Scores of visitors arrived to watch the eclipse steps away from the Rio Grande and Shelby Park, an expansive green space that was closed to the public after being taken over in January by the Texas National Guard to stem the flow of migrants.
#eclipse2024
It started with a low thunder that sounded like faraway crowd noise coming from a football stadium. Then came the loud honking of car horns, with some people dancing on the streets..
#bidenharis2020
#bidenwins
(edited by
@cliffordlevy
)
Ever since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, family members have been asking their neighbors to back candidates who support gun control. On Tuesday, voters in Uvalde County rebuked them. This left many of them feeling abandoned.
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The day before I boarded a plane from NYC, my youngest sister sent me a text message that froze me in place. “Brother, it looks like all of the Sandovales have Covid,” it read in Spanish.
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#pandemic
#border
#riograndevalley
#TexasCOVID
I spent a big chuck of Feb & March charting the trauma & healing of two of the brave survivors of the
#Uvalde
shooting. The story is out today. I can’t thank enough the families of Noah & Mayah. Please take a moment to read about their journey
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📰
Last September the
@GovRonDeSantis
gov flew 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard. Many said they remain scarred by the experience. Earlier this month I spent time with the few who have forged a new life “en la isla.” Please take a read.
@hannahdreier
When Ms. Cauro fled Venezuela last summer, she never imagined that one day she would be working and living on a wealthy island south of Cape Cod, surrounded by boats and mansions of the kind she had seen only in the movies.
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The Thanksgiving of 2012 little Daniel asked his parents for a kitten. His parents said the Sandy Hook 1st grader loved all creatures. “Daniel would pick up the worms off the sidewalk and would put them on the grass so they wouldn’t burn in the sun.” Two cats arrived in December
A man who survived the
#clevelandtexas
shooting told me how he saw the gunman shoot his sister, nephew & other relatives & he pulled his wife & 6 mo old into a closet. He left Honduras 5 yrs ago to escape gang violence & found himself victim of America’s gun epidemic
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Then she looked up and gained fire in her voice. “What I want no one can give me,” she said. “I want my daughter back. If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace.”
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#uvalde
#robbelementary
@NYTNational
congrats to
@edjsandoval
, who is off to be NYT's new San Antonio bureau chief
i cannot say enough good things about Edgar - working with him has made me better in so many ways.
UPDATE: I spoke with Yohonny Miratriz, a migrant from Venezuela who survived the car crash that killed 8 in Brownsville, including a close friend. Everything moved in slow motion, he said. “I had time to think, do I jump forward or backwards?”
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Gilles Rousseau she remembers his daughter Lauren as a brave young woman.
“I don’t like the word hero. She did what she had to do. The detectives when they walked me to the crime scene, they told me she died in front of them. How can you protect them against a gun like that?”
When a mother learned that her teenage son threatened to shoot his sister & a school, she went to the
@SATXPolice
. Detectives learned two chilling details. His threats were serious & he was a cousin of the Uvalde gunman. The Mom likely saved lives
Soon after they arrived, Ms. Yaun was dead. A gunman had stormed into the business, the police said, killing four people and critically wounding a fifth. (With
@GiuliaMcDonnell
// edited by
@FeliceBelman
&
@_jasonbailey_
)
Kim Mata-Rubio, who lost her daughter Lexi in Uvalde, said she understood that everybody in the small town of 15,000 people had lost something, if not a loved one, then certainly a sense of security. So now she’s running for mayor to help unite the city
The child began showing symptoms in Illinois and was taken to a hospital in the town of Salem, about 250 miles south of Chicago and 1,200 miles north of Brownsville said
@JoaquinCastrotx
#Texas
#Immigration
@nytimes
I went to Eagle Pass, Tx to talk to migrants who suffered severe injuries crossing over buoys & concertina wire. Texas’ harsh border tactics have come under fire. Anchored by
@jdavidgoodman
& reporting from Texas own (& new New Yorker)
@byjayroot
Link :
In a historical move, the Texas House voted to impeach the attorney general Ken Paxton. But who are the four conservative former staffers who aired the allegations leveled against him? I looked at legal filings to find out more…
After nearly two weeks of testimony, a jury found a former Border Patrol intelligence supervisor guilty of killing four women in Laredo. Family members confronted
#juandavidortiz
during an emotional victim statements.
@nytimes
UVALDE, Texas — The Rev. Y.J. Jimenez rushed 30 minutes to
#Uvalde
Memorial Hospital to console two parishioners who had lost their 10-year-old grandchild in Tuesday’s shooting. 😢
@nytimes
@NYTNational
Man describes smoke filling his subway car &
#PortAuthority
hallway. “The smoke was in the hallway. I was thinking, there may be more bombs. We heard the noise just when the train stopped, then a lot of smoke.”
@NYDailyNews
@NYDailyNewsPix
Today marks the 1 year anniversary since I was hired as a
@nytimes
full-time reporter. I never thought I would see my name in the Gray Lady, much less join A-list team📰. Forever grateful to
@jamesmckinleyjr
@cliffordlevy
et al
(DMs open for ideas & tips)
Legal woes aren’t over for Ken Paxton. 8 years ago he was indicted and arrested on criminal securities-fraud charges. A trial date in that case is still pending.
@BCross052422
Cross began the protest to demand that the district suspend school police officers for their delayed response to the May shooting, in which 19 children died. “I’m done asking,” Cross told me. “Now, I’m demanding.”
Link:
@nytimes
@BCross052422
Jose Flores and Andrea Herrera, inseparable siblings both in the fourth grade, rode the bus together to Robb Elementary School last Tuesday as they did most mornings. He headed into Room 111, she into Room 104.
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#uvalde
#uvaldetx
💔
My latest from
#Uvalde
@nytimes
Last week, Mr. Suarez helped place the portraits of the six fallen players on the wall of a dugout, each posing in a Little League uniform with a bat, forever 10 years old.
#Uvaldestrong
⚾️🧢🥎🏟
@NYTNational
Families of the Uvalde victims were visibly shaken at a groundbreaking for a new school that will replace Robb Elementary, where 21 died. Jerry Mata said that shoveling dirt brought him back to the day he threw dirt at his daughter’s coffin, Tess Mata.
San Antonio will be one of the rare locations in the world to experience two eclipses within six months, the annular eclipse today and a total eclipse in April. I spoke to people who witnessed the annular eclipse & are already for the 2nd one
#eclipse
The businessman at the center of the allegations that led to the impeachment of the AG of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been arrested and was scheduled to appear in federal court in Austin on Friday. David Montgomery will be there and help us w/ updates
I went to talk to families like the Quilatans who live in colonias, the impoverished settlements outside established cities, where just the ability to cool off has become a painful reminder of the social divide prevalent in border communities.
#summer
I spoke with the member of Grupo Betas who came across the two bodies near the buoys in Eagle Pass, the second one inches away. “It is lamentable to see these situations. These are things that should not happen, but happen,” he told me. w
@jdavidgoodman
It was two days before the end of the school year. Miah Cerillo, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School, and her classmates were giddy with anticipation to the summer break.
#Uvalde
#Texas
@nytimes
UVALDE, Texas — Joe Costilla was mourning the loss of a cousin by marriage, a beloved teacher gunned down during the school shooting, when he spotted a large pickup truck with a logo from the nearby Domino’s pizza place on Wednesday afternoon.
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My
@nytimes
article on two of the brave survivors of the
#UvaldeMassacre
NOW has an audio component for all of you who favor podcasts. “Noah is not the same boy. Mayah’s mother said it was “a miracle” her daughter survived at all.”
➡️ & click on 📻audio:
Today family members & survivors of the El Paso massacre confronted the gunman. “I hope you rot in there.”
@miss_coulehan
was there for the
@nytimes
#ElPaso
My colleague
@jdavidgoodman
& I went to
#Uvalde
last week to try & figure out how the city was coping. We found fierce unity among families of the victims. But also divisions that run deep in the majority Latino, socially conservative community.
#Texas
has been hit with an unrelenting heat wave. Nowhere is it more miserable than in low-income areas that have less access to shade and air-conditioning. “The A.C. only goes on at night, no matter how hot it gets."
#Heatwave2022
#Sanantonio
@nytimes
I spent last week talking to parents & children about going back to school in 2 weeks. The answer: fear & anxiety. The horror of May 24 remains fresh for many. The
@Uvalde_CISD
@nytimes
is adding 8-foot fences & officers
@nytimes
📚
Cross began the protest to demand that the district suspend school police officers for their delayed response to the May shooting, in which 19 children died. “I’m done asking,” Cross told me. “Now, I’m demanding.”
@nytimes
@BCross052422
#Uvalde
I spoke with the Uvalde police chief, Daniel Rodriguez, who said a 911 caller told dispatchers that 15 people were trapped inside a moving train. "They were suffocating, they were having trouble breathing” the Chief said. Two of them died
#Uvalde
@nytimes
.
@CBPSouthTexas
police officers positioned in the middle of the McAllen-Reynosa International Bridge are putting gear on and keeping a close eye on the Mexican side behind a wall covered in barb wire, minutes before Title 42 is set to expire.
Nine months after 49 migrants said they were misled & abandoned in Martha’s Vineyard, the DA in San Antonio said the review of the proposed charges by the
@BexarCoSheriff
will be “lengthy and labor-intensive under the best of circumstance.”
#Immigration
Instead, as it started to rain on Monday, the festivities were abruptly canceled, not because of the weather, but because of something that now seems as common at this summer’s public gatherings as hot dogs and fried dough: fear. By
@SarahMaslinNir
In interviews, some Eagle Pass residents said it has come to feel as if their own town is under siege, with state troopers stationed along the riverbanks warning those trying to cross to turn back.
@nytimes
@GovAbbott
#immigration
#Tx
Often, as hard news reporters, we get emails wishing us all kinds of unsavory demises. So it's nice to get a friendlier note for a change. Especially since I interviewed him in the midst of a tragedy 🤗
#tbt
#emailgeeks
#journalism
#news
#hardnews
Claudine Roberts, one of the 4 people stabbed during a violent rampage in the subway, visited her father days before she was killed. She told him, "I love you Daddy." Mr. Roberts asked her to stay & went into another room. When he returned, she was gone.
The county judge told me that the group was outside the Ozanam Center when a Range Rover barreled down upon them around 8:30 a.m. local time. t was unclear whether the driver had lost control or had intentionally run over the group.
More here
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