Today in podcasts strikingly close to home: the episode on climate change and the Rio Grande, which has El Paso going full Fremen and also a whole bit of Trump-era ratfucking I missed, the firing of a chief shared water usage negotiator
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Then the episode on Oñate's foot, tracing the fight over how New Mexicans honor the past and what parts of it they honor, leading to a pair of parallel but distinct memorials in Old Town
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revisited the monuments two weeks ago with & , bronze parade of settlers & the naturalistic sanctuary. Named in the plaque dedicating the monument is then city councilman Martin Heinrich, who'd go on to be Rep & Senator. Deb Haaland has that Rep seat now.
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There was a brief time in that early 2000s New Mexico "Tri-Cultural" branding where, across from the Spanish settler statues & indigenous sanctum, there was a third monument: a goddang 69-foot tall decommissioned nuke missile. (that missile has now moved)
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