In a profession where our clients have few means and less influence, we are truly the instruments of justice Happy to see New Mexico public defenders, including me and Isaac here in Santa Fe, featured in this book by the American Bar Association Reports @thenewmexican.bsky.social

In a profession where our clients have few means and less influence, we are truly the instruments of justice Happy to see New Mexico public defenders, including me and Isaac here in Santa Fe, featured in this book by the American Bar Association Reports @thenewmexican.bsky.social

Santa Fe County commissioners gave newly elected commissioners a 35% raise & the sheriff a 56% raise. The sheriff will now make $170,000 - a $62,000 increase Reports @thenewmexican.bsky.social

ICE arrested 1,853 people in New Mexico this year. Thats 12 times the number of people they arrested here in 2024 Reports @sourcenm.com

Trump is set on pursuing regime change in Europe by supporting rightwing parties His new U.S. national security strategy warns European migration raises “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure” & makes clear he wont allow Europe to become “unrecognizable in 20 years” ✏️ by @theguardian.com

New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board stops disclosing names of officers accused of misconduct & the details of the discipline ✏️ by @thenewmexican.bsky.social

It costs $13,000,000 per prisoner at Guantánamo Bay @nytimes.com reporting from 2019

🎨 by @bjennings90.bsky.social

Evidence you don't need a gun to take down a bad guy with a gun

Guantánamo Bay is not only an incredibly expensive prison, it's remoteness makes it virtually impossible for those detained to have access to their families or lawyers

She was shot at 15 in a school shooting at her high school in California. She decided to go to college at Brown University, in a state she deemed to have strong gun laws. Saturday, a shooter attacked her school for the 2nd time. ✏️ by @washingtonpost.com

"I think by flipping a coin we are violating the people's constitutional rights, the right to vote" According to New Mexico statute, a tie vote results in a procedure to determine the winner "by lot," which could be a draw of cards, a flip of a coin, drawing a name from a hat or a roll of the dice

A shooter dressed in black killed at least 2 people and wounded 8 others at Brown University during final exams on the Ivy League campus. Police are still searching for the suspect. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

This single closure wipes out nearly 5% of the nation’s daily beef capacity. Add another 1,700 jobs lost in Amarillo, Texas, and it’s clear the beef supply is under stress and workers are eating the fallout www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

🎨 by @andertoon.bsky.social

“I’m not going to let our school district ruin an entire dept’s budget over greed" #nmleg Sen. Muñoz threated a police investigation after NM Ed Sec. Padilla told legislators her agency "accidentally" over paid $35,000,000 to Gallup-McKinley for 3,000 students who are no longer enrolled there

Judge Paula Xinis found ICE detained Abrego after his return to the United States without any legal basis This imprisonment came after he was returned to the U.S. after he was "mistakenly" deported and held in CECOT, a notoriously violent Salvadoran prison despite having no criminal record

Student loans + "Total gross national debt amounts to $112,881 per person" 🤔 www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

After Sec. Noem denied deporting any military veterans, Sae Joon Park, a combat veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart appeared on a video call from Korea after being deported "You don't seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys" - Rep. @magaziner.house.gov

If the prices of homes had risen as the same rate as median incomes then homes in 2025 would cost an average of $191,000

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

The price of energy is rising in response to the number of people making friends with AI

Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol want millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.

"South Sudan’s military has moved into the Heglig oilfield under an unprecedented agreement between the country and neighbouring Sudan’s warring parties to safeguard critical energy infrastructure from the country’s civil war."

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward Despite Community Pushback ... Instead of paying property & gross receipt taxes, the project will make incremental payments spread out over 30 years totalling $360 million — just a fraction of bond monies of $165 Billion ✏️ by @truthout.org

As the Commander-in-Chief is bombing boats and killing random people off of Venezuela & continuing to fund a genocide in Palestine, Trump renames the U.S. Institute of Peace after himself ✏️ by @nbcnews.com

Months after @bsky.app blocked access to Mississippi users, the social media platform is available in the state once again, but only for adults 18 and up. But larger social media platforms like Instagram and X still have not implemented state-mandated age-verification systems buff.ly/kUtlxJ8

Gotta 💕 Santa Fe, these bad boys showed up in my backyard last night. They were huge

The ICE smart watch was beeping at the hospital - she needed to charge it. If the battery died, ICE agents would think she was trying to disappear. Days earlier, she had been on a deportation flight, but the pilot refused to let her fly with her so close to giving birth ✏️ by @jmbooyah.bsky.social

Trump Will Have Customs & Border Patrol Check 5 Years of Social Media Posts for Visitors to the U.S. Be warned these measures are often reciprocal so if you travel overseas expect the same treatment

🎨 by @martoonerville.bsky.social

Calls to mental health hotlines rise as farmers buckle under stress As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline, where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need, are increasing. tinyurl.com/pEhbWf

He didn'tcall @propublica.org fake news... Trump hung up on reporter who asked if his Florida mortgages were similar to those he called fraudulent He in fact had done the very thing by signing 2 mortgages - 7 weeks apart - pledging both would be his principal residence

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about 5 hours” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

EU countries fast-tracking decision to indefinitely immobilise up to €210,000,000,0000 in Russian sovereign assets under sanctions in the EU to fund a loan to Kyiv Throwing a wrench into Trump’s peace plan calling for Russian assets to go into two US-led investment funds www.ft.com/content/844c...

How does a gov't enforce a social media ban on children under age 16? 🤔 "These are agents of harm that are unregulated and I think our children have been the social experiment... It's a government's job to protect the vulnerable of our society and to provide guardrails for how things need to go"

Local residents chase ICE agents out of apartment complex during snow storm after ICE targets Somali migrant communities in Minneapolis & Saint Paul ✏️ by : @unicornriot.bsky.social

“It’s hard to call it affordable housing, because it’s not meant for people to live in” 🤔 Working 2 minimum wages jobs in California to pay $750/mo for a storage shed without running water or electricity Estrada's home is smaller than a parking space furnished with a foldout bed and 2 blankets

"[W]eeks without medication, a lack of medical attention in solitary confinement & monthslong waits to get treatment [..] for serious issues" "Former and current staff at the prison lay the blame on Centurion Health, a private company" ✏️ @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org?ref=nav

E.U. official warns against interfering in Europe's affairs after Trump's new national security strategy released painting European allies as weak & praising Russia: "Trump’s America is not an ally, but an adversary to Europe’s freedoms and fundamental values" ✏️ by: @starsandstripes.bsky.social

Honduran Attorney General issues international warrant for Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández who was just released from a U.S. federal prison after Trump granted him a full pardon last week Hernández had been convicted of federal drug trafficking charges & sentenced to 45 years

ATF investigating fire at Roswell Air Center

Federal judge finds Trump executive order halting wind energy projects illegal because its arbitrary and capricious: "defendants were required, at minimum, to ‘provide a reasoned explanation for the change’ and to ‘display awareness that [they were] changing position.’ They failed to do so"

@wsj.com reporting Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery - like betting on the suffering of others? 🤔 www.wsj.com/business/med...

🎨 by: @mwuerker.bsky.social

“The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.“ Palantir will be used to identify domestic Trump critics soon enough.