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DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-doh-nuclear-waste-facility-edition

"One of the leases #DOGE decided to cancel is the lease for Skeen-Whitlock Building in Carlsbad, #NewMexico, a 90,000 square foot facility which manages the nation’s only storage area for DOD-created #nuclear waste...

locals think that DOGE is backing off on this... But maybe not? As of this morning DOGE still lists the #lease as canceled.

So who knows?"

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
Headline and photo with caption from article:
Headline:
DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition

By Josh Marshall
March 5, 2025 12:36 p.m.

Photo with caption:
Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the cavernous salt mine that is the first geological lockbox for the "fiendishly toxic" detritus of nuclear weapons production – chemical sludge, lab gear and filters laced with radioactive plutonium. (Photo by Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) LESS


Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Arizona AG Kris Mayes, #NewMexico AG Raul Torrez, and #Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE [sic] funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.


STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. MUSK
Declaration of Joshua Fisher
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69638651/24/1/state-of-new-mexico-v-musk/

"Musk is a senior advisor to the president...

In his role as senior advisor..., Musk has no actual or formal authority to make #government decisions...

He is not an employee of the US #Doge Service...

#Musk is not the US Doge Service administrator"

[Is Fisher lying to delay court rulings? Musk is obviously running Doge, whatever his official title.]

#ElonMusk #Lawsuit #NewMexico #Trump #Politics #USA #USPol
Text from document:
2. I am the Director of the Office of Administration. I have held that position since January 20, 2025. In that capacity, I am personally involved in the appointment of special govt employees. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Elon Musk’s employment status with the federal govt.

3. Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House Office. He holds that position as a non- career Special Govt Employee (“SGE”).

4. In that job, Mr. Musk is a Senior Advisor to the President. It is not uncommon for the President to have Senior Advisors who are SGEs. For instance, Anita Dunn was an influential Senior Advisor to President Biden, while serving as an SGE.

5. In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no

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actual or formal authority to make govt decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the President and communicate the President’s directives.

6. The U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the Executive Office of the President. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service. Both are separate from the White House Office. Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office & not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator.


A measles outbreak in West Texas has grown to 58 cases and has spread to at least eight people in neighboring New Mexico, officals say. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/cSiiLt
#Measles #Texas #NewMexico #Health #Vaccines


Comet C/2024 G3 very low in bright evening twilight as seen from the mountains of southern New Mexico at 9,000 feet. (Tuesday, 14 January)

At the time of this photo, the sun was about 6 degrees below the horizon (very bright twilight!) and the comet was about 1 to 2 degrees above the horizon.

The second image is a 3x crop of the first.

I never saw the comet with my eyes. I was pointing the camera blind. First image is the complete frame of an APS-C camera and 200mm lens.

#NewMexico #Comet #Astrophotography #Photography #Telephoto #Astronomie #Astronomy
The comet, only a minute before it set behind distant conifers that are black silhouettes. The twilight sky is orange and it transitions to a dark blue along the top edge of the frame. The comet's tail points straight up, but is short.

Day by day it will get slightly higher in the sky.
This is a 3x crop of the first image.


The #cranes are finally on the move! I counted about 625 sandhill cranes migrating past during a half-hour #bike ride around the neighborhood.

The close photo is from Bosque del Apache; the one of the flock is from my patio.

#BikeTooter #birds #NewMexico
A shot of the middle of a migrating flock of sandhill cranes. They're large grey birds with long necks that they keep stretched straight out in front while flying, long straight bills, and long broad wings. They're flying in no particular pattern, but close enough to each other that in some cases their wingtips appear to overlap.
A lone sandhill crane flying from right to left, its wings caught on a downstroke, long neck stretched out in front and long legs trailing behind. In the distance, visible under the crane, is  an out-of-focus mountain.