BelligerentSlug
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BelligerentSlug
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Anti-fascist news and politics for New Mexico
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Friends—we're watching what's happening in Minneapolis and across the country. I know many of you are scared and worried at home.

That’s why @mayorkeller.bsky.social and I are hosting a tele-town hall Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m. MT to talk about what we’re doing for our communities. Join us!
February 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
State Senator Harold Pope has introduced a memorial asking the Public Regulatory Commission to study the potential state purchase of TXNM (parent company of PNM). This would keep this critical infrastructure out of the hands of private equity firm Blackstone.

nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/02/13/s...
Should New Mexico buy PNM? Lawmaker says yes - New Mexico Political Report
A state senator has a different idea for the future of New Mexico’s largest electric utility: Have the state buy it.  Sen. Harold Pope introduced Senate Memorial 9 Friday asking the New Mexico Public ...
nmpoliticalreport.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Short term, medium term, long term: We have to stop funding ICE. Period.

#stopICE
February 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM
As a result of the Immigrant Safety Act (HB9), the Otero County Detention Facility (ICE) will close when its contract expires. Way to go New Mexico!

One down, two to go: Torrance County Detention Facility and the Cibola County Detention Center.

www.koat.com/article/oter...
Otero County will close detention facility in Alamogordo
The Immigrant Safety Act bans contracting with ICE to detain people in New Mexico for civil immigration violations.
www.koat.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"But courage is not the absence of fear—it is the decision that something else matters more." This will be increasingly important to remember as the situation continues to worsen.

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Choosing Courage in a Season of Fear
Across Minnesota’s Indivisible circles, a familiar and understandable conversation has taken hold.
indivisibletwincities.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Little is being said about Project Jupiter, a massive data center proposed to be built in Doña Ana County. At SourceNM, Arturo Terrazas discusses the recent approval by the County Commission of $185 billion in industrial revenue bonds.

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February 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The City of Albuquerque has a webpage with resources about immigrant rights, including rights during raids and a detainee locator. www.cabq.gov/office-of-eq...
Know Your Rights: Derechos de los Inmigrantes
Information and resources about immigrant rights.
www.cabq.gov
February 13, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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I'm attending Mesa Valley Indivisible's event, “Join Mesa Valley Indivisible to Protest ICE Deportations & the AROCC Detention Center” - sign up now to join me! #mesavalleyi www.mobilize.us/mesavalleyin...
Join Mesa Valley Indivisible to Protest ICE Deportations & the AROCC Detention Center · Mesa Valley Indivisible
## 🛫 ICE & AROCC: Stop ICE operations at Mesa Gateway Airport! For the past eight months, [Mesa Valley Indivisible](https://www.mesavalleyindivisible.org/) members and a coalition of groups around th...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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The recently filed legal challenge says elected officials "abruptly" went into a closed-door meeting during the September hearing on Project Jupiter.
Lawsuit alleges NM county's Project Jupiter data center vote violated Open Meetings Act • Source New Mexico
A new lawsuit accues Doña Ana County officials of violating the Open Meetings Act during a hearing for the Project Jupiter data center.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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While Santa Fe has seen repeated demonstrations since the start of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, recent demonstrations — including Wednesday’s protest, a week after a walkout at Santa Fe High — have brought some of the most youth-led and personally fueled pushback to ICE.
Santa Fe students, some as young as 11, join anti-ICE walkout
Hundreds of youth staged the protest over fears that immigrants will face deportation, family separation and violence
www.santafenewmexican.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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New Mexico memorial calling for study of forced sterilization against Women of Color advances.
New Mexico would be the first state to acknowledge the history of eugenics practices in the US. ictnews.org/news/new-mex...
New Mexico memorial calling for study of forced sterilization against women of color advances - ICT
New Mexico would be the first state to acknowledge the history of eugenics practices in the U.S., expert says
ictnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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The New Mexico State Land Commissioner has called on federal and state justice departments to do a thorough investigation of a New Mexico ranch formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein after an email alleged that two girls' bodies are buried in hills near the property.
Calls grow for deeper probe into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch
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February 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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New Mexico lawmakers are investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s activities at his infamous Zorro Ranch. Democratic state Rep. Andrea Romero is leading efforts to establish a truth commission in the House of Representatives.

www.kob.com/politics-new...
NM lawmakers look to create truth commission on Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch
New Mexico lawmakers are investigating Jeffrey Epstein's activities at his infamous Zorro Ranch.
www.kob.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM