Dylan Baddour
@dylanbaddour.bsky.social
Covering Texas for Inside Climate
News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born. Likes plants
News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born. Likes plants
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Last week: There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. ...
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
www.texasobserver.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Last week: There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. ...
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Trump’s plan for Venezuelan oil raises prospects of paramilitary violence https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/25/2365039/-Trump-s-plan-for-Venezuelan-oil-raises-prospects-of-paramilitary-violence?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
Trump’s plan for Venezuelan oil raises prospects of paramilitary violence
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well. By � Dylan Baddour �for Inside Climate ...
www.dailykos.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Trump’s plan for Venezuelan oil raises prospects of paramilitary violence https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/25/2365039/-Trump-s-plan-for-Venezuelan-oil-raises-prospects-of-paramilitary-violence?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
This 8 pm Saturday press release suggests DOE believes disaster may be unfolding in Texas right now
Unclear what backup power they’re referencing
Unclear what backup power they’re referencing
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 AM
This 8 pm Saturday press release suggests DOE believes disaster may be unfolding in Texas right now
Unclear what backup power they’re referencing
Unclear what backup power they’re referencing
For my entire upbringing I was told that the whole point if a society saturated in guns was to prevent tyranny
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
For my entire upbringing I was told that the whole point if a society saturated in guns was to prevent tyranny
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New from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela ...
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
www.texasobserver.org
January 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
New from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela ...
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Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence. www.texasobserver.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence. www.texasobserver.org
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Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence - Inside Climate News
There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. Countries ...
insideclimatenews.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
A baby girl, 3 months old, was found frozen to death at her home in Gaza City, the UN said Wednesday
Again, the world shrugged, resolved to let a genocide runs its course in plain view, as if this ulcer in the spirit of humanity will have no consequence
www.ungeneva.org/en/news-medi...
Again, the world shrugged, resolved to let a genocide runs its course in plain view, as if this ulcer in the spirit of humanity will have no consequence
www.ungeneva.org/en/news-medi...
Cold kills another infant in Gaza as West Bank displacement intensifies | The United Nations Office at Geneva
www.ungeneva.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A baby girl, 3 months old, was found frozen to death at her home in Gaza City, the UN said Wednesday
Again, the world shrugged, resolved to let a genocide runs its course in plain view, as if this ulcer in the spirit of humanity will have no consequence
www.ungeneva.org/en/news-medi...
Again, the world shrugged, resolved to let a genocide runs its course in plain view, as if this ulcer in the spirit of humanity will have no consequence
www.ungeneva.org/en/news-medi...
All that prevents Venezuela's slide into civil war is a quasi-feudal system of criminal franchises that tie the country’s hierarchy of armed groups to the central government in Caracas
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence - Inside Climate News
There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. Countries ...
insideclimatenews.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
All that prevents Venezuela's slide into civil war is a quasi-feudal system of criminal franchises that tie the country’s hierarchy of armed groups to the central government in Caracas
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence - Inside Climate News
There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. Countries ...
insideclimatenews.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:34 PM
There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. insideclimatenews.org/news/2301202...
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The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes, the deployed servicemember's paper of record, writes in its pages that the publication "is in peril of losing its editorial independence and becoming nothing more than a public relations arm of the Pentagon."
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
Pentagon wants a ‘refocus,’ but Stripes hasn’t wavered from its true mission
www.stripes.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:50 PM
The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes, the deployed servicemember's paper of record, writes in its pages that the publication "is in peril of losing its editorial independence and becoming nothing more than a public relations arm of the Pentagon."
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
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As energy appetites grow quickly across developing countries, China hopes to move them onto its new systems of solar, wind and battery power rather than fossil fuel technologies and markets still dominated by the U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat - Inside Climate News
As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to worl...
insideclimatenews.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 PM
As energy appetites grow quickly across developing countries, China hopes to move them onto its new systems of solar, wind and battery power rather than fossil fuel technologies and markets still dominated by the U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
A global shift to low-carbon power poses substantial economic benefits to China, the world’s top manufacturer of batteries, solar panels and electric cars. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat - Inside Climate News
As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to worl...
insideclimatenews.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A global shift to low-carbon power poses substantial economic benefits to China, the world’s top manufacturer of batteries, solar panels and electric cars. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
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Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat us2.campaign-archive.com?e=fcf74b8489...
Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat
us2.campaign-archive.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat us2.campaign-archive.com?e=fcf74b8489...
As energy appetites grow quickly across developing countries, China hopes to move them onto its new systems of solar, wind and battery power rather than fossil fuel technologies and markets still dominated by the U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat - Inside Climate News
As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to worl...
insideclimatenews.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 PM
As energy appetites grow quickly across developing countries, China hopes to move them onto its new systems of solar, wind and battery power rather than fossil fuel technologies and markets still dominated by the U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
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"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyhau has agreed to join the so called Gaza Board of Peace, despite facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in the strip"
January 21, 2026 at 8:05 AM
"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyhau has agreed to join the so called Gaza Board of Peace, despite facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in the strip"
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"At least 8 Palestinians were killed... on Thursday morning as #Israeli airstrikes targeted 2 homes in the city of Deir al-Balah in central #Gaza...
3 people were killed, and others were injured in a strike on the al-Houli family home in western Deir al-Balah."
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01...
3 people were killed, and others were injured in a strike on the al-Houli family home in western Deir al-Balah."
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01...
Israeli airstrikes kill civilians in Deir al-Balah as ceasefire violations escalate
At least eight Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Thursday morning as Israeli airstrikes targeted two homes in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, according to medical sourc...
english.palinfo.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:16 AM
"At least 8 Palestinians were killed... on Thursday morning as #Israeli airstrikes targeted 2 homes in the city of Deir al-Balah in central #Gaza...
3 people were killed, and others were injured in a strike on the al-Houli family home in western Deir al-Balah."
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01...
3 people were killed, and others were injured in a strike on the al-Houli family home in western Deir al-Balah."
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01...
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UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.'
“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
![“That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva.
“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones,” he said, speaking from Gaza City. “They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from [remote-controlled] quadcopters.”
Mr. Elder pointed out that more children have also died of hypothermia in the last few days, as harsh winter conditions expose the most vulnerable Gazans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreib6livc74oika3odkcvfixms7precw2zcn2wlkwsng4wy62lcp574@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.'
“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
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Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5 https://aje.news/23euro
![A Palestinian woman sits near damaged tents in Gaza City [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreib7kyvuguflentmn624wvtubkz6cqawy3mmaw3xmoomf7ut4ny6cu@jpeg)
![Displaced Palestinians gather near damaged tents. Aid groups say not enough shelter materials are entering Gaza. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiczch5f6v4g67iab6na3n3mi3akorxsmahp4ay3fwmrn2nqsedlqe@jpeg)
![A Palestinian man mourns over a body during the funeral of three family members who died after parts of a war-damaged building where they had taken shelter collapsed. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreicpcpqygsk2tszimrzs74lcd24exzpnnpfcnkobrortsov4qbn6oq@jpeg)
![People inspect the site where a wall collapsed on tents sheltering displaced people. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreibx5zr54je4mjkzhvbccdoqjqk5xaodmdwzlnlj454z77yvbezyku@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5 https://aje.news/23euro
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Monuments in Texas say her tribe went extinct. But Donnel Point offers evidence of a people who lived then and now, say historians and resident Love Sanchez. The land--and @dylanbaddour.bsky.social--offer facts at odds with a narrative taught in Texas schools. insideclimatenews.org/news/2312202...
Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas - Inside Climate News
Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries.
insideclimatenews.org
January 3, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Monuments in Texas say her tribe went extinct. But Donnel Point offers evidence of a people who lived then and now, say historians and resident Love Sanchez. The land--and @dylanbaddour.bsky.social--offer facts at odds with a narrative taught in Texas schools. insideclimatenews.org/news/2312202...
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Along the Texas gulf coast, there’s just one area that’s avoided the oil refineries and gas processing plants that dominate the area from Port Arthur to Corpus Christi: the southern section known as Laguna Madre in the South Padre and Port Isabel areas.
But that’s changing quickly:
But that’s changing quickly:
Peering into the Rio Grande Valley’s fossil fuel future
As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.
txst.us
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Along the Texas gulf coast, there’s just one area that’s avoided the oil refineries and gas processing plants that dominate the area from Port Arthur to Corpus Christi: the southern section known as Laguna Madre in the South Padre and Port Isabel areas.
But that’s changing quickly:
But that’s changing quickly:
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TEXAS: A long-“lost” Indigenous coastal settlement site on Corpus Christi Bay—documented by archaeologists decades ago but assumed destroyed—has been rediscovered, igniting a preservation campaign led by Native community members and allies.
Read more: buff.ly/uETrZCV
Read more: buff.ly/uETrZCV
Texas indigenous groups fight to save coastal settlement site
Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site on Corpus Christi Bay may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical facilities.
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
TEXAS: A long-“lost” Indigenous coastal settlement site on Corpus Christi Bay—documented by archaeologists decades ago but assumed destroyed—has been rediscovered, igniting a preservation campaign led by Native community members and allies.
Read more: buff.ly/uETrZCV
Read more: buff.ly/uETrZCV
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Israeli forces are targeting journalists' families in a war to silence Palestinian reporting. At least 706 family members have been killed, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate aje.io/pkapjm
#IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismIsNotACrime
#IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismIsNotACrime
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Israeli forces are targeting journalists' families in a war to silence Palestinian reporting. At least 706 family members have been killed, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate aje.io/pkapjm
#IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismIsNotACrime
#IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismIsNotACrime