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Two lawmakers quit New Mexico Redistricting Task Force • Source New Mexico In their resignation letters, both state lawmakers cited the national redistricting controversy as the reason for their departures.

In their resignation letters on Monday, two Albuquerque-area Democratic state lawmakers cited the national redistricting controversy as the reason for their departure from a task force devoted to reforming how the state’s political maps are made.

NM food banks say they will struggle to provide meals for those who lose federal benefits • Source New Mexico New Mexico's high SNAP "error rate" could cost the state $170 million.

"Any thoughts that, ‘Well, charity will take care of this,’ are very misguided,” said Jason Riggs of the Roadrunner Food Bank about impending federal SNAP cuts.

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Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

In the timbers of Fennario, the wolves are running round,
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.

New Mexico health providers fault insurance red tape for cutting into patient care, researchers say • Source New Mexico Clinicians and other workers who determine whether insurance will cover care say a lot of their time is wasted by prior authorization.

In a forthcoming study, New Mexico doctors and health care workers tell researchers they risk burning out because of health insurance billing tasks. The researchers recommend structural change to health care:

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Now in Tel Aviv!

We’re disturbing routine everywhere today because there is nothing normal about our government starving children, bombing civilians, and letting the hostages be killed. We refuse to let them steal our future on this land. We have to end these horrors NOW.

22 known associates of Jeffrey Epstein have mysteriously died.

Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Here’s another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.

Can we get some help for Ahmad? He's supporting several people in his family and it brings me so much joy every time he manages to get enough to eat. gofund.me/69f962fc

Top Democrat on Oversight Committee Demands Trump Administration Account for Wildland Firefighter Vacancies The request follows ProPublica reporting that DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations left thousands of vacant jobs at the Forest Service, severely hampering its ability to fight wildfires.

A top Democrat on the oversight committee requested that wildland firefighter vacancies be accounted for following ProPublica reporting that showed thousands of vacant jobs at the Forest Service, hampering its ability to fight wildfires.

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Chris Murphy: "The meeting was a disaster, it was an embarrassment for the United States ... Putin walks away with a photo op, with zero commitments made, and zero consequences. What a great day for Russia."

Alaa speaks clearly and with solidarity. You can support her: tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p

I don't know if anyone has pull with the bluesky moderation team but I'd love to see Alaa get some help.

This conversation on a loop, every day, forever. 🙄

Long COVID left her son with debilitating stomach pain. Why it’s an ‘uphill battle’ for so many kids to get treated Children living with long COVID face an uphill battle to access care or even have their symptoms believed, parents and doctors say. Here’s why.

Toronto Star: 'Long COVID left her son with debilitating stomach pain. Why it’s an ‘uphill battle’ for so many kids to get treated'

'Children living with long COVID face an uphill battle to access care or even have their symptoms believed, parents and doctors say'

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In 1995, Michael Jackson served us a #CupOfJoe that not everyone understood. In 2025, it’s easily understood.

It’s 1 of Jackson’s most direct & socially conscious works, widely recognized as a global protest anthem still relevant today.

They Don’t Care About Us.

Right now there are people considering signing up for national guard service because they want to have an excuse to go rough up and maybe even kill liberals

And they are confident they will get to do that alongside people who are already part of their state national guard who feel the same way

Tbh I think Bluesky dropped the ball with keeping up because it’s no reason we don’t have bookmarks, clearer GIFs, and a more comprehensive newsfeed.

An image of a colorful monsoon sunset. The foreground is dark with a tree silhouetted against the horizon. The sky is partly cloudy. Near the horizon the clouds are golden. Above that is a band of dark gray clouds with even darker clouds across the top of the frame. Across the middle of the darkest clouds is a patch of virga that is glowing pink from the sun that has already set below the horizon.

Taos sunset August 2025

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South Carolina sending their National Guard to DC with Hurricane Erin on the way. RACISM is always the priority for Republicans.

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Hey America,

the National Guard should be preparing for Hurricane Erin and all those that come after it . . .

... they have people to save !

Instead they are used for Trump's fascist FAKE-Show.

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(Weather) Hurricane Erin exploded in strength and became a major storm in Atlantic waters just north of the Caribbean on Saturday

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Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in Atlantic history | CNN Powerful Hurricane Erin has undergone a period of astonishingly rapid intensification — a phenomenon that has become far more common in recent years as the planet warms. It was a rare Category 5 for a...

Powerful Hurricane Erin underwent astonishingly rapid changes in its intensity — a phenomenon that has become far more common in recent years as the planet warms: cnn.it/3V5dix6

ABC: Hurricane Erin is forecast to double or triple in size, causing rough ocean conditions over the western Atlantic. Explosive strengthening is happening more frequently as planet-warming pollution tips the scales toward hotter oceans that fuel powerful storms.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Think about it this way: Tomorrow, the democratic leaders of Europe are coming to Washington, DC, where armed National Guard troops are on patrol, to convince a U.S. president, who called in those troops, that he should not hand Russia the sovereignty of Ukraine, which Russia illegally invaded.

A White House official told CBS News the National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, as part of Trump's emergency order in the nation's capital, "may be armed," but that Guard members would not make arrests

Breathtaking video from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the stadium effect inside the eye of Hurricane Erin from last night’s pass

These observations are crucial for improving forecasts and keeping people safe

Media is scared to say what’s happening so they’re pretending flooding DC with troops is just a crime-fighting policy, even though the people doing it are obviously quite clear it’s an authoritarian coup d’etat