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Not for the faint hearted: From growing up queer in rural west Texas, to the 80’s punk scene in Austin, check out Songs From An Iron Harp: a.co/d/9wIarth

Just nabbed this pic of Pete Hegseth's ill-fated encounter with Eisenhower's globe via FOIA.

Harry Potter and the Metrics That Won't Pay For The Skydance Merger

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

President Trump just admitted that if you want affordable healthcare for all of us, vote against the candidates he endorsed in the midterm elections.

The Senators we elected this year will serve six-year terms. That means the Senators we elect in November have a choice: Allow an automatic 22% cut to Social Security benefits, or finally force the rich to pay their fair share. Who do you trust to make that choice?

Whether it's Donald Trump on the right helping to starve millions of Ukrainians or Oberlin students on the left complaining about dining hall banh mi, there's been plenty of disturbing food activity on both sides.

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

make anti-trust great again

The interesting thing about Elon‘s rocket car is that he’s a war criminal 

if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street

REMINDER: The Senators elected this November will LITERALLY decide the future of Social Security. In 2032, either seniors will get screwed, or millionaires and billionaires will pay their fair share into Social Security. WHO DO YOU TRUST TO MAKE THAT CHOICE?

On this day in 1859, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry begins. Although ultimately defeated, the uprising is considered an important cause of the Civil War and thus did help lead to the abolition of the institution of slavery. anticolonialhistory.com/event/124/

Ultra-wealthy donors are spending a staggering $430 million to fight state efforts to raise their taxes. If they can afford to drop millions of dollars to keep their taxes low, they can afford to pay slightly higher taxes. They’re making the case for taxing the rich better than anyone else could.

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Guilfoyle update:

I found this roadrunner along Mountain Road this afternoon as I was leaving UNM. It paused just long enough for me to capture its strong profile. For my 10/15/26 postcard, I processed the image as a painting to create a character study rather than a conventional wildlife photograph.

U.S. Deploys Hundreds of Soldiers to Assist “War on Drugs” in Colombia and Honduras

When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com

A beautiful body of work that challenges us to consider not just what is lost but what remains: 50 years ago, photographer Dee Azadian and hundreds of researchers spent months interviewing and recording the senior residents of Caldwell County.

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

Oops

Tax churches!

Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social

Police officers and other workers at the Village of Bosque Farms Police Department formed their union over the summer. Now, as members of AFSCME New Mexico, they are getting ready for contract talks.

Holy shit.

"Gouged" is OUT! I started this book angry about all the ways corporations are ripping us off. I finished it hopeful, because once you know how they're doing it—you can start to fight back. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this. Now go read it.

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.

One year ago today

Trump Claims He Was Falling Man https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-falling-man/

My attire until further notice.

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The Trump administration's dramatic staffing cuts at federal lands agencies like the Forest Service are causing anxiety in tinder dry New Mexico, where the wildfire threat is already severe this Spring.

Algorithm, please send more New Mexicans who oppose fascism in all its forms🙏