As her first bill in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva is presenting the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act. Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe was originally expelled from their lands when the national park was established. www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...

South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.

The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil. english.elpais.com/internationa...

New international protections have been adopted for more than 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction. www.latimes.com/science/stor... @apnews.com

The Penobscot Tribe's oldest elder, D-Day veteran Charles Shay who saved lives on Omaha Beach, has died at age 101. www.wabi.tv/2025/12/03/d...

I guess manners, decorum, good taste, gratitude, generosity and other things I learned about as a child no longer are prerequisites for our leaders. They just need to blurt out whatever their base desires and emotions are at the moment. What has happened to this country?

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. n.pr/48zf0gD

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal. You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government. It says it right in the Constitution.

The next leap in AI comes with a massive resource bill. Cornell scientists mapped the U.S. energy and water footprint of AI data centers and found a future defined by heavy carbon, stressed water systems, and uneven regional impacts.

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, had a pending petition for asylum and a pending application for a visa for victims of crime. That didn't stop ICE from separating her from her 15-day-old infant in NICU. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post... via @19thnews.org

Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.

Plastic waste hit 225M tons this year. India, China, the US, Nigeria, and others are driving a surge in single-use plastics. Much of it mismanaged and polluting rivers and oceans. The crisis is accelerating fast. tinyurl.com/3wpjryed #ClimateCrisis #PlasticPollution #Sustainability #OceanHealth

🌞Nature now holds legal rights under a landmark Inter-American Court ruling—shifting climate action from exploitation to protection. More than 30 countries must uphold these rights. A new hopeful chapter in climate justice begins. tinyurl.com/bdhwwmz5 #ClimateHope #ClimateCrisis #RightsOfNature

ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them. 6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th. Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent. Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.

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FFS! Laura Loomer, a far-right MAGA nutter known for spreading conspiracy theories, has credentials/workspace in the Pentagon but not WSJ, WaPo, etc! But that's not stopping legacy media from exposing what appear to be Trump Hegseth regime's war crimes

Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population. #RSNA25 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This is genocide. 'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil. news.sky.com/story/women-...

At the end of Native American Heritage month, remember every time you follow or share LakotaMan1, a colonizer gains a bustle. So, just don't do it folks. www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

The Sand Creek CO massacre area was not really a "battleground" any more than Wounded Knee was. The slaughter of Indigenous people happened in many places & was a normal activity for white settlers.

On Nov. 29 1864, the Sand Creek massacre occurred when US troops attacked a peaceful gathering of Cheyenne and Arapaho people. They killed between 170-230 unarmed people, torturing them, then scalping and mutilating the victims. Children, women & elders were especially targeted.

CEOs only read reports about the work other people do, so now they don't even have to do that.

NEW: The federal trial for poet and activist Isabel "Isa" Lopez has been reset Feb. 2, 2026, after several delays and cancellations. Lopez is facing four federal felonies from protesting federal agents carrying out an operation in Minneapolis in June. unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...

America Abroad: Just as lawless.

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‘By the #s: New Mexico mentions in recent Epstein email release’

They began disagreeing about politics. Then they stopped agreeing on reality. A new study reveals how false information infiltrates relationships and drives breakups through lost trust, algorithmic influence, and fractured reality.

Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving ! #JustSaying 👇🏻

Violence over water is on the rise around the world. Researchers counted a record 420 water-related conflicts last year. Dozens of violent incidents occurred in Ukraine and Gaza. Water-related violence also erupted in countries including India, Iran and Mexico. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

“Almost daily Israeli strikes against Hezbollah, including the killing this week in Beirut of one of the militant group’s top commanders, punctuate a fraying peace. Lebanon exists in a gray zone between war and peace, which could also be the fate of Gaza” warscape www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

From the report: "Israel has dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process…targeting Palestinians under occupation & Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial & administrative mechanisms fail to intervene."

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Fucking awful, and also highlights why having independent local media that doesn't just reprint law enforcement press releases is essential for holding people accountable.

The 20 biggest political donors on the Forbes billionaires list have collectively given nearly $5 billion between 2015 and 2024. We must get Big Money out of politics. No one from either party should be able to buy an election.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Denmark routinely and painfully steals children from Inuit families in Greenland, utilizing ridiculous parenting tests such as asking "Who is Mother Teresa?" and observing the mother playing with a doll. This article is heartbreaking.💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Casa de Peregrinos expands its annual Hope for the Holidays effort with 6,500 Thanksgiving meal boxes for families across Las Cruces and Doña Ana County. The distribution happens Monday at the Pan Am Center.

Hawaii army hospital is notifying former patients of gynecologist accused of secretly filming women www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Here's an update about the Alaska communities devastated by the mid-October storm that destroyed or severely damaged nearly 700 homes, killed 1 person and left 2 more missing. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

KONSYSE: Government documents identified parcels near Sebastia and Burqa that include thousands of olive trees cultivated by Palestinian farmers. Peace Now explained that the entire targeted land is fully registered in the Palestinian land registry and includes privately owned agricultural areas.

"An FBI memo that claims 'anarchist violent extremist actors' are targeting law enforcement cites a private text message chat that included immigration court observers, raising questions about whether the spy agency is monitoring political activity, a copy of the document indicates."

Really dark and necessary read on child farmworkers in California, many of whom are immigrants.

Mexico and Peru included!

This is so disgusting people should not have to be afraid of putting their pictures online lest some creep turn them into fap material. 'AI girls never say no' is...quite a thing.