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Hazen Hammel
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Retired New Mexico lawyer (he/him)

mostly here for legal news because legacy media has poor coverage and doesn't link to original documents
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roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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The Illinois Accountability Commission is gathering precisely the kind of evidence that will hold ICE and the Trump Administration responsible.
Democratic AGs stress importance of citizen-generated evidence in challenging ICE • Stateline
Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to the Trump administration’s version of immigration enforcement incidents.
stateline.org
February 14, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I always thought this was true, even when my client was a victimizer.

You can't professionally and competently defend an asshole unless *you* understand precisely how much of an asshole he is.

Even if he can't
Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.
February 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
The New Mexico Senator up for reelection in 2026, Ben Ray Lujan, will face NO Republican challenger.

Lujan's would-be challenger failed to get enough qualifying signatures.

www.abqjournal.com/news/four-ne...
Four New Mexico candidates disqualified after failing to meet ballot requirements
Rulings could mean easier paths to reelection for some New Mexico incumbents
www.abqjournal.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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It’s so stupid to talk about what the Founders wanted our elections to look like.

They were racist, misogynist elitists who only wanted white men with land to vote.

So who gives a fuck what they wanted for our elections? We have moved on. (Well, some of us.)
February 14, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Welcome to the Plutocracy
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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The scariest part about today being Friday the 13th is that tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Plan accordingly.
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Finally

NIMBY I can support

(and the 3 existing death camps in New Mexico should be closed immediately)

open.substack.com/pub/headsupn...
NIMBY, but for concentration camps
ICE is getting major pushback as it tries to buy massive warehouses for people
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Happy anniversary everybody
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Since Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day are kind of all bundled into one this weekend, you can definitely get away with consuming them

I recommend a quick sear, topped with béarnaise sauce and perhaps some roasted asparagus.

I told you this meal was to die for
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 AM
No one should ever forget that Democrats lost in 2024 because Biden didn't drop out in time and the donor/consultant establishment imposed Kamala Harris on us.

Let's not make that mistake twice.

The primaries are NOW. Demand progressive candidates NOW.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Happy to report that these heroes have been officially cleared of being mentioned in the Epstein Files.
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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They not only failed to get an indictment, they failed to get a single grand juror’s vote. It’s probable that this has never happened before.

Likely because the DOJ has never sent hack political appointees to attempt to get indictments on sitting Congress members over protected speech before.
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Apropos of nothing much, a reminder that Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months in prison.
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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To understand how horrible Pamela Jo Bondi is, remember she only has her current job as US Attorney General because she took a bribe from Donald Trump when she was Florida's Attorney General to drop an investigation into the obvious consumer fraud perpetrated by his scam called "Trump University."
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Thanks to the appalling incompetence of Trump's Department of Justice, we can now retire the expression "A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich." They will not.
February 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Hello 911? I'd like to report a murder
February 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Wake me up when someone gives a credible explanation for the TEN DAY air restriction in El Paso and Southern New Mexico
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM