all about the BRAND now and being a chronically online personality 🤢... as if media industry didn't have enough egos and navel gazing

I feel this so hard

El Paso received $5.2 million to mitigate opioid risks, with more funds to come. Most of that money sits unspent Texas began distributing opioid abatement funds from a national settlement agreement with pharmaceutical companies that drove the opioid crisis.

Great reporting by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social @elpasomatters.bsky.social on how the county, city, and local hospital are using their opioid settlement funds... including $411k spent on demolishing an old strip club building elpasomatters.org/2025/12/01/e...

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns - Inside Climate News Environmental advocates warn that border wall construction on the rugged mountain could cause erosion and sever wildlife corridors. Customs and Border Protection says it is necessary to prevent border...

The Trump administration has waived environmental laws to move forward with a border wall through the rugged terrain of Mount Cristo Rey in New Mexico.

U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.

The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low.

www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...

After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.

After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

also here's @brcndy.bsky.social indulging the most demanding little Palestinian girl in the Masoud family during our reporting 😂

Rooted in resilience: Palestinians build lives, community in El Paso For Palestinians in El Paso, Israel’s assault on Gaza is a reminder of their family’s hundred years’ struggle.

I got the chance to listen to multiple generations of Palestinians in El Paso share their family history, starting with expulsion from Palestine to building lives as a "minority among minorities" in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Read their stories here:
elpasomatters.org/2025/05/12/p...

El Paso measles cases: Tracking Texas outbreak from the border Updates on the Texas measles outbreak that had spread to El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and southern New Mexico.

Our measles tracker is up! Infectious diseases do not know borders. With that in mind, we're collecting the latest updates on measles (sarampión) in the tri-state area of El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

elpasomatters.org/2025/05/01/e...

Southeast Asians in L.A. region are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigra...

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in LA and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE offices @melissagomez.bsky.social
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Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.

SCOOP: Eli Lilly is now suing some bigger-name telehealth companies selling compounded tirzepatide like Henry Meds and Mochi. With @emilymullin.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/glp-1-...

In latest interview, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison doubled down on your parents' decision to trade your childhood dog to a farm upstate.

The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain and how it impacts El Paso From El Paso to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.

Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk.

From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide.

@naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report:

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...

Measles case reported for the first time in Doña Ana County • Source New Mexico New Mexico health officials reported five new measles cases in children Tuesday including in Doña Ana County.

New Mexico health officials reported five additional measles cases Tuesday, including one child in Doña Ana County, which exposed people at a daycare and several hospital locations over the past two weeks.

3 more measles cases, including at an El Paso high school, reported after Texas linked the first cases in the area to the ongoing outbreak:

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/11/e...

El Paso, Juárez confirm first measles cases of 2025 Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.

Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez.

500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there.

elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...

This outbreak has also spread in Chihuahua, Mexico (a lot of Mennonites from this state resettled in TX where the epicenter of the outbreak is). There's at least one measles case now reported in Juarez, just on the other side of El Paso, Texas.

De Los Everything Latinidad

Recommend following @latimes.com De Los for more issues in Latinidad: www.latimes.com/delos

‘He’s here with me:’ Walmart shooting survivor honors late father at quinceañera Guillermo “Memo” García was the last person to die from the Aug. 3, 2019, Walmart mass shooting. His daughter paid tribute to him at her quinceañera, dancing to “Préstame a Mi Padre.”

I still keep in touch with a survivor of the hate crime, who lost her husband in the El Paso mass shooting. While she feels some conflict about the death penalty as a mother trying to protect her children, she ultimately feels let down & hurt by the justice system.
elpasomatters.org/2023/12/10/r...

Appreciate @latimes.com for referencing El Paso Matters reporting, connecting it to the bigger theme of justice and the political rhetoric right now.

El Paso has not posted its March numbers yet, but there have been 7 cases of Valley fever so far this year, likely an undercount.

READ MORE: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

My version:

10 am: My “morning shed” — an Advil or two and chug water to shed the effect of last night’s beers.

10:15: Feed the guinea pigs.

10:30 am: “Morning cleanse” with a 3-in-1 cleaning product optimized for my hair, face and body by the German scientists at Nivea. 1/?

Trump Taps Morgan Lewis Attorney for NLRB General Counsel Post President Donald Trump is nominating Crystal Carey, a partner at large management-side law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, to be National Labor Relations Board general counsel.

Trump has nominated a union buster to lead the NLRB.

The message is clear.

Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.

Really important story by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social for @elpasomatters.bsky.social about Valley fever in the El Paso area. “You have to wonder, for every case that’s diagnosed, how many cases go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed?” elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.

Valley fever, endemic to the Southwest, claimed this El Paso mother’s life. Experts say lack of awareness leads to misdiagnosis and missed chances to treat infections.

elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring ALT: a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring

LA PARKA ass stutter step penalty from Raul

I can't with all these smug, short-term memory Gregg riders. The USMNT bar is so low that beating a weak Mexico and some CONCACAF teams has stagnated as the ceiling for success.

Poch took a big L this Nations League, but for ffs the US is not sniffing a World Cup final with GGG either.

CORRECTION: More than 300 measles cases in Texas and New Mexico combined from that particular outbreak.

El Paso kindergarteners last school year were just above 95% measles vaccination rate the CDC says is needed for herd immunity in a community.

The rate is higher than larger Texas counties, which lag major border counties.

READ MORE 👉 elpasomatters.org/2025/02/23/m...