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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 2h

Check your time zone for ways to celebrate today in your area

ICT's Guide to Indigenous Peoples Day events - ICT

A list of more than 100 events celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day in October 2025

ictnews.org

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 3h

In Franklin County, some residents who voted for Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders have started to regret their support after she announced the construction of a new prison there.

The Prison Next Door

How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

boltsmag.org

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 3h

It came within a couple feet of the power lines by my house—they frequently take them out in the part of town where I live.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 3d

Seen today on a fence in Port Townsend.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 2d

Local pushback: sometimes it works! This is big news for New Mexico, historical test site, dumping ground, and producer of nuclear weapons (and waste).

Albuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Holtec International has abandoned plans to build a commercial nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico. Here's why.

Holtec calls off nuclear waste facility in southeastern New Mexico after local pushback

www.abqjournal.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 3d

When I say these hot air balloons go right over my house I’m not kidding. This one was a little too close for comfort. Could hear the whooshing of the propane burner. Albuquerque

Brightly colored hot air balloon in a cloudy sky

Hot air balloon above metal roof and power lines

Hot air balloon above metal roof in cloudy blue sky

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 3d

Did anyone else play Telephone (based on the old game)? Nearly 1400 of us from 65 countries played. I'm linking to my poem Parietal, inspired by Amsterdam artist Patrick Matthews' drawing. You can scroll down to see all the connections to Parietal. But go to the main page, too. Mindblowing fun!

Jane Hammons - TELEPHONE

View Jane Hammons's artwork in the TELEPHONE exhibition. Jane Hammons taught writing at UC Berkeley for many years before returning home to New Mexico (after a 5-year layover in Austin, Texas). Her wr...

telephonegame.art

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 17

#LearnSpanish

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 14

Spanish course by Ana María Díaz-Collazos is designed to teach Spanish thru Caribbean culture and music. It's organized around cumbia, bullerengue, mapalé, reggaetón, bachata, merengue, guajira & salsa genres.

Targets Beginners, Avanced, Native speakers

pressbooks.fortlewis.edu/spanishandca...

"Multigrade Spanish and Caribbean Music:A textbook in Borders and Languages" shows photo of ocean waves taken from sea shore
Author: Ana María Díaz-Collazos

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 4d

Band practice with hot air balloon: my backyard this morning:Albuquerque

In the foreground members of a high school marching band gather for practice as behind them two hot air balloons—one blue the other yellow—descend. Morning clouds rise over the Sandia Mts in the background.

An unusually shaped hot air balloon drifts across a light blue morning sky, slightly above a cloud bank.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

Transgender windmills on every corner

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 5d

#America, 2025

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 6d

To my knowledge none of the top trappers ever made a riff on "Jolene" called "Codeine." And now the era for such things has passed

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Natalie @secretagent39.bsky.social · 5d

Great program!

New Mexico opens program to pay for school debts for livestock veterinarians sourcenm.com/briefs/new-m...

New Mexico opens program to pay for school debts for livestock veterinarians • Source New Mexico

New Mexico is putting the call out to livestock veterinarians to apply for up to $80,000 for veterinary school loan repayments.

sourcenm.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 6d

And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven
I wish you would

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 6d

California's governor says Hollywood-Burbank airport has no air traffic controllers this evening due to the federal government shutdown. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/ne...

Hollywood Burbank Airport without air traffic controllers Monday night due to staffing shortages

The Hollywood Burbank Airport will be operating without air traffic controllers on Monday night, which could create considerable delays for travelers.

www.cbsnews.com

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 6d

Received this video from a former staffer of mine. It’s a leaking pipeline in the Permian Basin. They called the Carlsbad field office and no one picked up, so it can’t be reported or followed up on.

The cost of the shutdown will be felt for decades.

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Sarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 6d

ICE claims they were all beaten up by an antifa frog in a top hat who sang and danced a whole vaudeville routine after they got beaten up

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 6d

Waxing gibbous moon and some gorgeous clouds over the Sandias this evening in Albuquerque

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

This is A+ content.

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 13d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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