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Talked to Annie Rosenthal High Country News about the changing narrative on the role of American guns in violence in Mexico, and the stakes of the Supreme Court case against US gun companies hcn.org/articles/how-u… via High Country News

70% of guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico come from the U.S. For High Country News, I talked with ieva jusionyte about how Mexico is trying to hold gunmakers and politicians accountable — and why that’s proving so hard. hcn.org/articles/how-u…

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by Joseph Cox show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. 404media.co/leaked-palanti…

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. Incredible story by Arya Sundaram

Poet Roberto Tejada says looking to the past on the U.S.-Mexico border can help us reimagine our future. buff.ly/WEoXLfU

New for High Country News: After more than a year of bargaining, the Interior Dept. rejected a union contract for BLM headquarters employees days before Trump's inauguration. Now, workers say Biden's BLM leadership left them "sitting ducks for Trump 2." hcn.org/articles/feder…

The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit by the Mexican government that sought to hold U.S. gunmakers accountable for gun violence south of the border. Read more on the case in our recent conversation with anthropologist ieva jusionyte. buff.ly/olJ707B

Do you live in the West and wonder what's going to happen to your local public radio station given Trump's wish to pull their funds? Annie Rosenthal & Chad Bradley dug into the data for High Country News and it's kinda rough. #infographic hcn.org/articles/what-…

The Ambiance Apparel raid that sparked LA protests devastated the city's Zapotec community. Earlier this week, I talked with the family of a man who'd worked for the company for 18 years. Days after the raid, they still had no idea where he was. hcn.org/articles/amid-…

Yesterday, the House voted to defund public media. If the Senate approves the plan, it will be catastrophic for rural and tribal radio and TV stations — many rely on federal funds for more than half their budgets. With Chad Bradley for High Country News: hcn.org/articles/what-…

Days after the ICE raids that spurred protests in LA, families of Indigenous migrants detained at a warehouse in the fashion district still had not been able to make contact with their loved ones. buff.ly/UfOKTXj

For the new issue of The Drift I wrote about natural resources sectors under Trump, and the politics of places where these policies matter most