Great reporting by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social @elpasomatters.bsky.social on how the county, city, and local hospital are using their opioid settlement funds... including $411k spent on demolishing an old strip club building elpasomatters.org/2025/12/01/e...

El Paso received $5.2 million to mitigate opioid risks, with more funds to come. Most of that money sits unspent

Texas began distributing opioid abatement funds from a national settlement agreement with pharmaceutical companies that drove the opioid crisis.

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Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

The Trump administration has waived environmental laws to move forward with a border wall through the rugged terrain of Mount Cristo Rey in New Mexico.

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns - Inside Climate News

Environmental advocates warn that border wall construction on the rugged mountain could cause erosion and sever wildlife corridors. Customs and Border Protection says it is necessary to prevent border...

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The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...

U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants

It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.

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After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged

Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.

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I got the chance to listen to multiple generations of Palestinians in El Paso share their family history, starting with expulsion from Palestine to building lives as a "minority among minorities" in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Read their stories here: elpasomatters.org/2025/05/12/p...

Rooted in resilience: Palestinians build lives, community in El Paso

For Palestinians in El Paso, Israel’s assault on Gaza is a reminder of their family’s hundred years’ struggle.

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Our measles tracker is up! Infectious diseases do not know borders. With that in mind, we're collecting the latest updates on measles (sarampión) in the tri-state area of El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. elpasomatters.org/2025/05/01/e...

El Paso measles cases: Tracking Texas outbreak from the border

Updates on the Texas measles outbreak that had spread to El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and southern New Mexico.

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A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in LA and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE offices @melissagomez.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Southeast Asians in L.A. region are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigra...

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SCOOP: Eli Lilly is now suing some bigger-name telehealth companies selling compounded tirzepatide like Henry Meds and Mochi. With @emilymullin.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/glp-1-...

Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.

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In latest interview, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison doubled down on your parents' decision to trade your childhood dog to a farm upstate.

Living in El Paso, I knew about device sterilization facilities. I didn't know their warehouses could be a greater risk. From El Paso to Richmond, warehouses are leaking cancer-causing ethylene oxide. @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social + Lylla Younes report: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/e...

The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain and how it impacts El Paso

From El Paso to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.

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New Mexico health officials reported five additional measles cases Tuesday, including one child in Doña Ana County, which exposed people at a daycare and several hospital locations over the past two weeks.

Measles case reported for the first time in Doña Ana County • Source New Mexico

New Mexico health officials reported five new measles cases in children Tuesday including in Doña Ana County.

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3 more measles cases, including at an El Paso high school, reported after Texas linked the first cases in the area to the ongoing outbreak: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/11/e...

3 more people with measles identified in El Paso

Four out of five measles cases in El Paso this year were unvaccinated patients. One person’s vaccination status is unknown.

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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert@priscillatotiya.bsky.social · last yr.

Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez. 500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there. elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...

Measles cases have touched down in El Paso and across the border in Juárez. 500+ measles cases reported in Texas since Jan. plus 220+ cases in neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico after a person from the West Texas outbreak area traveled there. elpasomatters.org/2025/04/08/f...

El Paso, Juárez confirm first measles cases of 2025

Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.

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Appreciate @latimes.com for referencing El Paso Matters reporting, connecting it to the bigger theme of justice and the political rhetoric right now.

Fidel Martinez@fidel.bsky.social · last yr.

For this week’s newsletter I wrote about the El Paso mass shooter avoiding the death penalty, and how it’s hard to feel like any justice will be served www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...

El Paso has not posted its March numbers yet, but there have been 7 cases of Valley fever so far this year, likely an undercount. READ MORE: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

My version: 10 am: My “morning shed” — an Advil or two and chug water to shed the effect of last night’s beers. 10:15: Feed the guinea pigs. 10:30 am: “Morning cleanse” with a 3-in-1 cleaning product optimized for my hair, face and body by the German scientists at Nivea. 1/?

Trump has nominated a union buster to lead the NLRB. The message is clear.

Trump Taps Morgan Lewis Attorney for NLRB General Counsel Post

President Donald Trump is nominating Crystal Carey, a partner at large management-side law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, to be National Labor Relations Board general counsel.

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Really important story by @priscillatotiya.bsky.social for @elpasomatters.bsky.social about Valley fever in the El Paso area. “You have to wonder, for every case that’s diagnosed, how many cases go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed?” elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected

Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.

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Valley fever, endemic to the Southwest, claimed this El Paso mother’s life. Experts say lack of awareness leads to misdiagnosis and missed chances to treat infections. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

Valley fever in El Paso: Fungal disease goes undetected

Cases of Valley fever in El Paso, caused by a fungus in desert dust, are likely underreported.

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LA PARKA ass stutter step penalty from Raul

a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring

ALT: a wrestler in a red and white skeleton costume is standing in a ring

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I can't with all these smug, short-term memory Gregg riders. The USMNT bar is so low that beating a weak Mexico and some CONCACAF teams has stagnated as the ceiling for success. Poch took a big L this Nations League, but for ffs the US is not sniffing a World Cup final with GGG either.

West Texas measles outbreak has grown to nearly 300 cases in TX and New Mexico, 30+ hospitalizations, 2 deaths. Only 6 of all cases were confirmed to be vaccinated with at least 1 dose of the measles vaccine. elpasomatters.org/2025/03/03/w...

Where to get measles vaccine in El Paso

Amid a Texas measles outbreak that claimed a child’s life, here’s how to get the vaccine in El Paso.

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Since publishing this on Sunday: 🔵 1 unvaccinated child died 🔵 34 more measles cases 🔵 2 more hospitalizations Here's where El Paso's at with measles herd immunity, and how it compares to the rest of Texas: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/23/m...

As West Texas measles outbreak spreads, how protected are El Paso school children?

The worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades is occurring mostly among unvaccinated children.

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In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.” "The border has been secured,” he declared. Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...

Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas

Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

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El Paso, the 6th largest city in Texas, went more than 2 years before hiring a public health director. This is El Paso Matters' first interview with the new leader, who inherits a department beset with underfunding + high turnovers: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/09/e...

El Paso health director Vinny Taneja tackles staffing, funding challenges

El Paso’s new public health director says high turnover and underfunding challenge local health departments across the country.

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New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Since Las Vegas Sands Casino (owned by Mavs owner) blocked @grantafseth.bsky.social, you should give him a follow. You can catch his reporting here: dallashoopsjournal.com/p/mavericks-...

Mavericks Front Office Displays Troubling Pattern in Leadership Amid Dončić Trade Aftermath

The Dallas Mavericks' front office has lacked leadership in the aftermath of the Luka Dončić trade and the midseason trade deadline altogether.

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My latest for the @thebarbedwire.bsky.social makes the case that Trump and Musk are marching us into a "new fascism" that may not look exactly like its historical predecessors but nevertheless draws on the ideology to rend the democratic state and rule of law. thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...

Musk and Trump Are Marching Us Into a ‘New Fascism’

Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now?

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