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@beck280.bsky.social
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Public health-y, Cruces’ first queer city councilor, zoning nerd. New Mexican by choice. Just me, not official, never fancy-pants. 🏳️‍🌈

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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The scourge of ICE will zip tie and disappear you. You shouldn’t need to feel the hoofbeats to say abolish, but in case you do….
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seconding le weep. Fighting fascism is time consuming, how do we also build back the foundations of knowledge at the same time?
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We had a hospital exec talking to our local City Council today and @johana-b.bsky.social asked about this article(! Love an informed local elected)…his response (basically: “We just each get an AI to out AI each other on prices!”) was NOT REASSURING.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know we are living in a pile of spuriousness, but this seems like a powerful piece of evidence (for when we return to that.)
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These conversations are critical and heavy, and I hope that any solution we embark on centers the youth experiencing the weight.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Let’s do this. If you are in Las Cruces, hope you’ll join us tomorrow evening for a housing discussion at City Hall.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We are going to have a long and painful reckoning to get back to a policy world that is grounded in legitimate evidence. (I say this an elected and a public health professional.)
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Exactly. Abolish ICE.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am here for this, but (unsurprisingly, I guess) my scathing glare of disgust™️ doesn’t influence these antisocial jerks.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excellent thread.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The anti-vax trans-panic BS delusion pipeline is strong. Which is fascinating, considering the two (again, complete BS arguments) are in complete opposition? Are folks so base that they can’t even connect their rage-bait-grift to a common foundational value?
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is also a strong conflation happening (as it is in many spaces) that allows corporate oligarchs to supplant journalism (as true a “good” as voting and protest) though buy-ups and j-school dismantling…leaving each side to imagine their own “legacy media” villain.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bleak.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can attest to the brilliance of the vibes and performances. And who knows the angst of the moment more than Alanis, Yoko, Stevie, Doechii and Melinda (dropping a cool $10M—glad we got in for less)?
Alanis Morisette with microphone singing with Olivia Rodrigo in white dressOlivia Rodrigo and Melinda French Gates looking out from a purple stage
A scene showing Olivia Rodrigo holding hands with Stevie Nicks on stageA piece of paper with a poem describing the wish tree art installation by yo (Yoko ono)
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“we want revolution!” -Binkini Kill forever.
A stage with a screen saying Bikini Kill with many people in the foreground
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This picture alone. 🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If only we were in a world where policies grounded in data, economy AND compassion were the norm. Instead: evidence like this will be put in the “why we will never do this” file. 😭😭
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Grateful to my Rep. (Rubio) for the thoughtful and critical look. If your representative is saying “BUT DON’T YOU USE GOOGLE PHOTOS?” As what they bring to the convo, I do hope you are out knocking on doors for their opponent right now.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Take it back, I guess.
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Like no being right will not cure your insecurity about your lack of intellect. Be a bimbo willing to learn like the rest of us
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Right? This is withering. 🫣🫣🫣
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I love a pre-order, as they end up a delightful gift to my future self. AND this identity/insult/empowering community is among my favorites. So, happy Caturday to you (generally) and especially those who pre-order this book.
A tabby cat laying on a lap looking smoldering
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A glimmer of hope to stop Project Jupiter…thanks to Land Commissioner Garcia Richard standing up.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s been painful to see public health and all forms of prevention be systematically derided and defunded. The costs, by every measure, are going to add up very quickly.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Right? “Does my complete devotion to Tatiana Maslany rise to a level that cancels out the hum of anxiety that the entire show carries?”
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m gonna borrow from St. Stevie… Rulers make bad lovers ….Gold dust woman.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New Mexico getting it done, using the state’s wealth to keep folks insured (and in child care, and with college.)
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Critical work documenting the (nascent? Adolescent?) concentration camp in our backyard. Thanks to @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social .
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“What’s happened to going to the Walgreens or Target is a store-sized version of what’s happened to living in America. It’s the experience of …a ruling class that responds to every challenge with authoritarianism, greed, and the same levels of poise and wisdom as an inbred Pomeranian.”
open.substack.com
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bougie Caturday.
A yawning tabby cat laying on Food and Wine magazines.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I know that saying something is Orwellian is trite these days, but we public health/science folks sure are crying unironically.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Paying their way in a robust regulatory framework (that has ongoing accountability) would perhaps have been the way in areas with ample resources. Our local-ish project is devoid of regulation and tapping finite water. (We are experiencing the pain of “rights-based” water access more generally.)
npr.org
Worries over water as a giant data center moves into the New Mexico desert
Developers say there's plenty of water for a giant data center in southern New Mexico. Some locals are skeptical.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No collaboration in Las Cruces. Since we were literally being targeted with social media ads from the Feds, thought it was critical to go on the record.
lcsun-news.com
DOJ's Model City Initiative is a Trojan horse for Las Cruces | Opinion
It’s not difficult to understand the real intent of this initiative.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@jortsthecat.bsky.social evergreen.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It is amazing to see how many state senators are wayyyyy out of step with their districts.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Omg, every time I see the initial list/schedule on the back of the door, I send the initialers a wish for a cool pillow and a new job soon.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It seems not coincidental that the fake comments (and, I’d argue, the ones that have nothing to do with air quality) all come from the same “side.” Cynical corruption of a public comment process is absolutely a contributor to a fair number of messes we are currently in.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How are so many folks just arriving to “They walk among us and sometimes become important.”? It feels like maybe you haven’t been listening/reading/watching?
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It’s painful to see. Addressing housing and homelessness is hard enough…this kind of mistrust feels like it would make it impossible.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s homophobic to send me emails in June.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Like so many things today: relatable AND horrifying.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our local paper (decimated by corporate overlords) has just two reporters left standing, one for sports and one for every other thing.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Homeless people haters will construct enormous edifices of exclusion while telling everyone everywhere that it should be a crime to build homes.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
An entire article focused on the egos and panderability of these potential “leaders”. Not one word about what their party brings to the people they might represent, other than ego. A contest of big loser energy! Go on.
sourcenm.com
Northern NM Republicans jockey for who will challenge ousted chair to lead party through November • Source New Mexico
Two northern New Mexico Republicans are deciding between themselves who would have the best shot of defeating ousted RPNM Chair Amy Barela.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It is quite something. 🗑️🗑️🗑️
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So good! And that mug is amazing. 💗
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
These folks want to carry outsized influence and spread their harmful BS, which has been soundly rejected across New Mexico. They’ll keep trying, but I’m glad to know that every salvo they make will be condemned: no comfort for jerks here.
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Beck @beck280.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hbr.org/2023/01/rese...
hbr.org
Research: What Fragile Masculinity Looks Like at Work
A large body of research has shown that when men feel that their gender identity is being questioned or threatened, they are much more likely than women in similar situations to respond by engaging in...
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