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Joseph Yaroch

@jcyaroch.bsky.social
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Hike/run/photo: rocks and plants. Psychiatrist. New Mexico. Armchair philosopher, and founder of the Society of Perpetual Sophomores. Prepare for a general strike.

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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 3h
This explains the problem with "produced water" in southeastern New Mexico and in west Texas. energiesmedia.com/pumping-7-mi...
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Pumping 7 million barrels of crude a day through West Texas, the Permian's record oil boom is filling the ground with so much salty water that abandoned wells from a century ago are erupting at the su...
The oil comes up clean and the money follows it west.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yucca faxoniana
Black and white photo of a large yucca
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Whitemouth dayflower
Deep blue flower
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Organ Mountains at sunrise a few years ago. This is across the Rio Grande River, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Landscape photography. 📸
There are large birds flying in a fog bank in front of a mountain range, with a sunrise above.  This photo shows craggy mountain peaks arising from a fog bank, with sunrise-drenched clouds in the sky.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A fossil, a jawbone, and some rocks at the Prehistoric Trachways National Monument, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
I was trail running, took a little side trip, and quickly learned that running in this spot is not possible. That's a jawbone, presumably from a cow. This area used to be leased for cattle grazing. Rock strataFossil seashell. This area used to be underwater.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wildflowers at the Prehistoric Trachways National Monument, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. IDs in ALT text.
Yellow Indian Mallow, Abutilon malacumRed Cyphomeris, Cyphomeris gypsophiloidesMariola, Parthenium incanumPaleface, Hibiscus denudatus
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up
Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's pseudo-alpha male posturing
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata), and Silverleaf Nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium) in Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA. Flower photography 🌺📸
Cluster of bright yellow flowersPurple flowers
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beehive cactus, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA.
Two bright magenta cactus flowers
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fishhook barrel cactus, nest, and egg in Radium Springs, New Mexico, USA.
Montage of 4 photographs showing a fishhook barrel cactus with a bird's nest at the base, and an egg in the nest.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Votes for women
Historical marker about the women's suffrage movement
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In addition to all the other issues this raises, it's costing $8,000 – $15,000 a day for her to be on a ventilator. latestcost.com/average-icu-...
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In his 2024 address, Vought explained, “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” www.propublica.org/article/russ...
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I heard about it at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor. Also: stonemasons who worked on the Erie Canal needed work after the canal was completed. Some of them fanned out into Michigan, doing cobblestone construction along the way.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Yes, Mark Lamb is a member of my faith. He also belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But from what I understand about Mark Lamb, the dishonesty that has been displayed in his public and private life is completely contrary to our faith," Tait said. www.npr.org/2026/10/04/n...
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Latter-day Saints women turn away from scandal-plagued Republican candidate in Arizona
Arizona Republican candidate for Congress Mark Lamb has been accused of sexual misconduct while sheriff. His controversy is turning many voters away as Democrats see an opportunity in the red seat.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice. I was on an historic tour once in Michigan and was told that farmers would clear rocks from their fields, so many farms had these huge piles of rocks nearby. They, or others, would use the rocks to build houses and/or fireplaces.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Landscape photography. 📸🗻
Craggy mountain shrouded by low-lying clouds
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dripping Springs, Las Cruces NM USA.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oligarchy is a transnational phenomenon, as is fascism.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All the rain in New Mexico had caused erosion in some places. This mesquite is finding a way to hang on. It's sort of like democracy.
Tree clinging to the edge of an arroyo near Doña Ana, NM.Close up of the roots entering the eroded edgeThis shows the root system entering the bottom of the arroyo.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mexico's National Guard debuts chihuahua recruit named 'Comando' www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Mexico's National Guard debuts chihuahua recruit named 'Comando'
The 13-month-old small canine is equipped with protective gear and a camera, and is being trained for search-and-rescue missions.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The last remaining US troops have left Iraq. youtu.be/SJOZE15fvX8?...
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Can Iraq handle future security challenges alone? | Inside Story
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doctor Describes 'Liberating' Experience of Walking Off the Job #MedSky www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...
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Doctor Describes 'Liberating' Experience of Walking Off the Job
After a 4-day strike, Allina physicians reached a tentative deal on their first union contract
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bird photography. Timeline cleanse. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
theatlantic.com
Selections From the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100
Organizers of this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their top-100 selections—featuring a rainbow-bearded thornbill, a northern pygmy-owl, Andean condors, and more.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Desert marigolds
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apache Plume
Close-up of a delicate white flower
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Trump’s iron-clad Law of Military Achievement: The number of times the president claims victory is inversely proportional to the actual extent of American military success." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
The Houthis Demonstrate Trump’s New Law of War
Supposedly decimated last year, they are back and stronger than ever.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am not aware of residency requirements. I used to live in Michigan, got my NM license before moving to NM, and kept my NM license for a while. The Boards never asked. Perhaps some states do it differently; I would not know that.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No, they can live in one state and commute to the other as they wish.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The IMLC website clarifies that the Compact does not license; rather, it facilitates licensing in multiple states. Example: a group practice near a state line might have clinics in 2 states, and the MDs go back and forth. imlcc.com/faqs/
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General FAQs | Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Find out the general FAQs about the Compact. Contact The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission more information and frequently asked questions.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Often, the administration's actions already have a Soviet-era term to describe them. They are going for the trifecta of Lysenkoism, Partiinost’, and the Zhdanov Doctrine; all are forms of anti-intellectualism. But for the Project 2025 folks the goal is both profit by corruption, and political power
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ethical questions about health AI? The AMA has guidance | American Medical Association #medsky www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...
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Ethical questions about health AI? The AMA has guidance
Through case studies, CME and more, recent AMA efforts are ensuring physicians have sound ethical guidance to appropriately use AI.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Xocova: FDA Approves First Oral Post-Exposure Prophylaxis to Help Prevent COVID-19 in Adults and Adolescents 12 and Older #medsky 😷 www.webmd.com/drugs/update...
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Xocova: FDA Approves First Oral Post-Exposure Prophylaxis to Help Prevent COVID-19 in Adults and Adolescents 12 and Older
The FDA has approved Xocova (ensitrelvir), the first oral post‑exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to help prevent COVID‑19 in adults and adolescents 12 and older.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Summer in southern New Mexico has been brutal, but one rainy day made this Peppermint Portulaca perk up.
Flower with very light pink petals and red stripes like peppermint candy.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Altogether, one analysis says that 43% of world’s oil comes from countries that have been hit with conflict." electrek.co/2026/09/19/h...
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Here's all the dumb oil wars that electric cars have nothing to do with
Surprise, surprise, the resource responsible for endless conflict is currently embroiled in conflict. But we have the technology to end it.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Ryback’s 53 Days makes no reference to contemporary politics. And yet certain echoes of the 1930s resonate so loudly that it is impossible not to hear them." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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Hitler Could Have Been Stopped
Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Unconscionable. It's one thing if we elect a dictator who ruthlessly exploits us. It's another level of evil if we elect a dictator who ruthlessly exploits another country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba’s assets if regime falls
Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A UN fact-finding mission has determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the US was behind military strikes on a school and a sports facility in Iran in ⁠February that killed 120 children, and that these constituted war ⁠crimes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school in Minab and sports facility in ⁠February constitute war ⁠crimes
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ocasio-Cortez, Warren, Hoyle, Wyden, Merkley, Subramanyam Introduce Bill to Ban the Corporate Practice of Medicine | Representative Ocasio-Cortez ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-...
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Ocasio-Cortez, Warren, Hoyle, Wyden, Merkley, Subramanyam Introduce Bill to Ban the Corporate Practice of Medicine
The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would ban corporations and private equity from owning physicians. The bill is modeled on the landmark Oregon law that physicians have already used to suc...
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anti-Intellectualism is a form of bigotry. fordhampoliticalreview.org/anti-intelle...
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Anti-Intellectualism is on the Rise in America
Protester at March for Science in Melbourne, Australia, April 22 2017 (Takver/Wikipedia Commons) *** Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch’s article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” has g…
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WendyTSRQ @wendytestaberger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This piece is powerful and ought to be read by every member of Congress. If they do not support Medicare-for-All then the insurance company indifference described here is what they support for us all experience
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Unlike Dr. Bhattacharya, we are mature, professional adults, and we can honestly remember who had power 6 years ago. It turns out, Donald Trump was president when the pandemic started, and the country locked down while he ran the show."
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happiness
Photo of a tree in a park, with a cute sign that says, simply, "HAPPINESS."
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows? www.juancole.com/2026/09/isra...
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Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn't control the seas but rather must establish dominance over w...
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US never learned from Vietnam.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I saw a spot in the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument that had greenery visible on satellite. I thought it might be interesting. It was not, but it was good practice wayfinding. Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Strange rock in an arroyo. Shady spot under a juniper, good for a rest. Sun-bleached millipede exoskeleton on igneous rock. This is the green spot. It's a seasonal pool, now dry. There are four sotol stalks on the right, and an ocotillo in the left foreground.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He wants to rename New Mexico. Why stop there? Let's rename New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire as long as we are playing this game.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
President Donald Trump, in his Feb. 5 State of the Union address, vowed to end ongoing wars, saying, “Great nations do not fight endless wars.” www.ausa.org/news/trump-%...
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Trump: ‘Great Nations Do Not Fight Endless Wars’
President Donald Trump used his Feb. 5 State of the Union address to call for bipartisan action on many issues, including national security. “We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad...
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