Sam Karas
@sammiecarrots
reportera de la frontera @bigbendsentinel / poems & other garbage on ig @sammiecarrots / adventure tales http://braveriver.substack.com
"The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."
This essay is perfect. The career mindset, the total lack of self-reflection, the northern Virginia landscape of defense industry office parks and job fairs. The lower rungs of the cop state, an empire of Observe and Report. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
This is the 19th century equivalent of that tweet that's like "and sis that's on Fahrenheit PERIODT"
I sort of vaguely knew this, but then you read the words and it's actually jaw-dropping
Fort Bliss once housed refugees, now set for largest ICE deportation center elpasotimes.com/story/news/imm…
This story is so informative. Breaks down decades of local political fights that led us here and easily explains the state's river authority system. A must read by @neenareports and @keribla. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga… #txlege
Today, we’re publishing a first-of-its-kind interactive database with profiles of 238 of the Venezuelan deportees. These are their stories. 2/ projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm…
Wild story from @TucsonSentinel — migrant aid volunteers in Arizona are suing after mistaking plainclothes HSI officers who held them at gunpoint for members of a vigilante militia. “I’d rather be shot doing what’s right than sit around doing nothing” tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/0…
Something Governmental happened to my student loans and my credit score dropped 100 points ... I would love for someone very smart to explain to me how it's Good, Actually for this to be happening to millions of people all at the same time
NEW: Texas NPR/PBS stations will lose millions from Congress' rescissions bill. Stations I spoke with said they're in new territory, with tough decisions ahead. Ft. @HoustonPubMedia, @YourKEDT and @MarfaRadio chron.com/culture/articl…
This is the third story I've clocked in the space of a week about public officials blocking TPIA requests for something that should very obviously be public knowledge. I was born yesterday and I am very shocked and confused
McAllen asks AG to keep active shooter 911 calls secret from public | #RGV myrgv.com/local-news/202…
labubu in the rock where Aron Ralston cut his own arm off
KUCV 91.1 @NebPublicMedia raised me if you're in the giving mood and want to support even more rural stations nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/
Sorry to be SINCERE on main but Marfa Public Radio is my constant companion -- it's on in the background all day. MPR's programming constantly pushes me toward being a better journalist and a better person. Show them some love during tough times!!
I don’t even know what to say. I love this damn station and still strongly believe it does nothing but good for West Texas. @MarfaRadio is by locals for locals. Def ain’t in it to get rich. We’ll keep doin’ it some way or another promise you that
After the largest dam removal in US history, Indigenous youth paddled 300 miles down the restored Klamath River. The journey reconnected Native communities to ancestral waters and honored decades of tribal activism. Salmon have already begun returning. cnn.it/44YTqBr
Woke Grok can you draw me a picture of "illegal migration"
Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
NEW: As part of my effort to track @ElonMusk's influence in the Texas Capitol, I asked for all of his emails with Gov. Greg Abbott for the last several months. Abbott's office rejected my request, saying some of the records are too "intimate and embarrassing" to release. #txlege