👀👀”A life in conservative politics is a shabby, grifting thing; that movement is a sweaty and stupid scrum of influencers and opportunists and true-blue sociopaths scrabbling for monetizable attention or one of the lucrative public-facing sinecures funded by reactionary billionaires.”

Listen to @danielwerwath.bsky.social , Santa Fe pals. Join the progressive zoning gang.

This is Fawn, a 4(ish) month old viszhuahua (or a red chihuahua on stilts?) looking for a home. I will sponsor your adoption and deliver if you are up for giving her a home for the holidays. www.ascmv.org/adoptable-an...

This is complicated, but worth diving in to…but basically: moving money around between investors, bundlers and (alarmingly) government when the money is unsecured by anything at all is…not good.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico. 32°21′37″ N

Same, as ever.

Zoning reform, welcoming immigrants, free transit and housing for the houseless (and underserved) are LIFE.

“If you are concerned about the lives of others, in one way or another you have to deal with capitalist structures and institutions.” www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The politics of abundance are winning — from Albuquerque to Las Cruces and beyond. 🏘️ Ending exclusionary zoning and saying yes to homes isn’t just right, it’s popular. Read more → reimaginingalbuquerque.com/2025/11/05/t...

Today is the day! Please vote in your local elections, as City Councils and School Boards can make a huge impact on your everyday life. In our city, your vote will determine if we keep on building affordable housing, have emissions-free, free transit and welcoming our immigrant neighbors.

I vascillated on sharing this. My grandma wouldn’t approve. I am sharing it because Milo is a doll, I’ve had a rough few weeks, I never got a proper libra season and he describes me the one way that makes me feel seen: I am curious. thehometownholler.substack.com/p/the-very-m...

I love any refutation of Vance’s divisive BS…but it is even sweeter from @dieworkwear.bsky.social as he outlines the fashion of solidarity.

I firmly believe, with every single atom of my being, that instead of amplifying unreliable information that discourages helping, our focus as 42 million Americans face hunger must be on providing factual information that enables people to help. www.patreon.com/posts/142285...

In case I’ve not made myself clear—no family in America should go hungry. Period. Trump’s decision to withhold SNAP is unconscionable and immoral. The GOP needs to come back to DC and reopen the government. And the Admin needs to release the funds so families can put food on the table on Saturday.

In case you wonder where my political orientation/class solidarity comes from: we visited the Johnstown Flood Museum every year of elementary school. Exploitation and extraction, traversing centuries (aka the story of Western PA.)

there's a lot of misinfo out there about what works to counter misinfo (womp womp). this is a great resource and a must-read for public health: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Hold on while I frantically check to see if I immediately replied “Stop” to a federal government lawyer about to spill some tea….

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

I am (once again!) encouraging everyone to watch the lone season of Braindead. It could not be more of the moment: ✅ polarized US ✅ screwworms ✅ shutdown It is diverting in it’s premise, but also so parallel. Just go! Right now.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

I love this research…I try to convince my students that their worries about violence should not eclipse their worries about heart disease. Also lest you wonder what shapes people yelling in public comment (where just this week someone suggested I’m a narcoterrorist) this tells a story.

Such a cool event!

Las Cruces’ values showed out today. Let’s keep moving forward and keep our communities safe and our families together.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ppl keep posting “Imagine how those military commanders feel being lectured by this hack.” May I introduce you to Every. Single. Public. Health. Professional?

Quite the “nothing to see here!” day, eh?

Filmed some PSAs today about our updated animal ordinance, and a star was born. Chowder, available for adoption at the ASCMV. www.ascmv.org/adoptable-an...

Project Jupiter = Sam Altman, icymi.

The city was honored for its role in a $15.6 million supportive housing project under construction. Separately, Tierra del Sol director Rose Garcia was presented with a lifetime achievement award.

I’m proud to recognized as an Equality Champion by Equality New Mexico. I’m ready to fight for LGBTQ joy for four more years: we’ve got a lot to do.

Happy Caturday, yinz. Kleya has been serving as campaign volunteer in my re-election bid. Want to help elect a cat-adoring, queer YIMBY public health person to local government? 👇

Haha. Again 😭.

*please give us an existential scream emoji*

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Bye, glooms! *optimistically*

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"The safety of the American people hangs in the balance." The attempt to oust CDC's Monarez is one more step in RFK Jr.'s "misguided efforts to overhaul the public health system based on myths and pseudoscience," says APHA. Read our full statement: www.apha.org/news-and-med...

Is the cruelty a bonus to the grift? Or vice-versa?

More movement toward affordable and attainable housing in Las Cruces. This development will also be all electric, solar-ready. When we say we are pulling every lever, joining every partner to address housing, we are not kidding.

I am running for reelection to District 5 of the Las Cruces City Council. I am proud of my accomplishments of the last four years to make Las Cruces a more livable city for all. I'll unroll a few highlights below.

The City of Las Cruces is hiring a public health coordinator (for the first time!) to support community programs and protect residents against the mounting threats. Please spread the word.

Late, but here for Caturday.

Friendly reminder, it is MAHA “natural” to be scared of clowns.

I know there are many horrors. But I want to vent about two tiny circles of hell converging in my college faculty life: students using AI to complete their (qualitative) course/faculty evaluations. 😭😭😭

“The immigration system does not exist in a vacuum; it is not its own entity. It is a thread in a tapestry of oppression — a cog in a machine designed to oppress and to profit off of the suffering it creates, leaving thousands of separated families and broken hearts in its wake.”

Friends, a few months ago I asked you all to share what your thoughts on what would improve the health of Americans for a project Defend Public Health was working on. You answered, and we listened. Today, we released our report, Improving the Health of Americans together. You can read it here.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

It is actually classic public health ethos: we have to fight alongside every pro-democracy, pro-community movement to protect and rebuild our country.

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

In case you wonder what you were doing when fascism arrived, here is *another* time to take note.