This Second Week of April, Part 1 (1716-1879) #ThisWeekIn New Mexico history review

New postings for Apr. 11-17 for This Week in New Mexico History:

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FBI Director says arrests ‘coming soon’ on 2020 rigged election conspiracy FBI Director Kash Patel: "We have the information that backs President Trump's claim.”

🚨BREAKING: FBI director Kash Patel said that his agency will soon make arrests – maybe this week – in connection to the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was rigged. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Oops sorry it was baking soda!! But my point still stands.

I learned that you can mix a little baking powder with water, then rub it on the plastic with a towel. It gets the layer of stucky crud right off. Now I have a perfect, pristine white noise machine from the year 2000. Ironically, this perfect gadget came to me for free. (2/3)

I'm not sure "tiring" is the word I'd use but otherwise yes, 100%

A study of deer and deer behaviour/ antler development. Illustration. Annotated: ‘in 8 or 9 months the first antlers start to grow And they are almost complete of the end of a year But the velvet still has to be rubbed off. This is a normal little rack of antlers for a "yearling" Six months later, the little antlers fall off again... immediately afterward, newer and stronger antlers begin to grow.’

The Living Forest: The World of Animals, Rien Poortvliet.

Two badgers in and around their sett, woodland setting, painting.

🖼️ Dick Twinney

Trump’s new budget turns the FBI into the gender police The plan casts opposition to “traditional values” as terrorism and raises fears of political targeting.

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Trump 2027 budget would weaponize FBI in its war on trans and DEI, with new funds for fighting “domestic terrorism” redefined as “extremism on migration, race and gender,” or opposing “traditional views on family, religion and morality.”

Iran Says Hormuz Strait Will Close Two Years for Renovations The Strait of Hormuz board, packed with cronies of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, also approved a plan to put Khamenei’s name on the renovated waterway.

Iran Says Hormuz Strait Will Close Two Years for Renovations
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“Continued pressure to release information will impair my access and sycophancy to the Trump elite that I crave”

Huh.

Really?

#LOLNO, Mister Dumass.

The little room under her crown would make an excellent prison cell for him and the criminal members of his cabinet.

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

A bunny adrift on a tiny ice floe asks a passing seal for help. the seal has a fish in its mouth, and it is a moonlit night on a calm sea.

Daily bunny no.3294 could use a ride home

Also, #FuckCancer

Whoa, neato! Science is awesome!

This is precious. The author just ripped him the biggest new asshole ever seen. A beautiful sight

The problem with tech bros is that they sound like smart people to idiots

Yeah right! 🍻

I was a resident tutor in Winthrop House, while Elise Stefanik lived there as Harvard undergrad. She was a replacement-level hyper-ambitious centrist who wanted to be famous in politics. All of her lies & authoritarian nonsense about college & the rest, including 👇, is a performative act. It’s sad.

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Poster of President Trump playing the game operation At a rally today

Spotted at a rally 4/18 🤣