Basically every national story in politics these days is “unqualified person terrible at job, disaster results; person promoted”

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

The fusion center, housed inside the Philadelphia Police Dept, warned that “disruptive First Amendment activity” is an “indicator” of risk from “Domestic Violent Extremists" ✏️ @theintercept.com

Check and see if your religion is one the military thinks is real! Might be useful info to tuck away. www.military.com/dod-official...

A cattle industry lawsuit challenging the removal of unauthorized cattle from the Gila Wilderness was dismissed Wednesday by a federal appeals court. Both sides in the dispute found some vindication in the outcome.

The US Department of Agriculture says New World screwworm has been detected in a Texas calf.

Dismay as Trump officials move to dismantle a key ocean monitoring system [via @theguardian.com]

Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers—and It’s Making the Tech Industry Nervous gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

Doña Ana County commissioners secured a new healthcare provider for the county detention center Tuesday morning, ensuring services will continue uninterrupted as YesCare withdraws amid bankruptcy proceedings.

A majority of the Las Cruces City Council joined Mayor Eric Enriquez on Monday in supporting the repeal of an ordinance that allegedly enabled a select committee to conduct public business in secret.

There was also an interesting moment in Rubio‘s testimony where he defended Trump by stating the president calls him up at all hours of the night, thereby admitting that Trump is not sleeping at night. He is calling people up and posting weirdness online by night and falling asleep during business.

This needs to be said again:  When two political parties share power, one in the majority and one in the minority, that isn’t “one-party rule.” 

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Lori Martinez won the NM House District 37 Democratic primary with 60% of partial returns and is set to face Republican Isabella Solis for retiring Rep. Joanne Ferrary’s seat.

Sometimes when I’m in this situation I just let loose and write it so absolutely wrong that roll around laughing, and then I get unblocked and I can write the damn thing.

On Monday, state and local officials as well as some of their Chihuahua counterparts and Mexican port officials gathered near the border wall to cut a ceremonial ribbon in front of a massive flood diversion project more than a decade in the making.

Always here to champion libraries.

So how was your Monday?

Neil Woolf claims he was placed on leave after rejecting a Board of Regents chair's directive to steer $600,000 to a local contractor.

Wild story from Otero County today.

That explosion and home fire in Las Cruces last week has been linked to an acetylene tank kept in a car trunk. Don’t do that.

“It’s working for me.” 🔥

On watching the 2016 documentary film, "Weiner," 10 years later - with some thoughts on tragedy and farce.

BREAKING: Screaming Lord Byron is not going to perform at the America 250th Anniversary celebration. But everything will be all right tonight.

A prominent government transparency advocate is accusing the city of Las Cruces of unlawfully convening a select committee that conducted public business out of public view for years.

Taking the “Who’s Who” grift to a new, execrable level.

Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it. Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI…It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

With the approaching 400th anniversary of New Mexico viticulture in 2029, the state’s winemakers see an opportunity to raise their products’ profile nationwide and reach new markets — in particular, with high-quality and low-priced sparkling wines.

With a week or even less to find a new healthcare provider for the Doña Ana County Detention Center, county commissioners were aghast Tuesday as staff pulled a contract approval from consideration and told commissioners they were back at square one.

Good National Press Club statement on the notion of federal employees being required to sign NDAs. An excerpt: "Efforts to impose sweeping secrecy obligations across the civil service do not strengthen the government. Instead, they shield it from scrutiny and weaken public trust."

Reporters and their leadership need to talk across newsrooms about a professional way to respond — all together — that draws a clear boundary, rather than continue treating the abuse as normal. Stand up as a group and turn your backs on him. Something.

A new letter from Desert Sage: "Fascism and dystopia, that smog of scum and stupidity, certainly darkens the skies and soils the ground. It is morally exhausting. "But I have gremlins around me, young and old, who are hard to tame and don’t stay down when they fall."

State Auditor Joseph Maestas presented a special audit report to Doña Ana County commissioners Tuesday, expressing “grave concern” over systemic failures in governance and management in the seat of New Mexico’s second most populous county.

Check the bottle carefully before consuming pills.

“Thucydides never used the word ‘trap’,” put great emphasis on human agency (arguably was the inspiration for Hannah Arendt’s notion of ‘action’) and had a way of spreading out his messages all through the book in such a way that many readers fail to notice the connections among them.”

The midterms will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections “with more election deniers having access to federal power than ever before,” some experts and Democrats warn.

God, I hope this really did happen.

The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant. www.404media.co/the-fbi-want...

In which a historian encounters the Philip K. Dick novel for the first time. “On the surface it is about the aftermath of German-Japanese victory in the Second World War. But its real subject is reading and world-making.”

Cameron Hamilton, Trump's nominee to lead FEMA, called us this week and asked us to delay the release of our latest episode so that it wouldn't negatively affect his upcoming confirmation hearing. We said no.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

It is fraud to publish and distribute a book purportedly by a human author that is extensively written by imitation intelligence software, without disclosing that fact. It would be fraud to submit such a book for publication without disclosing the use of LLM as a substitute for writing. (Gift link)

The home of the Coyotitos will have a new school name effective July 1, after the Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education voted to rebrand César Chávez Elementary School on Tuesday.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made an unusual endorsement in the Doña Ana County commissioners' election. Will it help? This story takes a look at two candidates' endorsements and a large gap in fundraising weeks before the primary.

Great callback to Myers’s “A Reader’s Manifesto.”

Granta published a story likely authored by AI and shrugs.

Everything about the $1.8 billion fund is ludicrous but don’t ignore the irony of blue states being forced to pay for bullshit “weaponization” claims as the government is being weaponized against them. Gift link: