#bernalillo

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mammatus clouds form over the Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo Co, NM. Photo: Bryan J Raymond (Jun 16, 2022)

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"How, indeed, could it be possible for a man, who is limited on six sides—by east, west, south, north, deep, and sky—to understand a matter which is above the skies, which is beneath the deep, which stretches beyond north and south, and which is present in every place, and fills all vacuity?" ~ St. Gregory the Wonderworker (c. 213-268)

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

[tsugacanadensis]

photos from the time i spent seven weeks in New Mexico (4/5)

[josephinebrackentv]

https://inaki.org

[lockvogel]

Views from the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico

[cloysterbell]

The TOTK brainworms have fully taken over so here’s my new Rito OC. They’re a vermilion flycatcher

[aryburn-trains]

AT&SF locomotive, engine number 3780, engine type 4-8-4 Train Second #3, California Limited; heavy smoke; 11 cars, 40 MPH. Photographed: South Bernalillo, N.M., September 20, 1947.

[conandaily2022]

New Mexico State Police arrests Albuquerque's Fred Cobley, Michael Sanchez, Joshua Candelaria, Roswell's Zachary Thompson

Fred Cobley, 43, Michael Sanchez, 39, of Joshua Candelaria, 37, are residents of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. Zachary Thompson, 20, is from Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico. A

[sidleyparkhermit]

I will never be over Howard Hamlin. He’s a stone cold hunk. He’s autistic. He’s bisexual. He can’t sleep. He has a drinking problem. He’s a nepotism baby. He’s an amateur barista. He’s in love with his hot wife and his dead law partner. He cries in the public bathroom of the Bernalillo County Superior Court. He likes being on his bike because it’s the one time he doesn’t have to be “on.” He went to his grave not knowing why his law partner’s brother made billboards dressed up like him. He’s in a legal dramedy. He’s in a horror movie. He’s the kind of guy to get hammered and deliver an incredible speech to the two people who hurt him the most in the world and then try to talk down an armed stranger to protect them. HE’S UNDER THE FUCKING LAB

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Sunrise over the Sandia Mountains, viewed from the Bosque, Bernalillo Co, NM. Photo: Robert Betchel (Oct 29, 2023). (Robert Scott Horton)

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How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)

Wendell Berry

Make a place to sit down.

Sit down. Be quiet.

You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment.

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Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

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Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

—The selected poems of Wendell Berry

[inkandguns]

Crazy ass New Mexico. I’m sure the criminals will respect the ban.

[americaisdead]

bernalillo, new mexico. september 2023

© tag christof

[hank-strange]

New Mexico Governor Creates Open Season Against Law Abiding Citizens Of Her State! Criminals Rejoice! What The Actual F**K?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Shuham at HuffPost:

Last summer, a candidate for the New Mexico state House showed up on Nathan Jaramillo’s doorstep. Jaramillo, the Bureau of Elections administrator in Bernalillo County, said Peña had previously sent threatening emails to both himself and to others in the county. Jaramillo brushed it off, annoyed at the personal intrusion but unconcerned. Five months later, Peña, a Trump supporter who lost his election and rejected the results, was arrested and charged with organizing a string of brazen drive-by shootings targeting public officials. Jaramillo thought back to five months earlier, when the man had shown up at his doorstep. The severity of the situation “really hit me,” Jaramillo told HuffPost. “In hindsight, it was a lot more scary.” Now, Jaramillo’s office assigns ticket numbers to emails they receive, organizing them by sender and keeping tabs on the office’s responses, in the hopes of anticipating anyone who could escalate their complaints into something more serious.

But the incident with Peña — who has pleaded not guilty, and whose attorney did not respond to a request for comment — is just one scene representative of an increasingly tense era of American politics. Fueled by Trump’s lies about election theft, supporters of his have spent years threatening election workers and the democratic process — and acting upon those threats. Now, as the 2024 presidential campaign charges toward November, election offices are taking steps they’d never dreamed could be necessary. Several election officials HuffPost spoke to laid out laundry lists of upgrades — everything from ballistic windows, doors and walls to new security cameras, electronic access badges and location trackers on ballot boxes. And as the Republican Party continues to push lies about election integrity — a scripted Republican Party call last month falsely claimed there was “massive fraud” in 2020 — election officials are gearing up to protect what promises to be an even more tense presidential contest this year.

[...] Around the country, election officials are working on evacuation and “quick containment” drills for future potential envelope attacks — even just using a bucket to contain a suspicious envelope — and stocking up on masks, gloves and naloxone, just in case, said Jennifer Morrell, a former elections official in Utah and Colorado and co-founder of an election consulting group during a recent call hosted by the National Task Force on Election Crises.

[...] “Prior to 2016, it was a pretty sleepy industry. People trusted their election officials and the process,” she said. Then, Hall said, “everything changed: When you have rhetoric coming from the top, it empowers and activates people all the way down the food chain.”

[...] But election workers’ preparations for 2024 are complicated by the sheer range of security issues that could come up: Since 2020, for example, Trump supporters across the country have tried — sometimes successfully — to copy data from sensitive equipment like voting machines and ballot tabulators. In Michigan, for example, several prominent Republicans, including a former GOP nominee for state attorney general, have been charged with felonies for their roles in an alleged conspiracy to improperly gain access to ballot tabulators. In Colorado, a former county clerk faces felony charges for allegedly allowing a computer technician to get into election machines under false pretenses; information from the machines was subsequently shared at an election fraud conspiracy theory summit. The answer to these growing threats, according to election officials, is a mix of background checks, digital protections like phishing training for staff and multi-factor authentication for accessing databases, in addition to physical measures like electronic badges that allow different levels of access to observers, volunteers, election workers and government employees.

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Brain Drain

For veteran election administrators, the Trump era has brought with it a troubling wave of resignations. Workers at all levels have decided they’d rather not participate in a process that, in recent years, has led some of their neighbors to think they’re part of an anti-democratic cabal. What used to be considered sleepy “clerk work” is now heavily scrutinized — and, as the Republican attacks against Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss showed, may make people vulnerable to nationwide defamation campaigns. In North Carolina, there’s been a “huge increase” in directors of elections retiring, Bowens said. And Jaramillo described “individuals that were with our office for 20-plus years [who] made the determination that they weren’t in it for the 2024 ride.” Mast said he’d seen an “incredible” number of election workers retiring or changing fields. Among elected clerks, Mast said the position has gone from one filled largely by career administrators who served lengthy tenures to one with roughly 30% turnover every four years. After the “environmental changes” of 2020, experienced clerks have begun leaving the field more often, he said. “It’s incredible to see.”

Election administration was once a sleepy nonpartisan industry, but with rampant election denialism instigated by Donald Trump and fellow right-wing bad actors, election administrators are looking to make safety upgrades before this fall's election.

[collapsedsquid]

Earlier this year, prosecutors offered a plea deal to Demetrio and Jose Trujillo, and both pleaded guilty to several felonies, including conspiracy, election interference and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Both men and Peña were arrested in early 2023, accused in drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Bernalillo County Commissioners Adriann Barboa and Debbie O’Malley; state Rep. Javier Martínez; and state Sen. Linda Lopez. Prior to that, Peña had lost a November 2022 run for a New Mexico House seat by nearly 50 percentage points. Authorities say Peña then took aim at the Bernalillo County commissioners who certified the results and other Democratic lawmakers. Nobody was injured in the four shootings, which occurred between Dec. 4 and Jan. 3. The bullets did damage the politicians’ homes, and some flew into Lopez’s daughter’s bedroom as the 10-year-old slept.

[conandaily2022]

Jeffrey Contreras biography: 10 things about Roswell, New Mexico man

Jeffrey Conteras is a resident of New Mexico, United States. Here are 10 more things about him: