Hey, @opb.org—I see you're having a membership / fundraising drive at the moment. This sustaining member won't be increasing his support until he sees an agreement regarding contracts between you and @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social.

No increase in my monthly contribution until you reach a contract agreement with @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social

Three more days till everyone starts circling back.

Wishing Black people love, friendship, and prosperity against all odds this year

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." TS Eliot, 1948

Today is the first day Californians can use a legislatively mandated platform to request that online platforms delete their data. privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-d...

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

www.hcn.org/issues/57-11... Wo wir grade alle unsere Musik auf Spotify Listen teilen, hier eine wunderschöne Geschichte davon was Musik und Menschen die sich für andere engagieren schaffen können.

Who's making a battle vest with me for 2026?

When was the last time that you cried?

This article, and the playlist it contains, are turning me into an honest-to-god metalhead. I think this is my destiny. Thank you @btoastie.bsky.social for this fantastic reporting on a beautiful story and bringing the passion of this music to a wider audience.

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

“They’re using government money to build out a gold mine, saying it’s antimony.” On public lands. In potential violation of Nez Perce treaty rights. This important Bloomberg Indigenous affairs investigation (!!) follows the 💰 from a zombie antimony mine to the White House.

“Pretendian hunting” is a phenomenon of toxic, online call-out culture. But the problem of false identity claims is real, and Native researcher Dina Gilio-Whitaker says it’s time for us to find a rational approach that’s informed by history. buff.ly/4fL0r6h

Pretendianism and the other side of the colonial coin, disenrollment, destroy collectivism and glorify individualism. They are just a couple more ways for settlers to grab land. “If you’re going to identify as an Indigenous person, then show us how you’re Indigenous, based on tribal protocols.”

"And if you can’t find it, maybe that’s cause it just ain’t there. That has to be part of the process, the willingness to accept that you are not who you say you are, or who you thought you were, or who somebody told you you were."

www.lakotatimes.com/articles/who... if your using blood quantum basis is just a matter of time before disappearance, nothing like using colonial formulas for erasure

There’s a new book out about pretendians, 'Who Gets to be an Indian?', and I interviewed author @dinagw.bsky.social. She says while she doesn’t want to be in the business of calling people out, people should expect to have to prove their claims of Native identity. www.hcn.org/articles/we-...

Roebourne Jail still has no air-conditioning and it gets up to 53⁰c inside. UN gave them until last year to amend it but they refused to allow the follow up visit. Australia shamelessly ignores International Law and Human rights.

Won't somebody please think of the economy.

December 29 is the anniversary of the 1890 #WoundedKnee massacre, when US soldiers slaughtered more than 300 Lakota people - children and elders, women and men. War Secretary Pete Hegseth recently said that the soldiers deserved their medals and he would not revoke them.

Today you're going to see the images of my ancestors dead and frozen in the snow in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place today 135 years ago. This is what Chief Big Foot looked like when he was alive, because we're people before we're corpses white people can propaganize.

Apparently the WWII Navajo Code Talkers had predecessors! Meet the Choctaw Code Talkers of WWI. www.kosu.org/news/2025-06...

Långläsning men väl värd det.

"Ultimately it is ‘consider the impacts,’ not ‘protect the archaeology site.'" A succinct statement of the underlying problem with all cultural resource management law in the US

Clearing out my open tabs I found this fantastic article on Native heavy metal, with some killer tunes: www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

"On Dec. 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having been a crime that involved mass killing, rape, displacement of populations, usurpation of land, and marginalization of people. The law also makes claims on France for reparations."

Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis on the set of Elevator to the Gallows (1958) 🎺

TURQUOISE ALERT: The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is looking for a missing 13-year-old girl last seen this morning leaving her West Valley home.

Respectfully, and in the interest of nuance: settler-colonizers are not immigrants. This discourse papers over one of America's foundational and ongoing crimes, and erases the unique rights and sovereignty of people Indigenous to this land.

Great article with some hard truths. #archaeology #indigenous www.hcn.org/articles/was...

When it comes to development projects & Native American sites,wetlands,endangered species,designated historic sites, etc,it’s a “rule” rather than an exception the resource loses GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them www.hcn.org/articles/was...

UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

I did not know about this!

my body is a machine that turns disk space into not enough disk space

“This brings us back to Alfonsi’s piece, which had the unfortunate luck of being scheduled to air the evening before David Ellison upped his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Staying in Trump’s good graces is, well, paramount at the moment,” writes Dan Rather, with a little more of a timeline.

“The media isn’t covering this” is a statement about your own media diet. Yes, I am painfully aware that legacy outlets have the biggest audiences. It is good to criticize their coverage. But I would love to see even a fraction of that energy directed to helping smaller outlets gain bigger audiences

That is Great Journalism! 💚🧪

Good journalism informs the public with the news they need to know, but great journalism brings about positive change. Here's an example ⤵️

In Washington state, a proposed solar energy development threatened tribal sites vital to the survival of the Colville Tribes and Yakama Nation. Journalist @btoastie.bsky.social published a story that prompted officials to pause the project and take Indigenous communities’ concerns into account.

As the world makes the necessary transition to renewables, it’s important that all voices are heard and past injustices aren’t repeated in the rush to combat climate change. Covering Climate Now is proud to help uplift and celebrate impactful work like this by climate journalists globally.

IT’S HAPPENING

"No one"? *glances around at other Native ppl*

A solid, necessary overview of Portland's fractured affordable housing system:

Attorneys for the state of Oregon are asking a federal judge to block construction of an immigrant detention center in Newport, arguing the Trump administration has not gone through the proper channels to do so.

"This year, more than 165 journalists were assaulted in the U.S. That’s more than the last two years combined. Only 10 of those assaults were NOT by law enforcement, and a staggering 88% came while journalists reported from protests related to the Trump administration’s immigration policies."