The condition is real.

Anthony’s new mayor was sworn in tonight, days after hitting back at allegations made by his predecessor.

A man shot in the back while fleeing a Las Cruces Police Department officer in March has filed suit against the city and the officer who fired upon him.

Frank Sinatra's father immigrated to the U.S. from Palermo in 1903. Sinatra's mother immigrated from Lumarzo as an infant in 1895. Dean Martin's father immigrated from Montesilvano and his mother was the daughter of an Italian immigrant as well. At the time, Italian immigrants had low standing.

A subject expert presented me with a not-excessively-technical document helpful on a matter related to some reporting I've been doing. Love that. His instruction was to "run it through ChatGPT for quick analysis." It's a 13-page policy document. I'll just, you know, read it.

Happy Boxing Day, a difficult day for news correspondents who depend on coffee shops for work space. Our Golden retriever is happy that most of her humans, me excepted, are lazily hanging around the house today.

Make a Bond movie casual Dr. Whatever

A Modern-Day Visit from Saint Nick. (A Christmas Eve verse, written in 2023, message still applies.)

Project Jupiter developer announces plan to purchase renewable energy. A clean energy expert said the proposal represents a good start, but represents a fraction of what the data center would need.

I saw Dezz on stage and met her once, but never worked with her. Many of my local theatre chums are in mourning this week and her family is devastated, naturally. There is a way to help them bring her home and lay her to rest for anyone so inclined.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Yes, that is a dog putting their paw on the Bible while their person is sworn into office. Elected officers took their oaths in a county ceremony today.

A new book seeks to elevate Diogenes the Cynic as a serious thinker. A WSJ review argues the author is reaching.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Outgoing mayor Diana Murillo announced she had submitted grievances that had been filed by city employees against the city’s elected trustees, including the incoming mayor, to the New Mexico State Ethics Commission and state Department of Justice.

Outgoing mayor Diana Murillo announced she had submitted grievances that had been filed by city employees against the city’s elected trustees, including the incoming mayor, to the New Mexico State Ethics Commission and state Department of Justice.

Elephant Butte’s mayor-elect called this “the largest charity event that Sierra County’s ever seen.”

Once again, Algernon does not make the list.

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

Everyone mad about the Epstein files is getting a taste of what it is like when a reporter waits for a public records request to be filled for several weeks or months only to get something redacted like this.

Anyone who has read Tolkien’s letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and “The Bovadium Fragments” is a work brimming with Tolkien’s fury—specifically, ire over mankind’s obsession with motor vehicles.

At this rate, she’s going to get a book deal and the west coast editor job at Vanity Fair.

A developer speaking at the city council meeting stated flatly: "Santa Teresa is a county subdivision. It’s not a community – never has been a community."

Oh look, Google Gemini is telling users that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sits on the Supreme Court. Good job, digital parrot.

In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:

The agreement renews a key private-public partnership serving low-income residents and some of the most vulnerable members of the community.

On a recent Friday evening, children, families and young couples on dates glided happily in circles on a patch of carefully maintained ice flanked by Christmas-themed decor inside a livestock barn a few miles west of city limits.

The book I once started writing and decided not to finish was about acting. Clearly I have things to say. This is about acting, failures in entertainment journalism, and why it's perfectly OK to criticize Marlon Brando.

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

Hits differently when it’s your town, you know the campus buildings and the streets. Oh, Providence.

Timothy Snyder recounts being out somewhere and hearing what appeared to be an AI-generated Christmas soundtrack that creeped him out.

"It's the expressway to exit 14 and then straight north for three miles. And I don't give a shit about whatever 13th Century short cut got your mouldering ass to church on time. I'm driving tonight, Tom, so just sit back and shut the fuck up."

There are similar cases in several states, including a very large store-to-Facebook-Marketplace ring based in New York.

Reserving my reaction to ABQJournal.com’s new web design, launched today, because it’s new and I’m not used to it. But today’s e-edition (which is what I read) is screwed up so I’m restive. Fix it damn yer eyes.

Trying to read newspaper articles on a given topic online and continually running into obstacles. I no longer subscribe to the Times or the Post, so I’m now completely blocked: No meter reset. Another paper: Article not loading properly, text not available. 1/5

The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.

Last month, Acoma LLC, an Austin-based company affiliated with developer BorderPlex Digital Assets, filed two air quality permit applications pertaining to planned microgrid facilities at the complex where four data centers supporting computing capacity for OpenAI are planned.

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

“Media education in Finland begins as early as primary school, with media and science literacy integrated into the curriculum.”

Hey, Axios headline writer: The Nobel committee didn’t “snub” Trump any more than it snubbed me. Why are you playing into a false and disingenuous narrative? Also, ditch the superfluous subheads. Story reads fine without them.

The city of Las Cruces has put the brakes on spending, with City Manager Ikani Taumoepeau admitting that the city’s general fund balance had been “overstated.”

Gift link. Really worth reading how this weirdness rolled out. At times I had to check to make sure I wasn’t reading The Onion. The verbal slip and correction calling Hegseth the “defense secretary” instead of war secretary is included.

Olivier Uyttebrouck reports: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a federal judge to order the state to turn over an electronic copy of New Mexico's voter registration list, including names, dates of birth, addresses and other data.

Well, he ain’t woke.

Interesting, isn’t it?

Two fatal crashes involving vehicles and pedestrians in the course of a week prompted calls for focused attention from city councilors Monday.

Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.

“We’ve been receiving requests from the developers,” Deputy City Manager Marco Grajeda said in an interview before the commissioners’ meeting. “It hasn’t been the city actively trying to expand the territory.”

Henry Kissinger died on this day (Nov. 29) in 2023, outliving Anthony Bourdain by five and a half years. Tony never got to throw his punch.