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Nearly all staff laid off today at the US-government funded Middle East Broadcasting Networks. President/CEO Jeffrey Gedmin tells staff that Kari Lake "is deliberately starving us of the money we need to pay you..."

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New at @searchlightnm.bsky.social: Meet Howard Hutchinson, an activist from SW New Mexico who’s organizing radical opposition to federal management of public lands. It's been quite a journey. As a young man, Hutchinson was a socialist and a supporter of Earth First! searchlightnm.org/howard-hutch...

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed a bill that would have established Slot Canyon Riverlands State Park.

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In a step that could lead to heavier involvement of the armed forces at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday opening a strip of federal land along the international boundary to military use.

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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Public Enemy released their third album, Fear of a Black Planet, on this day 35 years ago. @flavorflav.bsky.social

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Helen Hunt is the featured guest at the 10th annual Las Cruces International Film Festival, which opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday.

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“Algernon, newsy news news is that news news newsy news news newsiness news.” “Well, Jeff, newsynoo news newsy is newsier news but news news newsy new news.”

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One day after surrendering to US Grant, Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address, #otd in 1865. It was an early & powerful step in Lost Cause mythmaking. Lee praised his men's "unsurpassed courage." He declared they had not so much been defeated as overwhelmed by Yankee "numbers and resources."🗃️

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The memo barely complies with the court order and includes insolent language displaying contempt for the court. I have covered some judges who would immediately order a memo like this to be resubmitted.

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Students in at least three universities across New Mexico have had their student visas revoked by the U.S. Department of State, the schools confirmed Tuesday.

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My daughter keeps her doll in a sarcophagus with a window and it is unsettling. Nosferdolltu.

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New Mexico's measles outbreak reaches its third county, with 56 confirmed in the state's southeast corner.

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At least six international students at New Mexico State University have had their student visas revoked, the university confirmed today. No details on how many were undergraduate or graduate students, or whether any research operations are affected.

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The U.S. National Park Service restored its original webpage on the history of the Underground Railroad after it was met with backlash for deleting a prominently featured photo of abolitionist and women’s suffragist Harriet Tubman, as well as segments of text describing the horrors of slavery.

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The field of mayoral candidates grew larger Tuesday as Louie Sanchez, a former police officer, and current Albuquerque City Councilor, announced he was running for Mayor.

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Each of the accused gunmen in the March 21 shooting pleaded not guilty at their arraignments Monday morning, following a grand jury indictment last week.

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A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.” newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

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The overline I suggested to top this story in the newspaper is: “Mimbres piques.” #nmpol #nationalmonuments #NewMexico #AntiquitiesAct

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If the US government can book Kristi Noem for a photo shoot in El Salvador’s jungle prison, DOJ’s claims to have no access or contractual authority sound like a bag of lies

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Anyone who publicly questioned the beating of war drums during World War I in the U.S. risked punishment. The archives of "The New Mexican" show the paper chronicled many of the federal prosecutions against the state's residents for alleged "disloyal" public statements.

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As it happens, I was assaulted on a subway train in Brooklyn, long long ago. That sucked. But I used the subway a gazillion times, including after that incident. And I rode buses and trains in Boston and Chicago and Los Angeles without incident, even with satisfaction. This guy is a little weird.

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Now I am being chided not to use the word “tariffs” to describe what tariffs are: a certain kind of tax. The resistance is devoting an awful lot of energy to dictating my vocabulary and I don’t like it. Ironically, this is what the object of the resistance is also doing.

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Double down on supporting human arts.

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Santa Fe has a beautiful Capitol with a rich art collection but Rhode Island’s state house still beats the Roundhouse on architecture. Don’t @ me.

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State AG alleges a Las Cruces business has been fleecing veterans in a new lawsuit, from @algernonwrites.bsky.social via Albuquerque Journal

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The kind of day where your job includes walking into a business and asking them if they are aware the attorney general is suing them…

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These tariffs are necessary to address how unfair arctic penguins have been to us on trade. The penguins were laughing at us; but no more. Now the penguins respect us.

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From Nakayla McClelland: New Mexicans who live more than 50 miles from Albuquerque will have to wait additional time to receive their mail — the result of another cost-cutting change within the U.S. Postal Service that went into effect Tuesday.

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Liberation Day is a great way to kick off April which just happens to be economic illiteracy month

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A grand jury on Tuesday indicted four accused gunmen in the fatal March 21 shooting in Young Park.

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Alma d’Arte Charter High School, an arts-based public charter school that came under scrutiny by state officials last year, earned praise from the New Mexico Public Education Commission for its turnaround efforts.

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