Todd

@rockyreader.bsky.social

New Mexican. Believer in science. Lover of dogs, books, beer, and the America I once knew. 🐶 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🍺 🇺🇸 💙

Took a little Saturday afternoon drive down to the Hoppy Monk in El Paso. The beer (and spirits) offerings here are off the chain. Enjoyed a Martin House True Love sour and a Prairie Artisan Bomb! Both are 💣. #NMBeer #BskyBeer

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It’s hard to think about what may befall the lower Rio Grande valley in southern New Mexico over the next decade due to climate change & the ongoing drought. So much of the community has been tied for centuries to the land, raising pecans, onions, chiles, cotton. sourcenm.com/2026/07/20/t...

The clock is ticking for New Mexico to cut Rio Grande water use • Source New Mexico

After 13 years, Texas and New Mexico finally reached a settlement over Rio Grande water management. Now comes the hard part.

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Isabel Wilkerson at tonight’s opening session of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival: “Why did our trajectories have to collide with a global pandemic, with existential climate change, and with dystopian upheaval across the planet and in our own country?

I just feel gutted: - SCOTUS obliterates the VRA - LA, AL, TN, FL all immediately and aggressively gerrymander Democrats out of contention -VA’s map favoring Democrats is struck down They’re determined to steal the election before it even happens, and SCOTUS is in on it. It feels hopeless.

Just got home from an extended road trip showing off #NewMexico to first-time visitors from the East Coast. Oddly, I was content to mostly just take in the beauty of our state without taking may pics, but here are a few I did take. I love living here! Our visitors loved it too. ❤️

White Sands National Park Mexican Canyon trestle bridge near CloudcroftSantuario de ChimayoA mesa on the drive from Espanola to Los Alamos

I have a pretty cool Governor. She posted this today (April 1): I, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of the State of New Mexico, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the State of New Mexico do hereby ORDER and DIRECT as follows: 🤣❤️💪

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Kind of caught by surprise at how today’s SCOTUS decision regarding conversion therapy hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m way past the point of it affecting my life personally, but it makes me so sad for younger LGBTQ folks. And sad that we live in such an uncaring - or outright hostile - country.