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Cubans and other third-country nationals deported from the U.S. are being dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa, Mexico, where they struggle to survive.

Though Mexico receives these deportees, it does not give them any legal status to live or work there.
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‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico
Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A recent @capitalandmain.bsky.social investigation reveals that California’s system for protecting farmworkers from pesticide exposure is dangerously fragmented.

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Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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COLUMN—California’s housing crisis didn’t begin on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s watch. But it’s fair to wonder whether Newsom will be able to claim any significant progress in the area he’s made so central to his agenda by the time he leaves office in early 2027.
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Seven Years Into Gov. Newsom’s Tenure, California’s Housing Crisis Remains Unsolved
Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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As scientists draw clearer links between climate extremes like landslides, and sound the alarm over rising greenhouse gas emissions, the government under Trump is increasingly unable and often unwilling to help residents prepare for and survive such events.
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California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers
Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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An investigation by Capital & Main, in partnership with the @latimes.com, found that enforcement of child labor laws is negligible in CA’s fields and that underage farmworkers endure punishing conditions, including extreme heat and exposure to pesticides.
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California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.
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Seven Years Into Gov. Newsom’s Tenure, California’s Housing Crisis Remains Unsolved
Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Despite being home to one of the largest petrochemical industries in the world, Texas has a rapidly growing solar energy market.

But a dramatic shift in federal policy and funding under Trump has left the industry unstable and uncertain of the future. Republished from @capitalandmain.bsky.social.
Known for Its Oil, Texas Became a Renewable Energy Leader. Now It’s Being Unplugged
The state was set to get $400 million to expand solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Capital & Main found children as young as 12 working in California’s agriculture industry. The state is failing to ensure their health and safety. #Farmworkers #ChildLabor #California #News

Editor: Marco Amador, Jeremy Lindenfeld
Producer: Cerise Castle (@cerisecastle.bsky.social )
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Congratulations to Capital & Main reporter Aaron Cantú for this well-deserved recognition of his work in environmental journalism. 👏🎉
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Congratulations to our 2025 SEAL Environmental Journalism Awards winners! Each honoree brings accountability to power, empathy to data, and urgency to the conversation on environmental policy.

Read more about this year's winners:
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2025 Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced
Environmental journalism award honors top 12 writers globally. Winning outlets include Mongabay, Grist, DeSmog and Heatmap News.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Environmentalists see Pennsylvania lawmakers' decision to pull out of a climate initiative as a ‘shocking reversal’ on fighting global warming; the fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills.
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After Years of Sparring, Gov. Shapiro Abandons Pennsylvania’s Landmark Climate Initiative
Environmentalists see decision as 'shocking reversal' on fighting global warming; fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Employers, unions and advocacy groups are organizing to protect vulnerable immigrant workers from being targeted, detained and deported by federal agencies. Here’s how.

Camera/Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld
Producers: JL, Cerise Castle
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Hundreds of Aurora residents are hoping an imperiled frog will help them persuade state regulators to deny a request to build one of Colorado’s largest oil and gas pads on a former bombing range less than a mile their homes in the Denver suburbs.
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Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So.
Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Pennsylvania Democrats spent years staving off attacks from Republicans and the fossil fuel industry over a landmark climate initiative.

Now the state has pulled out of the program altogether, in what environmentalists are calling a 'shocking reversal.'
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After Years of Sparring, Gov. Shapiro Abandons Pennsylvania’s Landmark Climate Initiative
Environmentalists see decision as 'shocking reversal' on fighting global warming; fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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ICE raids are posing a new hurdle for Black and Latino families to pay rent in one of America’s most expensive cities. But they’ve also catalyzed Black neighbors in Los Angeles to act.
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In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.
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Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket
Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities.
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Future of Special Education at Risk, Teachers Say, as Trump Moves to Cut Staff and Programs
Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
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In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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In an effort to halt the growth of renewable energy in favor of the oil and gas industry, the Trump administration is phasing out the renewable energy tax credit by January 2026 and eliminating Solar for All — stripping recipients of any initially awarded funds.
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Known for Its Oil, Texas Became a Renewable Energy Leader. Now It’s Being Unplugged.
The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Threatened northern leopard frogs have been found near the site of what would be one of Colorado’s largest fossil fuel operations.

Residents hope the amphibian will help them stop a drilling operation near the Aurora Reservoir and their homes.
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Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So.
Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The U.S. government has been deporting Mexican nationals by plane directly to Tapachula and Villahermosa, two small cities in Mexico’s southern border states, far away from the country’s longstanding infrastructure in the north to receive deportees.
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U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones
The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resources.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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With critical federal subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, the cost of health insurance that is purchased through the Affordable Care Act marketplace is about to explode — in many cases, doubling or tripling what people have been paying.
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Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket
Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The Department of Homeland Security has authorized arrests for those taking photos or videos of ICE officers. Volunteers worry it’s an attempt to stop them from documenting abuse. From @bgirledukate.bsky.social with @capitalandmain.bsky.social: trib.al/mPU6i8y
Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities - The American Prospect
The rule, which went into effect this month, prohibits a wide range of activities, and activists fear the Trump administration will use the regulation to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The state of Texas was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.
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Known for Its Oil, Texas Became a Renewable Energy Leader. Now It’s Being Unplugged.
The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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“I am assigned the duties of two people,” said Florence Uzuegbunam, a nurse practitioner who works in primary care at a VA hospital outside of Atlanta. “Many of my co-workers told me they are putting an average of four hours unpaid daily just to keep up with the workload.” #VeteransDay
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM