I wrote a thing. open.substack.com/pub/levimymk...

I would love to hear the freedom/academic freedom banshees holler about how the Trump administration is crushing Harvard right now. Doesn’t sound very free to me.

Not a good look for someone running in an area that has been all but fished out entirely. When I hear people talk about their "marine assets", it's rich people's docks. Our real marine asset is a healthy and functioning marine ecosystem. thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...

More pure, unadulterated fascism from Trump and Vance, including the pre-1940s assertion that race is biological: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

More support to make residential school denialism recognized as hate speech. www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-ca....

In case anybody is wondering how the closing of PEPFAR will affect people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: (spoiler: remember the early 90s?)

This is not good at all. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Friendly reminder! There is a statement you can sign that condemns residential school denialism, put out by the qathet Museum. New: you can now see the organizations and individuals who have already signed it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I was working in Gibsons during the quake and we were hearing them all morning! We got to site at 8 and heard 3-4 deep, extended rumbles (kinda like a fighter jet) until finally the rumble was accompanied by a shake. Pretty surreal when you are kneeling on the forest floor and it starts to move.

@charlieangus104.bsky.social made a petition to revoke Musk’s Canadian passport. It has over 90k signatures! Sign it here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

February Action #7: Canada must update travel guidance and welcome trans refugees - organized by Queer Momentum <3. Petition to sign: www.momentumcanada.net/pathways

Great (and short!) article on the repatriation of Indigenous ancestral remains in America. @cpqathet.bsky.social will be collaborating with the qathet Museum in April to screen a film on this issue. Stay tuned!

A new law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah prohibits unions from negotiating wages and other terms for teachers, firefighters, police officers and all other public employees, joining just two other states that have banned collective bargaining in the public sector.

Definitely not scary www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

I made a substack! Do I hate self promotion? Yes I do, but I enjoy writing more 🌟 My Notion blog still exists (I adore Notion!) but it’s not the best platform (it’s not searchable) so I’m slowly moving everything over. open.substack.com/pub/levimymko

Working on a computer all day after spending most of your life engaged in manual labour is a different kind of suffering at work. I miss being a builder a lot these days.

I’m so glad a local finally wrote about this struggle from a different perspective than the WRS. I am tired of the lies and misinformation about this issue. Nobody is coming to take your land and the only people at risk of losing a fraction of their luxury are the ultra wealthy- and their realtors.

Police tried to protect a small group of armed neo-Nazis from angry community members today on a freeway overpass in #Ohio, people managed to push through police as the Nazis escaped in a box truck. Young people then set fire to a stolen Nazi flag.

I wrote a critical review of one denialist’s shitty, racist work. Her writing has been upending some great collaborative work on Lasqueti Island and fomenting anti-Indigenous racism and hate in our communities. archaeodabble.notion.site/Recognizing-...

Truth www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

In case people don’t know, Musk and Trump’s “killing” of USAID means they have halted PEPFAR, the US (Republican)-led initiative that has brought the AIDS epidemic under control in the last 20 years. Today, people are not getting their meds in Africa. Do they not remember AIDS??? WTF

This is very cool news. The people who lived at that site at that time did not hunt bison bison - they hunted its large predecessor, bison antiquus! They may have even seen mastodon😍 sasknow.com/2025/02/03/s....

One good thing about working from home is that you don’t have to hide in the walk-in cooler to cry.

Notes On Displacement trailer👇 Playing at the Patricia Theatre on Saturday February 1st, doors at 1:30pm , movie at 2pm By donation! Daycare available for kiddos(3+) youtu.be/Gk1aIgpum6k?... Folks in qathet, please let homies know.

It's a hell of a time to be teaching a seminar on "The Long Arc of Fascism." Going to start today's class with this.

It’s truly mind boggling to think that when people are faced with censorship under a hate speech law, instead of open reflection on how their material may be harmful to a particular group, it’s dismissed with a wave. Do they have no moments of self-reflection? How can they just sit with that?

I lost my wallet a couple of weeks ago and am suddenly making leather things again!

Nina Green, mysterious Canadian genocide denialist, regularly sends her articles as emails to a large group of academics and professionals. I just copied her email list to distribute a petition in support of making denialism hate speech, and the number of signatures just jumped. Thanks Nina!

Mother Jones just coming out of the gate with this, is the energy I need today!

Many people have been waiting for this day, unsure if it would ever happen. But today it did! www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

This past week was John A. Macdonald's birthday, and the far-right never misses a chance to defend JAM. What's interesting, is that this year Pierre Poilievre joined the chorus of residential school denialists et. al seeking to whitewash JAM's legacy. As a historian, here's a 🧵

The qathet Museum and Archives has issued a signable statement denouncing residential school and genocide denialism. Please consider signing it, and share widely. This is the only singable statement on this issue that, as far as I know, exists. qathetmuseum.ca/8189-2/

Pollievre is such a tool. If elected he will drive this country into the ground and make it an ideologically terrible place not only for leftists, women, and minorities because everything woke is bad now. And did you know woke invented racism!? It didn’t even exist before!

It’s so hard not to feel down about the next 4 years. I don’t want to be in a constant state of hypervigilance over what political bullshit is going to come down the pipe from the cons and the shitbirds in my community.

Two badass MPs are coming to my town to hold an event on countering residential school denialism. I am very interested in hearing what they have to say as @leahgazan.bsky.social has put forward a motion to make denialism hate speech in the criminal code. www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-truth...

Best of 2024: In Alberta and Montana, the Blackfoot Confederacy is bringing buffalo herds back to the plains, with dreams of restoring the traditional hunt:

This is so wonderful to read! Finally some good news coming from the ocean 💕 clayoquotaction.org/the-comeback/

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2024. The bill would create a federal commission—similar to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission—to investigate the U.S. Indian boarding school system.

I’m writing an article about residential school denialism, research, and archaeology but I feel nervous about publishing it. Any writers have experience naming names in articles that criticize others work? And doubting yourself the whole time? Shouldn’t people who make claims expect critique?

Where have forestry companies in British Columbia sprayed herbicides to weed out plants and trees that might compete with conifers destined for timber? Explore this map to find out: thenarwhal.ca/bc-glyphosat...

Amazing that people write entire books on “why don’t they just get over it”

Attended a talk by a residential school apologist extraordinaire this evening. Harnessing some SERIOUS NWL (Nice White Lady) energy, she actually teared up talking about how the NWMP (police) saved plains Indg. ppl from murderous whiskey-trading Americans during the Indian Wars of the late 1800s.

PSA: Options for Sexual Health may be on the verge of closing all but 5 of over 50 clinics around BC next year. Please consider writing to your MLA and the Minister of Health and voice your opposition to these closures!

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I hate fb, but do check it pretty regularly to keep an eye on what the local racists and douchebags are up to. I made a huge block list recently and now it’s so peaceful and boring 😌