BREAKING: we're suing CBP for hiding plans to wall off Big Bend. CBP refuses to release basic details, leaving local communities, outfitters & landowners in the dark. This wall would permanently destroy their livelihoods—and CBP won’t say a word to them. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Lord.

WHCD is still a thing and it shouldn’t be. Do not go unless you’re covering it critically and exposing the ethical sepsis beneath it.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "I support what the president is doing. Iran is like a cancer. Sometimes the cure to cancer hurts, but the cancer has to be eliminated. And the cancer is Iran."

Il Papa: "Da Trump minaccia inaccettabile. Chiunque scriva ai propri politici per chiedere la pace" https://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_aprile_07/papa-leone-trump-minaccia-inaccettabile-511e17b0-9c39-4097-817a-fb5f68e4dxlk.shtml

“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would demand that the journalist who ​first reported that an airman in Iran had been rescued reveal how they ‌got that information, and threatened to jail them if they refused.”

One thing we know is certain. If the President of the United States is in fact so untethered from morality and reality that he undertakes a nuclear strike tonight, the genocide will not have been viewed by the U.S. Speaker of the House, who will be unable to comment further.

Explicitly threatening genocide.

Congressman Gabe Vasquez visited camp East Montana, and gave it a very low Yelp rating.

Cash strapped local newsrooms have depended on AP to help fill gaps in local coverage. (“Hyper-local” is nonsense. It refers to local coverage.) Now, AP is pulling back from local coverage as well.

“A production studio mindset.” “No data. No stats.” Oddly, Plouffe praises AOC for her online presence without acknowledging that she talks about data and policy. 1/3 (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/o...

It's striking how, despite Trump now having been a prominent/dominant force in US and global politics for 12 years, US media coverage still treats him as a neophyte learning lessons from the previous 48hr news cycle, rather than an unstable man with deeply set cognitive and behavioral patterns.

Gift link: Remember Afghanistan? Where we waged war for 20 years, picked up and left for the Taliban to take over again, and then got rid of USAID? So, they’re dealing with air strikes by Pakistan, food shortages, floods and a deadly earthquake.

One of the potential locations is close to an elementary school and residential areas. Some city councilors want them to consider other sites.

The genre of film criticism in which writers perform highbrow distress about unambitious commercial movies is a bit old, but there is an audience for it. They could just leave it alone, but you know how it is: clicks and shares…

#Utah #media #journalism #paywalls 'Starting in May, all newly published stories on sltrib.com and in the app will be free to read — no subscription required.' www.sltrib.com/news/busines...

Otero County’s new contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for civil immigration detention is unlawful, Attorney General Raúl Torrez argued in an emergency court petition asking the New Mexico Supreme Court to intervene.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

On Monday, New Mexico's State Auditor granted Doña Ana County an extension of time to respond to dozens of potential findings in a special audit.

100 caught with their cocks out.

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

A swath of unused land sitting amid farm fields and irrigation canals may sport a new community solar farm in 2027.

The push to get us completely 'digitalized' approaches a crucial milestone. A new letter from Desert Sage.

For this, we compared No Kings gatherings in ABQ and Truth or Consequences (the latter in red Sierra County). I was in TorC.

A NYT columnist essentially admits up front that the two Meta jury verdicts were not about speech per se, then does a hard pivot to insisting they are about free speech anyway to deliver a contrarian “What about the First Amendment” take. NYT’s gotta NYT.

This starts off as a very promising conversation and just as we get into the meat of it, the video stops for a paywall. Jenkins does make a few interesting points before that happens, at least…

Memento mori. (Follow me for Latin puns.)

AI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Oh. (Gift link)

A majority of school board members leaned toward removing César Chávez’s name from a Las Cruces elementary school Tuesday night, but they will not take action before April, and one board member cautioned against moving too quickly.

Some updates on challenges to Project Jupiter.

Also, time to get off X. Seriously.

Worried about the war in Iran? This one-pot gheimeh shrimp will make you feel like you're on Kharg Island.

From my colleague Olivier Uyttebrouck: Today a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties for harming teenagers.

Officials from the city and Doña Ana County jointly announced a lawsuit against Memorial Medical Center on Monday.

Cesar Chavez Elementary schools in Las Cruces and Santa Fe may get new names, but it won't happen as quick as you might think.

State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...

Yes, let’s. A good talk from Krugman about the implications of the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed.

One year later…

Welp.

The dispute bears parallels with a case in Florida in which a federal appeals court ruled that Food Not Bombs’ sharing of food is First Amendment protected activity.

Afroman prevails. Some of the story is funny, but it was also a free speech victory when we need some.

A U.S. flag measuring nearly two acres was trucked to Spaceport America for cleaning. A sand storm welcomed them to New Mexico.

Western New Mexico University has plucked its 16th president from Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Jose Coll, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Western Oregon University, has been appointed Western New Mexico University’s new president. He starts on July 1. Story soon.

Q: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that

“Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.”

Project Jupiter, the hyperscale artificial intelligence data center complex under construction in Santa Teresa for tenants Oracle and OpenAI, has roused community opposition, sparked lawsuits and now is shaping elections for two seats on the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners.

In a 12-minute emergency session Friday in Alamogordo, Otero County commissioners quickly approved a new contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to continue holding detainees at the Otero County Processing Center, taking action before a new law preventing such contracts goes into effect.