By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Since he was elected, President-elect Donald Trump has waffled on his campaign-season vow to punish his enemies when he returns to the White House, declaring this month that his “retribution will be through success.” But many of Trump’s critics – and targets – fear that his long-promised campaign […]
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Advocacy group plans to fight mega farms in New Mexico
By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]
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Advocacy group plans to fight mega farms in New Mexico
By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality.The organization is seeking a moratorium on these […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
By Tammy Webber, Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the […]
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Musk’s dangerous, exaggerated conflation of social media and democracy
By Philip Bump · The Washington Post (c) 2024 It’s been apparent for some time that Elon Musk and Donald Trump align on more than politics. Each has a, let’s say, robust sense of his own importance and an apparent need for others to recognize that importance. Both have a large fan base happy to offer […]
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Musk’s dangerous, exaggerated conflation of social media and democracy
By Philip Bump · The Washington Post (c) 2024 It’s been apparent for some time that Elon Musk and Donald Trump align on more than politics. Each has a, let’s say, robust sense of his own importance and an apparent need for others to recognize that importance. Both have a large fan base happy to offer […]
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Government shutdown nears after Trump and Musk kill compromise
By Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor · The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal government is careening toward a weekend government shutdown deadline as congressional Republicans, egged on by President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, feud overlegislationto keep agencies open over the Christmas holiday. Republicans on Wednesday rejected a plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) for a […]
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Government shutdown nears after Trump and Musk kill compromise
By Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor · The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal government is careening toward a weekend government shutdown deadline as congressional Republicans, egged on by President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, feud overlegislationto keep agencies open over the Christmas holiday. Republicans on Wednesday rejected a plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) for a […]
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Trump stuns Washington with push to repeal debt ceiling
By Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers in Washington by calling for the suspension – or outright elimination – of the federal borrowing limit, introducing an explosive new demand into last-minute negotiations over averting a government shutdown this weekend. In social media posts and interviews on Wednesday and Thursday, […]