ABQ Free Press
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Semi-retired journalist in Albuquerque, N.M., who believes the Orange Menace is a threat to humanity and the planet. Motorcycles, journalism, flying, golf, military history, green chile and democracy. (Yes, I wield a mean wet mop.)
Correction. Hed should read:
U.S. delegation meets with Putin in latest Trump bid to sell out Ukraine
U.S. delegation meets with Putin in latest Trump bid to sell out Ukraine
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Correction. Hed should read:
U.S. delegation meets with Putin in latest Trump bid to sell out Ukraine
U.S. delegation meets with Putin in latest Trump bid to sell out Ukraine
Could Trump be going after Mamdani from left field through his lackey in Texas?
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Could Trump be going after Mamdani from left field through his lackey in Texas?
Looks like an ICE agent from Albuquerque, Guillermo Diaz-Torres, 33, got hammered and was busted for DWI after crashing his rental car at 2 a.m. in a western suburb of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Looks like an ICE agent from Albuquerque, Guillermo Diaz-Torres, 33, got hammered and was busted for DWI after crashing his rental car at 2 a.m. in a western suburb of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune.
So, we’re now part of the Russian Federation?
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
So, we’re now part of the Russian Federation?
SCOTUS’s unsigned emergency-docket orders are important signals:
“We are cowards who fear if we definitively rule against Trump, he’ll ignore our orders and it’s game over.”
So, these unsigned, non-precedent-setting, Etch A Sketch opinions buy SCOTUS time until Congress or voters weigh in.
“We are cowards who fear if we definitively rule against Trump, he’ll ignore our orders and it’s game over.”
So, these unsigned, non-precedent-setting, Etch A Sketch opinions buy SCOTUS time until Congress or voters weigh in.
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
SCOTUS’s unsigned emergency-docket orders are important signals:
“We are cowards who fear if we definitively rule against Trump, he’ll ignore our orders and it’s game over.”
So, these unsigned, non-precedent-setting, Etch A Sketch opinions buy SCOTUS time until Congress or voters weigh in.
“We are cowards who fear if we definitively rule against Trump, he’ll ignore our orders and it’s game over.”
So, these unsigned, non-precedent-setting, Etch A Sketch opinions buy SCOTUS time until Congress or voters weigh in.
Based on the women Trump has appointed to high government positions, if she were still alive today, Farrah Fawcett would be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Based on the women Trump has appointed to high government positions, if she were still alive today, Farrah Fawcett would be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Trump’s assertions of the need for troops in Chicago are “simply unreliable”?
That’s an understatement!
That’s an understatement!
October 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump’s assertions of the need for troops in Chicago are “simply unreliable”?
That’s an understatement!
That’s an understatement!
You don’t need to be a lawyer to understand how bogus Trump’s prosecutions of his enemies is. Listen to this clip of US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC:
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You don’t need to be a lawyer to understand how bogus Trump’s prosecutions of his enemies is. Listen to this clip of US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC:
The 10th Amendment is critical to preventing the current Trump power grab.
It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.
It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.
It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.
It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The 10th Amendment is critical to preventing the current Trump power grab.
It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.
It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.
It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.
It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.
Take a minute or so to watch this clip of JB Pritzker on Rachel Maddow’s show on Monday on the Trump strategy in Chicago:
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Take a minute or so to watch this clip of JB Pritzker on Rachel Maddow’s show on Monday on the Trump strategy in Chicago:
Something wicked this way comes.
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Something wicked this way comes.
No wonder Trump likes this guy.
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
No wonder Trump likes this guy.
Think back to all of Trump’s foreign policy and trade initiatives and the pattern us unmistakable. “Krasnov,” his KGB/FSB code name, is alienating US allies worldwide. Lately, tariffs are his favored method.
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Think back to all of Trump’s foreign policy and trade initiatives and the pattern us unmistakable. “Krasnov,” his KGB/FSB code name, is alienating US allies worldwide. Lately, tariffs are his favored method.
Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein
September 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein
WAR CRIMINAL: In the war against disease, this man is a criminal.
CHARGE: Crimes against humanity.
CHARGE: Crimes against humanity.
September 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
WAR CRIMINAL: In the war against disease, this man is a criminal.
CHARGE: Crimes against humanity.
CHARGE: Crimes against humanity.
Who said the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact?
September 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Who said the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact?
If the SCOTUS justices want their opinions respected, maybe they should sign them.
September 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If the SCOTUS justices want their opinions respected, maybe they should sign them.
Wow! Appeals court says Trump is not a king and can’t tax Americans through tariffs (a tax) on his own authority. A win for the Constitution!
I can’t see how SCOTUS can overturn this without revealing that they no longer give a shit about the Constitution.
I can’t see how SCOTUS can overturn this without revealing that they no longer give a shit about the Constitution.
August 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Wow! Appeals court says Trump is not a king and can’t tax Americans through tariffs (a tax) on his own authority. A win for the Constitution!
I can’t see how SCOTUS can overturn this without revealing that they no longer give a shit about the Constitution.
I can’t see how SCOTUS can overturn this without revealing that they no longer give a shit about the Constitution.
I go back and forth on this: Trump has pig eyes, porcine eyes; or Trump has shark eyes, dead eyes, lifeless eyes, as Quint said in “Jaws.” What do you think?
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I go back and forth on this: Trump has pig eyes, porcine eyes; or Trump has shark eyes, dead eyes, lifeless eyes, as Quint said in “Jaws.” What do you think?
It turns my stomach each time I see how Trump has pimped up the Oval Office.
August 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It turns my stomach each time I see how Trump has pimped up the Oval Office.
Closing in on Lamy, NM,then ABQ on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief.
August 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Closing in on Lamy, NM,then ABQ on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief.
The grassland north of Las Vegas, N.M., from Amtrak’s Southwest Chief.
August 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The grassland north of Las Vegas, N.M., from Amtrak’s Southwest Chief.
Rolling through high plains of Southeast Colorado on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief. Starting to look like New Mexico.
August 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rolling through high plains of Southeast Colorado on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief. Starting to look like New Mexico.
Breakfast at dawn on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief near Garden City, Kansas.
August 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Breakfast at dawn on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief near Garden City, Kansas.