Triops in a puddle on a dirt road, Doña Ana County, NM 😍 #triops #brachiopods #chihuahuandesert #ecology

Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame. After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health. grist.org/accountabili... #ElPaso #TX

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

some of these old newspaper headlines about weed, california have serious meme potential

One year ago today 🌿 Cottonwood color in a Gunnison tributary

#freexochitl Xóchitl Santiago has been illegally detained for 50 days. Call and email the El Paso ICE field office to demand her release. more info at bit.ly/freexoch

Immigration advocates are calling for the release of DACA recipient and activist Catalina "Xochitl" Santiago, who has been detained by ICE for 50 days. MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/lawyers-challenge-daca-activists-detention-no-decision-made-yet/ 

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A year ago this week, Sept 18-25, the San Rafael Valley was a different place, as you can see in this video, tracking wildlife that passed by a single camera. Now border wall is going up. We will continue to keep watch — so have heart and know that all walls eventually come down. ow.ly/1zaV50WXc5Z

“In a public meeting this week, developers said the initial fill would require about 10 million gallons of water, & that the system would use 7.2 million gallons annually. Daily water use for the campus would average around 20,000 gallons a day, capped at 60,000.” www.hcn.org/articles/res...

If there is one thing I've learned from studying scams: When it's URGENT, you MUST ACT NOW or lose out, it's usually a scam. I used to live in a lower-income rural area & saw them come and go. "You're poor, be thankful, stop being a naysayer." Tucson stopped it, so can we. #datacenter #lascruces #NM

@prisonculture.bsky.social If you haven’t read this, by Toni Cade Bambara’s grandchild Zoe Bambara, I think you’ll appreciate it. ”We do what Grandma Toni taught my momma, and what my momma taught me. We talk to our neighbors.“ hoodcommunist.org/2025/07/25/t...

Plants on dry river bed 4x6 #acrylic on #canvas

Last week, Doña Ana County

Silverleaf nightshade successfully outcompeting the Bermuda grass in my parkway 😈

I love that there’s an option to listen to this! Thank you for sharing all of this information and helpful commentary, and thank you for making it accessible in multiple formats

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This article is full of document-based reporting and historical context. I hope you’ll make time for it when you can. /2