Albuquerque, NM blindbunny • 2d ago • 100%

Settlement enshrines tribe's rights to use part of a national preserve for cultural practices

apnews.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21008754 > ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A settlement reached by the U.S. government and a Native American tribe in New Mexico signals the end to what has been a yearslong legal fight over claims to the Valles Caldera National Preserve. > > Government attorneys in a filing Friday asked a federal appeals court to close out the litigation with Jemez Pueblo in light of a settlement being reached after more than a year of negotiation. The case began in 2012 when the pueblo asserted its claims to all of the preserve, which spans nearly 140 square miles (363 square kilometers). > > The agreement signed by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in part recognizes the pueblo’s rights to occupy and use a nearly 5-square-mile (13-square-kilometer) area for traditional cultural and religious purposes. It follows a 2023 ruling by the court that acknowledged the pueblo’s title to what is known as the Banco Bonito area. > > Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo and the country’s first Native American Cabinet secretary, said in a statement that the nation’s lands have been central to the cultural and spiritual practices of Indigenous people for generations.

Albuquerque, NM blindbunny • 4d ago • 100%

Checks and balances: Here's how ABQ voters can increase City Council's power

www.yahoo.com

Shout-out to Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io for making me aware of this ✊

Motorcycles blindbunny • 1w ago • 100%

Android Automotive is coming to a motorbike for the first time, thanks to KTM

www.androidauthority.com

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44667573

cats blindbunny • 1w ago • 99%

Mutual Aid Kitty

  

Motorcycles blindbunny • 1w ago • 100%

Reminder: Wear a helmet!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26471848

Albuquerque, NM blindbunny • 2w ago • 100%

John Brown Breakfast Club Polsole Sunday

  It's fall mfers that means we'll be serving Polsole every Sunday at Trumbull Park _on top of_ every Saturday we'll be making burritos under the lead bridge. That's right! We're be taking care of your weekend meals all you have to do is show up and yell fuck the police with us. Don't forget to give us a call to tell us to bring cigarettes or something you might need, vent IDC I'll check the voicemails if you leave one.

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. blindbunny • 1mo ago • 100%

Earth Systems Update- September 2024


Albuquerque, NM blindbunny • 1mo ago • 97%

Albuquerque's police chief thinks cops have a 5th Amendment right to leave their body cameras off

reason.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20380296 > Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege." > > Even more troubling, Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections."

All Cops Are Bastards blindbunny • 1mo ago • 100%

TIL oinkers broke into Infinity Ward's offices and had a stand off with a mannequin "Ghost" from COD

www.polygon.com


New Mexico blindbunny • 1mo ago • 95%

New Mexico starts building an abortion clinic to serve neighboring states, train medical students

apnews.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28424855 > Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday. > > Construction of the clinic will draw upon $10 million in state funding that was set aside by the governor under a 2022 executive order. New Mexico has one of the country’s most liberal abortion-access laws. > > Lujan Grisham, a second-term Democrat who can’t run again in 2026, reiterated her commitment to shoring up abortion access in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked universal access to abortion.

politics blindbunny • 2mo ago • 93%

Skip Hall, Mayor of Surprise, AZ is a prick

https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2024/08/27/free-speech-lawsuit-surprise-city-council-woman-arrested https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/letters-surprise-mayor-should-resign-attorney-must-go-after-incident,529702 https://surpriseaz.gov/1175/About-the-Mayor

Books blindbunny • 2mo ago • 96%

Thoughts on "The Overstory"

The ending felt somber in the realization that, there is really nothing we can do to save this planet. We're living on borrowed time. The best we can do is help the next apex species realize the mistakes we've made so that they don't repeat them. But maybe I'm just over here dooming. What are your thoughts?

Motorcycles blindbunny • 2mo ago • 99%

Harley-Davidson caves to Republican demands, drops diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18882293

Hey Hexbear, I'm gonna tell you a story. Around 2007 there was this guy that moved to Pueblo Colorado after his band broke up to be closer to a friend he knew from highschool. Things were pretty great at first but as the friend and him grew away from each other he started using substances. He tried weed, E, MDMA, and some other drugs before, he thought they were fine but after he did cocaine for the first time he found something that would help him cope with the failure of his band breaking up and losing his friendship and shortly after that, his job at the local vitamin cottage due to the 2008 financial collapse. He'd party and take a couple of bumps and make up business plans he'd never follow up on until he met someone else. A little later his new friend showed him meth and not long after that his lease ended with the original friend he moved to Colorado for which he wasn't prepared for. The scare of suddenly being homeless and living out of a tour van scared him enough to pick up a job selling with his dealer and struggling to not smoke his profits. He managed to save up enough to get a studio apartment! He was really trying to impress the original friend he moved in with he even tagged the fuck out of his bathroom because he thought he was going to live there for a while but dealing doesn't provide pay stubs and since he couldn't provide proof of income (despite trying to forge one) he was kicked out. He failed again. He still had his van though and his job dealing but the shame of not having a home or provable income ruined him. Somewhere along the way he was jailed and around 2009 his parents heard that he wasn't doing well and found him and brought him back to Florida and after seeing his teeth put him in rehab. But the shame of being a failure to his family, his former friend, he got out of rehab and started smoking meth in Pensacola. Around 2012 he managed to sober up enough to get a job at the local Lowe's and pass a drug test! But he lived in a halfway house with another tweaker. A friend he met in Navarre found out that he was doing meth again and rented a uhaul and moved him out and in with her. She set up some ground rules to live in her house. He thought the rules were stupid but tried to follow them. He fucked up a couple of times but his friend didn't kick him out and he eventually started to feel guilty about ruining her life that she openly welcomed him into to help him. Around 2014 he fucked up real bad but she waited until he got home. She laid into him when he got home. To the point he laid on the hardwood floor in front of her and contemplated suicide. But she still didn't kick him out. I heard that was the last day he smoked meth. But I'm obviously just telling someone else's story and didn't cry multiple times writing this up. Any of you got some successful sobriety stories? Any friends that got someone sober? Share them below.