U.S. Dept of Education is backtracking on plans to garnish wages and seize tax refunds of student loan borrowers in default after saying it would begin garnishing their wages of 1,000 borrowers in January

The proposed “Immigrant Safety Act” would prohibit public entities from working with ICE to house immigrants in New Mexico but ... "nothing would stop CoreCivic, a private company that owns the jails in Cibola and Torrance counties, from contracting directly with ICE to continue housing detainees"

Sorry chat, I’m in my “I hate the US government” era (I’ve always been there and will never leave)

Beginning Feb. 1, domestic air travelers will have to pay $45 to use the TSA ConfirmID tool if they are not compliant with REAL ID, which went into effect in May.

Excited for @organmountainnews.bsky.social 🙌🏼👏🏼🤩

Kinda obsessed with Georgina Trevino’s work. Like hello there 💎✨

It's just astounding how many people are comfortable openly being monsters.

Notably, this technology has been embraced by the Las Cruces police dept. Locals have raised data security questions.

“The issue has always been &will continue to be resources, things for our children to do, access to not just schools but after school activities, safe places for them to go, safe places for them to be. The answer is not more policing, the answer is not more jail time.” www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...

🔥💯

All three of NM's U.S. House reps signed on.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were seen on Monday morning, Jan. 12, at a new housing development in Santa Teresa. Video credit of FitFam. MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/ice-activity-reported-at-new-housing-development-in-santa-teresa/ 

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C.

ohhhhh so none of them know yet that they’re not getting $50K after tax withholding, do they

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

The cycle we’re in is, the group that people want to be serving as an opposition party capable of stopping ICE have for more than two decades handed ICE power, money, and political legitimacy

Can't help thinking about the many citizens detained by immigration agents & held at gunpoint or had guns/less lethals pointed at them Some (thinking of George Retes) reported attempts to move out of the way per agents' requests, but were violently detained anyway www.propublica.org/article/immi...

It’s a new year, but Doña Ana County is still having trouble following the state’s Open Meetings Act. Here’s my newest: haussamen.com/2026/01/07/d... /1

So since folks are finally having epiphanies that ICE/CBP/DHS are quite literally the most awful & unaccountable agencies on the planet, are our representatives from both major political parties going to continue giving them loads of money like they do every year?? Orrrr?? 🤔

ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis

With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.

Even as we prepared to share this statement commemorating a brutal and lethal year, we began hearing reports of an observer shot by federal agents in Minneapolis. No community should be enduring this senseless, pointless violence.

One year ago today, brutal and racist Border Patrol raids began in Kern County, CA. They hunted down farm workers, violently detaining our union members and terrorizing our communities. This began a year of deadly force across the US that continues today. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Happy 114th Birthday New Mexico! 🎉 Today we celebrate the Land of Enchantment—our history, cultures, and people. From Native American and Hispanic roots to breathtaking landscapes, New Mexico’s past inspires a bright future. 🌶️🌄 #NMPED #HappyBirthdayNewMexico

The Town of Mesilla will soon have a Historic Preservation quarterly newsletter available to the public! 📰 🎉 Some details are still being worked out about how to make this easily accessible.

Dear @lujan.senate.gov Your voicemail is full. Please address this ASAP and let me voice my strongest concerns about the illegal strike on Venezuela, and the Congress’ utter inability to hold the line against the nonstop illegal actions of the current admin. Please organize and lead us against it!

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

That is a lot of news to wake up to.

"The United States hit Venezuela with a 'large-scale strike' early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country"

In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment

The city of Las Cruces increased its minimum wage to $13.01 an hour on Jan. 1, and tipped workers saw their rate rise to $5.20 an hour under the city’s ordinance.

Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

School mental health funding is restored in New Mexico after a federal judge ordered federal officials to reinstate grants serving more than 5,000 students statewide.

I had the pleasure of visiting Land of the People: Tierra Sagrada, an exhibit that focuses on the Tortugas Pueblo & the four Pueblo-based dance groups. I grew up with my dad taking me to watch the dances, attending danzante practices to see how they prepared, & going to catechism in Tortugas. 1/5

Out of towners talk all this shit and meanwhile in the real America, we can’t even get our elected officials to do things that we expressly elected them to do

‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert

Imagine if politicians could never accept a dime in campaign funding from corporations or they and their family were prohibited from ever taking jobs with those affected by legislation before Congress. They might work for us and would have to eke out a living like the rest of us.

World’s smallest pecan?

“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi

The department gave developers until Jan. 19 to provide more information that will help them make a final decision.

the american political system where you can tack random unrelated laws onto other laws is so infuriatingly stupid

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.

My mom has told me stories about how third party contractors are around here (bc they get sued pretty frequently, *shocker*) since I was asking her just overall questions about cases they get. So just in case you didn’t know, you might want to read up on this. ⬇️

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

The DNC is burying its 2024 autopsy. "DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered a postmortem report after assuming his post and said it would help the party learn from mistakes. Now he says releasing it would be a distraction." www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

When I was little I used to help my grandma pick up the pecans in the backyard. Then we’d crack ‘em open using our teeth/back molars. Wouldn’t do that now but just the memories I have after picking pecans today.

Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before

**LUJÁN