Miriam Chaiken
@chaikenmiriam.bsky.social
Anthropologist, writer, cook, New Mexican, proud liberal
Also at miriamchaiken.com
My book "Creative Ozone - The Artists of Westbeth" is now available, order from your favorite local bookseller.
Also at miriamchaiken.com
My book "Creative Ozone - The Artists of Westbeth" is now available, order from your favorite local bookseller.
mee-meep.
The recycled roadrunner sculpture at the rest stop on I-10, west of Las Cruces.
#travel #roadtrip #ipulledoverforthis #LasCruces #NewMexico #art
#travel #roadtrip #ipulledoverforthis #LasCruces #NewMexico #art
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
mee-meep.
Such brave women, we owe them. Let the evil people be exposed, release all the files.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Such brave women, we owe them. Let the evil people be exposed, release all the files.
Let's go!
We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again.
We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026.
Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/
We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026.
Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Let's go!
Dems are always SO bad at spin and weaponizing language, this is how it should be done. I've done my hand wringing, time to push forward. Thanks for this reinterpretation.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Dems are always SO bad at spin and weaponizing language, this is how it should be done. I've done my hand wringing, time to push forward. Thanks for this reinterpretation.
To my Senators from NM, Heinrich and Lujan, PLEASE hold strong, don't vote to end the shutdown without total victory. Kicking the can down the road will not solve anything, and just increase likelihood of another shutdown. HOLD THE LINE.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
To my Senators from NM, Heinrich and Lujan, PLEASE hold strong, don't vote to end the shutdown without total victory. Kicking the can down the road will not solve anything, and just increase likelihood of another shutdown. HOLD THE LINE.
This would be the only Trump themed coin that I would happily carry in my pocket.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This would be the only Trump themed coin that I would happily carry in my pocket.
From his lips to God’s ears.
The first honest thing Steve Bannon has ever said.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
From his lips to God’s ears.
Further confirmation that for this administration, cruelty is the point. Closing USAID is the single worst decision for international relations in the history of our country.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Further confirmation that for this administration, cruelty is the point. Closing USAID is the single worst decision for international relations in the history of our country.
Reposted by Miriam Chaiken
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Had so much fun last week in NYC:
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Had so much fun last week in NYC:
We see these white and green border patrol vehicles often here in NM (close to ELP). Always makes me nervous.
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We see these white and green border patrol vehicles often here in NM (close to ELP). Always makes me nervous.
Truth teller.
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Truth teller.
Cruelty is the point. Make poor people suffer, make poor children hungry. Not satisfied to punish global south, now turn to our own people. I'll bet more folks who use SNAP are in red states than blue.
27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Cruelty is the point. Make poor people suffer, make poor children hungry. Not satisfied to punish global south, now turn to our own people. I'll bet more folks who use SNAP are in red states than blue.
The building is still a site of innovation -- now in the arts. Check out my new book Creative Ozone- The Artists of Westbeth
October 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The building is still a site of innovation -- now in the arts. Check out my new book Creative Ozone- The Artists of Westbeth
I am so sad to learn of Jane Goodall‘s passing, she was such an important person in my life. Reading her first book when I was home with the flu, as a teenager, made me want to follow her footsteps, and meeting her in person years later was a highlight of my life.
October 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I am so sad to learn of Jane Goodall‘s passing, she was such an important person in my life. Reading her first book when I was home with the flu, as a teenager, made me want to follow her footsteps, and meeting her in person years later was a highlight of my life.
Reposted by Miriam Chaiken
The entire administration are corrupt grifters who care nothing about our nation and our people. Disgusting.
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The entire administration are corrupt grifters who care nothing about our nation and our people. Disgusting.
Reposted by Miriam Chaiken
Sinclair owned stations
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is Sinclair Broadcasting.
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Sinclair owned stations
And used through instead of threw…
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
And used through instead of threw…
This. Thank you Dr. Caplan.
September 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This. Thank you Dr. Caplan.
Thank you for being a truth teller against such enormous odds.
One thing you learn in life is that "speaking truth to power" and practicing integrity is easy when your job, your money, your fame, or your office is not on the line. The hard is speaking truth and practicing integrity when any one of those is on the line. That is the test of who you are.
September 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Thank you for being a truth teller against such enormous odds.
Reposted by Miriam Chaiken
I’m nostalgic for the days when Americans lectured other countries about violations of civil liberties.
“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”
That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.
That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.
Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken
Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…
www.djv.de
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m nostalgic for the days when Americans lectured other countries about violations of civil liberties.
We love our turquoise license plate, so meaningful for us in NM. Even though our official state question is "red or green?" (chile), I'm not a fan of the chile plate (though a big fan of plates of chile).
new mexico has two of the top-tier license plates—the yellow and the turquoise—and then a third one that is like the City Connect jerseys of license plates
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We love our turquoise license plate, so meaningful for us in NM. Even though our official state question is "red or green?" (chile), I'm not a fan of the chile plate (though a big fan of plates of chile).