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Alyosha Goldstein

@alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social
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Author of This Colonial Present (forthcoming) & Poverty in Common; ed. of Formations of US Colonialism; co-ed. of For Antifascist Futures & Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, vol IV (in progress)

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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My forthcoming essay on the possibilities of collective study & struggle in and beyond the present circumstances of the university. Written in response to Lubin's presidential address. www.academia.edu/165660396/_T...
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
UNM American Studies Department is offering what will most definitely be an amazing course on Bad Bunny this fall taught by my awesome colleague Dr. Francisco Galarte! Spread the word! www.kob.com/new-mexico/u...
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UNM offers a Bad Bunny fashion course for Fall 2026
The University of New Mexico will offer a Bad Bunny fashion course this fall, and students say they are eager to claim one of the 40 spots.
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Great response to inane criticism of AQ by @a-lubin.bsky.social on "Misunderstanding American Studies" www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Letter | Misunderstanding American Studies
A recent report and the news coverage around it failed to reflect the field’s aims, writes Alex Lubin.
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"when scholars are fired for tweets critical of white nationalism... their lectures canceled due to anti-DEI repression... whole depts have been closed because they are called 'divisive,'... faculty & staff are fired for criticism of Israel, it’s curious that..." www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Letter | Misunderstanding American Studies
A recent report and the news coverage around it failed to reflect the field’s aims, writes Alex Lubin.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.

The leaflets stated:

"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Today, @raulcarrillo.bsky.social explains why existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the emerging dystopian world of monetary fiefdoms—a world in which private infrastructure governs without the name of government.
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Game Over: The End of Financial Regulation as We Knew It
Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve something much more dangerous: functional monetary sovereignty.
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Protests and road blockades erupt in several European countries, including Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium, condemning the attack on the Sumud Flotilla, with expectations of wider demonstrations.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/09/2025
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring. The reliably good Bloomberg Green connects the dots between AI and the war on the poor www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Today, Darryl Li examines the alarming rise in campus antisemitism investigations—inquests that are often sparked by outside complaints, lack concrete evidence, and lay the groundwork for future crackdowns and grievances.
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The Rising Threat of Antisemitism Investigations
In the fall of 2023, the Department of Education launched more antisemitism investigations into colleges and universities than in all previous years combined. This record was surpassed in 2024 and is…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2025
Multiple states are jointly suing the Department of Health and Human Services and its Secretary, RFK Jr., over new rules restricting what can be taught in sexual education classes, after the administration threatened to cut funding to states that acknowledge trans people in their sex ed classes.
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16 States Sue HHS After It Threatens to Cut Funds Over Trans Inclusion in Sex Ed
Last month, HHS warned dozens of states to drop lessons on transgender health or face millions in funding cuts.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
When I say working people are being sacrificed at the altar of profit, this is what it looks like... "EPA withholds list of chemicals in Smitty's Supply fire, citing 'confidential business information'" www.wbrz.com/news/epa-wit...
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EPA withholds list of chemicals in Smitty's Supply fire, citing 'confidential business information'
Federal officials have not yet made public the list of hazardous materials present at a Tangipahoa Parish petroleum products plant that caught fire and exploded last month, saying that doing so might ...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/09/2025
Trump's memo supposedly defines what constitutes “antifa” beliefs, listing “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-Christian” views. However, it doesn’t specify whether it will target groups based on actual incidents of violence or simply for professing a certain ideology.
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Trump “Domestic Terrorism” Memo Focuses on the Left, Ignores Right-Wing Violence
The memo contains ambiguous definitions for what qualifies a person or group as “antifa.”…
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 27/09/2025
After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.
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New Mexico’s billion-dollar orphaned oilfield problem - High Country News
After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
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John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation
It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/09/2025
BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.
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UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Important graph from the Cato Institute of all places
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/09/2025
What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Today in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students
The statement condemns Trump’s “disingenuous” weaponization of antisemitism to target universities and deport campus activists.
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
On this day in history the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is signed into law, meant to reinforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution of 1789, since the Supreme Court in 1842 had ruled that states weren't required to aid in the hunting or recapture of slaves.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated - JSTOR Daily
The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/09/2025
Israel has launched strikes in six countries over the past 72 hours, targeting Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar, and Yemen aje.io/gx7iu7x
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon
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Indigenomicon
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/08/2025
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.
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Trump Is Trying to Make It Easier to Evict People From Public Housing
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“Overseas military strikes certainly won’t solve drug overdose deaths in the U.S., which are far better addressed through public health measures,” said Stephanie Brewer of @wola-org.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/08/15/t...
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Can Congress Stop Trump From Starting a War in Mexico?
More than 30 human rights groups urge congressional leaders to block Trump’s attempt to target Mexican cartels.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
What we are not going to do is pretend that we should be listening to Jillian Michael’s (a lesbian btw) airing lazy and incorrect talking points that shape her pathetic world view. Fuck her and the exercise mat she rode in on.
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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
In Rural Puerto Rico, Water Systems Depend on Volunteers—and Threatened Federal Grants insideclimatenews.org/news/0108202...
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In Rural Puerto Rico, Water Systems Depend on Volunteers—and Threatened Federal Grants - Inside Climate News
Across the archipelago, community leaders and academic partners are collaborating to bridge funding gaps and ensure disconnected residents maintain water access as storms grow stronger.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“This is yet another attempt to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, which normally prohibits the military from engaging in civilian law enforcement activities," @lizagoitein.bsky.social of @brennancenter.org told @theintercept.com
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
full frontal assault on the freedom to learn
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is Abu Ghraib redux. Jesus Christ Deported Venezuelans describe beatings, abuse in El Salvador’s CECOT
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.rappler.com/philippines/...
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'Floods are the symptom': Groups urge DENR to push for ambitious plastics treaty
'A strong plastics treaty is a win for every Filipino drowning in floods, poisoned by pollution, and ignored by profit-hungry corporations,' says Marian Ledesma of Greenpeace Philippines
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
This is what Harvard is gonna do with all your resistance donations, congrats
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Our press has joined forces with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com to build PROJECT 2052: REVOLUTIONARY DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE! This will be a website of speculative short fiction, visual art, and poetry, set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is huge. apnews.com/article/musc...
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Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship
The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two descendants of former slaves held by the tribe.
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 24/07/2025
posters of missing persons in Lower Manhattan inevitably conjure 9/11, but instead of terrorist attacks, this time it's our own government gleefully terrorizing immigrants for sport. @davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...
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In front of a Manhattan ICE office, a fence is covered in photos of vanished immigrants
'In what country do you recall students being black bagged off of a street? Not one person ever says the United States of America.'
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 24/07/2025
Two federal court rulings allowed Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to El Salvador by federal immigration authorities in March, to be released from pre-trial detention in Tennessee without the risk of immediate removal from the U.S, reports @ashleymurray.bsky.social.
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Judges order Abrego Garcia released, returned to Maryland and deportation delayed • West Virginia Watch
Two federal court rulings allowed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from pre-trial detention without the risk of immediate deportation.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/07/2025
Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.
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Hunger crisis deepens in Gaza as 10 more starvation deaths reported
Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In "Concrete Colonialism," Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the Philippines through the innovative use of reinforced concrete, a technology that dominated early twentieth-century construction. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/G9emDm4
Cover of Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines by Diana Jean S. Martinez. The design is minimalist with a black background that covers about 80% of the space. In the top-right corner, there is a fragment of a black-and-white image resembling a torn document or film negative, showing a neoclassical building and handwritten notes.
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If you haven’t listened to it, this episode of The Dig is SO GOOD!! Gabe as always is fantastic, and Asli is amazing (still can’t believe someone as smart and radical as she is a law professor) www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...
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Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant
Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to ...
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looking forward to having my contribution to a forum on Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism in the journal Studies in Political Economy available soon. Here's a link to prepublication version: www.academia.edu/130500526/_L...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/07/2025
Once the impact of Trump’s tariffs are taken into account those in the lowest 20% income bracket will not keep the $40 in benefits that Republicans have touted, but rather end up worse off by about $300.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Dani Prokop @prokopdani.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My latest dispatch from Ruidoso for @sourcenm.com
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‘We’re just here to pick up the pieces’: Ruidoso digs out in the aftermath of flooding • Source New Mexico
People are beginning to dig out from the July 8 Ruidoso floods, as forecasts warn of potential rain for the weekend.
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The leaders of the Democratic Party are so well-protected they have no interest in everyone else who is, and will be, suffering under the cruelest regime in American history.
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