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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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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

Shot On 35mm@shoton35mm.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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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.”

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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

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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)

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

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...

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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.

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

History is a relentless ghost haunting us with the injustices our ancestors endured and wrought

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)

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.

bloomberg.com

Look for @antwithacapitala.bsky.social's animated version of this map! It's amazing

Vicky Veritas@vickyveritas.bsky.social · 2y ago

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. ⚒️🧪🪨👇🏼

Adding “How not to be a robot “ to the title of my classes.

@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.

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My animated essay for The Texas Observer:

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 2y ago

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.’”

We need new frames On everything

I have used 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.

I wrote and animated this essay for The Texas Observer, a news outlet that resists reportage with a shallow expiration date. Grateful for the platform to explore these ideas and for the friends featured in this piece. www.texasobserver.org/reclaiming-f...

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.”

texasobserver.org

next summer (yes, so far away) I am going to be teaching a weeklong class on #ObservationalPractice for writers and artists (I think this would honestly be very useful for *nonpractitioner* academics, i.e., people who do exclusively or primarily scholarly work) in Maine. details here in Nov/Dec:

Maine Media Workshops + College filmmaking and photography school

Maine Media offers workshops and certificate programs for media artists in the areas of photography, filmmaking, creative writing and design, and a low-residency MFA degree. Our week-long and multi-we...

mainemedia.edu

Every generation needs to, among other things, be unshackled from the rigidity of mimetic representation. DEATHTOTHEDEMONA.I.!

(I should say, this album is pay-what-you-like. So you can have your very own solstice concert if you want.)

Éireann@eireannmor.bsky.social · 2y ago

here is a recording of the performance of the graphic scores made in summer 2022 by class participants (professional musicians playing them; you definitely won't be expected to play an instrument):

All these xenophobic dudes in power married to immigrants.