Great reporting by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social @elpasomatters.bsky.social on how the county, city, and local hospital are using their opioid settlement funds... including $411k spent on demolishing an old strip club building elpasomatters.org/2025/12/01/e...

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

The Trump administration has waived environmental laws to move forward with a border wall through the rugged terrain of Mount Cristo Rey in New Mexico.

The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...

After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

I got the chance to listen to multiple generations of Palestinians in El Paso share their family history, starting with expulsion from Palestine to building lives as a "minority among minorities" in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Read their stories here: elpasomatters.org/2025/05/12/p...

Our measles tracker is up! Infectious diseases do not know borders. With that in mind, we're collecting the latest updates on measles (sarampión) in the tri-state area of El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. elpasomatters.org/2025/05/01/e...

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in LA and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE offices @melissagomez.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

SCOOP: Eli Lilly is now suing some bigger-name telehealth companies selling compounded tirzepatide like Henry Meds and Mochi. With @emilymullin.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/glp-1-...

In latest interview, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison doubled down on your parents' decision to trade your childhood dog to a farm upstate.

Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk. From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide. @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...

New Mexico health officials reported five additional measles cases Tuesday, including one child in Doña Ana County, which exposed people at a daycare and several hospital locations over the past two weeks.

3 more measles cases, including at an El Paso high school, reported after Texas linked the first cases in the area to the ongoing outbreak: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/11/e...

Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez. 500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there. elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...

Appreciate @latimes.com for referencing El Paso Matters reporting, connecting it to the bigger theme of justice and the political rhetoric right now.

El Paso has not posted its March numbers yet, but there have been 7 cases of Valley fever so far this year, likely an undercount. READ MORE: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

My version: 10 am: My “morning shed” — an Advil or two and chug water to shed the effect of last night’s beers. 10:15: Feed the guinea pigs. 10:30 am: “Morning cleanse” with a 3-in-1 cleaning product optimized for my hair, face and body by the German scientists at Nivea. 1/?

Trump has nominated a union buster to lead the NLRB. The message is clear.

Really important story by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social for @elpasomatters.bsky.social about Valley fever in the El Paso area. “You have to wonder, for every case that’s diagnosed, how many cases go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed?” elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

Valley fever, endemic to the Southwest, claimed this El Paso mother’s life. Experts say lack of awareness leads to misdiagnosis and missed chances to treat infections. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

LA PARKA ass stutter step penalty from Raul

I can't with all these smug, short-term memory Gregg riders. The USMNT bar is so low that beating a weak Mexico and some CONCACAF teams has stagnated as the ceiling for success. Poch took a big L this Nations League, but for ffs the US is not sniffing a World Cup final with GGG either.

West Texas measles outbreak has grown to nearly 300 cases in TX and New Mexico, 30+ hospitalizations, 2 deaths. Only 6 of all cases were confirmed to be vaccinated with at least 1 dose of the measles vaccine. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/03/w...

Since publishing this on Sunday: 🔵 1 unvaccinated child died 🔵 34 more measles cases 🔵 2 more hospitalizations Here's where El Paso's at with measles herd immunity, and how it compares to the rest of Texas: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/23/m...

In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.” "The border has been secured,” he declared. Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

El Paso, the 6th largest city in Texas, went more than 2 years before hiring a public health director. This is El Paso Matters' first interview with the new leader, who inherits a department beset with underfunding + high turnovers: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/09/e...

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Since Las Vegas Sands Casino (owned by Mavs owner) blocked @grantafseth.bsky.social, you should give him a follow. You can catch his reporting here: dallashoopsjournal.com/p/mavericks-...

My latest for the @thebarbedwire.bsky.social makes the case that Trump and Musk are marching us into a "new fascism" that may not look exactly like its historical predecessors but nevertheless draws on the ideology to rend the democratic state and rule of law. thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...

BREAKING!

Tired of people whining NFL games are/aren't rigged without posting actual data. So for both the Chiefs fans and haters, here ya go: www.theringer.com/2025/02/04/n...

Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...

This minor court update wouldn't normally warrant its own story. But when the Texas AG blasts out a news release with bold claims and other local media just parrots them, we decided to give a little explainer: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/04/e...

@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Baby girl told me to burn her Mavs bandana

I’ve been covering the NBA for 37 years. Almost nothing that happens - deals, free agent signings, draft choices, coach hiring/firings - rises to the level of, as the great Ben Bradlee used to call them, “Holy S—t” stories. You just used to crazy. This is a “Holy S—t” trade.

The Dallas Mavericks are due for another investigation. Into Nico Harrison, the casino-chasing Adelsons, everyone involved. Turning on the bat signal for @timcato.bsky.social @baxterholmes.bsky.social anyone 😩

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An El Paso police officer voted for Trump because he believed Trump was pro-police and would make everyday items affordable. Now he worries the feds could deport his father, an undocumented immigrant. From @ujohnnyg.bsky.social + Texas Tribune team: www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...

Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/t...

Nutrition programs for women + kids, SNAP + WIC, are likely to run into funding issues within 60-90 days if subjected to the pause, experts said. Also potentially impacted: Head Start, the early learning program for children from birth to age 5. 19thnews.org/2025/01/trum...

Last year, the student newspaper at the UTD was dissolved after staff went on strike due to the unceremonious firing of the editor in chief. Students have since formed a new paper, The Retrograde (I'm on the advisory board). Now, this is how they're being treated. retrogradenews.com/2025/01/24/u...

New borderland newsletter from @psskow.bsky.social: buttondown.com/marthapskowski

really glad I got the chance to write this. on the perfect storm of insurance BS, ableism and private equity that makes finding a good wheelchair nearly impossible www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...

"The Border Patrol also has a controversial history in El Paso of immigration enforcement actions around Bowie High School... A 1992 lawsuit ... challenged the Border Patrol’s actions, saying stops were made solely because people looked Hispanic." elpasomatters.org/2025/01/21/b...

Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments www.texastribune.org/2025/01/21/t...

NBA fanbases rarely agree on anything but are unanimously against Nazi bullshit Welcome to bluesky hoops fans