Historic building at the Van Patten Mountain Camp at Dripping Springs, Las Cruces, NM, USA.

Mariachi sculpture at Parque de Cura Ramon Ortiz in Mesilla, New Mexico, USA.

I find it helpful to encounter reminders that there are still good things being done by good people.

The new proposed worst case scenario has an end-of-the-century warming of about 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees F) You know something a 3,5 C world will leave large swathes of the Earth uninhabitable and this is what bozo Trump and deniers call good news 😪😪😪🤬 phys.org/news/2026-05...

One way to interpret these findings is that America increasingly has what you might call "missing economically stable men." It may help explain the dramatic rise of single-mother households, and it could be one driver of worsening inequality in America. www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Wildflowers at the Dripping Springs Natural Area, Organ-Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. IDs in ALT text. Nature photography.

Echinocactus horizonthalonius, nestled under an Agave Lechuguilla. Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Nature photography. 🌺🌵📸

Individuals with PTSD who have strong anger symptoms may benefit more from interpersonal psychotherapy than other common PTSD psychotherapies. https://ow.ly/KnQL50YZzHG

The Transcendentalists were right. People need to spend more time in nature. 🌎🌺🌲🥾 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yucca elata, or soaptree yucca. By statute, Yucca is the State Flower of New Mexico. But Yucca is a genus, not a specific plant. So to me, the statute is unconstitutionally vague. Anyway, here's a cluster of Yucca.

The President of the United States is a racist. youtube.com/shorts/xYMbj...

Street art in downtown Las Cruces. Murals by "Abstract Zach." It's a little place called "La Placita," which means little place.

Street art in Las Cruces. "This property of 10x15 yards was purchased for X heads of cabbage." Mural made by E. Rubio.

There's a new trail near Las Cruces, New Mexico. It goes from the Talavera fire station to Tortugas. Check out this Flyover of my run on Strava: strava.app.link/5vVtKBwv02b

No difference in outcome after 3m, some benefit in terms of remission at 6m. To me, the clinical significance for #psychiatry is not yet clear. JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's not such southern New Mexico. This is likely to be a widespread problem. Las Cruces farmers warn tight margins, rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten future kfoxtv.com/news/local/l...

Patience is not Trump’s strength. One outside adviser, who speaks with him regularly, told me the president is “bored” with the war. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is remarkable. Next Stop for a Small-Town Wonder? - Ann Arbor Observer annarborobserver.com/next-stop-fo...

Datura

Red yucca and prickly pear flowers. There is a prickly pear cactus in our yard that decided, this year, to produce both yellow and orange flowers. Flower photography.

"When empathy is absent from public policy, we all pay the price." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

A bit of nature

"Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it." — JD Vance, July 4, 2016. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"State representative Sarah Silva introduced a bill in 2025 that looked to stop grocery stores from using algorithms to modify the price of food with digital price tags." www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

This really burns me. I know some of these families. They are the highest form of angels.

Prickly pear cactus flower

"Contraception has gone from being politically untouchable to a real target on the right." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“The Government’s inattention to statutory and constitutional rights has been a consistent throughline through these hundreds of cases,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Strickland in one such ruling the ACLU excerpted for its report... www.organmountainnews.com/nm-militariz...

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out | Global development | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Yesterday's hike youtu.be/23EvdVmJyLE

Box Canyon Dam, bedrock mortars, and rock formations near Picacho Peak, northwest of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.

They put some thought into this. But not nearly enough. If there is ever going to be a valid place for something like this, it would be embedded in an existing EHR system, used by a healthcare professional with whom the patient has an established relationship. #medsky futurism.com/health-medic...

Of course, high administrative officials do this all the time. Will they be investigated or prosecuted?

A while back, I posted a photo I took at Kilborne Hole. One of the other hikers in the group made a short video about the place. youtu.be/1wqRVRqdvDQ?...

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns | Global food crisis | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This illustrates the Streisand Effect (attempts to hide info lead to wider awareness) and the Zhdanov Doctrine (Zhdanovshchina: all publications must adhere to ideological doctrine).

One of our cats

This prickly pear flower shows the phenomenon of fasciation. I see this only rarely.

Kilborne Hole, New Mexico USA.

This morning's excursion, showing wildflowers around Picacho, in 2 minutes. Note, it's the Picacho Peak near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. (There are other Picacho Peaks elsewhere.) youtu.be/WOcwQWnN4ko

'Heartbreaking': Backlash in red state as Trump kills farming program over DEI concerns - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

Sacred datura

Another prickly pear cactus flower.

Prickly pear cactus flowers. These usually bloom one at a time. It's unusual to see 3at once right next to each other.

Two pictures of cats.

Echinocereus dasyacanthus, Texas Rainbow Cactus near Las Cruces NM USA.

"Trump admin temporarily blocks MN nursing home wage floor." I guess "America First" actually means "American Companies First," with workers being left behind. www.minnpost.com/state-govern...

Prickly pear cactus flower

Bees really like mesquite catkins.

Echinocereus coccineus, scarlet hedgehog cactus, or claret cup cactus.