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On 9 May 2019, the Farmington Tribune website posted an article reporting that New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had released a post on her Facebook page confirming her plans to make Ramadan a state holiday: Of course, Ramadan isn't a discrete holiday in the sense that we typically use the word — a single day of (religious) festivity or recreation — but instead the name of a month on the Islamic calendar, throughout which observant Muslims fast every day from dawn until sunset. So a state holiday for Ramadan would encompass 29-30 days, a rather unreasonable amount of time to be giving government employees off each year (in addition to all the other existing state holidays). None of this report was true, however, as the Farmington Tribune is not a news site but rather a regional satirical page — albeit one that has been criticized for not making its parodical nature clear:
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