#riograndevalley — Public Fediverse posts
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The Inspiring Journey of a Turkish STC Alum Turned Texas Cop
In 2024, Cagri Burak Bicak arrived in the Rio Grande Valley with limited English and the determination to…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #CagriBurakBicak #McAllen #RioGrandeValley #SouthTexasCollege #STC #STCPoliceAcademy #STCWeslaco #TexasBorderBusiness #Turkey #Turkish
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SpaceX announces date for 13th Starship launch
SpaceX has set a date for its next target launch of Starship from Starbase in Cameron County. According…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #BocaChicaBeachclosure #CameronCounty #Flight13 #Highway4closure #RGV #riograndevalley #rocketlaunchdate #Science #SouthTexasspacenews #SpaceXStarship #StarbaseCameronCounty
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SpaceX announces date for 13th Starship launch
SpaceX has set a date for its next target launch of Starship from Starbase in Cameron County. According…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #BocaChicaBeachclosure #CameronCounty #Flight13 #Highway4closure #RGV #riograndevalley #rocketlaunchdate #Science #SouthTexasspacenews #SpaceXStarship #StarbaseCameronCounty
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Texas Families Gain Control Over TV Privacy Following Paxton’s Agreement with LG
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a settlement with LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. (“LG”) to protect Texans from unlawful…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #LGElectronics #AutomatedContentRecognition(“ACR”) #DataPrivacyandSecurityInitiative #KenPaxton #LG #Privacyviolations #RGV #RioGrandeValley #SmartTV #TexasBorderBusiness
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New initiative offering Valley kids entrepreneurial opportunity
There’s a new opportunity for Rio Grande Valley kids to learn about entrepreneurship…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #Business #BusinessEducation #ElizaMGarza #financialliteracy #HidalgoCounty #kidsmarket #MijaMediaHouse #PharrMemorialLibrary #RGV #RGVHispanicChamberofCommerce #riograndevalley #VendiendoconmiGrandmaandGrandpa #YouthEntrepreneurship
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New initiative offering Valley kids entrepreneurial opportunity
There’s a new opportunity for Rio Grande Valley kids to learn about entrepreneurship…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #Business #BusinessEducation #ElizaMGarza #financialliteracy #HidalgoCounty #kidsmarket #MijaMediaHouse #PharrMemorialLibrary #RGV #RGVHispanicChamberofCommerce #riograndevalley #VendiendoconmiGrandmaandGrandpa #YouthEntrepreneurship
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Valley warehouse growth at risk as U.S. pulls back from Mexico, Canada trade agreement
The Trump administration decided this week not to renew its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. The White…
#Canada #AdrianGonzalez #MexicoCanadatrade #PharrProduceDistrict #RGV #RioGrandeValley #TeoSepulveda #tradeagreement #Trumpadministration #U.S.tradepolicy #USMCA #warehousegrowth
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‘The insurance companies got their justice, we did not:’ Former patients push for new charges after convicted Mission doctor freed
Former patients of convicted rheumatologist Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Dr.JorgeZamora-Quezada #GeorginaEscobar #Health #healthcarefraud #HidalgoCounty #medicalmalpractice #patientadvocacy #RGV #rheumatoidarthritismisdiagnosis #riograndevalley #TerryPalacios
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‘The insurance companies got their justice, we did not:’ Former patients push for new charges after convicted Mission doctor freed
Former patients of convicted rheumatologist Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Dr.JorgeZamora-Quezada #GeorginaEscobar #Health #healthcarefraud #HidalgoCounty #medicalmalpractice #patientadvocacy #RGV #rheumatoidarthritismisdiagnosis #riograndevalley #TerryPalacios
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https://www.fogolf.com/1298407/diamond-golf-international-unveils-vision-for-reimagined-cimarron-country-club-in-mission/ Diamond Golf International Unveils Vision for Reimagined Cimarron Country Club in Mission #AbrahamAncer #BuildingTheFuture #CimarronCountryClub #CityOfMission #CommunityInvestment #DiamondGolfInternational #EconomicDevelopment #GDIFUSA #GolfCourseDevelopment #GolfCourses #GolfDestination #MissionEDC #MissionTexas #NewCimarronCountryClub #RGV #RioGrandeValley #SalvadorRodriguez #SouthTexas #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasGolf #TourismDevelopment
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https://www.fogolf.com/1298407/diamond-golf-international-unveils-vision-for-reimagined-cimarron-country-club-in-mission/ Diamond Golf International Unveils Vision for Reimagined Cimarron Country Club in Mission #AbrahamAncer #BuildingTheFuture #CimarronCountryClub #CityOfMission #CommunityInvestment #DiamondGolfInternational #EconomicDevelopment #GDIFUSA #GolfCourseDevelopment #GolfCourses #GolfDestination #MissionEDC #MissionTexas #NewCimarronCountryClub #RGV #RioGrandeValley #SalvadorRodriguez #SouthTexas #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasGolf #TourismDevelopment
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Annual Address Highlights Port of Brownsville’s Role as Regional Economic Engine https://www.byteseu.com/2101629/ #BNDCommissionerDavidAGarcia #Brownsville #BrownsvilleEconomy #BrownsvilleNavigationDistrict(BND) #economy #PortOfBrownsville #RioGrandeValley #StateOfThePort
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses
The Texas Department of State Health Services has opened applications for a new statewide license for mobile food vendors, including food truc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #austin #FoodTruckLicenses #Foodtrucks #HB2844 #MFVlicense #RioGrandeValley #Statewidefoodtrucklicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentofStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses
The Texas Department of State Health Services has opened applications for a new statewide license for mobile food vendors, including food truc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #austin #FoodTruckLicenses #Foodtrucks #HB2844 #MFVlicense #RioGrandeValley #Statewidefoodtrucklicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentofStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses
The Texas Department of State Health Services has opened applications for a new statewide license for mobile food vendors, including food truc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #austin #FoodTruckLicenses #Foodtrucks #HB2844 #MFVlicense #RioGrandeValley #Statewidefoodtrucklicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentofStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses
The Texas Department of State Health Services has opened applications for a new statewide license for mobile food vendors, including food truc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #austin #FoodTruckLicenses #Foodtrucks #HB2844 #MFVlicense #RioGrandeValley #Statewidefoodtrucklicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentofStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses https://www.diningandcooking.com/2670811/dshs-opens-applications-for-statewide-food-truck-licenses/ #austin #food #FoodTruckLicenses #FoodTrucks #HB2844 #MFVLicense #RioGrandeValley #StatewideFoodTruckLicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses https://www.diningandcooking.com/2670811/dshs-opens-applications-for-statewide-food-truck-licenses/ #austin #food #FoodTruckLicenses #FoodTrucks #HB2844 #MFVLicense #RioGrandeValley #StatewideFoodTruckLicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices
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DSHS Opens Applications for Statewide Food Truck Licenses https://www.diningandcooking.com/2670811/dshs-opens-applications-for-statewide-food-truck-licenses/ #austin #food #FoodTruckLicenses #FoodTrucks #HB2844 #MFVLicense #RioGrandeValley #StatewideFoodTruckLicenses #TexasBorderBusiness #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices
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https://www.europesays.com/news/36526/ First suspected U.S. screwworm case reported in South Texas #Agriculture #Headlines #News #RioGrandeValley #SouthTexas #TopStories #WellAHomepage
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Alligator spotted at Mission RV resort, city says
KRGV file photo A small alligator was recently seen at Seve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #801SouthInspirationRoad #alligatorinRVpark #humanelytrapalligator #localKRGVnews #Missionanimalcontrolnews #MissionTexasalligatorsighting #publicsafetywarningponds #RGV #riograndevalley #RioGrandeValleywildlifesafety #Science #SevenOaksResortMission #wildliferelocationSouthTexas
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Alligator spotted at Mission RV resort, city says
KRGV file photo A small alligator was recently seen at Seve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #801SouthInspirationRoad #alligatorinRVpark #humanelytrapalligator #localKRGVnews #Missionanimalcontrolnews #MissionTexasalligatorsighting #publicsafetywarningponds #RGV #riograndevalley #RioGrandeValleywildlifesafety #Science #SevenOaksResortMission #wildliferelocationSouthTexas
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La Joya city officials issue safety warning after alligator spotted near two neighborhoods
The city of La Joya issued a safety warning after an alligator was spotted near two neighborhoods. City…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #alligatorsafetywarning #HidalgoCounty #LaJoyaalligator #LaJoyaPoliceDepartment #PalmShoresLaJoya #RGV #riograndevalley #Science #TheCovesLaJoya #wildlifewarningTexas
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La Joya city officials issue safety warning after alligator spotted near two neighborhoods
The city of La Joya issued a safety warning after an alligator was spotted near two neighborhoods. City…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #alligatorsafetywarning #HidalgoCounty #LaJoyaalligator #LaJoyaPoliceDepartment #PalmShoresLaJoya #RGV #riograndevalley #Science #TheCovesLaJoya #wildlifewarningTexas
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Edinburg mayor: Contractors will be held accountable for water line break that triggered boil water notice
A boil wa…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #AllenDrivecontractorfine #CantonRoadJacksonRoad #cityofEdinburgUtilitiesDepartment #Edinburgboilwaternotice #MayorOmarOchoastatement #McCollRoadwateradvisory #publicwatersafetyinstructions #RGV #riograndevalley #RioGrandeValleylocalnews #Science #waterlinebreakEdinburg
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Edinburg mayor: Contractors will be held accountable for water line break that triggered boil water notice
A boil wa…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #AllenDrivecontractorfine #CantonRoadJacksonRoad #cityofEdinburgUtilitiesDepartment #Edinburgboilwaternotice #MayorOmarOchoastatement #McCollRoadwateradvisory #publicwatersafetyinstructions #RGV #riograndevalley #RioGrandeValleylocalnews #Science #waterlinebreakEdinburg
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As I watched along the trails of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, this Great Kiskadee suddenly landed in a perfect patch of sunlight and seemed to strike a pose just for me.
https://debramartz.com/featured/great-kiskadee-posing-in-the-sunlight-debra-martz.html
@DebraMartz#kiskadee #birdlover #riograndevalley #texasBirds #birds #buyintoart
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As I watched along the trails of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, this Great Kiskadee suddenly landed in a perfect patch of sunlight and seemed to strike a pose just for me.
https://debramartz.com/featured/great-kiskadee-posing-in-the-sunlight-debra-martz.html
@DebraMartz#kiskadee #birdlover #riograndevalley #texasBirds #birds #buyintoart
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As I watched along the trails of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, this Great Kiskadee suddenly landed in a perfect patch of sunlight and seemed to strike a pose just for me.
https://debramartz.com/featured/great-kiskadee-posing-in-the-sunlight-debra-martz.html
@DebraMartz#kiskadee #birdlover #riograndevalley #texasBirds #birds #buyintoart
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As I watched along the trails of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, this Great Kiskadee suddenly landed in a perfect patch of sunlight and seemed to strike a pose just for me.
https://debramartz.com/featured/great-kiskadee-posing-in-the-sunlight-debra-martz.html
@DebraMartz#kiskadee #birdlover #riograndevalley #texasBirds #birds #buyintoart
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Northern Mockingbird, the Texas State bird, at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, was scoping its surroundings.
https://debramartz.com/featured/northern-mockingbird-at-national-butterfly-center-debra-martz.html
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Northern Mockingbird, the Texas State bird, at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, was scoping its surroundings.
https://debramartz.com/featured/northern-mockingbird-at-national-butterfly-center-debra-martz.html
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Northern Mockingbird, the Texas State bird, at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, was scoping its surroundings.
https://debramartz.com/featured/northern-mockingbird-at-national-butterfly-center-debra-martz.html
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Northern Mockingbird, the Texas State bird, at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, was scoping its surroundings.
https://debramartz.com/featured/northern-mockingbird-at-national-butterfly-center-debra-martz.html
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This Neotropic Cormorant stayed busy preening for a while after it made a return to the branch overhanging Alligator Lake.
https://debramartz.com/featured/cormorant-preening-on-a-branch-debra-martz.html@DebraMartz
#Neotropic #Cormorant #birds #SouthTexasBirds #RioGrandeValley #birdwatching #featheredfriends #giftideas #birdLovers -
This Neotropic Cormorant stayed busy preening for a while after it made a return to the branch overhanging Alligator Lake.
https://debramartz.com/featured/cormorant-preening-on-a-branch-debra-martz.html@DebraMartz
#Neotropic #Cormorant #birds #SouthTexasBirds #RioGrandeValley #birdwatching #featheredfriends #giftideas #birdLovers -
This Neotropic Cormorant stayed busy preening for a while after it made a return to the branch overhanging Alligator Lake.
https://debramartz.com/featured/cormorant-preening-on-a-branch-debra-martz.html@DebraMartz
#Neotropic #Cormorant #birds #SouthTexasBirds #RioGrandeValley #birdwatching #featheredfriends #giftideas #birdLovers -
This Neotropic Cormorant stayed busy preening for a while after it made a return to the branch overhanging Alligator Lake.
https://debramartz.com/featured/cormorant-preening-on-a-branch-debra-martz.html@DebraMartz
#Neotropic #Cormorant #birds #SouthTexasBirds #RioGrandeValley #birdwatching #featheredfriends #giftideas #birdLovers -
The Whitetipped Dove has the largest range in the Americas of any dove, spanning from Texas to Argentina. Shy and unobtrusive, it forages on the forest floor among leaf litter; in the U.S., it's limited to South Texas. Though it looks to be resting, it was gently preening its feathers. Photographed in Weslaco, Texas.
https://debramartz.com/featured/shy-white-tipped-dove-debra-martz.html
#WhiteTipped #Dove #bird #birdlovers #featheredfriends #shy #coy #aves #ornithology #RioGrandeValley #TexasBirds #giftideas #wallart #buyintoart
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The Whitetipped Dove has the largest range in the Americas of any dove, spanning from Texas to Argentina. Shy and unobtrusive, it forages on the forest floor among leaf litter; in the U.S., it's limited to South Texas. Though it looks to be resting, it was gently preening its feathers. Photographed in Weslaco, Texas.
https://debramartz.com/featured/shy-white-tipped-dove-debra-martz.html
#WhiteTipped #Dove #bird #birdlovers #featheredfriends #shy #coy #aves #ornithology #RioGrandeValley #TexasBirds #giftideas #wallart #buyintoart
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The Whitetipped Dove has the largest range in the Americas of any dove, spanning from Texas to Argentina. Shy and unobtrusive, it forages on the forest floor among leaf litter; in the U.S., it's limited to South Texas. Though it looks to be resting, it was gently preening its feathers. Photographed in Weslaco, Texas.
https://debramartz.com/featured/shy-white-tipped-dove-debra-martz.html
#WhiteTipped #Dove #bird #birdlovers #featheredfriends #shy #coy #aves #ornithology #RioGrandeValley #TexasBirds #giftideas #wallart #buyintoart
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The Whitetipped Dove has the largest range in the Americas of any dove, spanning from Texas to Argentina. Shy and unobtrusive, it forages on the forest floor among leaf litter; in the U.S., it's limited to South Texas. Though it looks to be resting, it was gently preening its feathers. Photographed in Weslaco, Texas.
https://debramartz.com/featured/shy-white-tipped-dove-debra-martz.html
#WhiteTipped #Dove #bird #birdlovers #featheredfriends #shy #coy #aves #ornithology #RioGrandeValley #TexasBirds #giftideas #wallart #buyintoart
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From 2024: Locals Say #SpaceX Is #Polluting #SacredLand. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
“This wasn’t just something we wanted to do,” said 35-year-old Monica Sosa, who grew up in #BrownsvilleTX, a short drive from #BocaChica Beach. “We felt like we needed to do it.”
by Cat Cardenas October 30, 2024
"Among the #CarrizoComecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source — the location they believe to be the birthplace of the first woman. Today, most Brownsville locals know it as #BocaChicaBeach — a public stretch of sand located at the end of #Highway4, along the southernmost edge of the Texas coast. But to many people outside of the #RioGrandeValley, that land, its name, and its history have largely been swallowed up by the operation of the #RocketLaunch facility just up the road: SpaceX’s #Starbase.
"Growing up a short drive from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, 35-year-old Monica Sosa told The Barbed Wire she still remembers it as an escape: a piece of unspoiled coastline that was free for everyone to enjoy. On lazy summer weekends, she and her siblings would hop into her mom’s blue Chevrolet Astro van. The back seats pulled down to make room for more passengers as they stopped to pick up more family. Once there, they’d look forward to hours and hours of endless sunshine, and a cooler packed full of ham and cheese sandwiches, sodas, Cheetos, and fruit.
"As an adult, many of those happy memories have turned bittersweet. The beach, while still free to the public, is frequently plagued by the closure of Highway 4 each time there’s a rocket launch or other 'space flight activities.' And even when it’s open, the construction has fundamentally changed the landscape: There’s a tall metal SpaceX launch and catch pad towering over the once-untouched sand dunes.
" 'Boca Chica was bliss,' Sosa said earlier this month. 'I came from a working class family, and being out there was one of the only times we would come together and play. We’d be in the water, sitting in the sun, running through the lomas (hills), or burying each other in sandcastles. You could spend the whole day out there. But now there’s someone who has the right and the ability to privatize a beach that people have used for decades and decades.'
"SpaceX’s operation in the Rio Grande Valley has been far from smooth. In recent years, they’ve been cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for multiple violations of #wastewater regulations and been the subject of multiple legal complaints. The company has disputed these claims as 'factually inaccurate' and has been allowed to continue their operations.
"In April of this year, multiple Valley-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over a proposed land swap that would grant 43 acres of #BocaChicaStatePark to #SpaceX in exchange for land near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to their concerns about #pollution, the groups also argued that the land proposed in the swap was sacred to the #CarrizoComecrudoTribe.
" 'SpaceX has always been polluting,' Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe told the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the allegations. 'And I think people are kind of brainwashed into thinking that rockets — constructing rockets, testing rockets and blowing up rockets — that somehow that’s not causing pollution.' "
#ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #GarciaPasture #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalRacism #AncestralLand #ElonSucks #StarbaseCity -
From 2024: Locals Say #SpaceX Is #Polluting #SacredLand. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
“This wasn’t just something we wanted to do,” said 35-year-old Monica Sosa, who grew up in #BrownsvilleTX, a short drive from #BocaChica Beach. “We felt like we needed to do it.”
by Cat Cardenas October 30, 2024
"Among the #CarrizoComecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source — the location they believe to be the birthplace of the first woman. Today, most Brownsville locals know it as #BocaChicaBeach — a public stretch of sand located at the end of #Highway4, along the southernmost edge of the Texas coast. But to many people outside of the #RioGrandeValley, that land, its name, and its history have largely been swallowed up by the operation of the #RocketLaunch facility just up the road: SpaceX’s #Starbase.
"Growing up a short drive from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, 35-year-old Monica Sosa told The Barbed Wire she still remembers it as an escape: a piece of unspoiled coastline that was free for everyone to enjoy. On lazy summer weekends, she and her siblings would hop into her mom’s blue Chevrolet Astro van. The back seats pulled down to make room for more passengers as they stopped to pick up more family. Once there, they’d look forward to hours and hours of endless sunshine, and a cooler packed full of ham and cheese sandwiches, sodas, Cheetos, and fruit.
"As an adult, many of those happy memories have turned bittersweet. The beach, while still free to the public, is frequently plagued by the closure of Highway 4 each time there’s a rocket launch or other 'space flight activities.' And even when it’s open, the construction has fundamentally changed the landscape: There’s a tall metal SpaceX launch and catch pad towering over the once-untouched sand dunes.
" 'Boca Chica was bliss,' Sosa said earlier this month. 'I came from a working class family, and being out there was one of the only times we would come together and play. We’d be in the water, sitting in the sun, running through the lomas (hills), or burying each other in sandcastles. You could spend the whole day out there. But now there’s someone who has the right and the ability to privatize a beach that people have used for decades and decades.'
"SpaceX’s operation in the Rio Grande Valley has been far from smooth. In recent years, they’ve been cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for multiple violations of #wastewater regulations and been the subject of multiple legal complaints. The company has disputed these claims as 'factually inaccurate' and has been allowed to continue their operations.
"In April of this year, multiple Valley-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over a proposed land swap that would grant 43 acres of #BocaChicaStatePark to #SpaceX in exchange for land near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to their concerns about #pollution, the groups also argued that the land proposed in the swap was sacred to the #CarrizoComecrudoTribe.
" 'SpaceX has always been polluting,' Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe told the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the allegations. 'And I think people are kind of brainwashed into thinking that rockets — constructing rockets, testing rockets and blowing up rockets — that somehow that’s not causing pollution.' "
#ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #GarciaPasture #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalRacism #AncestralLand #ElonSucks #StarbaseCity -
From 2024: Locals Say #SpaceX Is #Polluting #SacredLand. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
“This wasn’t just something we wanted to do,” said 35-year-old Monica Sosa, who grew up in #BrownsvilleTX, a short drive from #BocaChica Beach. “We felt like we needed to do it.”
by Cat Cardenas October 30, 2024
"Among the #CarrizoComecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source — the location they believe to be the birthplace of the first woman. Today, most Brownsville locals know it as #BocaChicaBeach — a public stretch of sand located at the end of #Highway4, along the southernmost edge of the Texas coast. But to many people outside of the #RioGrandeValley, that land, its name, and its history have largely been swallowed up by the operation of the #RocketLaunch facility just up the road: SpaceX’s #Starbase.
"Growing up a short drive from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, 35-year-old Monica Sosa told The Barbed Wire she still remembers it as an escape: a piece of unspoiled coastline that was free for everyone to enjoy. On lazy summer weekends, she and her siblings would hop into her mom’s blue Chevrolet Astro van. The back seats pulled down to make room for more passengers as they stopped to pick up more family. Once there, they’d look forward to hours and hours of endless sunshine, and a cooler packed full of ham and cheese sandwiches, sodas, Cheetos, and fruit.
"As an adult, many of those happy memories have turned bittersweet. The beach, while still free to the public, is frequently plagued by the closure of Highway 4 each time there’s a rocket launch or other 'space flight activities.' And even when it’s open, the construction has fundamentally changed the landscape: There’s a tall metal SpaceX launch and catch pad towering over the once-untouched sand dunes.
" 'Boca Chica was bliss,' Sosa said earlier this month. 'I came from a working class family, and being out there was one of the only times we would come together and play. We’d be in the water, sitting in the sun, running through the lomas (hills), or burying each other in sandcastles. You could spend the whole day out there. But now there’s someone who has the right and the ability to privatize a beach that people have used for decades and decades.'
"SpaceX’s operation in the Rio Grande Valley has been far from smooth. In recent years, they’ve been cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for multiple violations of #wastewater regulations and been the subject of multiple legal complaints. The company has disputed these claims as 'factually inaccurate' and has been allowed to continue their operations.
"In April of this year, multiple Valley-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over a proposed land swap that would grant 43 acres of #BocaChicaStatePark to #SpaceX in exchange for land near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to their concerns about #pollution, the groups also argued that the land proposed in the swap was sacred to the #CarrizoComecrudoTribe.
" 'SpaceX has always been polluting,' Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe told the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the allegations. 'And I think people are kind of brainwashed into thinking that rockets — constructing rockets, testing rockets and blowing up rockets — that somehow that’s not causing pollution.' "
#ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #GarciaPasture #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalRacism #AncestralLand #ElonSucks #StarbaseCity -
From 2024: Locals Say #SpaceX Is #Polluting #SacredLand. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
“This wasn’t just something we wanted to do,” said 35-year-old Monica Sosa, who grew up in #BrownsvilleTX, a short drive from #BocaChica Beach. “We felt like we needed to do it.”
by Cat Cardenas October 30, 2024
"Among the #CarrizoComecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source — the location they believe to be the birthplace of the first woman. Today, most Brownsville locals know it as #BocaChicaBeach — a public stretch of sand located at the end of #Highway4, along the southernmost edge of the Texas coast. But to many people outside of the #RioGrandeValley, that land, its name, and its history have largely been swallowed up by the operation of the #RocketLaunch facility just up the road: SpaceX’s #Starbase.
"Growing up a short drive from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, 35-year-old Monica Sosa told The Barbed Wire she still remembers it as an escape: a piece of unspoiled coastline that was free for everyone to enjoy. On lazy summer weekends, she and her siblings would hop into her mom’s blue Chevrolet Astro van. The back seats pulled down to make room for more passengers as they stopped to pick up more family. Once there, they’d look forward to hours and hours of endless sunshine, and a cooler packed full of ham and cheese sandwiches, sodas, Cheetos, and fruit.
"As an adult, many of those happy memories have turned bittersweet. The beach, while still free to the public, is frequently plagued by the closure of Highway 4 each time there’s a rocket launch or other 'space flight activities.' And even when it’s open, the construction has fundamentally changed the landscape: There’s a tall metal SpaceX launch and catch pad towering over the once-untouched sand dunes.
" 'Boca Chica was bliss,' Sosa said earlier this month. 'I came from a working class family, and being out there was one of the only times we would come together and play. We’d be in the water, sitting in the sun, running through the lomas (hills), or burying each other in sandcastles. You could spend the whole day out there. But now there’s someone who has the right and the ability to privatize a beach that people have used for decades and decades.'
"SpaceX’s operation in the Rio Grande Valley has been far from smooth. In recent years, they’ve been cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for multiple violations of #wastewater regulations and been the subject of multiple legal complaints. The company has disputed these claims as 'factually inaccurate' and has been allowed to continue their operations.
"In April of this year, multiple Valley-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over a proposed land swap that would grant 43 acres of #BocaChicaStatePark to #SpaceX in exchange for land near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to their concerns about #pollution, the groups also argued that the land proposed in the swap was sacred to the #CarrizoComecrudoTribe.
" 'SpaceX has always been polluting,' Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe told the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the allegations. 'And I think people are kind of brainwashed into thinking that rockets — constructing rockets, testing rockets and blowing up rockets — that somehow that’s not causing pollution.' "
#ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #GarciaPasture #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalRacism #AncestralLand #ElonSucks #StarbaseCity -
From 2024: Locals Say #SpaceX Is #Polluting #SacredLand. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
“This wasn’t just something we wanted to do,” said 35-year-old Monica Sosa, who grew up in #BrownsvilleTX, a short drive from #BocaChica Beach. “We felt like we needed to do it.”
by Cat Cardenas October 30, 2024
"Among the #CarrizoComecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source — the location they believe to be the birthplace of the first woman. Today, most Brownsville locals know it as #BocaChicaBeach — a public stretch of sand located at the end of #Highway4, along the southernmost edge of the Texas coast. But to many people outside of the #RioGrandeValley, that land, its name, and its history have largely been swallowed up by the operation of the #RocketLaunch facility just up the road: SpaceX’s #Starbase.
"Growing up a short drive from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, 35-year-old Monica Sosa told The Barbed Wire she still remembers it as an escape: a piece of unspoiled coastline that was free for everyone to enjoy. On lazy summer weekends, she and her siblings would hop into her mom’s blue Chevrolet Astro van. The back seats pulled down to make room for more passengers as they stopped to pick up more family. Once there, they’d look forward to hours and hours of endless sunshine, and a cooler packed full of ham and cheese sandwiches, sodas, Cheetos, and fruit.
"As an adult, many of those happy memories have turned bittersweet. The beach, while still free to the public, is frequently plagued by the closure of Highway 4 each time there’s a rocket launch or other 'space flight activities.' And even when it’s open, the construction has fundamentally changed the landscape: There’s a tall metal SpaceX launch and catch pad towering over the once-untouched sand dunes.
" 'Boca Chica was bliss,' Sosa said earlier this month. 'I came from a working class family, and being out there was one of the only times we would come together and play. We’d be in the water, sitting in the sun, running through the lomas (hills), or burying each other in sandcastles. You could spend the whole day out there. But now there’s someone who has the right and the ability to privatize a beach that people have used for decades and decades.'
"SpaceX’s operation in the Rio Grande Valley has been far from smooth. In recent years, they’ve been cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for multiple violations of #wastewater regulations and been the subject of multiple legal complaints. The company has disputed these claims as 'factually inaccurate' and has been allowed to continue their operations.
"In April of this year, multiple Valley-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over a proposed land swap that would grant 43 acres of #BocaChicaStatePark to #SpaceX in exchange for land near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to their concerns about #pollution, the groups also argued that the land proposed in the swap was sacred to the #CarrizoComecrudoTribe.
" 'SpaceX has always been polluting,' Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe told the Texas Tribune, which first reported on the allegations. 'And I think people are kind of brainwashed into thinking that rockets — constructing rockets, testing rockets and blowing up rockets — that somehow that’s not causing pollution.' "
#ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #GarciaPasture #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalRacism #AncestralLand #ElonSucks #StarbaseCity -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets -
2023: #Environmentalists and #NativeAmerican tribe rebuke #SpaceX ahead of historic rocket launch
Opponents of the project say owner #ElonMusk’s space travel aspirations are not worth the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
by Cameron Langford / April 19, 2023
"SpaceX launched a rocket with 33 engines, the most powerful ever built, Thursday morning from its South #Texas port and hailed the test flight as a success, though the rocket and an attached space capsule exploded just four minutes after liftoff.
"The company said in a best-case scenario it would be a 90-minute maiden voyage into space and its first-stage #SuperHeavy rocket would separate from its second-stage #Starship spacecraft about three minutes into the flight, and do a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. And Starship would travel around the globe and land off the coast of Hawaii.
"But with SpaceX livestreaming the event the components failed to separate and the vehicle flipped over before exploding.
"Musk, who also owns Twitter, praised his employees’ work on the project in a Twitter post: 'Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.'
"Environmental and #CivilRights groups condemned SpaceX’s endeavor in statements Wednesday afternoon, saying they feared an explosion would destroy #EndangeredSpecies’ habitat in a nearby wildlife refuge and that rocket shrapnel could injure area residents.
"But there were no immediate reports of environmental damage or injuries Thursday morning after the explosion.
"Since Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, it has become the world’s premier commercial space business, launching its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets more than 220 times, making history as the first private firm to send astronauts to the International Space Station and delivering cargo to the International Space Station more than 20 times with its Dragon spacecraft.
Aborted launches and explosions are commonplace for the company as it refines its technology, including a 2019 test flight from its '#Spaceport' in #BocaChica — an unincorporated and sparsely populated village in Cameron County outside #BrownsvilleTX — that started a 100-acre brush fire in the Lower #RioGrandeValley #NationalWildlifeRefuge."
#ElonSucks #EnvironmentalRacism #RioGrandeDelta #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #ProtectTheSacred #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
#OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople #USPol #NativeAmericans #CarrizoComecrudo #AncestralLand #ProtectTheSacred #Pollution #ExplodingRockets