A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River, with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead. This is Santa Elana Canyon, where the proposed border wall would begin. That would be a travesty. Besides, these canyon walls are their own, natural border wall.
A desert landscape in which the foreground is dotted with green shrubs and the background consists of mountains and two small peaks at the center. The sky is a warm yellow-orange due to the just-rising Sun. A large ocotillo cactus sticks up on the left side of the frame.
A photo of a desert landscape featuring rugged mountains under a cloudy sky just after sunrise. The foreground includes various desert plants with sunlight peeking behind a mountain peak, creating a warm glow and highlighting natural terrain textures.
A photo, taken at high elevation, of a mountainous landscape featuring layered ridges and peaks under a clear blue sky. Sunlight casts shadows highlighting rugged terrain and sparse vegetation, with distant mountains fading into a hazy horizon.
I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. π§΅4/4
28.02.2026 01:46
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Texas' Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and Democrats
Locals say the rugged land is enough of a barrier and they're concerned about the impact on the environment and homeowners as the Department of Homeland Security forges ahead.
I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. π§΅ 1/4
28.02.2026 01:46
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Black puppy in a blue chair holding a little two bone between his feet
Emergency puppy photo
28.02.2026 13:32
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I made this on this day back in 2020. Works today as well!
Last day of early voting is tomorrow, Texas.
27.02.2026 02:10
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10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch
Her in the library
DHS illegally arrested me please help
Text against image of her knees
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
26.02.2026 17:15
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H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural
By Skype a Scientist
Had our first group meeting yesterday with the H.A. Brown Principal & Nick (the artist!)
The school is psyched. I'm going to talk about pollinators next week, & have the kids vote on their favorite bug!
We have a wall!
We have a plan!
We just need a little more funding π
givebutter.com/KenzoMural
26.02.2026 19:23
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Trade Offer meme, with a man in a business suit witting in strange purple lighting, his fingers steepled before him.
The option for i receive is Assignments you actually did yourself.
The option for You receive is An education; the ability to argue from evidence
I made this for potential incorporation to my slides, and offer it up for any who might want it
26.02.2026 14:42
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We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.
We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.
Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.
Subscribe below.
25.02.2026 16:24
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A pile of baby Boer goats, sleeping
The state of the goat union is adorable
25.02.2026 01:37
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One of the things I love about Gen Z is how they take all the little millennial snark sayings seriously. We said βhang it in the louvreβ for two decades and they said βbetβ
23.02.2026 21:37
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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes βI love struggling, it makes me feel aliveβ is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
22.02.2026 14:43
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Small schnauzer terrier mix sniffing and then kissing a little black baby goat
Coco β€οΈ bebbies
18.02.2026 23:06
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βIs there a technology the left is excited about?β
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
18.02.2026 13:40
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Tillβs memorial for decades.
Itβs wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
18.02.2026 17:19
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Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days
βI donβt want to be in this place I want to go to my school.β
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:
βI donβt want to be in this place I want to go to my school.β
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
17.02.2026 19:31
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Aww I just pointed out the site today to my MIL who is visiting π
12.02.2026 00:02
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Adding onto this... eat veggies even when you're eating "junk food"
My pizzeria does a really good garlic broccoli dish so I always order it when I order pizza.
Get a vegetable dish when you order American Chinese food
11.02.2026 23:54
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Chris, those of us who are left of center have a perfect solution to the End of Work: universal basic income.
UBI has worked everywhere that it's been tried. Detroit's implementing a form of this right now, giving cash to pregnant women & new mothers.
www.bridgedetroit.com/cash-aid-pro...
11.02.2026 18:16
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The El Paso County Medical Examiner determined that one detainee died last month from βhomicide by asphyxia due to neck and torso compression." Literally tortured to death.
11.02.2026 13:17
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How snowboarder Bea Kim fights climate change through her words and wardrobe
The 19-year-old U.S. snowboarding star is fighting climate change to help protect the planet and the sport she loves.
Bea Kim is an Olympian, @protectourwinters.bsky.social member + climate advocate.
βThe world is changing. Glaciers are melting that weβre riding on. Each year we wonder if there will even be enough snow for us to do what we love. I couldn't watch it happen and not say anything about it,β she says.
07.02.2026 18:41
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Talked with a friend yesterday who was down from Minneapolis for a few days and she emphasized the huge amount of unseen, unglamorous work and security behind the scenes, which all activists know is what enables the visible work. She's part of an amazing network. Minneapolis is the best of us.
08.02.2026 14:05
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"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
08.02.2026 14:11
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ππ»ββοΈ (plus your awesome Bluesky presence)
07.02.2026 18:30
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Hundreds of students at several Houston-area districts walked out of class Friday afternoon to protest the federal immigration crackdown, defying Gov. Greg Abbott's threat to punish students, their teachers and schools for disrupting the school day with political activism. bit.ly/4007O9f
06.02.2026 21:01
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Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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05.02.2026 21:08
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Even my 11 year old is over 67 smh
05.02.2026 20:58
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Looks like the deaf student protester in LA arrested by DHS has broken into the mainstream news circuit. (Good.) Here are some more stories about the intersection of disability and ICE, aka, eugenics.
05.02.2026 15:18
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
04.02.2026 14:24
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So you agree that you don't need all that money
05.02.2026 01:35
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