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"New Mexico bans uranium mining on 13 million acres of state land"
#NewMexico #Environment
https://www.

New Mexico bans uranium mining on 13 million acres of state land
The state land commissioner said that the long-lasting environmental and public health impacts of uranium contamination outweigh any potential revenues to state coffers uranium mining could provide.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Coasters:
🎵 Down in Mexico
#TheCoasters
https://madsdalholt.bandcamp.com/track/the-coasters-down-in-mexico-dalholt-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OnqJ1ml4Jgr5AAKNrrYCD

Ship $1 billion of Chinese goods straight to an American port, and the duty can run to several hundred million dollars.
Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand, and most of that bill disappears.
Send them through Mexico wearing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement paperwork that they have not earned, and the bill can disappear entirely.

Opinion | It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted
U.S. tariff rates are not for rent.

Cuba | Canciller Rodríguez desmiente acusaciones de EEUU que vinculan al Estado con redes de tršfico de personas en México y Centroamérica – NODAL
https://www.nodal.am/2026/08/cuba-cancille

Cuba | Canciller Rodríguez desmiente acusaciones de EEUU que vinculan al Estado con redes de tráfico de personas en México y Centroamérica – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

Las Vegas Raiders and Team México announce strategic partnership in Mexico https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-and-team-mexico-announce-strategic-partnership-in-mexico

@… Same reason sane people still call it the Gulf of Mexico?

Las Vegas Raiders and Team México announce strategic partnership in Mexico https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-and-team-mexico-announce-strategic-partnership-in-mexico

New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens (KOB 4)
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-make-chang…

NM court orders Meta to pay $567M, make changes for underage users
A Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million, and make changes for underage accounts after finding its platforms harmed teens.

Shiyazh Pete, first Navajo NFL player, recognized on Indigenous Peoples Day https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/shiyazh-pete-first-navajo-nfl-player-recognized-on-indigenous-peoples-day

The Trump administration said that, in an effort to stop money laundering and other illicit activity at the US- Mexico border,
it would now require any business providing financial services in the region to report cash transactions over $200.
Previously, the amount had been $10,000.
But rather than dealing a crushing blow to the cartels,
business owners and legal experts say the policy has devastated small businesses across the region,
and the largely immigrant …

The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead
Small businesses pay hidden toll after money-transfer rule change to curb illicit activities near the US-Mexico border

In Michoacšn, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/in-michoacan-mexico-drying-soil-threatens-water-supplies-and-avocados-says-study/

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study
MEXICO CITY — In the heart of Mexico’s southwestern state of Michoacán, Juan Madrigal spends his free time organizing to protect the city of Uruapan’s urban ecological park, a 50-hectare (124-acre) plot of land at the edge of the Río Santa Bárbara. A state-protected area since 1995, the park’s marshlands help to purify the surrounding […]

Paw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruit | Mexico | The Guardian
#DogsOfMastodon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/mexico-…

Paw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruit
Chihuahua Comando is being trained for search-and-rescue work, and helping bring a warm connection with the public

Former Mexican governor charged in case of 43 students who vanished in 2014 | Mexico | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/former-mexican-governor-charged-in-case-of-43-students-who-vanished-in-20…

Former Mexican governor charged in case of 43 students who vanished in 2014
Ángel Aguirre indicted in case that rocked Mexico and became symbol of its brutal cartel violence

Gericht: Meta soll halbe Milliarde Dollar in Fonds für Kinder zahlen
Meta soll nach einem US-Gerichtsurteil über 500 Mio. Dollar für Kinder-Hilfen zahlen. Zudem gibt es strenge Nutzungslimits für Minderjährige in New Mexico.

Gericht: Meta soll halbe Milliarde Dollar in Fonds für Kinder zahlen
Meta soll nach einem US-Gerichtsurteil über 500 Mio. Dollar für Kinder-Hilfen zahlen. Zudem gibt es strenge Nutzungslimits für Minderjährige in New Mexico.

Donald Trump promised to sign an executive order on his first day back in office that would kill offshore wind.
In the Gulf of Mexico, his administration finally achieved that goal — more than 500 days later — by promising to sign something else:
a very big check. 
The Trump administration agreed to pay German energy company RWE more than $1.2 billion
to abandon its offshore wind projects in the United States, including the only one planned in the Gulf’s federal waters…

Las Vegas Raiders y Team México anuncian alianza estratégica en México https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-y-team-mexico-anuncian-alianza-estrategica-en-mexico

The Warning to headline halftime show at Mexico City game between Vikings, 49ers in Week 11 https://www.nfl.com/news/the-warning-to-headline-halftime-show-at-mexico-city-game-between-vikings-49ers-in-week-11

New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-new-…

Las Vegas Raiders y Team México anuncian alianza estratégica en México https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-y-team-mexico-anuncian-alianza-estrategica-en-mexico

I was thrilled to speak at the first #WordPress Day Mexico City. Thanks so much, DreamHost, for helping me grow and share with the community.
https://josvelasco.com/my-wordpress-da

Mexico's media regulation proposal, under which officials determine whether news coverage is sufficiently true or balanced, sparks censorship fears (Jeronimo Gonzalez/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/20/2026/mexico-regulation-propo…

Mexico regulation proposal sparks censorship fears
Under the plan, officials would be able to determine whether news coverage was sufficiently true or balanced, with breaches potentially costing companies as much as 1% of their annual revenue.

"The clock is ticking for #NewMexico to cut Rio Grande water use"
https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-clock-is-ticking-for-new-mexico-to-cut-ri…

Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom,
providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence.
Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers,
which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos that dominated its trade for decades.
Mexico is the second-largest provider of enterprise servers to the US so far this year…

Mexico (Taiwan) fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence. Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers, which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos […]

Renaming geography’s an odd hobby, granted, but fair enough—school shootings probably got so bad that he's run out of children to rape. https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117232700660225889

New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever (KRQE)
https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-mexico-court-to-rule…

What do you think about #AI? On possible parallels with symbiogenesis, kleptoplasty, APIs, higher-order entities, and more... https://robtow.substack.com/p/what-do-you-think-about-ai by

What Do You Think About AI?
Rob Tow · Nova Lux, New Mexico, USA, Sol III · 6 September 2026

#GoodNews @… https://pixelfed.social/p/stuffifound/990…

Stuff I found (@stuffifound@pixelfed.social)
In the category "great inventions": vegan leather that isn't plastic! #vegan #leather #cactus #AnimalRights #mexico #climate #environment #plastic #PlasticFree

TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue up 10% to $1.3B due to FIFA rights in Mexico, US ad revenue down 29% to $323.3M, subscription and licensing up 40% to $621M (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/world-cup-televisaunivision…

World Cup Q2 Split At TelevisaUnivision; Mexico Results Boom But U.S. Sees 29% Ad Sales Drop
TelevisaUnivision's second quarter was shaped by the World Cup, which boosted Mexico but hurt the U.S. due to rival Telemundo controlling the rights.

Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake-witnesses-testimony-stephen-aarons-new-mexico/

ICE, CBP, Bryan Bedford (head of FAA), SecDef kegsbreath & potus can't stop killing Americans:
"…horrifying incident…in May…small…medevac aircraft carrying 2 pilots & 2 medical workers…became…victim of an electronic warfare exercise…which rendered their navigational system inoperable.
…crew ran straight into…side of…mountain they likely never saw…It's…1st known instance where military GPS jamming played…role in downing a civilian plane in US airspace."

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nexthorizon/117382312970446408
Well that’s one way to split the difference. I see both a gulf of america and a Gulf of Mexico in the third image.

I saw a nice sunset in New Mexico this evening.

"Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good."
#US #USA #America

Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good.
Florida dumped 500,000 tons of oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico, which helped rebuild damaged reefs and restore marine habitats.

Hurricane Isaias disrupts U.S. oil production in Gulf of Mexico, threatens refineries (Spencer Kimball/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/hurricane-isaias-gulf-mexico-oil-refinery.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/261009/p56#a261009p56

incidentally, if you were curious about the lengths of the many national anthems sung before june and july's world cup matches ... i've got you covered

So peaceful, and so vibrant - incredible image by Louise Tanguay on Glass:
https://glass.photo/louisetanguay/4UqwD92tzHMhkFvAJAs4Sl

Peaceful Desert… White Sands, New Mexico
Louise Tanguay on Glass

Betrayed Texans say Trump wants to give their land to Mexico: 'Greed and corruption' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-big-bend-wall/

«Oracle löst KI-Krise aus - Zahlungen für 18-Milliarden-Rechenzentrum gestoppt»
Platzt aber nicht unvorhergesehen aber endlich langsam platzt die KI-Blase und wie weit wird dies sich ausbreiten? Es wird sicherlich spannend so wie unterhaltsam wenn die in die Realität zurück ankommen.
🍿

Oracle löst KI-Krise aus - Zahlungen für 18-Milliarden-Rechenzentrum gestoppt
Oracle stellt die Zahlungen für ein teures Rechenzentrum in New Mexico ein. Die Aktie fällt, die finanzierenden Banken geraten unter Druck.

Didn't get to see a total eclipse yet since I picked up astrophotography, but here's the annular one in 2023, as seen from Roswell, New Mexico.
Very simple setup with a professional-grade telescope solar filter film (from Baader) and a small handheld Nikon J5 mirrorless camera.
I would recommend NOT to use those cardboard eclipse glasses for photography, it's way too easy to get it wrong and ruin your camera sensor (or worse, your eyesight if you look through e.g. a DSLR and it accidentally slips).
If you don't really know what you're doing it's much better to just enjoy an event like this directly with the eclipse glasses on your face. (It's safe to look directly during totality, and totality only.)
There will be plenty of pictures!
#astrophotography

California beach communities are expected to see rising sea levels in the coming weeks as El Niño continues to strengthen,
with more sand erosion and damage possible, according to new data.
Another El Niño-influenced phenomenon
— a “coastally trapped Kelvin wave”
— is moving up the coast of Mexico and will soon hit the U.S. West Coast.
This isn’t a surfable wave,
and it wouldn’t be overtly noticeable to swimmers or boaters either.
But it is expected t…

“Los buscamos porque los amamos”, gritan las familias buscadoras en la capital mexicana
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/mexico/buscamos-amamos-gritan-familias-buscadoras-capital-mexicana?utm_source=feed

“Los buscamos porque los amamos”, gritan las familias buscadoras en la capital mexicana
En el marco del Día Internacional de las Víctimas de Desapariciones Forzadas, cientos de familiares, activistas y organizaciones civiles se movilizaron en la capital mexicana.

«The gas pipeline has been delayed because Oracle and Blue Owl went full steam ahead on the project before they got all the permits they needed. They hoped for the pipeline to be up and running last month. But now it looks like it won’t be up before late 2027. If then. New Mexico has refused the permit twice.
“Force majeure” usually means a natural disaster hit you — not “we didn’t get our permits”.»
Thanks @…

The Mega Meta settlement bundles the outstanding Cambridge Analytica lawsuits as well.

In Mexico we say “estoy mšs exprimido que un limón de fonda” and I think this is beautiful

SpaceX launches their rockets over the Gulf of Mexico. They print "Gulf of America" on their maps.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

A proposal from Mexico's government would require ombudsmen for broadcasters, ethics codes, and more, under threat of sanctions; public comments close Friday (Silvia Higuera/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismreview.org/arti

Audience rights or media control? Government proposal sparks debate in Mexico
The proposed guidelines would impose new obligations and penalties on radio and TV broadcasters. Media outlets and experts warn they could lead to sanctions and censorship.

Fans pick the NFL's first international team, from London Monarchs to Mexico City Aztecs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7524992/2026/08/19/fans-pick-the-nfls-first-international-team-from-london-monar…

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-global-maps-chart-40-years-of-ocean-heat-and-acidification-extremes/

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes
Between 2014 and 2015, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United States and Mexico combined. The massive event fueled toxic algae blooms, collapsed fisheries, killed off millions of emaciated seabirds, sent dead fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and sea otters washing up on Alaska and […]

"One of the world's rarest sea turtles was found stranded 5,000 miles from home. He's finally on his way back"
#Turtles #Animals

One of the world's rarest sea turtles, found stranded 5,000 miles from home, flies back to Texas
After two years, the critically endangered sea turtle is making his way back to the Gulf of Mexico.

Historic!
Isaac del Toro Secures Mexico's First Tour de France Podium
#TDF2026

They never relabeled the Gulf of Mexico, for the record.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rcbtnmlk2la67bm4po65oe23/post/3mu3hbrw3es2i

MapQuest (@mapquest.com)
We’re not changing it.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to
ignore a Friday deadline set by Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico,
to share information about the abuse of girls at a remote ranch formerly owned by the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Torrez’s office asked the DoJ in February for unredacted files
after he reopened a dormant criminal investigation into activities at Zorro ranch,
a remote 10,000-acre property in desert scrub outsid…

DoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch files
State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch

Some screencaps of the #Starship 13 test flight, more in the thread https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mrgigiliy22r - the Starship itself has performed flawlessly so far, deploying 20 doomed Starlink satellites and relighting an engine, but the booster lit only 5 instead of 13 engines and crashed harder into the Gulf of Mexico than planned.

#UCLA Bruins #football is 5-0 for the first time since 2022... after going 1-4 last year with losses to New Mexico, UNLV & Northwestern & firing their coach after 4 straight losses.
And this is what's left on the schedule:

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to
the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about
us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.
-- The Best of Will Rogers

#Frijoles Fire #SantaFe
https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/o…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Saracho:
🎵 Conquest de Mejico
#Saracho
https://garrettsaracho.bandcamp.com/track/conquest-de-mexico-part-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BBq8y5BN7MQRexi9uYgo8

Hurricane Polo intensifies off Mexico, could mean a continued beating for SoCal coast
El Niño typically results in an unusually active hurricane season in the eastern Pacific and heavy winter rainfall in Southern California,
and this El Niño is predicted to be the strongest in at least a generation.

Hurricane Polo intensifies off Mexico, could mean a continued beating for SoCal coast
Hurricane Polo could bring heavy rains that will pommel parts of southwestern Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center. Impacts to California are expected to be limited

If the NFL goes international, what are the challenges and what cities make sense? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7523712/2026/08/19/nfl-international-team-challenges-london-mexico-city/

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/radio-astronomy-is-getting-a-big-boost-from-the-vlas-new-sky-survey

During Donald Trump’s first term, Arizona saw 226 miles of border wall built,
but the Tohono O’odham Nation maintained its status as the longest unwalled section in the state.
Confirmation that things would be different this time came in February,
when CBP informed the tribe that it planned to seal off the reservation entirely,
tapping nearly $52 billion from Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
A vehicle barrier marks the U.S. border with Mexico in th…

As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their community.

US citizen deported to Mexico allowed home after nearly 5 months
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/06/us-citizen-deported-to-mexico-allowed-home-after-nearly-5-months/91569893007/

Trump suggests renaming New Mexico amid torrent of online memes and taunts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/07/trump-suggests-renaming-new-mexico-amid-torrent-online-memes-taunts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260907/p30#a260907p30

"Mexico’s desert ecosystem is healing months after bison reintroduction"
#Mexico #Bison #Animals

Mexico’s desert ecosystem is healing months after bison reintroduction | The Optimist Daily
Nearly 50 bison were reintroduced to a Mexican desert reserve in 2025. Within months, pumas, lynxes, and rare plants are returning too.

As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac3274ac-86ca-46ac-bc7b-029fb9dcd173

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama and triggered tsunami warnings along the west coast of Central and South America, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/09/panama-earthquake?CMP=Sha…

Powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits Panama and triggers tsunami warnings
Hazardous waves are possible in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico

“The high seas are not a sanctuary for lawlessness,” Adm Kevin Lunday, the commandant of the US Coast ‌Guard, said, as he perpetrated an act of piracy.
US Coast Guard says it intercepted ship carrying fuel to Cuba | #Cuba | The Guardian

US Coast Guard says it has intercepted ship carrying fuel to Cuba
US says ship thought to be using common ‘dark fleet’ tactics was boarded and taken to Mexico as embargo continues

Meta to pay into $567 million fund after child harms case New Mexico
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million-fund-after-child-harms-case-new-mexico.html

'Oh Hell No!' Democrats Object to Trump's Suggestion to Rename New Mexico (Jenna Monnin/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-floats-new-america-name-change-new-mexico
http://www.memeorandum.com/260906/p64#a260906p64

Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging)
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

Which international cities could add an NFL team? We asked execs around the league https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49721794/nfl-international-mexico-city-london-toronto-berlin-goodell

"So Far This Year, China Has Wasted Enough Clean Energy to Power Mexico"
#China #Energy #Renewables

So Far This Year, China Has Wasted Enough Clean Energy to Power Mexico

Donald Trump is having a mental health episode online, posting nonstop AI photos and videos:
11:54 AM - AI image of Robert De Niro holding a “Trump is my president” shirt
1:47 PM - AI image of him and George Washington riding horses
1:47 PM - AI image of him meeting with George Washington at the White House
1:47 PM - AI image of him renaming Lake Ontario
1:48 PM - Suggests renaming New Mexico to “New America”
1:49 PM - Posts image of him at McDonald's

New Mexico: "Flash, urban, and small stream flooding impacts (with significant flooding possible) are likely across the area of concern as persistent rainfall continues to impact basins that have seen heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours."
#Nmwx

In 1956, Robert Brownlee from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was asked to examine whether nuclear detonations could be conducted underground.
The first subterranean test was the nuclear device known as Pascal A in July 1957,
which was lowered down a 500 ft (150 m) borehole.
The detonated yield turned out to be 50,000 times greater than anticipated,
creating a jet of fire that shot hundreds of meters into the sky.
For the Pascal-B nuclear test in …

Operation Plumbbob - Wikipedia

Tree nearly as old as US torn down to expand Mexico border wall | Protests | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/7/tree-nearly-as-old-as-us-torn-down-to-expand-mexico-border-wall?traffic_source=rss

Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/techn…

How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

Trump posts map that renames New Mexico 'New America' (David DeTurris/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/06/us-news/trump-posts-map-that-renames-new-mexico-new-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260906/p54#a260906p54

The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas extraction across the US
is set to bring drilling near cherished natural and cultural sites,
raising alarm among conservationists and prompting questions from the UN’s heritage body.
Unesco said it has received information on the administration’s plan to
scrap a drilling-free buffer zone around the Chaco Culture national historical park in New Mexico,
a world heritage site and one of the most important cultur…

Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration’s plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco

Excessive Rainfall Outlook for Sept 23, 2026. #NMwx
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excessive_rainfall_outlook_ero.php

Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst (Kylie Madry/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mex

After 'Lake America,' Trump suggests a new name for the state of New Mexico (Amanda Macias/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lake-america-trump-suggests-new-name-state-new-mexico
http://www.memeorandum.com/260906/p53#a260906p53

Texas braces for the worst amid U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade limbo
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/31/texas-us-mexico-canada-trade-agreement/

Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Mexican government list of journalists and political opponents sparks outcry
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is under fire after a top aide publicly named dozens of journalists, media outlets and opposition figures as part of a
hostile ‘digital ecosystem’ attacking her government.
Critics decry the lists as blacklists that stigmatize independent media in one of the world’s deadliest countries for reporters.
The release of the lists comes as Sheinbaum’s administr…

Did Mexico create a blacklist of journalists and politicians? The president says no
The Mexican government's creation of lists of journalists and opposition figures has stirred memories of the 'enemies list' of the Nixon administration in the U.S.

Trump Officials Deport Group of Mexicans Despite Torture Risk (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/us/trump-mexico-deportations-torture.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.2Yhc.7g08iKLpgJ-M&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p100#a260807p100

Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)

The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado river crisis on Friday
-- outlining cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada.
The proposal from the US Bureau of Reclamation spares Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming from facing mandatory cuts, for now.
But it is a temporary fix as the states that rely on the river continue to fight over a long-term management plan for the dwindling resource that supplies huge swaths of…

Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado river crisis
Federal government plan outlines cuts to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing…

Meta testing StoryKit, an AI iPhone app that creates 'personalized children's stories' - 9to5Mac
Meta has quietly released a new iPhone app that uses AI to create personalized children’s stories, complete with illustrations, narration,...

Asked about Trump’s "Lake America"
ploy during a press conference on Thursday,
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, was withering in his assessment.
“You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago?
I think that’s the part of Donald Trump’s presidency we’re at now,” Kinew said.
“He thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie with the Gulf of Mexico,
and he’s trying to bring …

Trump the renamer-in-chief keen to leave his mark – or his stain – on world
As Americans face an affordability crisis and war with Iran, the president is focused on … changing the names of things

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attor

Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California
Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and Instagram.

U.S. airstrikes at sea are killing Mexican citizens
Eight fishermen from Mexico’s Nayarit state vanished after U.S. missile strikes on suspected drug boats.
The Trump administration labels targets ‘narco-terrorists,’
while legal experts and human rights advocates warn the airstrikes amount to extrajudicial killings.
In coastal towns, some people acknowledge that fishermen have been drawn into the world of cartels
and provide fuel for drug boats making long jo…

The U.S. has killed at least 13 Mexicans in strikes on fishing boats
Mexican vessels carrying Mexican citizens have been hit in U.S. airstrikes against alleged drug boats, a Times investigation found.

Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
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Exclusive: Oracle Data Centers Face Multibillion-Dollar Cost Surprises
Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example.The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas ...

Oracle invoked a 'force majeure' notice
to protect itself from financial liability
and defer rent payments regarding Project Jupiter,
a massive 2.45-gigawatt AI data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, built to support OpenAI
The 1,400-acre site has faced local opposition and infrastructure hurdles,
including a denied permit for a planned natural-gas pipeline,
prompting a shift toward costly fuel cells from Bloom Energy.
The legal p…

The Trump administration is proposing a sprawling shelter facility that can detain up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in the U.S. without a parent or guardian.
Officials have started to outline plans for the project as federal agencies escalate efforts to detain and remove tens of thousands of people from the country,
including children, while effectively closing off the U.S.-Mexico border to people seeking asylum.
Unaccompanied immigrant children
…

Exclusive: Trump admin reveals plan to lock 3,000 migrant children in massive new detention facility
Officials are looking for operators for an ‘emergency influx facility’ that can hold thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and pack eight kids into a room sharing one toilet, shower and sink

Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals.
The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia.
Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and collects in a pond.
The pond is home to Sonoyta pupfish, which are small and silvery, with upturned jaws.
In the channel are found …

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)typically passes in Congress each year with bipartisan margins.
But the $1.15tn defense policy billpassed in a near-party-line votein the House of Representatives on Wednesday has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in an uproar.
That’s because the NDAA’s path to enactment this year has been complicated by the president’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress
– a war that has…

Trump administration announces new tariffs on more than 80 countries, claiming failed ‘forced labor’ enforcement – US politics live
Canada, Mexico, Australia, EU and China among dozens of economies listed in US president’s latest ⁠effort to restore regime of near-global import taxes after supreme court struck down his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

For months, Washington has threatened to bomb cartel targets in Mexico,
-- a scenario Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum firmly rejects.
“The Mexican people,” she has said, will never accept “violations of Mexican territory, whether by land, sea or air.”
Yet U.S. airstrikes have already struck Mexican vessels carrying Mexican citizens in international waters off the country’s coast, according to a Times investigation.
That includes the fatal strikes on Feb. 16 on th…

Charles Ross has a degree in math and a yen for physics.
He says he can sense celestial alignments, and feel the difference between colors of light in a spectrum.
When he needed a well dug for his desert home, he called a dowser.
The artist, 88, belongs to a generation of land artists who shed galleries and cities to work at a scale more common in ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica.
In 1975, he had been crisscrossing the Southwest for four years, hunting for the perfect…

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

On a sunny morning last July, hundreds of heavily armed immigration agents in camouflage stormed a greenhouse complex in Camarillo, an hour north of Los Angeles.
They came with face masks, guns, chemical munitions and armored tactical vehicles, blocking access along a road lined by produce fields.
What unfolded next would irreversibly transform the lives of many there that day.
It was after 10am when Santiago*, an undocumented farm worker from Mexico who had been working a…

ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farm worker and professor changed for ever
Raids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign