“I don’t know what’s going to happen. When there’s no #water, what can you do?”
From Dylan Baddour in 2023: Farming and industry are pushing this historic river to its limits. https://www.texasobserver.org/rio-grande-water-drifting-toward-disaster/
#farming #agriculture #environment #history #ClimateChange #border #Mexico #SouthTexas #news #politics #USpol #Texas
Tội phạm giấu 20kg bạc dạng hạt tròn trong đế giày để vận chuyển trái phép qua biên giới. Số bạc trị giá tiền tỷ bị phát hiện từ nghi vấn ban đầu, bẻ gãy âm mưu buôn lậu tinh vi. #ĐỒI_TỆ #BiênGiới #PhápLuật #TiềnTỷ #VậnChuyểnTráiPhép #Smuggling #Border #IllicitTrade
The world's busiest border crossing and the world's most inappropriate rails-to-trails conversion:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002803.html
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueIV/pages/258-cartouche/
This cartouche may represent a tapestry frame, as such a thing by Gravelot is mentioned in the description. At any rate it was used to frame the title of a section, Exposition de tabloeaux anciens de décoration et d’ornament, which is, Exhibition of antique decorative and ornamental paintings.
#vintageArt #fobo #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #cartouche #border #frame #clipArt #GIMP #engraving #HubertGravelot
Featured story: As the #healthcare workers approach the small collection of makeshift shelters along the train tracks that cut through the northern Mexico industrial hub of Ciudad Juárez, the people who gather in this place to use #drugs prepare for their arrival. ... https://www.texasobserver.org/border-harm-reduction-drug-use-militarization/
#border #health #HumanRights #HarmReduction #news #politics #USpol #Mexico
Crosses mark the graves where unidentified people, some of them migrants who tried to cross into the US, are buried near #Tijuana
Jacumba, California. Here, the steel border fence ends suddenly, allowing people to cross between the US and Mexico.
A section of the border wall on a hill in the Guadalupe canyon.
Jacumba, California. Here, the steel border fence ends suddenly, allowing people to cross between the US and Mexico.
Crosses mark the graves where unidentified people, some of them migrants who tried to cross into the US, are buried near #Tijuana
Psalm
How leaky are the borders of man-made states!
How many clouds float over them scot-free,
how much desert sand sifts from country to country,
how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf
in provocative leaps!
Need I cite each and every bird as it flies,
or alights, as now, on the lowered gate?
Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad,
thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting!
1/
#poetry
#WisławaSzymborska
2/
Out of countless insects I will single out the ant,
who, between the guard’s left and right boots,
feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination.
If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail
on ever continent!
Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank
smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river?
Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed,
would violate the sacred territorial waters?
3/
How can we speak of any semblance of order
when we can’t rearrange the stars
to know which one shines for whom?
Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog!
Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range
as though it weren’t split in two!
Or voices carried over accommodating air waves:
summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles!
Only what’s human can be truly alien.
The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind.
https://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2013/09/28/lifesaving-poems-wislawa-szymborskas-psalm/
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