@JaredHuffman@RepHuffman
When you say Israel has a right to defend itself, this is what you are promoting. They are not defending themselves and it is not a war. They are the occupying entity and per international law are responsible for providing. They kill them instead.
Israeli occupation forces have KILLED five people including three children while collecting grass to feed their families south of Al Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza City!
The reason why this is the first construction contract - and not housing for the majority displaced population - is because they need to reserve Israel’s right to continue bombing Palestinian homes and buildings.
BREAKING: Federal Contractors Begin Border Construction in Big Bend National Park
TERLINGUA, Texas— Bulldozers broke ground today on border barrier and road construction in Big Bend National Park amid widespread bipartisan opposition. Videos shared with the Center for Biological Diversity show contractors plowing through native vegetation along the Rio Grande’s riparian corridor, with the iconic Santa Elena Canyon visible in the background.
“This is the most heinous attack on an American national park in generations,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The administration is preparing to blast hundreds of miles of destructive roads through the wildest place left in Texas and cut off public access to the Rio Grande, all to enrich private contractors. Big Bend belongs to us all, and sacrificing it is a betrayal of every Texan and every American who believes our national parks should be protected. We won’t stop fighting this reckless assault on Big Bend National Park and America’s natural heritage until this destruction ends.”
Department of Homeland Security contractors have stockpiled heavy equipment across the Big Bend region, where staging yards have been cleared, worker camps built and water wells drilled.
According to Customs and Border Protection’s online map, the agency plans to build vehicle barriers and patrol roads across Big Bend National Park, including in rugged and remote areas such as Mariscal Mountain that would require extensive dynamite blasting. The plans also include building in remote walled canyons where no unauthorized vehicle crossings have been documented and where vehicles cannot access the border with Mexico.
In May the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $1.7 billion contract for border work through the national park. In June the department waived dozens of environmental laws — including the National Park Service Organic Act, Endangered Species Act and National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — to authorize construction of border barriers, roads and lighting through Big Bend National Park. It was the first time in U.S. history that the federal government had waived such a broad set of environmental protections for construction inside a national park.
The Center sued the Department of Homeland Security, saying the waivers violated the Constitution by taking actions with vast economic and political consequences without congressional authorization. That case is ongoing.
Earlier this week, more than 140 outfitters, local businesses and recreation groups urged Texas leaders to protect public access to the Rio Grande and halt the project. They warned that closing river access and building permanent barriers and roads through the canyon corridor would put river outfitters out of business and devastate the regional economy.
Opposition to the project spans the political spectrum. All five sheriffs along the Big Bend border region have opposed barrier construction, saying the region’s mountains, canyons, desert and Rio Grande already provide a formidable natural barrier. All 14 Texas border county judges have called for greater transparency and border security measures better suited to the terrain. Seven former Big Bend National Park superintendents have urged DHS to reject the waivers. Last week, the Texas land commissioner sent a cease-and-desist order to Customs and Border Protection and federal contractors for illegally clearing state land for border wall construction.
The Big Bend Sector covers 517 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border — more than a quarter of the entire U.S.-Mexico boundary. No unauthorized vehicle crossings have been documented in the region, which saw just 1.3% of total border apprehensions in 2025. Within Big Bend National Park, apprehensions accounted 0.045% of the national total. For decades the National Park Service and Customs and Border Protection have conducted border enforcement while preserving the park’s irreplaceable natural heritage and recreational opportunities.
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I’m sorry someone told you hell and hanging by your hair was your fate. Very disturbing and something I’ve never heard of, it seems to be a local or cultural belief. But your experience is no global Muslim standard and spreading your experience as a norm is a driver of anti Muslim bigotry and violence against women in hijab. I wear hijab by choice, always have. Family members have taken it off with zero consequence. Millions wear it, millions take it off. Stop obsessing about the practice of Muslim women who choose their path.
The world will call you dramatic for crying over people you’ve never met. But empathy isn’t the problem and it never has been. A world that teaches us not to care is the real sickness. Don’t let them take your heart and make you believe that your compassion is a weakness.
Basically every time he says they "lifted people off food stamps" he is lying and they actually cut people from the program. People might not want to need food stamps, but they definitely like to afford food. These ghouls starving them doesn't mean they were "lifted" from SNAP.
🇮🇪🇵🇸: I spoke to several students in Gaza bound to study in Ireland this month but stumbled upon the new infeasible conditions by the govt
One from obliterated northern Gaza was asked to show over €14,000 a year in financial proof
✍️Story for @intifada
https://t.co/QNngdwI4wU
Since I’m blocked & untagged I’ll reply to a screenshot. Aggression is a term of art in int’l law applicable to states. Hamas is not a state. Israel is. The ICJ has stated its policies re Gaza were already unlawful pre 7/10. Journalists should do basic research before tweeting
In this video are journalist @AnasAlSharif0, journalist @HossamShabat , and journalist @FadiAlwhidi, who was left paralyzed after being shot by Israel—while attending the funeral of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul.
How many of your young people have you lost, Gaza? 💔
Actually, the capitalist, billionaire class depriving us of our basic human needs, destroying our civil liberties, pillaging our environment and waging endless wars for their own profit margin is the greatest threat to not only this country, but the entire planet.
An Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on 12-year-old Baraa Abdullah Ghazal in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, wounding him. He was taken to Al-Ahli Arab (Baptist) Hospital for treatment.
Why doesn't the media talk about Sudan?
Sudan is bleeding. Sudanese women face drones by day and rape by night. 59,000-400,000 killed, 13+ million displaced, millions pushed into famine. Sudan's war has set off the world's largest hunger crisis.
Don't be indifferent to Sudan.
Nearly 3 years of watching the unprecedented slaughter of your colleagues and you’re still legitimizing “Israel says it’s investigating itself.”
Shameful.
DHS contractors are bulldozing native vegetation inside Big Bend National Park to build a new "patrol road" & "vehicle barriers" beside an existing road across from 1,500-foot cliffs no human or vehicle could ever cross and NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS HAPPENING.
Remember when the Panama Papers came out, revealed that all rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal network to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts, and the journalist who reported was murdered by a car bomb, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
This is what will happen with the Epstein Files if we don't unite against child rapists.