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How many runways can you see for Lea County Regional airport in Hobbs area (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khob/en #leacountyregionalairport #airport #hobbs #usa #khob #hob #aviation #avgeek vl

Black STEM Trailblazer Willie Hobbs Moore #Black #Hobbs #Moore #STEM #Trailblazer #Willie #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/black-stem-trailblazer-willie-hobbs-moore/?feed_id=7027&_unique_id=67b302252f32e

https://coppercourier.com/2025/01/31/arizonas-democratic-governor-outlines-groundwater-proposal-that-has-republican-support/
#Arizona #groundwater #Hobbs

Quote from a friend who's listening to a political podcast:

I should add that I came into this thinking "Oh, maybe Hobbes is just a dude who thinks humans are all smarmy requiring a stiff hand to keep civil" but at this point I'm thinking "Okay,he really likes authority and the earlier impression of him seems right."

My God, I think they've got it!

#hobbs #ParadoxOfLiberalism #polisci

Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info

 Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk’s X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states.

She hasn’t.

👉 Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday,

urging him to ⭐️“immediately implement changes” ⭐️to X’s AI chatbot Grok,

after it shared with millions of users #false #information suggesting that ❌Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.❌
 The letter, spearheaded by Minnesota Secretary of State Steve #Simon and signed by his counterparts Al #Schmidt of Pennsylvania, Steve #Hobbs of Washington, Jocelyn #Benson of Michigan and Maggie Toulouse #Oliver of New Mexico,
urges Musk to ♦️“immediately implement changes to X’s AI search assistant, Grok, to ensure voters have accurate information in this critical election year.”♦️

 Within hours of President Biden’s announcement that he was suspending his presidential campaign on July 21,
“false information on ballot deadlines produced by Grok was shared on multiple social media platforms,” the secretaries wrote. 

The secretaries cited a post from Grok that circulated after Biden stepped out of the race:
“The ballot deadline has passed for several states for the 2024 election,” the post read,

naming nine states: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Had the deadlines passed in those states,
the vice president would not have been able to replace Biden on the ballot.

But the information was false.

In all nine states, the ballot deadlines have not passed
and upcoming ballot deadlines allow for changes to candidates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/04/secretaries-state-urge-musk-fix-ai-chatbot-spreading-false-election-info/

Lovely #sunset #supercell #anvil outside of #Hobbs, #NewMexico by Laura Hedien. Taken in June 2024 ⚡ More #storm photos from Laura: https://bit.ly/laurahedien

#nmwx #TornadoAlley #clouds #orages #photographylovers #thunderstorm #stormlovers #weatherscapes #weather #extremephotography #extremeweather #instagood #instadaily #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #landscapes #landscapephotography #landscapelovers

Russell also wrote an apology letter to #Hobbs, saying #socialmedia & news stories had become another #addiction for him, but has since taken courses on #anger management & substance abuse.

“I am truly sorry for my actions. I’m not a violent man, I am a broken man. No one should be the target of such disrespectful behavior,”Russell told Hobbs in the letter.

Logan suggested Russell read the US #Constitution while in prison & appreciate that the #UnitedStates has free & fair #elections.

#law

Earlier this month, a #Massachusetts man was sentenced to 3½yrs in #prison for making a #threat to bomb #Hobbs’ office in Feb 2021 when she was still the SoS.

In Feb, an #Alabama man accused of sending #DeathThreats to a social media account for the #MaricopaCounty #Elections Dept was charged w/making interstate #threats.
& an #Iowa man was sentenced to 2½yrs in prison for his conviction for threatening Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman & AZ AG Mark Brnovich, both #Republicans.

#law

Russell’s vms were among countless #threats against #Hobbs for her role in certifying #Biden’s 2020 presidential victory over #Trump in #Arizona & in the 2022 midterms. As SoS, Hobbs at times had 24hr #security bc of threats from Trump supporters who falsely claimed his loss was marred by fraud.
Russell’s case is brought by #DOJ’s #ElectionThreatsTaskForce, which focuses on threats of #violence against elected ofcls, workers & volunteers to ensure they can oversee #elections free of #harassment.

#Ohio man who acknowledged making #DeathThreats in voicemails left for then- #Arizona Secy of State #KatieHobbs during the 2022 #election season was sentenced Mon to 2½ yrs in prison.

Joshua Russell had pleaded guilty to a fed charge of making an interstate #threat against #Hobbs, a Dem who was AZ’s chief #elections officer in 2022 & is now the state’s gov.

#law #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #Trump #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-election-threats-voicemails-hobbs-sentence-87e7b8e99cb5961ff2ed38eab550a44b

via @arizonamirror

If #Hobbs is serious about protecting #groundwater, she must work to close the #mining loophole

by Russ McSpadden
February 12, 2024

"In her first State of the State address just over a year ago, Gov. #KatieHobbs was unequivocal about her commitment to tackling one of the state’s greatest challenges: our dwindling #water supply.

“Our groundwater should be used to support #Arizonans, not foreign business interests,” she said in that speech, referring to the Saudi Arabian conglomerate #Fondomonte. Over the past few years, Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in La Paz County for alfalfa crops that it ships to feed cows on the other side of the earth.

"Though the Hobbs administration has already canceled one of Fondomonte’s four leases and says it won’t renew the others when they’re up this month, the problem doesn’t end with Saudi agriculture.

"It’s also mining companies that take advantage of loopholes in the state’s water laws to maximize profit at the expense of Arizonans — including mining giants #RioTinto and# BHP.

"Because of intense pressure from #lobbyists, when lawmakers adopted the much-heralded #ArizonaGroundwaterManagementAct in 1980 they exempted #mines from groundwater regulation, even when located in #ActiveManagement Areas — state-designated areas where groundwater pumping is controlled. That means that mines can pump unlimited amounts of water without paying the state a dime.

"This exemption was controversial in 1980. Today it’s existentially dangerous.

#ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP, is a perfect example. Their proposed mine at #OakFlat — about 70 miles east of #Phoenix in the #TontoNationalForest and within the Phoenix Active Management Area — would pump 250 billion gallons of desert groundwater over the life of the project.

"That’s 17 million gallons of water every day for four decades.

"Under current water prices, that equates to $404 million worth of groundwater that Resolution Copper will get for free. Arizona won’t see a cent for it. And it’s more than likely that the copper ore from Oak Flat will be exported to China for smelting, again depriving local communities of economic benefit.

"This limitless pumping would happen even as the #megadrought that has plagued the #AmericanSouthwest for the past two decades is likely to worsen, straining the #ColoradoRiver and #Gila rivers even more and making us all more reliant on groundwater aquifers.

"If left intact, the mining loophole will facilitate construction of Resolution’s massive mine. The extreme water pumping from the #EastSaltRiverValley will lead to groundwater depletion and subsidence, threatening to deplete wells and damage infrastructure.

"The #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, where I work, has been fighting for decades to stop this mine, and Canadian mining company Hudbay’s disastrous plan to mine for copper in the #SantaRita Mountains south of #Tucson (in the Tucson Active Management Area).

"Both projects would devastate surrounding fragile #ecosystems, pushing endangered species like the #MexicanSpottedOwl closer to the brink of #extinction. They would also destroy sacred #TribalLands and gulp down massive amounts of water when other users are being asked to conserve.

"Handing mines unlimited access to Arizona’s precious desert groundwater would be an injustice to Arizona’s #Tribes and every resident of this state.

"Fortunately, Hobbs has the vision and courage to fight for a secure water future for Arizona. It is time for her to work with legislators to close the mining loophole in Arizona water law and subject mines to the same groundwater pumping limits that apply to other entities within the state’s Active Management Areas.

"We’re hopeful she will work to block #ResolutionCopperMine and other terrible mining projects like #Hudbay’s. At the very least, it’s time for mining giants to pay for the water they use just like the rest of us."

https://azmirror.com/2024/02/12/if-hobbs-is-serious-about-protecting-groundwater-she-must-work-to-close-the-mining-loophole/

#WaterIsLife #HumanRightsViolations #CulturalGenocide #CopperMining #Mining #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousRights #Apache

Advocates demand halt to #uranium #mine near the #GrandCanyon

#EnergyFuels says #nuclear power is necessary to fight #ClimateChange, but #Indigenous tribes fear losing their homes

By Matthew Rozsa
January 31, 2024

"The Grand Canyon truly lives up to its name, being the largest canyon on Earth and one of the most popular national parks in America. But due to #UraniumMining in the area, some advocates are warning it could become the site of a future #EnvironmentalDisaster, which threatens to make one Indigenous village 'extinct.'

"More than 80 groups signed onto a statement on Monday — representing Indigenous communities, scientists and environmental nonprofits such as the #SierraClub and the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity — directed at President #JoeBiden and #Arizona Gov. #KatieHobbs, demanding they close the #PinyonPlain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon.

"'We have a choice in front of us. Allowing the Pinyon Plain mine to proceed is subjecting this landscape and its interconnected waters to a legacy of devastation and disregarding the rights of the #IndigenousPeoples on the land,' Sanober Mirza, Arizona program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, said in the statement. 'Or we can choose a different path — one that holds a promise of protecting the Grand Canyon’s cultural sanctity, its people and natural resources.'

"To understand why the mine's opponents feel so strongly, one can turn to #AmberReimondo, who work as energy director at a conservationist non-profit called the #GrandCanyonTrust. Reimondo explained to Salon by email that, on the one hand, #Biden permanently banned mining operations on nearly 1 million acres of federal managed lands by creating the #BaajNwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in August 2023. Yet the Pinyon Plain mine was #exempt from this prohibition, and Reimondo argues that the impact on the region has been 'several fold.'

"'What they've created here is a long-term, slow motion #EnvironmentalDisaster."

"'The Grand Canyon region as a whole and especially the location of the mine, is deeply significant to Indigenous cultures and is a place where tribal members have conducted #ceremonies, collected medicine, hunted, and more, for centuries,' Reimondo said. 'The mine also overlies critical and complex [and] not well understood groundwater systems. One #aquifer in particular — the #RedWallMuavAquifer — is the sole source of water for the remote #HavasupaiVillage of #Supai inside the Grand Canyon. The mine poses a #contamination threat to these #groundwater resources not just today, but importantly, after the mine's mere 28-month operational lifespan has concluded and the mining operator 'cleans up' and moves on.'

"Supai is so remote, it's only accessible only by helicopter or an 8-mile mule ride or hike, Reimondo explained, noting that if the newly-oxygenated groundwater comes into contact with nearby rocks, minerals like #arsenic and #uranium will be dissolved by the groundwater and enter aquifers used by the local community and essential to local ecology, including #HavasuFalls. Taylor McKinnon, Southwest Director for the Center for Biological Diversity, expressed similar concerns.

"'Ultimately, this mine is going to require political leadership,' McKinnon told Salon in an interview, referring to both the Biden and #Hobbs administrations. 'Those administration's agencies have the authority to fix this problem if they so choose, and that's what they should do.'

"We have detailed strenuously for years that neither regulators nor industry can ensure against the permanent and irretrievable damage to Grand Canyon's aquifers and springs," McKinnon added. "This mine was approved originally in 1986, under a record of decision from the US Forest Service under a presumption that it was highly unlikely that the mine would encounter groundwater, and further unlikely that if it did, it had the potential to contaminate deeper aquifers in the springs that they feed. Subsequent state permitting from the #ArizonaDepartment OfEnvironmentalQuality has basically parroted those same assumptions.'

"Yet McKinnon alleges that in 2016 the mine punctured a perched aquifer, causing roughly 10 million gallons of water per year to drain into the mine workings. From there he asserts that a surface pond formed with water that has concentrations of uranium and arsenic far in excess of the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA)'s water quality standards. Not only does this threaten the local endangered and endemic species, but it also impacts the nearby Havasupai tribe.

"Havasupai means 'people of the blue-green water,' McKinnon said. "It's their longstanding cultural identity, and it is the water they drink, they farm with and that provides for all of their tourism economy because it is this just a beautiful series of massive verdant waterfalls that flow through the village and down into a series of waterfalls and pools where people camp and they derive tourism dollars.'

"In a 2022 letter of opposition, the Havasupai Tribal Council, laid out what is at stake in the uranium mining controversy.

"'Our identity as a people is intrinsically intertwined with the health of #HavasuCreek and the environment to which it gives life,' the tribe’s letter explained. 'We use this water for drinking, #gardening and irrigating, municipal uses, and #cultural and #religious uses. If the water source becomes contaminated like we have seen in other areas of Arizona due to uranium mining, we will no longer be able to live in our homes and Supai Village will become extinct.'

"These fears are based on precedent. The nearby #NavajoNation is scattered with old uranium mines — over 500, in fact — awaiting cleanup, exposing locals to risk of '#LungCancer from inhalation of #radioactive particles, as well as #BoneCancer and impaired kidney function from exposure to #radionuclides in drinking water,' according to the EPA. Likewise, members of the #UteMountain #Ute tribe in #WhiteMesa, Utah have protested against uranium mines they say have contaminated local groundwater, air and even wildlife."

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/advocates-demand-halt-to-uranium-mine-near-the-grand-canyon/

#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #NoMining #UraniumMining #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousActivism

The move will prevent the Saudi-owned company, #FondomonteArizona, from #pumping #groundwater that could one day serve as backup for booming urban areas. Currently, the company uses the #water to grow alfalfa to feed #KSA’s dairy cows.

…In a statement, #Hobbs said the state land department had terminated 1 lease held by the company & decided not to renew 3 other leases when they expire in Feb. The leases cover about 3,500 acres of desert terrain west of Phoenix….

#ClimateChange

Just learning that #HOBBS of all places has set up 70 #AI #surveillance cameras around the city to detect #guns ! Is this bizarro world?
#guncontrol #newmexico #nm

https://urgentcomm.com/2023/08/23/new-mexico-city-deploys-zeroeyes-gun-detection-solution/

This is accurate, but it tells the wrong story. The headline should be More Garbage Bills Sent To #Arizona Governor Than Ever Before.

#Hobbs has #vetoed more bills than any previous Arizona governor, but if she hadn't she wouldn't have been doing her job. She's wouldn't have if the bills sent to her weren't trash.

https://www.deseret.com/2023/8/16/23833164/hobbs-vetoed-more-bills

Dwayne Johnson Announces His Fast Franchise Future Plans

After once swearing off any possibility that he'd return to the Fast franchise following a feud with Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson has had an about-face. Following his surprising cameo in a Fast X post-credit scene, The Rock has announced his full-fledged return to the series via his social media.

https://www.murphysmultiverse.com/dwayne-johnson-announces-his-fast-franchise-future-plans/

#News #Fast11 #Hobbs #MovieNews #Movies