What a life Gloria Steinem lived. May she rest in peace.
Cheryl Knott
@ironyofprint.bsky.social
Retired prof fighting to save a desert aquifer from capitalism Herded by dogs
Gas, groceries, rent — those prices are set by the policies of people we elect. When you register to vote, you decide who fights to bring costs down or lets them keep climbing. If you're not registered, someone else is making that choice for you. Register today.
Casually check the timeline during a county meeting, then abruptly leave to take my sadness outside till it turns to gratitude and I can go back in
Emma Turner (1867–1940) was a highly respected, early authority on UK #birds A pioneer of “rubbish heap” #photography she hid for hours under leaf piles This was so effective that one time a snipe settled down & probed its bill into her ears, @btobirds.bsky.social says: www.bto.org/about/histor...
"If you're tired of the corruption in both political parties . . ." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sed...
James Talarico Shows Up in Houston for Sunday Funday
YouTube video by James Talarico
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Gail Griffin and the rest of the Republicans in the state legislature don't think affordability is an issue. This report from the right-leaning pro business think tank, Common Sense Institute, is telling a different story.
All y'all Texans should vote for the guy whose Paw Paw appeared in one of his campaign ads. Love your neighbor.
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
Sending Rep. Juan Ciscomani an email a day. Here's the first. 1/ On Jan. 23, 2025, Genry Ruiz Guillen died in ICE custody. He had been detained at the Krome Immigrant Detention Center since October of 2024. He was 29 years old and had immigrated from Honduras in 2023.
ICYMI: A lawsuit brought by two out-of-state investment firms could make it harder for AZ to protect vulnerable groundwater basins. It’s already complicating decisions in other threatened aquifers. azcir.org/news/2026/08...
Hualapai Valley lawsuit tests Arizona’s authority to protect vulnerable groundwater basins
A legal challenge brought by two out-of-state investment firms is testing how Arizona establishes groundwater protections.
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A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.
The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
motherjones.com
Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2mo agoMetro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
The truth about AI-generated content and writing is that, if you're actually paying attention and are actively engaged, you can tell the difference. AI only works in a society where people are dissociating and distracted and unengaged. That's the point of it. To just forward an unlived life.
In case you're wondering "does mentioning a book on bluesky get people to buy it?", I just ordered this book from my local independent bookstore. Also once this comes in I'll own three books on the history of light pollution, a topic I've thought about a lot since I first moved to Toronto.
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · last mo.The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley has a book coming out soon titled Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Making a Killing
A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the lo...
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AZ CD06 Rep. Juan Ciscomani is on this list. I'd tag him but he's not on here. He's on the fascist hellscape platform.
The Contrarian@contrariannews.org · last mo.More than 200 members of Congress voted to give ICE $113 billion and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) $91 billion, making them the best-funded federal law enforcement agencies in U.S. history. They cast those votes after the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. 🧵
This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers (July 31, 2026) ICYMI, the last numbers on: arrests at a record pace, asylum cases rerouted to judges, unaccompanied kids losing lawyers, more denaturalizations, enforcement deaths, and courts drawing new limits. austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers (July 31, 2026)
ICYMI, the last numbers on: arrests at a record pace, asylum cases rerouted to judges, unaccompanied kids losing lawyers, more denaturalizations, enforcement deaths, and courts drawing new limits.
austinkocher.substack.com
oh wait, is this the same Henry Cuellar who voted with Republicans to give additional funding to ICE back in January?
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last mo."U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who negotiated with DHS for the couple’s July 25 release after two days detention, said ICE should be rounding up the 'worst of the worst' of undocumented immigrants instead of clergy." baptistnews.com/article/ice-...
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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BREAKING: Tree sit goes up to stop border wall construction in Arizona. The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. aimed at stopping construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
BREAKING: Tree sit aims to block border wall construction
The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. to attempt to stop construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
maxgranger.substack.com
Mega-Masters Explained: How Trump's Immigration Courts are Manufacturing Deportations austinkocher.substack.com/p/mega-maste...
Mega-Masters Explained: How Trump's Immigration Courts are Manufacturing Deportations
The Trump administration rolled out a new tactic to generate removal orders: piling well over 100 court cases on short notice into impossibly crowded single hearings.
austinkocher.substack.com
Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
motherjones.com
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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BLM land makes up 16% of Arizona. Now a data center is replacing a solar farm in Nevada—no environmental review, no public comment. Where are GOP reps while rural land gets auctioned off to the highest bidder behind closed doors? #SheShed westernpriorities.org/2026/07/trum...
Trump admin swaps out solar project for data center on BLM land - Center for Western Priorities
The Bureau of Land Management has approved an AI data center on national public land that was originally approved for a solar energy project, without conducting a new review or taking public comment o...
westernpriorities.org
Arizona's governor visited deep red Cochise County, where she met with officials of the Future Farmers of America and talked about economic opportunity. Hobbs Curry Farm.JPG www.myheraldreview.com/hobbs-curry-...
Hobbs Curry Farm.JPG
A tour of the family-owned Curry Seed & Chile Company in Pearce was part of Gov. Katie Hobbs' July 25 campaign visit to Cochise County.
myheraldreview.com
"Since January 2025, the data shows, ORR has shared more than 460,000 'leads' with ICE about unaccompanied children, their sponsors -- usually parents or other relatives -- and additional household members, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation."
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency
More than 12,000 people have been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump’s second term.
reuters.com
Andrew Thrasher@tituslegaldesign.com · 2mo agoThis doc, effectively added as a rider to agencies' service agreements, provides more context on how the ICE has baked this completely fabricated docket of up to 450,000 "wellness checks" into its Task Force 287(g) program. wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documen...