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🚺 She/her ⭐️ Tejana 📍 Houston, TX Professional interests: immigration, public international law, & natsec Personal interests: pop culture, tech, & cats
There are a lot of natural resources in Argentina.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d ago😳 On August 6, Argentina will vote on a proposed Land Reform Law aiming to facilitate the purchase of rural land in Argentina by private investors. It seems they are preparing to “celebrate” with Peter Thiel. The bill was written by Sturzenegger who will appear at this Sept event with Thiel. 1/
New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Caravans were very real and often made a lot of sense for the migrants in them. They originated as a way to avoid cartel violence; when everyone is together in a caravan, you can’t be grabbed in a dark alley (or broad daylight) to be ransomed. Leaders could also assert pressure on Mexican officials.
Swiffy@swiffy.bsky.social · 4d agoDo we know about the caravans headed through Central America that always made news during US election season? Were they something besides real and proportional stories of an organic newsworthy development?
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
tucson.com
A surfeit of empathy would seem a poor explanation for Democrats’ dismal approval ratings, even as Donald Trump alienates most Americans by enriching himself, gilding Washington and waging war without a strategy
How the American right came to hate empathy
…while practising its oldest form
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Been a while since since I posted this. Kill The Bar Exam. abovethelaw.com/2015/06/kill...
Kill The Bar Exam - Above the Law
LawProfBlawg wants to know: what's the point of the bar exam?
abovethelaw.com
I did not know MySpace started in 2003. I joined in the second half of 2004.
WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · 5d agoOn August 1, 2003, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded the MySpace social network. MySpace popularity skyrocketed, and by February 2004, the network had acquired one million users. Tom's MySpace profile in 2005
Mobula Rays aka Devil Rays are an incredible species of oceanic ray. They are highly migratory and can be found in the warm waters of tropical, subtropical and temperate regions around the world. ~ Olivia Hagedoorn IG: allthingsemeraldcoast Pensacola Beach, Florida
Companies and governments should invest urgently to upgrade to quantum-resistant encryption systems. Curious as to why? Register to read more (it’s free)
It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption
When the quantum breakthrough comes, data being harvested today will be exposed
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The state has found some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship. bit.ly/4yOsWzH
Texas finds some registered voters wrongly flagged as noncitizens
The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship.
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Crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana use ultrasound without government oversight lailluminator.com/2026/07/29/r...
Crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana use ultrasound without government oversight • Louisiana Illuminator
Anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers routinely offer free ultrasounds, but there is little oversight. OB-GYNs, state lawmakers, government officials, reproductive health advocates, and current and f...
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NEW: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son Ronaldo just spoke at Houston City Council, telling Mayor John Whitmire & city council what they can do to help make sure someone else isn't killed by ICE: end the Houston Police Department's partnership with ICE
This doesn’t suprise me at all. It has happened on every social media platform as has been well documented and studied and as you all know with every wave of bots and and blue waves and trolls and romance scammers I’ve been whispering kinda loudly for folks to worry about this…
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · last wk.
New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The triumphs and tragedies of fandom: Emotional arcs in NFL tweets Elisabeth Kollrack, Michael V. Arnold, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth #FanStudies arxiv.org/abs/2607.18461
The triumphs and tragedies of fandom: Emotional arcs in NFL tweets
Online fandom communities influence public opinion toward movies, musicians, and sports teams. Using a corpus of game-referencing tweets, we measure variation in sentiment toward National Football Lea...
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I asked a legendary Mexican American civil rights lawyer/professor how he kept beating Kobach. He said Kobach was a terrible lawyer.
Paranoid Hemorrhoid@paranoidhemorrhoid.bsky.social · last wk.Isn't this the guy that a judge ordered to take remedial law classes because he was so incompetent in court that he was wasting everyone's time? www.courthousenews.com/judge-strike...
One agent “was first arrested for sexual assault of a child at the age of 13 and served time in the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.” He was still hired by Border Patrol, working “there for nearly 20 years before being caught again for child molestation and sexual exploitation of minors.”
America's Voice@americasvoice.bsky.social · last wk.The agent who killed Johan Sebastián wasn't an outlier. A recent report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, found that of the 59 agents it identified, "85% percent had been charged with or convicted of sex offenses, with nearly two-thirds targeting children." ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.
Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co
“Pax Silica bets on economic security zones *** The first such zone is expected to be in the Philippines. “fDi sources confirm reports that discussions are under way to establish the next zone in Kazakhstan.” 7/28/26 … 1/
Pax Silica bets on economic security zones
US-backed projects planned for Philippines and Kazakhstan test SEZs as tools for strategic autonomy
fdiintelligence.com
I do not know how to feel about this. I want to believe in robots for good. But I also know that these could be misused.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
open.substack.com
He got it, Gelato the kitten got a 3-D printed wheelchair thanks to donations. No more rulers and tape! Photo: Cincinnati Animal CARE.
It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
This is a good reminder that some "voluntary" departures people sign while detained by ICE are the product of coercion. The worst incidents I've heard of over the years involve agents grabbing a person's hands and forcing them to sign a piece of paper they can't read; it's a "voluntary" removal.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.
Remember when Microsoft stated that Windows 10 was the last Microsoft OS ever, promising endless support updates? Was that mere puffery or did Microsoft mislead consumers?
WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · last wk.Windows 10 launched 11 years ago today! Windows 10 website in 2015
