NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Today is the day #HappyThanksgiving #WKRP #LesNessman

NM has been the backbone of U.S. weapons development for 80+ years. The same communities harmed then—Indigenous, Latino, rural—are being targeted again by hypersonics, AI command centers & detonation sites and now ABQ The cycle won’t break unless we confront it. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...

What do Project Ranger, Project Jupiter, Kirtland expansion, and the new $206M federal funding have in common? They’re all part of a massive build-out happening behind our backs—without environmental review, without transparency, & without a single stand-alone vote open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...

Nexus Health, a Santa Fe health care company that has grown steadily over the past several years, opening a large, three-story clinic on the city’s south side a little more than a year ago, abruptly announced to patients Wednesday it is closing.

Rio Rancho grew on speculation rather than planning—and that DNA still shapes city governance today. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci... The Real “Glengarry Glen Ross” Began Here AMREP sold promises. Castelion is selling missiles. The product changed, but the pattern didn’t.

On the West Mesa, bulldozers are already carving into the earth for Project Ranger—a hypersonic missile rocket-motor manufacturing and detonation site planned by Castelion Corp—no NEPA Environmental Impact Statement was completed. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci... These are not abstract risks.

2 massive projects are transforming New Mexico into the backbone of a new U.S. military system—w/o public hearings, w/o environmental review, & w/o any honest conversation w/ the communities who will pay the price. They are two 1/2s of the same machine. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...

And then there's coastal #nuclear ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Santa Fe can't reduce its homeless population because the City Council continues to prioritize profits over people ... Consuelo’s Place shelter, in the old Midtown campus dorms, houses homeless seniors, disabled people, & families in Santa Fe is being kicked out to make way for tech industry

sandovalsignpost.com/2025/11/rio-... sandovalsignpost.com/2025/11/rio-... The RRCC never brought up the wildfire risk or the use of water sprinklers after Castelion presentation said that water could not be used for fire suppression. RRFD would have to let it burn. No safety studies prior to vote

sandovalsignpost.com/2025/11/rio-... Elaine Cimino filed a 10-page written objection citing procedural defects in the approval process and concerns about ammonium perchlorate, a toxic oxidizer used in rocket motors that can contaminate groundwater.

What just happened with Project Ranger isn’t “local politics”—it’s the Trump-style authoritarian playbook hitting us at home. No notice, no due process, no public voice. This is how democracy erodes. More in my op-ed below. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...

"What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century. Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own." This is not hyperbole, this is one of the reasons why the US need Canada as a 51st state. #Lebensraum2.0 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A Russian military spy ship has been detected just miles off the coast of Hawaii,according to the US Coast Guard,which said it is actively monitoring it The Russian vessel,Kareliya,was spotted roughly 15 nautical miles south of Oahu -near US territorial waters-on Oct.29,the Coast Guard said Thursday

Source: nypost.com/2025/11/14/us-…

Amid social protests and rising tensions in Ecuador, dozens of bank accounts that belong to Indigenous leaders and organizations, land rights activists and nonprofits have been reportedly frozen for weeks, by order of the state. Sources told Mongabay their accounts froze suddenly without warning.

@reuters.com did a in-depth look into this rapid US military buildup, right on the doorstep of Venezuela & consulted experts who who say there is far too much materiel and troops here for mere drug interdiction ops

USDA searched for terms like 'diversity,' 'climate modeling' to target grants for cancellation | Reuters lnkd.in/gkkcXsmS www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

NM moved to #1 in medical malpractice payouts. Honestly? Of course we did. You can’t starve a healthcare system for years, ignore safety, let shareholders run,We get harmed—then we’re told our claims should be capped? No. Fix the system. Fund care. Stop protecting insurers. Universal healthcare now.

Toward the end of an hourslong — and at times rowdy — meeting, the WQCC voted to vacate its July decision to advance a petition to allow some reuse and discharge of treated wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing process to extract oil and gas. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

The citizens won! The WQCC voted to drop the disposal of frac water on our NM lands! #WQCC #nmleg

Because Governor Kathy Hochul, caving to Trump, ordered her state environmental agency to ignore this science and, after it denied this pipeline permit three times, go ahead and just approve it anyway and screw the kids and pregnant mothers of Staten Island where buried toxic PCBs will be released.

NEW! Super proud to announce the release of our new compilation of the science on the health harms of gas-fired appliances in the home with a special focus on GAS STOVES. From @sehnetwork.bsky.social with @psr.org tinyurl.com/2s4v7pmn

The truth was buried so the public could be hoodwinked. Our so-called centrist Democrats swallowed lies & voted to contaminate our region. &who else believes those lies? Those who choose silence over accountability. It’s time to break that silence, stand up, & fight this—in court and in the open SOS

The truth was buried so the public could be hoodwinked. Our so-called centrist Democrats swallowed lies & voted to contaminate our region. &who else believes those lies? Those who choose silence over accountability. It’s time to break that silence, stand up, & fight this—in court and in the open SOS

Only 25k is tagged for a “plume + traffic” study. No full baseline hydrology/air/soil sampling released. This is our water and our future. Demand a halt until independent baseline studies and legally noticed LEDA/OMA hearings occur. Join us. gofund.me/4ee432a8b. Help us Stop Project Ranger

Castelion’s “Project Ranger” just got wired to public money: State up to $5M, County $4M, City $1M via a City–County IGA effective Nov 1—with the County that bought land and leased it back to the company. that include oil and gas leases. commongroundrising.org/castelions-p...

Castelion’s “Project Ranger” just got wired to public money: State up to $5M, County $4M, City $1M via a City–County IGA effective Nov 1—with the County that bought land and leased it back to the company. that include oil and gas leases. commongroundrising.org/castelions-p...

They call it “budget cuts.” But when food, healthcare, and aid are stripped away, people die — at home and abroad. That’s not policy. It’s cruelty. Righteous anger is how we stay human. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...

Sandoval County rushed through a $125M missile motor deal with no public hearing, no environmental review, and no transparency. We’re crowdfunding to file and complete release of the full record. gofund.me/a4e766c1c This isn’t “economic development”—it’s an assault on public trust. #ProjectRanger

over in Maine currently, Voter ID is dead and gun restrictions are ALVIE

Among other things, that law prohibits the injection of hazardous materials directly into, or next to, underground drinking water supplies. Seems reasonable. And it requires certain disclosures of what those materials are.

Fracking became commercially viable in 1996 thanks to Texas gas driller George Mitchell who figured out how to blow up bedrock cheaply by using drinking water + chemicals + sand + pressure and combining it with horizontal drilling. I wrote about Mitchell’s legacy here: www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/9/...

🧵 My eulogy to Dick Cheney as a biologist who’s been deeply involved for 15 yrs in efforts to ban fracking around the world: More than any other person Dick Cheney is responsible for the veil of secrecy and lies that surround fracking operations, and they are enshrined into law that he created. 1/

Hey NYC: The billionaires want to keep the system rigged for them. Get out and vote today for a candidate that the billionaires hate because he is fighting for working class people! Make NYC affordable for all so all people can thrive! Vote #ZohranMamdani

NYT story on the “intentionally set” explosion in the neurobiology building at Harvard Med School campus Gift: Explosion at Harvard Building Affected Small Section of Hallway, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

🧪 So my immediate suggestion is that we all follow Dr Michael Baym @baym.lol —whose lab is in the Harvard Med School building that was just bombed—both as an expression of our collective solidarity and also because he posts cool things about microbes. (his own post about it says his lab is fine)