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Guided tours at Carlsbad Caverns are on hold and all the tutors at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute have been fired. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

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I haven't laughed this loudly in months.

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Apparently, Grok is the only reliable thing Elon Musk has paid people far smarter than him to create.

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I told OPM what I did last week

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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

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Finally a use for AI I can get on board with.

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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

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another Nazi salute at CPAC

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Making America Great by cutting cancer research & meals on wheels to pay for a $200 million PR campaign bowing to the president’s ego @rollingstone.com

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Chantal Kreviazuk, the Canadian Grammy-award winning singer, changed the lyrics to O Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off game against the United States on Thursday in response to repeated comments about absorbing Canada as a "51st state."

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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lowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would prohibit public libraries from purchasing and carrying certain material, as well as establish a legal pathway for parents to sue public libraries for providing material they disagree with. Via @iowastartingline.com

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“Some contracts the group claims credit for were double- or triple-counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by billions of dollars. In at least one instance, the group claimed an entire contract had been canceled when only part of the work had been halted.”

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Breaking, from me: More than three weeks after a Las Vegas City Schools basketball coach was forced to leave the gymnasium moments before a game, prosecutors have filed sexual assault charges alleging he inappropriately touched a 13-year-old girl while on school grounds.

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How's everyone else doing?

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The Trump administration says it’s targeting criminals for deportation. ICE arrested these 2 Las Cruces teens as they headed to work: newmexiconewsport.com/the-trump-ad...

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When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.

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“Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things."

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I really hope the 4 Nations Face-Off replaces future all-star games.

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And we get free hockey.

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"The removals come amid reports that NCMEC was ordered to cull mentions of LGBTQ+ issues under threat of losing government funding, part of President Donald Trump’s push to eradicate recognition of trans people in the US."

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“[N]o American, no one who believes in principles established by the First Amendment, should tolerate Trump’s exceedingly un-American reaction to our most sacred freedom.” Paywall-free gift article:

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Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

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Use basically anything other than WhatsApp… Signal is good, but even a carrier pigeon would be a better option.

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Two people were confirmed dead after two small planes collided midair at Marana Regional Airport in Arizona on Wednesday. abcnews.go.com/US/2-dead-af...

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He's literally declared himself king. trumpstruth.org/statuses/29758

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Some things are worth paying for, and a good VPN isn’t terribly expensive. That said, I’ve heard good things about Wirecutter’s free pick, Proton VPN.

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So… if the AG is subject to the president's supervision, essentially the president has the final say in interpreting every law?

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“Another way that COVID may have accelerated young people’s Rechtsruck in America and around the world was by dramatically reducing their physical-world socializing. That led, in turn, to large increases in social-media time that boys and girls spent alone.” Paywall-free gift article:

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This

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In my latest for @boomtownlosalamos.bsky.social I dive into the numbers in a biennial survey designed to track the prevalence of factors and behaviors that can lead to death and disability among New Mexico’s youth.

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white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

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Full letter here: nmcourts.gov/wp-content/u...

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The top federal prosecutor leading the ongoing investigation into a sprawling public corruption scheme involving the dismissal of hundreds of DWI cases in New Mexico received notice of his firing by the Trump administration in his personal email account Monday afternoon.

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“The systems at the I.R.S. contain the private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.” Paywall-free gift article:

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Who at TNT thought it was a good idea to use white numbers on a yellow background for on the score bug? I get that it’s Sweden’s colors, but it’s specially hard to read the power play info. 🙄

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Working on a story that will include a link to a CDC-produced report. The report includes data on LGBTQ youth, so I uploaded it to my documentcloud.org account because I can't guarantee it won't be eradicated by the federal government in the near future. "Orwellian" doesn't seem apt enough.

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I'm just here looking for taxpayer-funded data so I can do my damn job. 🙄

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“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

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Check, please.

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It’s a “went to a fight and a hockey game broke out” kinda night, and I’m here for it.

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“[O]nce vaccines were introduced, Republicans became much more likely to die than Democrats […] By the late winter of 2023, the 300-odd most pro-Trump counties in the country had a COVID‑19 death rate more than two and a half times higher than the 300 or so most anti-Trump counties.” Gift article:

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Infant mortality increased along with births in most states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to new research. Paywall-free gift article:

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Officials say progress is being made with cleanup from Manhattan Project and Cold War operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but they warn of challenges ahead. Story by Stephanie Nakhleh for @boomtownlosalamos.bsky.social.

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4 Nations Face-Off. I approve. Much better than an ALL-Star game. 🥅

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