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Jenn
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Defender of Justice

🔹️Poverty is not a Crime, Accountability Not Persecution, Anti-Genocide, & Supporter of Many Paths to Citizenship
🔹️Land of Enchantment 🌶🔆🌵
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Put together a defense friendly criminal justice pack for BlueSky newbies, enjoy!

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In a profession where our clients have few means and less influence, we are truly the instruments of justice

Happy to see New Mexico public defenders, including me and Isaac here in Santa Fe, featured in this book by the American Bar Association

Reports @thenewmexican.bsky.social
'I upheld my client's rights': Collection of essays by public defenders includes two Santa Fe attorneys
Jennifer Burrill provides behind-the-scenes details about her work on a Santa Fe murder case in which she pointed out Santa Fe police had lost 11 pieces of key evidence.
www.santafenewmexican.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ICE arrested 1,853 people in New Mexico this year. Thats 12 times the number of people they arrested here in 2024

Reports @sourcenm.com
By the #s: ICE reported 1,800 New Mexico arrests in 2025—a surge from year prior • Source New Mexico
The number of daily arrests started rising after Trump’s inauguration earlier this year and exploded after July, according to a Source New Mexico analysis.
sourcenm.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Trump is set on pursuing regime change in Europe by supporting rightwing parties

His new U.S. national security strategy warns European migration raises “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure” & makes clear he wont allow Europe to become “unrecognizable in 20 years”

✏️ by @theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board stops disclosing names of officers accused of misconduct & the details of the discipline

✏️ by @thenewmexican.bsky.social
Police discipline moves further into the shadows as board withholds officers' names
The state Law Enforcement Certification Board previously disclosed the names of officers accused of misconduct.
www.santafenewmexican.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It costs $13,000,000 per prisoner at Guantánamo Bay

@nytimes.com reporting from 2019
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Evidence you don't need a gun to take down a bad guy with a gun
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Guantánamo Bay is not only an incredibly expensive prison, it's remoteness makes it virtually impossible for those detained to have access to their families or lawyers
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
She was shot at 15 in a school shooting at her high school in California.

She decided to go to college at Brown University, in a state she deemed to have strong gun laws. Saturday, a shooter attacked her school for the 2nd time.

✏️ by @washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I think by flipping a coin we are violating the people's constitutional rights, the right to vote"

According to New Mexico statute, a tie vote results in a procedure to determine the winner "by lot," which could be a draw of cards, a flip of a coin, drawing a name from a hat or a roll of the dice
Taos Judge Dickie Chavez wins reelection in coin toss
The coin toss, which was conducted by 8th Judicial District Court Judge Emilio Chavez, followed an automatic recount of write-in ballots.
www.santafenewmexican.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A shooter dressed in black killed at least 2 people and wounded 8 others at Brown University during final exams on the Ivy League campus. Police are still searching for the suspect.

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This single closure wipes out nearly 5% of the nation’s daily beef capacity. Add another 1,700 jobs lost in Amarillo, Texas, and it’s clear the beef supply is under stress and workers are eating the fallout

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
December 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“I’m not going to let our school district ruin an entire dept’s budget over greed"

#nmleg Sen. Muñoz threated a police investigation after NM Ed Sec. Padilla told legislators her agency "accidentally" over paid $35,000,000 to Gallup-McKinley for 3,000 students who are no longer enrolled there
New Mexico education department says $35M shortfall due to overpayment to Gallup schools • Source New Mexico
New Mexico Public Education Department asked lawmakers for $35 million after paying a district for online students it no longer has.
sourcenm.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Judge Paula Xinis found ICE detained Abrego after his return to the United States without any legal basis

This imprisonment came after he was returned to the U.S. after he was "mistakenly" deported and held in CECOT, a notoriously violent Salvadoran prison despite having no criminal record
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Student loans + "Total gross national debt amounts to $112,881 per person" 🤔

www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
After Sec. Noem denied deporting any military veterans, Sae Joon Park, a combat veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart appeared on a video call from Korea after being deported

"You don't seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys"

- Rep. @magaziner.house.gov
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Reposted by Jenn
If the prices of homes had risen as the same rate as median incomes then homes in 2025 would cost an average of $191,000
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"South Sudan’s military has moved into the Heglig oilfield under an unprecedented agreement between the country and neighbouring Sudan’s warring parties to safeguard critical energy infrastructure from the country’s civil war."
South Sudan army to secure critical Heglig oilfield in Sudan war spillover
The move follows RSF capture and deadly drone attack on Sudan's largest energy facility.
www.aljazeera.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Jenn
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward Despite Community Pushback ...

Instead of paying property & gross receipt taxes, the project will make incremental payments spread out over 30 years totalling $360 million — just a fraction of bond monies of $165 Billion

✏️ by @truthout.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Months after @bsky.app blocked access to Mississippi users, the social media platform is available in the state once again, but only for adults 18 and up.

But larger social media platforms like Instagram and X still have not implemented state-mandated age-verification systems

buff.ly/kUtlxJ8
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Gotta 💕 Santa Fe, these bad boys showed up in my backyard last night. They were huge
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The ICE smart watch was beeping at the hospital - she needed to charge it. If the battery died, ICE agents would think she was trying to disappear.

Days earlier, she had been on a deportation flight, but the pilot refused to let her fly with her so close to giving birth

✏️ by @jmbooyah.bsky.social
ICE is tracking pregnant women all the way to the delivery room: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labour and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump Will Have Customs & Border Patrol Check 5 Years of Social Media Posts for Visitors to the U.S.

Be warned these measures are often reciprocal so if you travel overseas expect the same treatment
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM