Dylan Baddour

Guy in Texas and sometimes other places

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Year 4 of not “mowing the lawn”

[Ahmed Shameya @ahmedshameya995]

The moment when the Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip

[CNN @CNN]

Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline, according to US officials. https://t.co/QhANpLTtvv

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Nate Schatzline is a hardline Christian nationalist who believes the 2020 election was stolen + that he is at spiritual war with "powers of darkness" that control Austin. Gov. Abbott just gave him a $275K job as a senior advisor on "election integrity."
https://t.co/IpZAFFGw8D

[Sam Karas @sammiecarrots]

The General Land Office issued a statement this morning after border wall contractor Barnard Construction illegally cleared state-owned land in the Big Bend. The property was being leased by Trans Pecos Ice, an LLC tied to founders of the cooler brand Yeti https://t.co/McJcCV2nwn

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

Texas accidentally legalized weed and created an industry bigger than California. But starting Saturday it’s over and marijuana becomes a felony again

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

We should all spend the rest of our lives weeping over our helplessness in the face of this tragedy.

She lost her three children at the beginning of the war. Later, she gave birth to another baby and named him Zaid—her last hope. But at dawn today, Zaid was killed in an airstrike that hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. 💔

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces have demolished an entire residential block after striking the Shamia family home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

Israel is destroying what remains of Gaza, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: Border Wall Construction Triggers Tree Sit to Save Ancient Arizona Cottonwood

LOCHIEL, Ariz.— Protesters today climbed into an ancient cottonwood tree in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley to stop the Department of Homeland Security from cutting it down for construction of two parallel 30-foot-tall border walls.

The action comes after Department of Homeland Security contractors cut down three neighboring Fremont cottonwoods estimated to be 200 to 250 years old.

“Destroying these ancient cottonwoods is a death sentence for an entire ecosystem,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These magnificent cottonwoods survived centuries, nourishing wildlife through floods and drought, only to be bulldozed for the border wall. The San Rafael Valley is one of the most biologically rich landscapes in North America. It’s both a refuge and crucial corridor for jaguars, ocelots, black bears, pronghorn and hundreds of bird species.”

Today’s action is believed to be the first tree sit aimed at stopping U.S. border wall construction.

The three cottonwoods cut down earlier this week stood along a rare stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border where mature trees once formed a transboundary canopy. The trees provided nesting habitat, shade and shelter within an increasingly scarce riparian ecosystem that supports hundreds of animal species. One protester was arrested Monday while trying to protect those trees and nesting migratory birds.

Federal officials said preconstruction surveys would be conducted during Arizona’s active nesting season, but observers at the site reported that no surveys for nesting migratory birds were completed before the trees were destroyed.

The area also contains prehistoric archaeological sites that preserve evidence of thousands of years of Indigenous presence in the borderlands. Ongoing construction threatens cultural resources that would be permanently lost if disturbed.

The Department of Homeland Security is constructing the border wall under authorities that waive dozens of the nation’s cornerstone environmental and cultural resource protection laws, allowing construction to proceed without reviews normally required under laws including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Historic Preservation Act.

In a letter sent today to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Center called for an immediate halt to construction in the Lochiel area. The letter urged the agencies to conduct comprehensive biological and cultural resource surveys, consult with Tribes with ancestral and cultural connections to the San Rafael Valley, protect the remaining ancient cottonwoods, and assess the ecological and cultural resources at risk.

[Yara Al-sharif @sub_allah]

No water
No food
No electricity
No medical treatment

This is the situation of the people in Palestine
💔

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

With this latest waiver - the Trump admin is now bypassing a wide range of federal laws to speed up the border wall, other barriers, roads and associated infrastructure across all its planned Big Bend area projects from near El Paso to Del Rio: https://t.co/PhJYYYwwbO

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Recent floods boosted combined storage in the Nueces River basin reservoirs to 28% capacity

Highest levels since July 2024

Still a long way from full

https://t.co/i1p461KB5d

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

@sofiecooks1 According to the region’s drought plan, at 40% full

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Recent floods boosted combined storage in the Nueces River basin reservoirs to 28% capacity

Highest levels since July 2024

Still a long way from full

https://t.co/i1p461KB5d

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

Oops, we accidentally helped Israel commit a genocide. If only millions of people around the world had warned us day, night, and in between …

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

90 degrees at 10 pm in Lockhart tonight 🥵

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

Omer Bartov warns: "If the plans that are currently being elaborated for Gaza go forward, genocide may come to be seen by some nations as the legitimate and lucrative extension of politics by other means."
https://t.co/ACPFYmoz3c

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Desal startup headed by retired general drops its bid to build a plant for Corpus Christi

“Emergency conditions that compelled our focused action no longer exist.”

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

On May 5 Corpus Christi will consider a proposal for a super-massive seawater desal plant submitted by a group supposedly comprised of retired generals and major intl desal developers

https://t.co/FOOvaaPxz7

My sources called this 6-page plan "goofy" and "not based in reality"

[ُ sushi ibushi 𖣂 @svhibe]

you see this red splotch covering Gaza? it is made of red dots, each single dot represents an airstrike under the Biden’s administration. it took two years of tremendous relentless unforgiving bombing and 4 US vetos to complete. you can’t regret your way out of this.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

ISRAEL CONTINUES TARGETING CIVILIANS IN GAZA.

Today, an Israeli airstrike killed a family of FIVE, including a MOTHER and her THREE YOUNG DAUGHTERS.

THESE DAILY KILLINGS OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA ARE NOT BEING REPORTED IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

Two brothers with no escape or anywhere to go, enduring the full force of Israeli bombing.

A state of panic no child should ever be in.