New Mexico

International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers — also known as cell-site catchers or Stingrays — simulate cell phone towers, pulling in all cellphone use within a certain distance.
ALBUQUERQUE  — The ACLU sued Albuquerque for information on how its police use Stingray cellphone spying technology, and whether they use it for immigration enforcement, but Albuquerque claims all such records are confidential — including whether they use Stingrays at all.

Mystery mountains, digging up Dalí and denying parole + this day in history w/Baryshnikov defects and our song of the day by Three For Silver on your Morning Monarchy for June 29, 2017.

Cancer clusters, pink slime settlement and pets in pain + this day in history w/Franz Ferdinand and our song of the day by Little Dragon on your Morning Monarchy for June 28, 2017.

About 8500 years ago, hunting/gathering humans, living in the most fertile river valleys on earth, simultaneously discovered agriculture.  And so modern civilization was born.  As Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz brilliantly reported in An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States, there were seven fertile cradles from which the advent of plant domestication would sow the seeds of great cities, pyramids, temples, a surplus of food and, in some locations, a societal caste system.  Two in Ch

Festival fraud, epic entitlement and magazine time + this day in history w/balloon bombs over Oregon and our song of the day by Grizzly Bear on your Morning Monarchy for May 5, 2017.

Royal pains, Pedogate TV and cult calamities + this day in history w/Haymarket Affair and our song of the day by Afghan Whigs on your Morning Monarchy for May 4, 2017.

Rebooting reality, Kroll comedy and "Tulipomania" + this day in history w/Skull Valley and our song of the day by Father John Misty on your Morning Monarchy for March 17, 2017.

Food fests, genetic tests and the Maryjane Report + this day in history w/'The Godfather' and our song of the day by Little Dragon on your Morning Monarchy for March 15, 2017.

Pollyanna was an underrated and underappreciated, although fictional, genius.  All too often I see my empty glass as unfillable, and envision a brutal death from thirst on the near horizon.  We should all play The Glad Game more often.  Case in point:  Our new U.S.

The New Mexico cops did not appreciate Jillian Beck walking away from them after they responded to a neighborhood dispute, prompting an officer to grab her arm, twist it behind her back and slam her to the ground, leaving her with a fractured arm as he planted his knee on her back.
When the woman lifted her head to console her four-year-old son who began crying, the Las Cruces police officer slammed her face on a bed of rocks, leaving her with a broken nose and a bruised and bloodied face.