Category Archives: Opinion

Maria Ressa – Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth

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Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist and author of the book “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” sits down with Jon Stewart for a conversation about Trump’s authoritarian attacks on free speech in the wake of Disney taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air in fealty to the president and his hand-picked FCC Chair.

Ressa, who in 2020 was jailed in the Philippines for her journalism criticizing the country’s former president Rodrigo Duterte, warns about the similarities between the dictatorship she lived under and the Trump administration.

They also discuss how tech companies use authoritarian governments as case studies to inform their algorithms and manipulate democratic elections, and the importance in this political moment for Americans to take peaceful action before their rights are continually stripped away.

Protecting New Mexico’s People, Water, and Future: A Call to Action

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Honorable Senators and Representatives,

We, the undersigned, come to you as protectors of New Mexico’s land, water, and public health.

We write from varied perspectives—as environmental advocates, health professionals, Indigenous communities, farmers, and everyday New Mexicans who rely on clean water and healthy lands for our survival and well-being. Together, we share a deep concern about the proposed Strategic Water Supply Act (SWS), which endangers our health, threatens our limited fresh water, and puts the financial security of our state at risk.

This proposal, framed as a response to water scarcity, is in reality a $75 million publicly funded subsidy for the oil and gas industry’s waste disposal problem. It proposes to incentivize a treatment and reuse industry for fracking waste—a radioactive hazardous waste byproduct of oil and gas extraction—despite the lack of scientific evidence proving its safety.

Produced water treatment and reuse is not cost effective. If produced water treatment was cost effective, the oil and gas industry would already be doing it.

Below, we outline three critical areas where the Strategic Water Supply poses significant risks:

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