“The ideas of slave rebellion had been inspired by the Haitians’ defeat of Napoleon and his allies (including George Washington). Africans gaining their freedom in Haiti had a powerful and stimulating effect on Africans held in bondage all over the world, especially in the W. Hemisphere.”

Maybe we can trick Donald Trump into invading and taking over Marineland.

#tdih 2021 “My students weren’t caught off-guard by Jan. 6,” -- @dcpublicschools.bsky.social teacher Alysha Butler "Why? Because they'd been studying Reconstruction era Colfax Massacre & SCOTUS rulings." Defend right to #TeachTruth #CriticalLiteracy More⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/at...

An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems. Here is as gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

This matters. A full slate drives turnout, especially in a state with chronic voter apathy. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...

Staying poised to seize the moment IN SPITE OF: * the capture of all 3 branches of the fed. gov.’t (and most U.S. states’) * broligarch $ & propaganda-power * Looming Thiel-Vance threat * erasure of a shared reality… U.S. civil rights movements remain the best inspiration to never, ever quit.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Oh! Thank you princess!🥰

I have my coffee

As early as 1875, soldiers rounded up 4 and 5-year-old Hopi kids against their parents' will, sending them hundreds of miles away from family, language, home, stability, rituals, and way of / view of life. Feds continued kidnapping Native kids into the 1970s. www.ktoo.org/2022/09/11/t...

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

This thread of insults should be commemorated in bronze. It should easily make the longlist for the national posting awards.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

On this day in 1890, U.S. troops fired at and killed more than 250 Lakota people in a massacre at Wounded Knee; over half were women, children, and elderly tribal members.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.

A history we must remember as techbros try to move us back to "company town" dynamics

Since you’re on Bluesky you probably didn’t need another reason to resent the gun lobby, but just in case you were on the fence… it’s killing the loons! (Though we anglers deserve most of the blame tbh.) Great/frustrating @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social feature. 👇 www.biographic.com/why-are-loon...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others. How much did it save in federal spending? Nothing...it led to an increase www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Gävlebocken rocked.

On this day in 1862, U.S. forces hanged 38 Dakota men in Minnesota who had been involved in a war between Dakota people and white settlers that began after broken promises to deliver food to local tribes.

“A Distorted Mind-Body Connection May Explain Common Mental Illnesses.” Anorexia, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality, chronic fatigue syndrome could all be associated, one way or another, with interoception. www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

#WPRBXmas starts in 90 mins, and I bring a small offering to the table. Listen live!

Here's a question I've enjoyed asking on various social media platforms. What are vocabulary words you have learned from songs? For example, I learned the word "raze" from REM's World Leader Pretend.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - Reader and appreciator of your work here 👋🫶, sharing a CBC Radio talk by Kari Grain, author of "Critical Hope." Good for 👂learners like moi who don't excel at keeping up with newly-published books. Also good for those weighed down by dread. 🙇‍♀️ www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Throughout Exmess Eve - Exmess Day, Jon‘ll spin songs & stories written for this year’s 25-hour Marathon. You’ll also get Misfitted and Kraftwerked, Lindstromd and Snaildarthad; Maggie will wrangle reindeer; listeners will provide beta on Turnpike Santa detritus. Duck out of the madness & join in.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

The U.S. history series "In The Margins" is produced by PBS Utah, Alabama Public Television and WHYY Philadelphia. People's fear of complexity is no match for the 🔦 combo of surprising, precise details + context. A 👍under-the-📡 antidote for sloppy 🐘🤡propaganda. #History www.pbs.org/show/in-the-...

Abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, General, suffragist, and spy Harriet Tubman engineered her first rescue mission in December of 1850. The exact date is unknown. #tdih #TeachOutsideTextbook Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

If you're looking for something festive to listen to, this year's ALL-HANUKKAH SHOW has been archived... keepingscoreathome.com?p=5917

Although we wish this was fiction - it is not. In less than a year, nearly 500 people (that we know of) have faced politically motivated threats, investigations, or coercion from this administration. Slowly chipping away at our sanity and the foundation of our democracy. What do you think?

Time on the Interwebs means nothing and everything, but anyway, it is time to Smoky Robinson Chanukkate with Yer Mensch Jon Solomon. Wednesday, Dec. 17th, 5-8pm New Jersey Time. Stream or listen on a 📻.

If you've been floundering for language to explain what is rotten in the state of ____, and you're a👂learner, you might find this episode rewarding. Quite expedient how the b'cast media corp./broligarch-designed crisis of deranged discourse keeps us from seeing the forest for the trees.

Controlling our immune system like a rheostat is not only helping to treat cancer (dialing it up) but now leading to cures of autoimmune diseases (dialing it down). Mirror images. Shared technologies. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...

Unleash the radio latkes.

“In 2018, midway through 🤡’s first administration, which slashed national monuments and opened increased amounts of public land to resource extraction, hunters and anglers in ID and WY voted down 🐘 gubernatorial candidates who attacked public lands in the 🤡 vein.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Conjuring joy:

and this doesn't even mention tiktok!

“All I need is an IP address…[and] next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers,” says Exempt, adding they can then use that information to make emergency data requests. “And with a subpoena and search warrant, I can access DMs, texts, call logs.” apple.news/AM_Aknqk1TEe...

If i could go back in time and see one musical performance, i might pick Just Ducky ruining a prom in Hot Springs MT over Hendrix at Cafe Wha

Trump is the demagogue of the spectacle, America’s authoritarian PT Barnum.

Oops.. My bad. www.todayinbc.com/news/70-magn...

Two Montana attorneys advise cities & states: "Prosecute ICE misconduct. Assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment? Charge them...Restrict operations. Ban masked agents...limit guns near schools, hospitals...outlaw the feds from buying warrantless cell phone data." dailymontanan.com/2025/12/09/i...

"...there are around 700 orphan wells awaiting state plugging with another 3,400 inactive or low-producing wells that could be added to the list in the near future." Fascinating profile of an orphaned site (on Dine trust land) & the chatty, $$ Dallas wannabe speculator dumb enough to invest in it.

W. MT is on the brink of a rain-on-snow Mango Express, with record levels of water vapor streaming east from the tropical W. Pacific. Ponding and stream-rise, rockfall/rockslides, wet snow above ~8,000 feet (or higher) + rain below, daytime temps 15-30 F above average. 😬 #MTNews #MontanaClimate

At Ryman Auditorium tonight, The Mavericks and friends are celebrating Raul Malo while he's still here, cancer and all. Raul croons the classics in this 2021 house concert, channeling Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Ivette Cepeda. Oo la la. #RaulMalo m.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8d...

25 years ago, Monsanto ghostwrote a paper published by 3 non-Monsanto scientists. “… the paper’s conclusions regarding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate were solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto, ignoring other outside, published research.” ☠️ www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/citi...

Bolts is free to read - not to publish - and non-profit. It nerds out on *state*-level policies and politics, especially voting rights and justice/corrections systems in all 50 + 2 + n 🇺🇸 states, districts and territories. Maybe everything is computer, but Bolts profiles 50 different outcomes of 💻.