 7, Leila, 6, Aboud, 3 and little Ayla who is 5 months old and had a respiratory issue.
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dina. Dina’s family used to own a small grocery store before this but it and their home was destroyed and they are in tents. Dina has 4 children, Sameer, 7, Leila, 6, Aboud, 3 and little Ayla who is 5 months old and had a respiratory issue.
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There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.
One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
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🇭🇳 #JOH | Trump’s pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández raises new questions about the role of the US in regional anti-drug policy. Revisit how Hernández built political power while allegedly collaborating with networks that moved tons of cocaine through Honduras. Read the series.
Special Series: The Rise and Fall of Honduras Ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández
Juan Orlando Hernández, was the first Central American president to be accused, tried, and convicted of drug trafficking in the United States
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🇭🇳 #JOH | Trump’s pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández raises new questions about the role of the US in regional anti-drug policy. Revisit how Hernández built political power while allegedly collaborating with networks that moved tons of cocaine through Honduras. Read the series.
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Field Notes from November in the East Austin edgelands, with frisky deer, late bloomers, cold moons, riverine fog, and the passing of a legend: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/spirits-of...
Spirits of the Rutting Moon
No. 188
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Field Notes from November in the East Austin edgelands, with frisky deer, late bloomers, cold moons, riverine fog, and the passing of a legend: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/spirits-of...
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SNAP is subsidizing Jeff Bezos' vanity "Blue Origin" space program? I'm not surprised.
But I did not expect to see that 3 out of the top 10 are from the healthcare industry.
But I did not expect to see that 3 out of the top 10 are from the healthcare industry.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
SNAP is subsidizing Jeff Bezos' vanity "Blue Origin" space program? I'm not surprised.
But I did not expect to see that 3 out of the top 10 are from the healthcare industry.
But I did not expect to see that 3 out of the top 10 are from the healthcare industry.
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We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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"I would never begrudge someone for leaving a state where they feel unsafe, but the more that marginalized voices disappear from legacy outlets, the more it matters to fight for our corner instead of abandoning it." Thank you, @kitoconnell.com
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...
I’m a Trans Journalist Choosing to Live in Texas. Here’s Why That Matters.
My name is Kit O’Connell. I’ll be covering queer and trans life in Texas for Big & Bright — The Barbed Wire’s first underwritten vertical.
thebarbedwire.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"I would never begrudge someone for leaving a state where they feel unsafe, but the more that marginalized voices disappear from legacy outlets, the more it matters to fight for our corner instead of abandoning it." Thank you, @kitoconnell.com
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/t...
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A lot of people need to read this.
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A lot of people need to read this.