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Jane Hammons @janehammons.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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...

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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 · 1d

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 · 2d

Transgender windmills on every corner

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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 · 2d

#America, 2025

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

"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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Cj @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

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.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

This is A+ content.

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Mock, block, move on is the new stop, drop, and roll.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 3d

A little pep talk as we head back to DC this morning. I know it’s scary and overwhelming watching what’s happening right now—but history tells us we must keep showing up and doing our part—which is why I’m headed back to DC today!

Rep. Stansbury: I am heading back to DC to fight this shutdown

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 5d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Look, it's crazy for a president to talk this way to the armed forces of the United States, which are paid for by all Americans and are sworn to protect them all too

I won't stop saying it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "I was president in 2016. And then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught 'em, didn't we?"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Again, if you think the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 had anything to do with “woke” politics you should not be allowed to operate a car much less the entire American military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5d

I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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