The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.

More territorial acknowledgments that: Call for the remaking of the world, without requiring Indigenous Peoples to give up our Indigeneity or sovereignty, with the goal of creating a “global community thoroughly structured by non-domination.” (Táíwò, 102) apihtawikosisan.com/2026/01/terr...

With the US less interested in concealing its aggression, Canada's efforts to obfuscate (whether in justifying Israeli genocide or this attack on Venezuela) look more and more absurd. And ironically (for the elbows up losers) it makes Canada appear even more of a pathetic simp for empire than usual.

Canada's role in the imperial machine has often been to provide the window-dressing. It dragged the UN into the Korean War. It legitimized the Vietnam War by sitting on the Geneva Convention's ICC. It tirelessly demonized imperial enemies during the war on terror. But empire cares less these days.

The admin’s use of “narco terrorism” to justify what it is doing in Venezuela is akin to its use of terrorism against Indigenous people in the US. Scary akin. www.ucpress.edu/books/red-sc...

Eby is now arguing judges shouldn’t be setting the province’s reconciliation agenda. And he says he is willing to change the law to make sure they can’t. Story reprinted from @thenarwhal.ca indiginews.com/news/frustra...

There will be a day when the US is on the other side of what it has done to other countries. I may not be here to experience it. But it's a guarantee. All empires fall.

Nothing funny about a settler colonial nation threatening to invade an Indigenous People who have been "claimed" by a colonial nation. The ones who lose in this scenario are always going to be Indigenous.

Nestled in the middle of this book, I came across something that feels, to me, like a territorial acknowledgment that does something MORE. And I love that. apihtawikosisan.com/2026/01/terr...

if you don't think that the US will do whatever it takes to get exclusive "access" to whatever "resources" it wants from Canada, and Canadian elites will gladly facilitate that process, I dunno what else to tell ya bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Is it weird that I always pair an academic text with a non-academic one? I'm reading Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" alongside "Reconsidering Reparations" and it all sort of works together.

One of the coolest things a student ever wrote after taking my Indigenous Studies intro course was, "if settler colonization is a structure, not an event, then reconciliation needs to be a structure." And she was absolutely correct.

Narcotraffickers are the new WMD.

Whew, thank god the U.S. removed a horrible dictator, one of the worst (who wasn't installed by the U.S.), and now they're running things. Venezolanos are about to be so free. Tremendously free. Honestly, maybe freer than anyone’s ever been. Danielle Smith can't wait for the same kind of freedom.

So I don't know if you follow @historyiswhat.bsky.social, or have seen the absolute UNIT of a collection on Marxism, Anarchism, and Indigenous perspectives (etc) on historyiswhat.noblogs.org, but you must, on both counts. Personally I can't bloody wait to use this a resource in my courses.

“The press, as usual, in dealing with this incident, strives to belittle & cast ridicule upon Venezuela & the sympathetic nature of her sons in order to magnify & extol the merit that we ought to possess ourselves.” from the Tacoma anarchist journal, Why? historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...

Appeasement worked so well with Hitler, guys, let's definitely keep doing that.

The number one question on my mind is: how can we ensure that we build just, non-carceral societies around millions of people who are displaced due to climate change? Because this is our now, and it's our future.

Liberals are not going to save us. Trump has pushed the Overton Window to the far right, and violated so many customs of governance - and this is impacting Canadian politics as well, don't think otherwise. Just think of this Chrystia Freeland crap. In former years, this would be a MASSIVE scandal.

"Condemnations don't do anything" yes they absolutely do! For one thing, they send a message *to Americans* that much of the world does not accept or condone their regime's behaviour, that it will lead to isolation, instability and conflict of various kinds (not necessarily military or symmetrical)

"The U.S. hasn't invaded a country in Latin America since 1989" like some of us were alive then lol, it's not that long ago. Do we not teach about Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine anymore? Trump is just saying the quiet part loudly again, but the U.S. has ALWAYS claimed LatAm as its own.

Finally got my hot little hands on "Reconsidering Reparations" by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, which explicitly links the transatlantic slave trade and colonization of the Americas to a wider global framework AND thinks about reparations in the context of worldbuilding. 1/8

In 2025 I put my health first and I'm so grateful I did. It wasn't until I began to recover that I realized just how bad things had gotten.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Happy Birthday, Wab Kinew - but it was my bday first :P

Subsidized monthly food baskets through a local community organization have been a literal life-saver.

Tallying up my income for this year. Good lord. I made 40% of what I did in 2024. No WONDER things have been unbelievably tight. I kept sort of feeling like I'd done something wrong, that it was about my own management of money, but WOW.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

lmao someone said big day for those who can excuse racism but draw the line at animal cruelty lolllllll

miyo kâ-pê-kîwê-kîsikâk, Happy Winter Solstice everyone! May this next year bring us more justice and more peace. Spirit plates out, ancestors/descendants fed.

Is *this* the Alberta Advantage?

Manitobans! Once a long time ago I saw a bunch of you talking about a Norwegian cake you eat that no one else on the prairies knows about. I think it was Manitobans. Any idea what I'm talking about?

I am four chapters away from finishing the first draft of this book omg, it's been a wild ride. But two chapters done today - who do I think I am, Stephen King?

Finally got the kids completely outfitted for even the most extreme weather conditions, huzzah! Thanks to the folks who helped out with that. Their awesome grown-out of gear is donated and hopefully keeping other kids warm.

And, although it is not directly about Indigenous peoples, my 2022 article in Agitate about the implications of the first autopsy of George Floyd, which attempted to absolve felon Derek Chauvin of responsibility in Floyd’s death, which builds from my 2018 article: agitatejournal.org/article/auto...

Anyway, back to my academic engagement around settler misuse of Indigenous dead: My 2018 article based off of my master’s thesis, focusing on the attempted autopsy of Ojibwe peoples in Minnesota : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The hubris of settlers demanding constant access to the Indigenous dead has not gone anywhere. Whether it’s white scholars claiming that NAGPRA is anti-science, or residential school denialists demanding exhumation of remains to validate the stories of survivors, this ghastly hunger is insatiable.

Fascist neo-liberalism is destroying our communities and our ability to earn a living. This is an existential crisis. No amount of boot-licking can save us, so why not work within your community to develop other structures of support? Survival, not exploitation.

Look, I know that media is struggling but fuck am I ever sick of every goddamn thing being behind a fucking paywall. I can't afford that shit.

“Point and Laugh: Residential school denialism is not funny, but denialists sure are” A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it. skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...

I'm finally getting into D&D (thanks to rural Albertan Satanic Panic being 10 years late and ruining my early forays) and this is the sort of thing I expect my fellow players to bust out during a campaign, okay?

I don't know why but I was thinking about George Burns today, looked him up and found out he was born in 1896. He was in show business his whole life, but had a career comeback at 79. Wild.

The website is owned by Francine of The Brown Bear: www.thebrownbear.ca/pages/about-us www.whois.com/whois/moccas...

Repeated lesson by guides on this trip: Always Maya. Never Mayan. Maya pyramids. Maya calendar. Maya people.

Ugh this is so gross. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

MASSIVE score today at our local charity thrift shop. Donated a bunch of kid's books and got a 10% off coupon and found one of the kiddos a Columbia jacket for $20! Also folks donated knitted stuff and she got a super soft scarf.

Ugh hate to do this, but I'm completely out of savings and don't have a new gig until the new year. We have rent and bills covered for this month, but nothing for food AND we need some thrifted winter gear for the littles. Any sugar settlers appreciated! www.paypal.com/paypalme/api...

Whooooo gave Mariem Hassan such a voice? Incredible, always.

Okay, so I am reading this INCREDIBLE analysis by Tianne Jensen-DesJardins of my short-story, Buffalo Bird (in Buffalo is the New Buffalo) and also, I really need a trans scholar to start analyzing the (what I thought was massively obvious) trans narrative throughout.