Great news, Doña Ana County — 8 early voting locations are now open across the county! ✅ Skip the lines. ✅ Vote at a time and place that works for you. ✅ Make your voice heard early! 📍 Find your nearest voting site now at DACElections.com 🗓️ Don’t wait—make your plan to vote today!

😢 thank you for all the great #podcast episodes @marcmaron.bsky.social ❤️ love you and my President.

So proud to live in Las Cruces!

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here is the WISDOM study. You may be able to get free genetic testing, as I did. Dr. Jen Gunter: "If genetic testing ... was pre-2013, it should be repeated, but a case was made for repeating testing if it has been more than five years." www.thewisdomstudy.org

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Native Plant Society of New Mexico statewide conference hosted by the Las Cruces Chapter. Our silent auction raised a lot of money for student grants! #nativeplants

@99pi.org a friend is considering doing a design-related pod about his city, and I went to send him your Santa Fe and Chicago eps, but I ended up bombarding him with sooo many great ones. Now I'm listening to The Chinatown Punk Wars again. Hopefully he doesn't regret asking me. 😄

I just saw the largest bee I've ever seen on my Black Dalea. Fat Bee Week.

I'm proud to be represented by Commissioner Susana Chaparro for being the lone voice demanding transparency! I really hope I'm wrong and that this isn't a big scam.

Follow up to my Black Dalea post! I live in the northern area of Las Cruces, and mine is full of small bees (I assume european honeybees). Today, I went to a home in the Valley, and hers was almost all bumblebees. #nativeplants #bees

I'm back to posting my #nativeplants now that it's cooled off and my garden isn't a hot mess. Black dalea (Dalea frutescens) is full of bees this morning! #bees

The USA needs a former Mayor for President. Mayors know accountability. They see how policies impact regular folks up close. I would be excited about the candidacies of @petebuttigieg.bsky.social or @corybooker.com - maybe there are more mayors I don't know about! Send me your awesome mayors!

This request is for everyone: vote in your local elections this November! In Las Cruces, this means early voting starting on October 7th. Friendly reminder, that NM’s elections are the most secure in the US and we offer same day registration. www.donaanacountyelections.com/voter-inform...

#lascruces LWVSNM hosts 2 forums for November local elections! Board of Education is 9/24 6:30 in LCPS Chamber; City Council is at Las Cruces City Hall, 9/30 6:30. In early October, see www.Vote411.org, a LWV site that provides nonpartisan information with comprehensive election information.

As the MSM remembers Charlie Kirk and speaks out against his horrific assassination, let’s recall the Minnesota Congresswoman who was assassinated on June 14th 2025 along with her husband and their dog. Do you even remember her name?!

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

Today and tomorrow: Your last chance for discounted pricing for early registration! Come see us at the Native Plant Society state conference in Las Cruces, October 2-5, 2025! www.npsnm.org/las-cruces-2...

So, are we going to be able to get COVID shots or not? "Obtaining guidance from the CDC vaccine advisory panel is uncertain this year because Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired every member of the panel in June." @repgabevasquez.bsky.social www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

I've been really impressed with what our City Council has accomplished even in the short time I've lived here, and hope that the progress continues!

#LasCruces #NewMexico and #ElPaso peeps: Please sign up now for the State conference hosted by Native Plant Society of New Mexico Las Cruces Chapter. #Nativeplants - There will also be an awesome silent auction on Saturday! www.npsnm.org/las-cruces-2...

We rescued globe mallow plants from a construction site and didn't have high hopes because a lot of native plants don't like to be moved. They turned dead-looking, and then I was surprised to see new growth! These are some of the first to bloom in spring, so they're a favorite. #nativeplants

Registration is now OPEN for the Native Plant Society of NM state conference in #lascruces Signing up early gives you a better opportunity to get in the field trips and workshops you prefer. I hope to see you there! #nativeplants www.npsnm.org/las-cruces-2025-conference-home-page/

I'm going to share this again because when I lived in deep-red, rural Texas, groups like Indivisible saved my sanity.

Even as we’re dealing with major international crises—we must stop the steal of our public lands. Call your senators! Have your voices heard! 🌲⛰️ More info and maps here: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

As the temperature rises and political violence is in the air, Las Cruces discusses why two demonstrations, held on consecutive days at the same location, were policed differently.

I bought this at a plant sale last fall and forgot what it was supposed to be... Hooker's evening primrose (Oenothera elata). Ta daa! #nativeplants

“No Kings” in Las Cruces.

“…we don’t have the money to help any more.” PEAK King behavior looks like grandmas in Las Cruces suffering on 100+ degree days like today so that you can have a tank parade. Thanks to @sourcenm.com for highlighting this grift.

Ok, here is a strange thing on my Texas Mountain Laurel: Fasciation, a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth - the growing tip produces flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue. Saguaros do this too! My other TML tree doesn't have it. #nativeplants #themoreyouknow

I hope the Karen Read case makes white people realize that police shouldn't be trusted... it won't but i still hope for that

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This Prickly Pear #cactus pad has been in a Home Depot bucket with no dirt for a few weeks, and it's blooming. #nativeplants

Thanks to everyone and all the state and local elected officials who showed up to support Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument today! #notforsale #publiclands

2 years ago this week, we moved to NM from TX. We love the weather, outdoor activities, and lower cost of living. The best part is having a govt that, while imperfect, is not actively trying to other, harm, and even kill people. It takes a lot to improve well-being, but folks here are trying. 1/2

Not native, but I appreciate these Yellow Bird of Paradise (Caesalpinia gilliesii) that do very well here in the desert.

We will be at OMDP on June 7 to support our Monument and the wonderful employees who work to protect it and keep visitors safe! #publiclands www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinio...

First time one of my cacti has bloomed! It's a relatively new Purple Pricklypear, a pad gifted by a friend. #nativeplants

Beautiful Soaptree Yucca near my neighborhood! #nativeplants #lascruces

What we’re hearing: NMSU has lost nearly $25M in federal research funding, including a $10M environmental justice grant. Cuts are already being felt across campuses and communities.

Celebrated the 11th anniversary of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument with wonderful volunteers & elected officials who want to save these lands for the American people. The current administration has put it on the short list to be handed over to private interests. #handsoff #publiclands

#YIMBY #lascruces women city councilors telling it like it is. I've lived in places where refusal to build multifamily or smaller homes kept out young families, and neighborhood schools got torn down. reimaginingalbuquerque.com/2025/05/19/l...

Thank you @19thnews.org for this comprehensive story about the effects of the current administration on southern New Mexico and #lascruces. Imagine ICE coming for a food bank volunteer. Horrible. 19thnews.org/2025/04/new-...

I learned at the #nativeplants Society Conference in Taos that the piñon–juniper ecosystem is called "PJ" and I think it's adorable. At our house I planted one NM Piñon and one Alligator Juniper. We are not quite high enough elevation for it, but I'm trying.

People worldwide have loved Bruce for as long as I've been alive. His words: "I will provide for you And I'll stand by your side You'll need a good companion for This part of the ride Leave behind your sorrows Let this day be the last Tomorrow there'll be sunshine And all this darkness past."

#nmleg's @sarahsilva.bsky.social is representing in the @nytimes.com article of the military moving into Southern New Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

Beautiful Bernalillo Yucca in various stages of bloom! I have to complement the City for their unusually nice campground.

Former Mayor and potential Dem candidate for NM Governor, whose own CA-born father was imprisoned during WWII says, "Why not" try the Alien Enemies Act under Trump. Is he trolling us? I was planning to vote for Deb anyway, but damn.. @georgetakei.bsky.social ... www.artesianews.com/in-favor-of-...

I'm so thrilled that one of my favorite podcasts is now on Blue Sky! Thank you @earhustlesq.com !

City Hall has some nice Palo Vede trees and a purple prickly pear. The bees are happy! #nativeplants #cactus #lascruces

What a treat today to see bird banding at Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument! #publiclands #norforsale #birds