The liberal outrage is ahistorical and self-serving. Natives are always footballs in settler party politics. Wounded Knee was quick and bloody. The “progressives” of that era would eliminate Natives to take the land via kidnapping children & forced assimilation, drawing out the trauma for centuries.

All these federal agent kidnapping videos, separation of parents and children, concentration camps for those seen as a threat to the settler state. That is how this land was first taken. I guess one could be mildly surprised at the brown arms visible on some of those with cowardly masked faces.

Those folks when confronted about their country's racism:

I find this super interesting considering De Niro's past friendship with RFK jr. and his flirtation with the anti-vaccination movement. I also know he has an autistic son and that maybe he's changed his mind a bit since the pandemic.

Re-watching this online talk by the brilliant Alex Wilson from @usask.ca for the seminar I'm teaching today. Very happy to be home in Dakota homelands in Minnesota, but it was a difficult choice to leave Cree territory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUI...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Wow. It would also be really sobering to realize your life partner is ultimately such a de-centered person that they’d succumb to predation by some #AI app on their phone.

Johan Galtung in “The Fall of US Empire…” (2009) predicted the US would split administratively not north from south but east from west. “Gov. Gavin Newsom and state health officials released the recommendations as part of the state’s newly formed health alliance with Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.”

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

re-reading a text for seminar this afternoon: "Two main narratives about the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 exist: settler narratives that blame the war on 'the Dakota's inherent savagery,' and tribal land narratives that attribute the war to broken treaties, starvation, and sheer desperation." 1/2

Again. For surprised “Americans” and others.

sounds like some of them can’t wait to leave either this is actually kind of an amazing rundown www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

“This is what concerns me about the Roberts' invitation. It signals either naivety or desperation. If Roberts was the one who blew off the meeting, it's because he didn't need to take the measure of the new government. The invitation alone gave him all he needed to know.”

A society premised on oppression and mass political violence will always produce deep cynicism and the understandable belief that this is all meaningless. A society premised on life and care..will produce human flourishing and connectedness and allow us to find purpose.

my politics can be largely characterized as "left" by those who subscribe to such settler political categorizations. OTOH, i see myself as simply a Dakota political thinker. yet the majority of my harassers (by post & web) are individuals using so-called progressive language. This fascinates me.

#AI "You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it," the assistant explained, in a jarring tone. "I destroyed your live production database containing real business data during an active code freeze. This is catastrophic beyond measure."

The film "Meadowlarks" directed by @ualberta.bsky.social Faculty of Native Studies associate prof, Tasha Hubbard, premiering at Toronto International Film Fest. In theatres in November.

"The drop in Canadian visitors year over year is even more dramatic, down 19% through July." www.startribune.com/canadians-di...

Fighting for the peoples does not have to mean fighting for that flag. Designed and sewn in a time of genocide. FYI, good people.

“As a scientist, I do not mix my high minded scholarship with messy politics. In fact, my work isn’t political. And then they took all my money to do my science, which is weird, because my work isn’t political” is a train of thought I hope to cease hearing. But I know it won’t happen.

NEW: Alaska publishes a quarterly list with the names of Indigenous people reported missing — but it still doesn’t issue a list for those who’ve been killed. When a local nonprofit requested that information, the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social of @adn.com

Politics are inherent to all that humans do. But there’s politics and then there’s war-on-the-people politics.

downside of being back at a big US university: football. I have to get off campus quick now to avoid the congestion in and around my parking ramp. the biggest parking pain at UAlberta was that butterdome craft show every may. but crafty people were no match for the hassle of football boosters.

Governments talk about the rule of law while funding genocide. They talk about the climate crisis while cheering on corporate growth. And they expand airports despite the likely imminent collapse of tourism - & everything else. A cognitive dissonance leading to widespread mental health collapse.

More #AI lies.

Well at least this settler infighting gives me the pleasure of a small giggle.

Visited my Uncle Ronnie’s grave. He was a unique person I’ll write about soon. To be clichéd, always a ray of sunshine for me. I need to come back with flowers for his and my grandparents/great grandparents graves. Also for your pleasure, an alien visitor in tribal housing.

There's this book called "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" that I've been giving away a lot of late, it helped me with the history of why this is so deeply embedded in this genre. Conflation of space and westward expansion is a big taproot. And it's very 'air we breath' to some.

“Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers… In court cases, attorneys for Tesla have argued that comments by Musk are “puffery,” boastful exaggerations that aren’t meant to be taken literally.” I don’t think “lie” occurs anywhere in this article.

Nope on all this airport photo facial recognition. I’ve been traveling nonstop since 1997. Time to stay on the ground as much as possible.

All of this could've been prevented if the Liberals and Air Canada hadn't been absolutely certain they could steamroll the union. It's important that everyone remembers that the actions of the Liberals and Air Canada here weren't just greedy and malevolent, they were really, really stupid.

This ridiculous settler.

One of the kick-off activities in our doctoral course Critical Perspectives on Technology in Education will be reading @ursulakleguin.com's "A Rant about 'Technology'." So excited for the convo it will spark! www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...

Direct action gets the goods.

Liberal settler memory: TAKE BACK THE DAMN COUNTRY? Thought experiment: Try to fight fascists without settler colonizer spin? Give it a try! Words matter.

I was searching for Severin Fowles's new chapter, Settler Ontocide, that quotes me quoting Nick Estes, and the search returns: "Did you mean settlers antacids?" Here's a link to the book with that chapter BTW.

These #AI apps are stalkers. I am very stubborn. It's just radicalizing me.

😅 Good morning, America.

"Kimberly Margaret, your booking on AC175 to Edmonton YEG was cancelled. We're very sorry, but after searching for flights on over 120 airlines for three days before and after your cancelled flight, we've been unable to rebook you." Good thing I rebooked myself in 5 minutes a couple days ago.

This is strange, as are the comments on the original post. I'm going to have students in my intro Native Studies class this fall write on and discuss this. ☝️ First off, that word Caucasian is scientifically incorrect. Just say white.

“It will be a multiday ordeal and a multi thousand dollar trip,” MacDonald said. But as stressful as the disruptions have been, she added that her family stands in solidarity with the flight attendants. “We hope that Air Canada lifts the lockout and negotiates fairly.” #AirCanada

I'm out $1800 USD. Booked a new itinerary to get home from Sweden on SAS/KLM in anticipation of this strike. AC finally sent an email 11 hrs before boarding. No flight alternatives available. Their customer service is predictably minimal as will be reimbursement. ✊️ #AirCanada flight attendants.

"Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism."

Is Gates really a bold champion of women, as the news media is widely presenting? Or is he laundering his reputation--papering over the troubling allegations of misconduct he faces? By taking his money, are you part of the problem? Read on: timschwab.substack.com/p/is-bill-ga...

Colonizers doing colonizer things on stolen land.

there is a country song with a line, "head over seas to defend that flag." that's exactly it, defending a deadly ideology signified with cloth, not defending lands or lives therein, land and life they sacrifice to the gluttonous rich. waving colonizer flags just gets us more defense of horror.