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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump said "the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city. The officials said they would not be deterred."

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Trump says Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose Guard deployment

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in ...

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 1d

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Live updates: Israelis gather at hostages square to mark 2 years of war as peace talks are underway

Israel and Hamas joined international leaders for indirect negotiations in Egypt, with no end in sight to the ongoing war

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 2d

Anne Appelbaum on the need for non-political institutions for liberal democracies to work #TheAtlantic

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 2d

Latino Catholics are transforming the Church. It’s ‘about time.’

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Latino Catholics are transforming the Church. It’s ‘about time.’

Latinos are now 40 percent of the U.S. Catholic Church and likely to become the majority. The election of American-Peruvian Pope Leo reflects their ascendence.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 2d

"Paramount said on Monday that it was buying The Free Press, a digital news site founded as an alternative to traditional news organizations, and appointing its co-founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor in chief of CBS News."

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Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, the terrifying #leftwing.#terrorists in Portland. #publicenemynumber1 #portlandia

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Dream of the '90s | Portlandia | IFC

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 2d

"Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 3d

"It grieves me to see people I’ve known for years (some as far back as the Jesus Movement of the 1970s) seduced by a mean-spirited culture-war Christianity that is but a perverse caricature of the authentic faith formed around Jesus of Nazareth.”

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Fully MAGA-fied Christianity

Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 3d

After months of terse emergency rulings, "the justices will open their new term on Monday faced with the need to render full, final verdicts on policies at the core of Trump’s presidency."

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Supreme Court and Trump are headed for a reckoning in new term

After months of emergency rulings, the justices will be asked to render final verdicts on economic and immigration policies at the core of Trump’s presidency.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 3d

After two years of legal wrangling, Lily Alexander, a former UNM Lobo editor and now a reporter with the Santa Fe New Mexican, recently reached a $195,000 settlement with the school, and it has handed over the 2023 weapons inventory.

Congratulations Lily!

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Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM

Lily Alexander, now a reporter for The New Mexican, settled a lawsuit with UNM for $195,000 over its refusal to hand over police weapons records.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 3d

The article at the center of the revolt described Charlie Kirk as a “Christian-Nationalist icon” and defender of “often racist and controversial views." A GOP state representative complained to the corporate owners of the newspapers in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 4d

A narrative Trump and high-ranking Republicans are pushing collides with the world of facts and data.

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FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 4d

Gabbi Campos, a photographer for the Santa Fe New Mexican, is enjoying a career moment. A collection of her work is part of an exhibit titled Corazón y vida: Lowriding Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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Lowrider images from 'New Mexican' photojournalist Gabriela Campos featured in Smithsonian exhibit

Curators approached Campos five years ago about the show, which includes work from famed Chicano photographer Estevan Oriol.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 4d

“We have had lots of shutdowns,” said Don Kettl, an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland who studies the civil service, but “never before have top officials tried to use their employees as human shields in the partisan battle.”

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Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 4d

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Embattled figure in Native politics resigns as chairman of pueblo governors council in New Mexico

An embattled figure in Native American politics has resigned as chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors, days after his arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 5d

Mavis covers a Sparklehorse classic and makes it her own. Mavis Staples is a national treasure.

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Mavis Staples - "Sad and Beautiful World"

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 5d

New Mexico In Depth was part of a national team of media outlets that helped ProPublica examine state ethics reform proposals and their fate in state legislatures across the country.

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Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust - New Mexico In Depth

Additional reporting provided by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren Dake, Oregon Public Broadcasting; Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth;...

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 5d

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said via a statement she intends to sign emergency legislation passed that will ultimately provide $162 million “to protect New Mexicans from federal budget cuts that threaten health care and food benefits statewide.”

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That’s a wrap: Special session ends with funding for health care, food assistance and more • Source New Mexico

New Mexico lawmakers all told passed TK laws in a special legislative session aimed at federal uncertainty and funding cuts.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 5d

Because New Mexico went for Kamala Harris.

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Department of Energy terminates $135 million in funding for New Mexico projects

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro saw the most cuts, with four projects losing a combined $56.2 million.

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