Benjamin López
@benjabq.bsky.social
My job is trains. Opinions mine, exhaustion perpetual. He/him/él 🏳️🌈
Guy across from me at this alumni event has the table enraptured talking about “AI 2027” and I feel like I’m about to explode @edzitron.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Guy across from me at this alumni event has the table enraptured talking about “AI 2027” and I feel like I’m about to explode @edzitron.com
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Groimes storship ixplordid
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Groimes storship ixplordid
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This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
May 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Ontario you can do it if you have the courage 🇨🇦
March 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ontario you can do it if you have the courage 🇨🇦
tariffs on day 1. actually no, february. actually no, march. ok you did what I want but you still get tariffs. you can’t do them back. wait never mind you reminded me of the stuff you did so now it’s april. move your factories in 30 days. some things have no tariffs. figure out which ones.
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
tariffs on day 1. actually no, february. actually no, march. ok you did what I want but you still get tariffs. you can’t do them back. wait never mind you reminded me of the stuff you did so now it’s april. move your factories in 30 days. some things have no tariffs. figure out which ones.
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Las Cruces passes “Realize” zoning reform update- first NM city to eliminate single-family zoning- a new gold standard for the state 👏👏👏
February 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Las Cruces passes “Realize” zoning reform update- first NM city to eliminate single-family zoning- a new gold standard for the state 👏👏👏
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maybe instead of fantasizing about illegally annexing a foreign nation while firing a large share of the people who keep the country running, the US government could do something actually useful for its residents
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
maybe instead of fantasizing about illegally annexing a foreign nation while firing a large share of the people who keep the country running, the US government could do something actually useful for its residents
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ABQ—we don’t need more freeway lanes and faster speed limits (not that Burque drivers observe speed limits). We need more Rail Runner service, protected bike lanes, and walkable neighborhoods. Please sign and share. chng.it/8nS8vPBwWT
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop planned I-25 expansion through Albuquerque's downtown neighborhoods
chng.it
February 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ABQ—we don’t need more freeway lanes and faster speed limits (not that Burque drivers observe speed limits). We need more Rail Runner service, protected bike lanes, and walkable neighborhoods. Please sign and share. chng.it/8nS8vPBwWT
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Big day for the sellers of tiny coffins
February 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Big day for the sellers of tiny coffins
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Republicans want you to hit your kids instead of giving them health care
Senator Tommy Tuberville: We have an attention deficit problem in this country. Attention deficit — when you or I were growing up — our parents didn’t use a drug they used a belt.
January 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Republicans want you to hit your kids instead of giving them health care
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Mass incarceration does not make us safer.
Investing in our communities does.
Investing in our communities does.
January 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Mass incarceration does not make us safer.
Investing in our communities does.
Investing in our communities does.
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In a mostly bleak election for American women and their rights, New Mexico was an unexpected bright spot.
Even as Harris lost her bid for the White House, NM voters elected 60 women to fill the legislature’s 112 seats, giving New Mexico the largest female legislative majority in US history.
Even as Harris lost her bid for the White House, NM voters elected 60 women to fill the legislature’s 112 seats, giving New Mexico the largest female legislative majority in US history.
New Mexico: Here’s what the largest female legislative majority in US history can accomplish
“There’s a chance for me to help protect my girls from legislators and from laws that want to control their bodies.”
www.motherjones.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In a mostly bleak election for American women and their rights, New Mexico was an unexpected bright spot.
Even as Harris lost her bid for the White House, NM voters elected 60 women to fill the legislature’s 112 seats, giving New Mexico the largest female legislative majority in US history.
Even as Harris lost her bid for the White House, NM voters elected 60 women to fill the legislature’s 112 seats, giving New Mexico the largest female legislative majority in US history.
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Why does a weekend in jail in Los Alamos cost the same as a month of rent in Santa Fe? 🤔
"Considering one night in jail costs between $66 in Luna County to $1,171 in Los Alamos"
"Considering one night in jail costs between $66 in Luna County to $1,171 in Los Alamos"
Jail doesn't solve root causes of addiction, homelessness
Mental illness and drug addiction are nothing new to New Mexico, which ranks 10th-worst nationally for mental health in 2024 and sixth for fatal overdoses. During Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s
www.santafenewmexican.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Why does a weekend in jail in Los Alamos cost the same as a month of rent in Santa Fe? 🤔
"Considering one night in jail costs between $66 in Luna County to $1,171 in Los Alamos"
"Considering one night in jail costs between $66 in Luna County to $1,171 in Los Alamos"
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On manic upswing: hell yeah, I'm gonna feel this way forever
January 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
On manic upswing: hell yeah, I'm gonna feel this way forever
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Congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips for all the work they did on the LA fires! Without their hard work, it's unlikely so much of LA would be on fire.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
The LA fires are a profound example of what climate scientists have been struggling to prevent for decades.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
January 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips for all the work they did on the LA fires! Without their hard work, it's unlikely so much of LA would be on fire.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
A few selections from my adventure to the Mall (with no hat ❄️🥶)
January 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A few selections from my adventure to the Mall (with no hat ❄️🥶)
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They should rename the discover tab to the libbing out tab
January 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
They should rename the discover tab to the libbing out tab
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We should build transit for the city we want, not the city we have. I'd rather be prepared for a more abundant future than a constrained present.
January 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We should build transit for the city we want, not the city we have. I'd rather be prepared for a more abundant future than a constrained present.
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Read other stories of people affected by encampment "sweeps" here:
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
projects.propublica.org
December 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Read other stories of people affected by encampment "sweeps" here:
Snow in Tijeras! ❄️ @granttosterud.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Snow in Tijeras! ❄️ @granttosterud.bsky.social
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Michael Corkery, the author of the NYT article, goes to great lengths to set up crime as stemming from homelessness and addiction, while only lightly addressing how the previous governor destroyed mental health provision in this vast and poor state.
The story is about sabotage, more than anything.
The story is about sabotage, more than anything.
December 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Michael Corkery, the author of the NYT article, goes to great lengths to set up crime as stemming from homelessness and addiction, while only lightly addressing how the previous governor destroyed mental health provision in this vast and poor state.
The story is about sabotage, more than anything.
The story is about sabotage, more than anything.
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The resistance begins.
Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.
Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.
December 17, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The resistance begins.
Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.
Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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