In its 11 years, the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument has become integral to our identity and economy in Southern New Mexico. The Trump Administration is again considering shrinking it to make way for mining and drilling. Once again, we have to defend our land. /1 It’s critical that we succeed. I dug into this issue in my new column. Give it a read, and think about what you can do to support the monument. /2haussamen.com/2025/04/30/we-…

Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have occupied Hadley Hall on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces. @LC4Palestine is live-streaming from their Instagram page. I count about two dozen protesters and four police officers watching them. The group posted a list of demands too.

Police just told protesters they’ll be arrested at 6:05 p.m. if they don’t voluntarily leave Hadley Hall before then. Protesters interrupted this officer’s plea to leave with chanting.

🧵 I’ve seen many Democrats saying everyone is so much better off than they were four years ago. That assertion comes from a helluva position of privilege. And then they’re attacking people who dare to say that, no, their lives aren’t better; they’re worse. I’m sick of it. /1

https://twitter.com/mamasitaa__/status/1765811621807690204

The truth is that Biden broke his promises related to the pandemic. And then he and his team engaged in a vast disinformation campaign to make it seem like covid had gone away when it had not. People got sick, became disabled, or died because of Biden’s lies. /2

(Thread) My kiddo is now in middle school, and she’s leading an elective class in building DIY air purifiers for the entire school. /1 She presented to the class last week about the importance of indoor air filtration and how to build the filters. We donated the supplies for nine #corsirosenthalboxes. We dropped them off Tuesday and the class started construction. /2

(Thread) Sorry folks. I wasn’t in a space to say anything useful about the state cutting back on COVID reporting last night. My #longcovid brain fog is worst in the evening when I’m physically tired. /1

https://twitter.com/haussamen/status/1502487679312662535

Last night, I couldn’t even feel my sorrow, abandonment and grief through the surface emotion of anger, let alone process what I was thinking. I can share now. /2

“… white mortality during COVID was still substantially lower than Black mortality in the pre-pandemic years. In that light, the normalizing of COVID deaths is unsurprising.“

Racism sucks. Ableism + racism sucks more. /1 “When deaths happen to people who are already not valued in a million other ways, it’s easier to not value their lives in this additional way,” Wrigley-Field told me. /2

Look folks. New Mexico’s racial and colonizing history is more complex than most of America. I don’t yet know who shot a man during the planned toppling of a statue of Oñate in ABQ tonight. But I can give some context to the environment in which the shooting happened. /1 Juan de Oñate was a colonizer. And an oppressive one. As I wrote in 2015, “His army slaughtered hundreds of people at Acoma Pueblo in 1599 after a skirmish left about a dozen Spaniards dead, including his nephew.” /2