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senior reporter @source_nm , the New Mexico branch of @statesnewsroom . settler on Tewa land. he/him.

Santa Fe, NM
Joined September 2010
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Austin Fisher
21 days
Last week, I was invited to meet Jacob Johns, the artist and climate activist who was shot at a protest over a monument to a Spanish conquistador last September in Española. In this exclusive Q&A, he shares his experience with political violence:
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Austin Fisher
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It's official: I am now a cat dad of two. This little girl was dropped off by her foster mom last night. I am taking name suggestions.
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Austin Fisher
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"A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives."
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Austin Fisher
2 years
I wrote a five-part series about air quality in public schools last year (linked at the bottom of this), and at times, it felt like screaming into the void. It would be an understatement to say I'm excited to see actual people in power talking about it.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Why does the president feel the need to "keep busy" when he's COVID positive? Why is he unmasked in a room with a photographer?
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President Biden
2 years
Folks, I'm doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today. Keeping busy!
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Austin Fisher
10 days
That's me looking good in an N95
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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
18 days
Thank you to members of the press who turned out in big numbers for our special session press conference today and asked great questions. It’s crucial that New Mexicans are informed about our plans to make the state safer. Call your lawmakers and tell them This. Can’t. Wait!
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Austin Fisher
1 year
op is lying; don't come here
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Fact check: true
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Austin Fisher
7 months
"The political project of normalizing transmitting COVID ... is the most thorough victory of the far-right in living memory, and it has embedded its eugenicist logic into the foundation of public beliefs about health, disability, and who deserves safety."
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Shoutout to New Mexico courts still being accessible to all. There is still a mask requirement, specifically N95, KN95, KF94, a mask with a PM 2.5 filter, or a surgical mask beneath a cloth mask.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
no YOUR body is a temple. my body is a Cliff's Amusement Park
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Austin Fisher
4 years
I just recorded this up in Velarde, N.M. I've never seen anything like it. I'm told of other dead migratory birds found in Hernandez, Ojo Sarco and El Valle de Arroyo Seco.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
interstate 25 near San Felipe
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Austin Fisher
1 year
today i'm grateful for elastomeric respirators and the air purifier my company installed in the capitol media room
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Austin Fisher
2 years
@equalityAlec We took notice of how bad the initial reports were, and are trying to push back with coverage that is accountable to community and does not take police at their word. This is the first (and not the last) story we published about the case:
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Austin Fisher
3 years
Since New Mexico police will be doing thousands fewer arrests for cannabis going forward, seems like we could dramatically reduce their personnel and budget huh?
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Why didn't @US_FDA approve a COVID vaccine for younger children sooner? Will they get left behind again for future shots? FDA is fighting a records request by @PTF_org , refused my request for an interview, and has not answered any of my questions.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
I'm begging everyone talking about "telephoto lenses" in the replies to think critically for one second about the fact that COVID is airborne and indoor transmission is a thing
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Austin Fisher
3 years
My freelance debut @SantaFeReporter is an investigation into two deadly shootings by one New Mexico State Police officer, just five weeks apart. I've poured a lot of sweat and tears into this. I hope you'll read it.
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Austin Fisher
11 months
your indoors, maskless event billed as being about "the need for solidarity between all workers" is actively undermining solidarity by maiming and killing your coworkers and neighbors
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Here's the "tradeoffs" of abandoning public health protections you ordered
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Austin Fisher
3 months
A preacher saw me in public wearing an N95 and said, among other anti-mask comments, "you will breathe your last breath." Fighting words or no?
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Austin Fisher
4 years
BREAKING: The Rio Arriba County government is taking down the statue of Spanish colonizer Don Juan de Oñate in Alcalde, New Mexico.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
New Mexicans can’t just look up whether their local school district actually cleans indoor air well enough to remove coronavirus. HB30 would require reviews of all ventilation systems in the schools every 5 years — and for those records to be public.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
if you're in line at Blake's STAY IN LINE
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Austin Fisher
2 years
New Mexico’s hospitals are overrun with sick children, and it’s not a given that the idea of an “immunity gap” is the only explanation. My latest is a closer look at what we still need to know in order to fully explain it:
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Austin Fisher
8 months
New landlord just proposed an 84% rent increase on New Year's Day 2024. I guess I'm moving
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Austin Fisher
2 years
If you believe in prayer, my family could use it right now and in coming days. My father and my maternal grandmother are hospitalized in KS and CA, respectively. She has been comatose since last Tuesday. Tonight he fell off a ladder and suffered life threatening injuries.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
If you work at FDA and know anything about the delays for under 5s, DM me for my Signal number. I will grant you anonymity.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Why didn't @US_FDA approve a COVID vaccine for younger children sooner? Will they get left behind again for future shots? FDA is fighting a records request by @PTF_org , refused my request for an interview, and has not answered any of my questions.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Santa Fe police conducted "undercover patrols" at Target in order to prevent the theft of "$2,000 worth of merchandise," the New Mex reports. How much public funding was spent to save money for Target, a company that made $107 billion last fiscal year?
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Austin Fisher
2 years
If everyone who died of COVID in 2020 in the US did so at the same rate as college-educated white people, there would have been 71% fewer deaths of people of color. I looked at one family's story of COVID loss and what it says about our pandemic response:
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Austin Fisher
11 months
My landlord is selling the apartment i rent and showing it to potential buyers who now come to visit me multiple times per week, so I rebuilt my Corsi-Rosenthal box with new filters. It took me about 30 minutes this time, using the same cardboard, some duct tape, and a knife
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Austin Fisher
2 years
New Mexico pays contract public defenders, on average, $13.81 per hour to represent people charged with first-degree murder. I make more per hour writing about it. #nmleg can change this:
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Austin Fisher
2 years
The hospital where my dad was taken initially charged him a quarter million dollars for his emergency and intensive care. Today I learned they finally qualified him for financial assistance and literally zeroed out the bill 🥹
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Here's Biden greeting Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell at the steps of Air Force 1 at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque
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Austin Fisher
3 years
i recently received an unexpected raise for the first time in my life and almost cried. i didn't ask for it, and if i'm being honest there are days where i don't feel i deserve it. this has been a gratitude post
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Austin Fisher
2 years
NM's health secretary just issued a public health emergency order: "It is recommended that New Mexican families exercise additional precautions this holiday season to prevent transmission of RSV, including wearing masks when in indoor public settings...
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Austin Fisher
1 year
As a CDC advisory panel considers weakening infection control guidance for health care settings, patients and advocates asked them to be more transparent. Then the CDC took down the only public-facing recording of their comments. I asked why:
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Austin Fisher
9 months
Gabe Vasquez is the first member of New Mexico's Congressional delegation to support a ceasefire:
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Rep. Gabe Vasquez
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My statement on the safe return of hostages and support towards a ceasefire agreement:
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Austin Fisher
1 year
I am super proud to take on this role, and grateful for my coworkers' trust in me. I love this newsroom and it's an immense privilege and responsibility to work here.
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Shaun Griswold
1 year
Changes @source_nm happening all around. Thrilled that today we officially signed up @austieJFish to be our new senior reporter. I'm excited to see Austin grow in the role and keep leading with excellent reporting while helping us shape how we approach news.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
started therapy again this morning pls clap
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Austin Fisher
3 years
since it's been shared elsewhere, THIS is dropping tomorrow:
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Austin Fisher
2 years
NEW: Workers at Page 1 Books in Albuquerque, now the only unionized bookstore in New Mexico, are organizing for better pay, water and air conditioning. #HotUnionSummer
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Austin Fisher
2 years
INBOX: New Mexico statewide minimum wage to increase to $12 per hour on Jan. 1
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Austin Fisher
1 year
During Derek Chauvin's murder trial, a prison guard in New Mexico, with his foot on the back of a Black man who lay on the floor of his cell surrounded by other guards, said, “Let me guess, you can’t breathe?” The guard still works for the NMCD.
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Austin Fisher
4 years
in video recorded in Tiguex Park in Albuquerque earlier tonight, a member of the right-wing militia New Mexico Civil Guard is shown with his weapon in hand just before four gunshots are heard
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Austin Fisher
2 years
COVID is spreading quickly in nearly every part of New Mexico. COVID minimizers still argue that cases are meaningless, but the reality is that cases beget more cases, more disability and more death. further details here:
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Austin Fisher
2 years
the entire New Mexico press corps refreshing the Secretary of State election results page tonight
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Austin Fisher
2 years
You would have turned 31 today. Your absence still hurts but I am learning to be gentle with myself about it. And there is a presence. It is hard describe but you are there. I love you.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
My dad is awake! And he is going to be OK. One of the first things he said to me was the title of the song Please Come to Boston by Dave Loggins, which I'd never heard before and rocks. Hearing my dad sing again makes my heart full.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
An abolitionist newsletter that was getting into nearly every New Mexico prison contained current events, poetry, art and tips for slowing the spread of COVID behind the walls. Under a new mail policy, prison officials have been returning it to sender:
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Flames "erupted." Someone "died." But this story gives no indication of cause and effect.
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Austin Fisher
1 year
why does the ABQ city council portrait look AI-generated lol
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Austin Fisher
2 years
i am now a blue check aka a class traitor
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Austin Fisher
2 years
i love playing "is it allergies or is it COVID" it's my favorite game
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Yesterday she smiled and squeezed her friend's hand. Today he is awake and responding to commands, including sticking out his tongue 😋
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Austin Fisher
3 years
few things make me more happy than when a mayoral candidate threatens to contact my editors before i've even turned in the final draft. more in the morning
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Austin Fisher
2 years
I was taught to report and write in order to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Thanks to @heavyredaction and @asosin for the honor of being included among journalists doing the same and offering a counternarrative to the War on Empathy:
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Austin Fisher
2 years
A trio of Albuquerque police shot and killed a Black and Hispanic man who was lawfully keeping a gun in his car and was cooperative with them during what was supposed to be a welfare check last month, according to a witness and an attorney for his family.
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Austin Fisher
3 years
four months without a drink. please clap
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Austin Fisher
2 years
has anyone considered telling the wind to just Stop 🤧
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Austin Fisher
10 months
BREAKING: About a dozen people are sitting in the offices of U.S. Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, refusing to leave until they announce a statement supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
i'm about to head out to cover the wildfires in-person for the first time, for a story about how the state and community organizations are mitigating COVID while responding to the fires. wish me luck
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Austin Fisher
3 years
Last night an angry reader emailed me to say "it is extremely irresponsible to make these people (unsheltered people) look like victims." This happened just hours before:
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Austin Fisher
8 months
A group of about 60 people rallied and marched this afternoon outside a Boeing facility in Albuquerque, N.M. The company is one of the top U.S. weapons manufacturers for Israel. We were the only media present. Story soon
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Austin Fisher
7 months
Police in NM and ABQ so far this year have killed people at the highest per capita rates in the states and 50 largest US cities, respectively
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Samuel Sinyangwe
7 months
Mapping Police Violence finds more than 1,200 people have been killed by police so far in 2023, surpassing last year’s record for deadly police violence. Police killed more people in America this year than any other year in recent history.
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Austin Fisher
3 years
cats are not born they fall from the sky confirmed
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Austin Fisher
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@heavyredaction I just don't understand how someone can with a straight face claim that anything is "no longer historically abnormal" without including the data depicting the conditions prior to the thing
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Austin Fisher
2 years
me returning to work with all my story ideas
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Austin Fisher
2 years
All of the coverage and public discussion of New Mexico ending its telework policy has so far focused on costs, office space, rents, and "efficiency." What about health and safety? What about the basic premises on which telework was originally implemented?
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Tonight, through a phone, I said my final goodbye to my granny, Rita. She couldn't respond but I thanked her for being the closest thing to a mom I've ever had, and for teaching me how to whistle, with which I have and will continue to annoy everyone around me.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Securus made more money in a single month ($31,000) scanning incarcerated people's mail than I made in an entire year when I started as a reporter ($27,000)
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Austin Fisher
2 years
to establish New Mexico residency you need at least three (3) re-purposed Bueno containers in your house
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Austin Fisher
3 years
today would have been your 30th birthday. I love you forever
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Austin Fisher
1 year
NEW: I dug into the data for the first 2 months of NM’s "unwinding" of Medicaid coverage. - Nearly 60K kicked off their health insurance - Almost every single one purged because of paperwork - Fewer people switching to private ACA plans than anticipated
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Austin Fisher
2 years
@mattyglesias The metric used to create this map is weighted so that until a county has 200 cases per capita, hospital capacity is the only thing that determines whether a county is low, medium or high risk. That level of spread is not "good."
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Austin Fisher
3 years
"Paul Gessing will you please mute yourself?" - chair of the House Judiciary Committee right now
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Austin Fisher
11 months
Hey wow @source_nm turns two today 🥳 I'm so happy and proud to work here 💛💙
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Austin Fisher
9 months
Some shots from the #CeasefireNOW rallies and march this afternoon in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Austin Fisher
2 years
Starting today, CDC is pausing COVID reporting for two weeks. Four days ago, I published a story looking at how governments are making it harder to find information on the pandemic:
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Austin Fisher
4 years
today was my last day @rgsun . much love and gratitude to the people and communities that have trusted me with their stories over the years.
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Austin Fisher
2 years
It’s not normal to be losing thousands of people per day to a deadly virus, and it’s not normal to have tens of thousands of people become sick and continue to live with post-viral illness like those living with long COVID, @kdurquiza said.
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Austin Fisher
4 years
what if we kissed... sitting next to one of the police microphones installed in the trees around the New Mexico state capitol? 👉👈🥺
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Austin Fisher
3 years
i don't need credentials to speak up about human rights violations.
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Amy Spiro
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Happy "everyone on Twitter is suddenly an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" day.
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Austin Fisher
11 months
@RealGayArbys Is there any truth and/or educational value to comparing it to bans on smoking within x distance of the entrance to a building? For ex: "we already ban smoking in shared outdoor spaces because we've all come to understand the health risks of secondhand smoke"
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Austin Fisher
4 months
COVID semiotics - Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Austin Fisher
3 years
truly incredible. apparently New Mexico is a major metro area full of "elites"
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