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“Religious institutions have changed the borderlands, and the borderlands have changed religion”



I had so much fun learning from this @cetracey.bsky.social story about the history of multicultural resistance in the borderlands. We love a heartening story of togetherness! 🔥🌵✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌵🔥 & outlaw pastors!

I joined @danielrothberg.bsky.social for the first video edition of his newsletter, Invisible Waters—imo the best resource for staying up to date about what’s going on with water in the West—to talk about my forthcoming book, Salt Lakes:
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Kafka’s Merry-Go-Round of Hell: A Podcast with Laura St. John Dive into the delusions of detention and deportation under the Trump administration. The Florence Project’s legal director offers a new way to understand and challenge them.

New podcast episode is out NOW! 🎙️

In this new episode, @the_florenceproject legal director, Laura St. John, offers insight into misconceptions about detention under the Trump administration.

To listen to the full episode, click the link below🦂🔗

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“With this declaration, Colombia protects more than 483,000 km² of the Amazon biome, which corresponds to 42% of its national territory & 7% of the total South American Amazon. The Colombian govt has emphasized that “the magnitude of the gesture reaffirms its environmental & climate leadership...”

Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."

DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says

Must read, especially for journalists: A recent federal court opinion about how DHS is "simply not credible". Extended excerpts here:
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Meanwhile in Laredo, Texas National Guard are making Apocalypse Now sizzle reels x.com/TXMilitary/s...

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 21 Illegal boat strikes are part of Trump's plan to militarize domestic policy, and a new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex

It’s Friday!👋🏻 Our WEEKLY ROUNDUP is now up and you do not want to miss out on this week’s stories🗞️🦂!

Click the link below🔗:

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How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’? A new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex.

The contemporary exhibition “Living with Injury” features displays of a decade-long community environmental justice effort in the borderlands military-industrial complex.

The exhibit will be @mocatucson from November 18 to May 2026.

Read the full article below🦂🔗:
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🎙️Our new podcast episode with Jonathan Blitzer is OUT NOW! A discussion around his most recent piece “The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats,” U.S.-Mexico Border,military deployment into cities, and more.

To listen, click on the link below🦂🔗: open.substack.com/pub/theborde...

YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America Uncharted Waters: U.S. Military Action in the Caribbean, WOLA & Amnesty International

I had the honor of speaking on a recent panel about the boat strikes with Laura Dib (WOLA), Brian Finucane (Crisis Group), Katherine Yon Ebright (Brennan Center for Justice), and Amanda Klasing (Amnesty Int.). This is the most comprehensive discussion I have yet seen on the topic. Please share.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 14 Those recently deported say overcrowding in detention, lack of oversight and misinformation are creating deadly conditions. Plus, stories from the frontline of climate displacement in Guatemala.

Our Weekly Roundup is here! Do not miss out on the stories we covered this week & ways you can continue to support the Border Chronicle’s work. 🫂

🦂🔗Link below:

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We Just Want the Chance to Stay: Stories from Guatemala and the Borderlands on Climate and Belonging “That, to me, is what climate adaptation should look like: It’s small cooperatives, youth projects, local entrepreneurship: investments that don’t just protect against storms but nurture belonging."

As the United Nations Climate Summit (COP30) kicks off in the Brazilian Amazon, Amali Tower of Climate Refugees reports from Guatemala’s dry corridor where communities facing climate change disruption are fighting to stay.

Read the full article below🦂🔗

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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.

We are two journalists with 25 years-plus experience reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, and started our own outlet in 2021 reporting on the border region with context and analysis. It's been tough learning the business side, but we are independent and growing. @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

I have always hated the disproportionate spending on military violence in this country but now I extra, extra hate it

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"A lot of families are suffering": A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan from the Kino Border Initiative in Ambos Nogales In Mexico, Horan has interviewed numerous people deported under the Trump administration."Overcrowding in detention, a lack of oversight and misinformation" are creating dangerous conditions, she says

A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan, the associate director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative.

She emphasizes insights that recently deported people have shared on Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Read the full interview at the link below🦂🔗

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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!'"

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...

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

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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LIVE SOON: The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 7 Starting Nov 7 at 1:00 PM EST

Starting now! Do not miss this interview with Russ McSpadden.🦂🎙️
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Dreams on Hold How a SNAP Delay Ripples Through One South Texas Household

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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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.

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...

Thoughtful interview! It’s a great book www.artspeakpress.com/shop/p/borde...

“We pay for borders with everything" An interview with Russ McSpadden about his debut poetry collection, Borderlings.

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 🦂

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YouTube video by PIX11 News ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’

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."

StephenMiller calling description of our story "abject lies."

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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