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Journalist @propublica @texastribune | Pre: immigration/border @houstonchron CentAm @reuters etc | el pasado es arcilla | 🇿🇦 grown | [email protected]
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RT @evanasmith: this is extraordinary work by @propublica @texastribune and their fearless partners #txlege.
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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been...
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Trump sent more than 230 Venezuelans to a Salvadoran supermax prison. He called them “the most violent savages on the face of the Earth.” Then, the men were released as suddenly as they'd been taken away. Now the truth will begin to be told. Starting here.
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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been...
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RT @ViannaDavila: A special session starts today in TX to address, in part, flood prevention in the wake of deadly July 4 flooding. But our….
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Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.
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RT @davelevinthal: “… the Legislature has repeatedly failed to enact key measures that would help communities prepare for frequent flooding….
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Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.
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As the Texas Legislature convenes in a special session, in part to address flooding after the July 4 Kerr tragedy, we found that they repeatedly underfunded such efforts & did not pass key recommended legislation to help rural communities w/ @LChurchilll
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Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.
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RT @keribla: NEW w/@neenareports : After the July 4 flood, a Kerr County official said “nobody saw this coming." But it seems they did - a….
houstonchronicle.com
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the river, dating back to 2016.
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RT @JohnJHarwood: Trump's savage toll:. "More than 75,000 adults and children are now estimated to have died because of the effective shutd….
theatlantic.com
A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat AIDS in Africa.
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RT @EvaRuth: Texas Hill Country is no stranger to flash floods. Why were so many caught off guard? @washingtonpost’s @arelisrhdz @ssda….
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When the precipitation intensified in the early morning hours Friday, many people failed to receive or respond to flood warnings at riverside campsites known to be in the floodplain.
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RT @tlangford: Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year via @TexasTri….
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A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communicat…
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RT @arelisrhdz: Michael McCown just confirmed that authorities called last night to have him identify Linnie. She was found. She is survive….
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RT @yaffanyc: “This one is crying out for a warning system.” @DugBegley and @act_rational report on the limited system in place to track ri….
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Without a modern flood warning system, emergency officials monitor four sensors along the Guadalupe River – including one that was knocked out in the flood.
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RT @crampell: Between broken tree limbs and muddied cabins, a father looks for his missing child
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Michael McCown drove to the Hill Country when he learned of the flood. His little girl had been at Camp Mystic, among the youngest girls in the Bubble Inn cabin.
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RT @jaspscherer: The death toll from Texas' Hill Country floods has risen to at least 69, making this a deadlier event than Hurricane Harve….
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About two dozen people were still missing. Many more people could still be unaccounted for, officials warned, noting that visitors to the area for the July 4th weekend make it difficult to assess an …
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RT @rebekahallen: The death toll of the Central Texas floods continues to rise - it's now at 59 and many more adults and children remain mi….
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About two dozen people were still missing. Many more people could still be unaccounted for, officials warned, noting that visitors to the area for the July 4th weekend make it difficult to assess an …
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RT @lmcgaughy: Important accountability journalism from @tplohetski:. “To say this is something they did not expect, that tells me their em….
statesman.com
Hundreds of children at summer campsites along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County were at risk early Friday when a catastrophic flash flood killed at …
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RT @mattlanza: Even in Harvey, which was a well telegraphed forecast, we had questions as to whether the bullseye of 50”+ would settle over….
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RT @tplohetski: BREAKING: 27 Camp Mystic campers are still missing, local Kerr County authorities say, as the death toll climbs to at least….
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RT @ajcorchado: NEW: Vast majority of immigrants nabbed by ICE on streets of Los Angeles were men with no criminal records. Great reporting….
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The Trump administration claimed the sweeps were aimed at criminals, but data shows otherwise.
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RT @ewong: NEW: The Trump administration is asking at least 58 nations — including ones at war or that torture prisoners — to accept deport….
nytimes.com
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
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RT @sgonzalezkelly: NEW: We obtained records that show Houston police have called ICE nearly 60 times this year, including on a woman who w….
houstonchronicle.com
The woman’s case is a worst-case scenario, according to advocates worried about the worsening state of domestic violence in the Houston region.
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