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Looking SW towards Little North Point. The tallest tree is a northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) and is displaying a form of marcescence, in this case the retention of leaves after senescence. Marcescence keeps our oak woods leafy long after most other tree leaves have fallen.
#Landscape 🌿
#Landscape 🌿
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Looking SW towards Little North Point. The tallest tree is a northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) and is displaying a form of marcescence, in this case the retention of leaves after senescence. Marcescence keeps our oak woods leafy long after most other tree leaves have fallen.
#Landscape 🌿
#Landscape 🌿
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Sunland Park will soon have its first full-time food pantry after the city received $719,338 in new state funding to complete the project.
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/sunland-park-secures-final-funding-to-build-first-full-time-food-pantry/
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/sunland-park-secures-final-funding-to-build-first-full-time-food-pantry/
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Sunland Park will soon have its first full-time food pantry after the city received $719,338 in new state funding to complete the project.
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/sunland-park-secures-final-funding-to-build-first-full-time-food-pantry/
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/sunland-park-secures-final-funding-to-build-first-full-time-food-pantry/
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Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
#butterflies #nature #bugsky
#butterflies #nature #bugsky
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
#butterflies #nature #bugsky
#butterflies #nature #bugsky
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More Cities Run Dry as Iran’s Water Crisis Deepens www.newsweek.com/more-cities-...
More cities run dry as Iran’s water crisis deepens
Policies favoring new dams and drilling wells over promoting conservation have left Iran facing severe water shortages.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
More Cities Run Dry as Iran’s Water Crisis Deepens www.newsweek.com/more-cities-...
I found this essay very helpful in better understanding some of the limitations of #StrongTowns.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09...
The Strong Towns Movement is Simply Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb
Strong Towns’ critique of America’s car-centric sprawl sounds appealing. But its proposed solutions rely on a conservative politics that prioritizes ‘wealth creation’ over just and equitable urban pla...
www.currentaffairs.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I found this essay very helpful in better understanding some of the limitations of #StrongTowns.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09...
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Crocus caspius Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Hohen.
Iridaceae
Endemic to Iran
Mazandaran, Iran
24 October, 2025
Elevation 1700m
#crocus #Iridaceae #botany #ecology
Iridaceae
Endemic to Iran
Mazandaran, Iran
24 October, 2025
Elevation 1700m
#crocus #Iridaceae #botany #ecology
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Crocus caspius Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Hohen.
Iridaceae
Endemic to Iran
Mazandaran, Iran
24 October, 2025
Elevation 1700m
#crocus #Iridaceae #botany #ecology
Iridaceae
Endemic to Iran
Mazandaran, Iran
24 October, 2025
Elevation 1700m
#crocus #Iridaceae #botany #ecology
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There is a parade this Saturday!!
#freexochitl #freethemall #elpaso #ice #eptx #fuckice #theater
There is a parade this Saturday!!
#freexochitl #freethemall #elpaso #ice #eptx #fuckice #theater
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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There is a parade this Saturday!!
#freexochitl #freethemall #elpaso #ice #eptx #fuckice #theater
There is a parade this Saturday!!
#freexochitl #freethemall #elpaso #ice #eptx #fuckice #theater
October 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Triops in a puddle on a dirt road, Doña Ana County, NM 😍
#triops #brachiopods #chihuahuandesert #ecology
#triops #brachiopods #chihuahuandesert #ecology
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Triops in a puddle on a dirt road, Doña Ana County, NM 😍
#triops #brachiopods #chihuahuandesert #ecology
#triops #brachiopods #chihuahuandesert #ecology
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Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame.
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
grist.org/accountabili...
#ElPaso #TX
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
grist.org/accountabili...
#ElPaso #TX
Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse's toxic emissions are to blame
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
grist.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame.
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
grist.org/accountabili...
#ElPaso #TX
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
grist.org/accountabili...
#ElPaso #TX
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List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)
October 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)
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some of these old newspaper headlines about weed, california have serious meme potential
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
some of these old newspaper headlines about weed, california have serious meme potential
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One year ago today 🌿
Cottonwood color in a Gunnison tributary
Cottonwood color in a Gunnison tributary
September 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
One year ago today 🌿
Cottonwood color in a Gunnison tributary
Cottonwood color in a Gunnison tributary
#freexochitl
Xóchitl Santiago has been illegally detained for 50 days. Call and email the El Paso ICE field office to demand her release.
more info at bit.ly/freexoch
Xóchitl Santiago has been illegally detained for 50 days. Call and email the El Paso ICE field office to demand her release.
more info at bit.ly/freexoch
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#freexochitl
Xóchitl Santiago has been illegally detained for 50 days. Call and email the El Paso ICE field office to demand her release.
more info at bit.ly/freexoch
Xóchitl Santiago has been illegally detained for 50 days. Call and email the El Paso ICE field office to demand her release.
more info at bit.ly/freexoch
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Immigration advocates are calling for the release of DACA recipient and activist Catalina "Xochitl" Santiago, who has been detained by ICE for 50 days.
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/lawyers-challenge-daca-activists-detention-no-decision-made-yet/
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/lawyers-challenge-daca-activists-detention-no-decision-made-yet/
September 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Immigration advocates are calling for the release of DACA recipient and activist Catalina "Xochitl" Santiago, who has been detained by ICE for 50 days.
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/lawyers-challenge-daca-activists-detention-no-decision-made-yet/
MORE: https://www.ktsm.com/news/lawyers-challenge-daca-activists-detention-no-decision-made-yet/
God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
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September 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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A year ago this week, Sept 18-25, the San Rafael Valley was a different place, as you can see in this video, tracking wildlife that passed by a single camera. Now border wall is going up. We will continue to keep watch — so have heart and know that all walls eventually come down. ow.ly/1zaV50WXc5Z
September 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A year ago this week, Sept 18-25, the San Rafael Valley was a different place, as you can see in this video, tracking wildlife that passed by a single camera. Now border wall is going up. We will continue to keep watch — so have heart and know that all walls eventually come down. ow.ly/1zaV50WXc5Z
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“In a public meeting this week, developers said the initial fill would require about 10 million gallons of water, & that the system would use 7.2 million gallons annually. Daily water use for the campus would average around 20,000 gallons a day, capped at 60,000.”
www.hcn.org/articles/res...
www.hcn.org/articles/res...
Resistance to data centers rises on the border - High Country News
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.
www.hcn.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“In a public meeting this week, developers said the initial fill would require about 10 million gallons of water, & that the system would use 7.2 million gallons annually. Daily water use for the campus would average around 20,000 gallons a day, capped at 60,000.”
www.hcn.org/articles/res...
www.hcn.org/articles/res...
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If there is one thing I've learned from studying scams: When it's URGENT, you MUST ACT NOW or lose out, it's usually a scam. I used to live in a lower-income rural area & saw them come and go. "You're poor, be thankful, stop being a naysayer." Tucson stopped it, so can we. #datacenter #lascruces #NM
Developers of a proposed "hyperscale" AI data center opened a series of community meetings around Doña Ana County to field questions, promote the project and receive public input. Boy, are they hearing from folks.
Project Jupiter debated in raucous community meetings
LAS CRUCES — Developers of a proposed "hyperscale" AI data center opened a series of community meetings around Doña Ana County on Friday to field questions, promote the project and
www.abqjournal.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If there is one thing I've learned from studying scams: When it's URGENT, you MUST ACT NOW or lose out, it's usually a scam. I used to live in a lower-income rural area & saw them come and go. "You're poor, be thankful, stop being a naysayer." Tucson stopped it, so can we. #datacenter #lascruces #NM
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June 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Last week, Doña Ana County
September 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Last week, Doña Ana County
Silverleaf nightshade successfully outcompeting the Bermuda grass in my parkway 😈
September 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Silverleaf nightshade successfully outcompeting the Bermuda grass in my parkway 😈
I love that there’s an option to listen to this!
Thank you for sharing all of this information and helpful commentary, and thank you for making it accessible in multiple formats
Thank you for sharing all of this information and helpful commentary, and thank you for making it accessible in multiple formats
This article is full of document-based reporting and historical context. I hope you’ll make time for it when you can. /2
Developer must guarantee Project Jupiter’s rosy promises
It’s on Doña Ana County commissioners to make that happen.
haussamen.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I love that there’s an option to listen to this!
Thank you for sharing all of this information and helpful commentary, and thank you for making it accessible in multiple formats
Thank you for sharing all of this information and helpful commentary, and thank you for making it accessible in multiple formats