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Lucas Belury (he/him/el)

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Doctoral candidate @ UofArizona geography ~ I study flood justice in the Rio Grande Valley (TX). Queer | Tejano | Millennial

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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MySA @mysanantonio.com · 23/09/2025
The teen faces up to eight years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine 🔗 bit.ly/4nagMLa
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Nueva mapa de inundación en Reynosa y Matamoros (frontera de México y EEUU): flujos-472021.projects.earthengine.app/view/mapa-de...! Construimos el mapa como parte del proyecto FLUJOS (Flood Justice Utilizing Sat. Obs.) por yo, @socialpixel.bsky.social, Zhijie Zhang) y 5 org. de justicia ambiental.
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Mapa del Agua Mexico
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido -
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Absolutely horrific what’s happening to queer and trans children in Texas, and in San Antonio no less.
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WDEF Chief Meteorologist Austen Onek @wdefaustenonek.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"The fact that we just saw the highest toll from a flash flood in 49 years should be a warning sign that we need to do more to safeguard people from #flashflooding." - #YaleClimateConnections
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Must-read reportage on ICE tactics in Sacramento: “volunteers were escorting a man from his hearing when ICE officers swooped in, pulling up their masks to hide their faces and forcefully snatching the man out of the grasp of the women…” 1/2 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. ⬇️
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/06/2025
“Is there any sign of life?” “Have we heard a heartbeat?” Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
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‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and…
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Pablo De La Rosa @pablodelarosa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In this audio feature for The Border Chronicle, I speak with people in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley to explore what life now looks like under the constant threat of a surge in ICE workplace raids and arrests — part of Trump's plan to deport millions. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/audio-feat...
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Audio Feature: "La Jaula de Oro", Trump's ICE Raids Cast a Shadow of Fear in the Rio Grande Valley
Intensified ICE raids have turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley into a “Golden Cage,” trapping migrant families in fear and isolation.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Dozens protest after Tulane environmental researcher resigns alleging censorship - nola.org www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Dozens protest after Tulane environmental researcher resigns alleging censorship
Two days after a Tulane environmental researcher quit and said the university was censoring her work to appease elected officials, several dozen people rallied near the campus Friday to demand that th...
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NPR @npr.org · 07/06/2025
NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.
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British doctor says many he treated in Gaza were civilians shot trying to reach aid
NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Trump cuts hundreds of EPA grants, leaving cities on the hook for climate resiliency | Grist grist.org/cities/trump...
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Trump cuts hundreds of EPA grants, leaving cities on the hook for climate resiliency
Critics argue the projects losing funding aren’t "woke," they’re essential.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/06/2025
NASA is entering a period of uncertainty. Proposed budget cuts and the withdrawal of its administrator nominee raise serious questions about the agency’s future, especially as its faces competition from commercial companies owned by Musk and Bezos. buff.ly/AI7uif4 #NASA #SpacePolicy
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Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut
Under the proposed budget, several major projects, such as the Mars Sample Return and the Space Launch System, would face cancellation.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
❌👑We demand due process for ALL people in the U.S., an end to the terror of the ICE Gestapo and modern day Concentration Camps, and respect for immigrant communities. Find or host a protest on 6/14 to remind Trump there are NO KINGS in America, and we the People are pissed! NoKings.org #NoKings
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On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/05/2025
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.
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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New article in PHG! In this essay I highlight the incredible work of queer theorists on critiquing systems of gender, sexuality, and race within our built environment. Next I argue for the epistemic potential of overlooked spaces, namely the borderland, to rethink how we build our world, literally.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/05/2025
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
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Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/04/2025
A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the Trump administration deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The toddler remains in foster care in the U.S., officials said. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador.
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A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Disappointed that my alma mater, Trinity University, didn’t sign this letter. We could have been a power voice of resistance in South Texas.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/04/2025
Arizona State University erased the TQ from LGBTQ on their website. www.statepress.com/article/2025...
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BREAKING: ASU website changes 'LGBTQIA' to 'LGB' without University approval - The Arizona State Press
An ASU website's language changed from "LGBTQIA" to "LGB" and sparked backlash from the community. 
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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Great, so we’re not only deporting US citizens but toddlers.
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Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing. Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway. FREE PALESTINE!
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Just your daily reminder that people are being disappeared. When we call ICE the 21st century Gestapo we aren’t being hyperbolic.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2025
It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/04/2025
On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities.
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HHS plans to cut funds used to investigate abuse at group homes
Disability rights watchdogs are the latest targets of the Trump administration's defunding spree.
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Dina Arévalo @photogdina.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Cameron Co officials are pushing back hard on 2 bills that would give @SpaceX control of Hwy 4 to Boca Chica Beach. Local activists are calling foul & county leaders say state Rep. Janie Lopez & Sen. Adam Hinojosa didn’t consult them. #RGV For @mysanantonio.com www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t...
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SpaceX's desire to control South TX beach access meets opposition
Proposed bills in the Texas legislature could give Elon Musk's SpaceX control over road closures to Boca Chica Beach, near Starbase in South Texas.
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/04/2025
The volunteer cuts, which included young people who told WIRED they were tasked with making forests more resilient to wildfires and helping out FEMA staff at the agency’s headquarters, come just weeks before the official start of hurricane season.
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“That to me is like burning all the books in a library, but even worse because U.S. taxpayers paid for all those books then the government decided to burn them.” www.jconline.com/story/news/e...
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Federal cuts shutter Purdue University's regional climate center
The Midwest Regional Climate Center at Purdue University, a nonpartisan informational group, lost its federal funding and suspended its services.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🚨If you are an NSF-funded researcher with a terminated grant and want to talk to the media…🚨 Feel free to reach out to me at hcarnell@cir.org or henrycarnell@proton.me or via signal hcarnell.58
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Glad to see people in the RGV standing up. We need more of these protests in South Texas!
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Pablo De La Rosa @pablodelarosa.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
With a new demonstration titled "No Kings!" planned for Saturday, people in the Rio Grande Valley continue to speak out as fear over civil liberties and deportations hits home. www.acrosstheamericas.com/no-kings-pro...
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‘A much-needed outlet’: More demonstrations planned in the Rio Grande Valley amid civil liberties crisis
People in the Rio Grande Valley continue to speak out as fear over civil liberties and deportations hits home.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is happening at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, TX and appears to be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Supreme Court's ruling requiring notice "afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief." It's been <24 hours.
"It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law" in the context of removal proceedings. Reno v. Flores, 507 U. S. 292, 306 (1993). So, the detainees are entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard "appropriate to the nature of the case." Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U. S. 306, 313 (1950). More specifically, in this context, AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a rea-sonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18/04/2025
#OTD 200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay for its own freedom—150 million francs, extorted under threat of war. That ransom bled the world’s first Black republic dry and still reverberates through Haiti today. Now Haitians are asking: When will France pay reparations? buff.ly/UCpHhS1
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200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations
After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the Caribbean nation’s calls for restitution are becoming harder to ignore.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/04/2025
When Rep. Adriano Espaillat began to see reports of Puerto Ricans and other citizens being questioned and arrested by ICE agents, he demanded answers from the Trump administration. That was more than 10 weeks ago. He has not received a response. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions.…
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New fascism level achieved: disappearing hundreds of people without due process or recourse.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 14/04/2025
A sweeping wave of removals from a federal immigration database has altered the legal status of at least 252 international students enrolled at Texas universities, according to officials and news reports.
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More than 250 international students’ immigration statuses revoked across Texas universities
The UT System said Monday that 176 students at its 14 institutions have been affected but did not provide a breakdown by school. Students at other universities have also been impacted.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 08/04/2025
Eleven Texas A&M international students have had their visas unexpectedly terminated in a federal database, part of a larger Trump administration action that has revoked visas of over 300 international students nationwide in the past three weeks.
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Eleven Texas A&M international students might have quietly lost their ability to stay in the U.S.
The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/04/2025
The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
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The IRS finalizes a deal to share tax information with immigration authorities
The Internal Revenue Service reached a deal to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
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Lucas Belury (he/him/el) @lucasbelury.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Check out this article on the FLUJOS RGV project, we go-created a flood mapping tool with community based organizations in South Texas.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 07/04/2025
Republican legislators are entertaining proposals to sap hundreds of millions of dollars from Dallas Area Rapid Transit and thwart the voter-approved expansion of public transportation in Austin known as Project Connect.
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Texas Republicans take aim at public transit in two major cities
The Texas Legislature is considering bills that transit officials warn could hamper public transportation in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
NEW: Trump aides fire USAID workers in Myanmar's quake zone. We obtained an internal email saying the overall USAID situation is "challenging and uncertain." At State, Rubio puts junior Trump loyalist Lew Olowski in charge of personnel. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
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