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Jean's Sands @jeans-sands.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Some help for writing your comments on Chaco Canyon. eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“Native people are written out of the American story. Without us, you don’t know what happened.” To get the full story, listen to First America–the true story of how the United States came to be. And how our current political moment is 250 years in the making.
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NatalieNM @secretagent39.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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The Rio Grande Settlement Is a Warning to All of New Mexico
The years of cheap water are over — and the public is being positioned to absorb the costs
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Native News Online @nativenewsonline.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape Named One of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places for 2026 The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape to its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, drawing renewed national attention to…
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Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape Named One of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places for 2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape to its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, drawing renewed national attention to ongoing efforts by Pueblo and Hopi leaders to permanently protect the region surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The designation was welcomed Wednesday by the All Pueblo Council of Governors (APCG), which said the listing recognizes both the cultural significance of the landscape and the immediate threats posed by potential federal action that could weaken existing protections.
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Shaun Griswold @shaun505.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Indigenous Food Pyramid includes 27 Native American traditional foods that offer both nutritional and cultural health, including USDA staple foods buffalo, salmon, wild rice and blue corn. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...
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The Indigenous Food Pyramid To Make Native America Healthy Again
The Indigenous Food Pyramid is a view on the relationship between new federal nutritional policies and Indigenous Food Sovereignty practices.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The "Chopped" episode featuring Justin Pioche and another Native chef from New Mexico — Santa Clara Pueblo’s Ray Naranjo, who operates a local food truck and who will soon bring his cuisine to a Santa Fe food hall — will air at 7 p.m. Mountain Time Tuesday.
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Two New Mexico Indigenous chefs to appear Tuesday on Food Network's 'Chopped'
Two Indigenous New Mexico chefs who will be appearing on Chopped say they hope the program helps promote the Native food movement.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/01/2026
I wonder why the thing the whole Bluesky has been talking about for the past several hours is not appearing in trending topics.
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Newcastle United
The Traitors
Republican Politics
Rubio
US Military Strategy
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“The AI boom threatens life on earth by diverting energy and water resources from the humans and other life forms who need them (while contributing greatly to CO2 emissions when the planet simply cannot afford it).” There. Fixed it for you🙄. #ClimateActionNow #Gaia news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
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Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
For all the very real pain caused by DOGE, it looks like federal spending this year is higher than it was last year. Check out this real-time tracker from @BrookingsInst: www.brookings.edu/articles/tra...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
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“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We did it! We got enough signatures to force a vote on extending ACA subsidies. Imagine how furious Mike Johnson is going to be when we pass this! Now is the time to pressure your Members of Congress and help us get it done!
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Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The PBS “Craft in America” series will soon bring IAIA’s work to national viewers and present the school as a major site of Indigenous artistic practice in the West. sfnm.co/4pwrU6s
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New PBS documentary brings Institute of American Indian Arts to the world
IAIA seniors debut personal projects as PBS series "Craft in America" spotlights the school’s role in shaping Indigenous artistry.
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John Roche @jr-placitas.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
And she grew up in Albuquerque. Graduated from UNM.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A new Medicare pilot program is about to launch that will let private companies use AI to review requests for certain medical care — and reward companies when they deny claims. stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...
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Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Stateline
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A federal official says more testing is needed to determine whether a toxic chromium plume from Los Alamos National Laboratory has seeped into San Ildefonso Pueblo’s groundwater. sfnm.co/4iLuuCI
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Federal official says further testing needed to determine LANL's chromium plume migration
New Mexico's Environment Department said last month the toxic plume had migrated to San Ildefonso land for the first time.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Remember this as Trump and Big Tech lobbyists try to block AI regulation at both the state and federal level.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Recently submitted permit applications for the microgrids expected to power Project Jupiter — a data center campus planned in Southern New Mexico — have advocates worried the power sources will be anything but micro. sfnm.co/3MNY1jf
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Permit applications for Project Jupiter microgrids raise fears about scale, emissions
Data center campus Project Jupiter, proposed near Santa Teresa, received a historic $164 billion in industrial revenue bonds in September.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/12/2025
The Supreme Court on Monday seemed likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members. to.pbs.org/3MlqXiF
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LISTEN: Supreme Court hears Trump v. Slaughter, seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency, starting well before Trump's time in the White House. The justices could take the next s...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/12/2025
"The shutdown made it clearer than ever that our system is stuck in a campaign finance system that excludes most Americans from power," @kornbergmaya.bsky.social wrote in an op-ed in @thehill.com. Reform is needed for Congress to actually "represent the people it serves."
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In a Congress Full of Millionaires, Raising Money Becomes the Job
The people's branch should represent the people.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Supreme Court has approved Texas’s heavily Republican-favored map for 2026. That means Prop 50 will now go into effect to counter the Texas redistricting. Virginia is also considering adding new Democratic-leaning seats to push back against Trump’s redistricting efforts in other states.
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US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps
Major win for Trump as majority rejects lower-court ruling that found maps had been racially gerrymandered
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. That makes 214. We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, alleging her agency failed to turn over voter registration lists in violation of federal law. sfnm.co/3Kuw0wo
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New Mexico secretary of state sued by U.S. Justice Dept. for voter registration lists
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, alleging her agency failed to turn over voter registration lists in
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 03/12/2025
@faizapatel.bsky.social and Matthew Ruppert on The Trump administration's plan to use domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. 
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/12/2025
President Trump’s legally dubious tariffs have harvested billions from American companies and customers this year, despite his claims that foreign countries are paying them. Now some of those companies want that money back. trib.al/BxUUw8E
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New Mexico’s members of Congress on Tuesday sent a letter to federal officials urging them to reimburse the state for $30 million in food aid the state provided during federal disruptions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. sfnm.co/4phozrR
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New Mexico congressional delegates push for federal refund of $30M in state food aid
The Trump administration, meanwhile, threatened to pull future SNAP funds from New Mexico and other states that refuse to turn over personal data.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Amazing story!!
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 24/11/2025
Congressional Republicans are hoping to insert an AI preemption provision into the must-pass NDAA. While the specific language is not yet public, Charlie Bullock explains why a sweeping ban on state-wide regulation on this emerging technology could be a recipe for disaster.
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AI Federalism: The Right Way to Do Preemption
The allocation of regulatory authority over AI between states and the federal government is a complex problem that can’t be resolved in a single stroke.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Now vote on whether or not to end Social Security and Medicare.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A record number of Americans are anxious about health care costs going into next year The West Health-Gallup survey finds almost half of adults say they’re worried they won’t be able to afford health care in 2026. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A record number of Americans are anxious about health care costs going into next year
The West Health-Gallup survey finds almost half of adults say they’re worried they won’t be able to afford health care in 2026.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The rich will get richer, and we're all going to get poorer. It's a big club, and we ain't in it.
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24
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Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
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Medicare for All Explained | Robert Reich
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 13/11/2025
WCK’s Relief Team is supporting the Navajo Nation after delays in SNAP food assistance caused by the U.S. government shutdown. Our teams are working with local partners to distribute food kits. Read more: wck.org/en-us/news/navajo-nation-25 #ChefsForNavajo
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/11/2025
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it What is elimination and why does it matter? Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems 🧵👇
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
One reason I keep urging people to read "One Long Night" is because Auschwitz is not the only model of concentration camp. And people desperately need to expand their understanding of what a concentration camp actually is.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Incredible
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/11/2025
President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 election by gerrymandering congressional districts hit a massive roadblock Tuesday: California voters.
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California Voters Overwhelmingly Approve New Map, Countering Trump’s Gerrymander Push
Read more here.
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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 29/10/2025
This acquisition, which will restore 17,000 acres to the Tule River Indian Tribe, is the largest-ever “land return” deal in the Sierra foothills, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.
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Major California ‘land-back’ deal with tribe preserves swath of southern Sierra
This acquisition, which will restore 17,000 acres to the Tule River Indian Tribe, is the largest-ever “land return” deal in the Sierra foothills, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/10/2025
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership is reportedly being replaced in favor of more aggressive leadership from U.S. Border Patrol—who don’t care about only detaining immigrants with criminal records—as friction grows in DHS over unsatisfactory deportation rates. trib.al/MvulQdq
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/10/2025
NEW: California says it will send its own monitors to watch Trump’s DOJ “poll watchers.” State officials warn the federal stunt is part of a broader effort to intimidate voters and question legitimate elections.
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California to Monitor Trump’s DOJ Poll Watchers Amid Concerns of Voter Intimidation, Election Interference
Read more here.
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