The first American 'scientific refugees' arrive in France
https://www.politico.eu/article/meet-first-academic-refugees-fleeing-us-france-science-program/
#ycombinator #Asylum #Borders #Donald_Trump #Education #Employment #France #History #Refugees #Research #Transatlantic_relations #United_States
Poland to impose border checks with Germany and Lithuania.
Poland will introduce temporary controls on its borders with Germany and Lithuania as of 7 July, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.
Tusk warned Monday that his country would reimpose checks on the Polish-German border if it found that Germany was sending irregular migrants to Poland, Lithuanian media reported.
Today is July 1, Canada Day.
I’m wearing an orange necklace to recognise #MMIW – missing and murdered Indigenous women (and men and children). I take no pride in being from #Canada and I take #NoPrideInGenocide .
Fuck #Empire
Fuck #colonialism
Fuck #borders
#LandBack
A U.S. town where…
The nearest Americans are 25 miles away
You cross two international borders to buy milk
And the border was drawn by accident
Welcome to Point Roberts, WA.
Read the full story
https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/06/28/the-american-town-thats-stuck-in-canada-the-curious-case-of-point-roberts/
This came as a response to my post on the heat (with "For What It's Worth") & the #TrumpVirus warmongering & madness:
> "Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it"
yup
> Games Without Frontiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY
All hail our Führer, Toddler King of #Brainspurs, slayer of #Truth, rights, & #respect...
> We're kissing baboons in the jungle
It's a knockout....
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears
Yesterday was the last day of #SPHERIC2025. Huge thanks to the local organizing committee for their hard (mostly behind the scenes) work, and all the #SPHERIC community for the enjoyable #conference and #unconference. A special thanks goes to Corrado Altomare, chair of the local organizing committee, who delivered a touching speech on the role that #science plays in uniting people beyond #borders and #conflicts, a much needed beacon of hope in the current international outlook.
How many of us know that "The US did not have closed borders until the Immigration Act of 1924"? Capitalism is the culprit. "By the 1990s, however, multinational corporations understood that closed borders were a powerful weapon in their arsenal to squeeze ever more profit out of global supply chains." "we as taxpayers pay increasingly absurd sums of money for the violent border security measures that keep this system in place."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/17/us-immigration-system-profit
#immigration #capitalism #borders
#elephants #borders #Bangladesh
"In response to rising human-elephant conflicts, Bangladesh is planning to declare the elephant habitats in its northeastern parts a protected area for the species.
The country is one of the few where Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) are found, with an estimated wild population of 268 resident elephants, all in the southern districts. The IUCN declared the species critically endangered within Bangladesh, where they primarily inhabit the southern hilly forests, and also the northeastern parts.
The elephants of the northeastern habitat are considered 'non-residents,' which weren’t counted in the census: They migrated from neighboring India’s Meghalaya state a few years ago as they’ve done for generations, but they haven’t been able to return since 2019 due to the closed elephant passage at the international border installed and maintained by India. Consequently, the trapped elephants roam the region in search of food through the seasons. Conflicts between humans and elephants thus rose over the years.
Following a story about the crisis published by Mongabay on March 12 this year, the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) sent a team of forest officials and experts to visit the region and subsequently made the decision to declare the zone 'protected.'"
The thickness of externalized EU-ropean #borders in the Central #Mediterranean region
#webinar Séminaire Moebius 2024-2025 Séance du 13 juin 2025 – 10h à 12h
Paolo Cuttitta Géographe, researcher at DISFOR, Università di Genova & associated researcher at IDPS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord