dudes rock. i care about soccer now. www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

On this day in 1877, Nez Perce forces decisively defeat American forces in the opening battle of the the Nez Perce War, the Battle of White Bird Canyon in what's now Idaho. anticolonialhistory.com/event/388/

love this photo with his beautiful family

On this day in 1806, a solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Tenskwatawa, humiliating Indiana territorial governor William Henry Harrison who had publicly challenged Tenskwatawa to prove his powers. anticolonialhistory.com/event/70/

ready for a series of gray birds? I know you are #🪶 First of all Rock Wren

fastest land mammal in North America 🥲

The time of year for perching on a stab. A Whaap watchful of young, from a high viewpoint. Along the Sandy road this morning. #Papay #Curlew #Orkney

is he doing a good job? #🪶

Read now or bookmark as an excellent response to the common settler leftist/anarchist confusion and hostility towards Indigenous self determination/ sovereignty. Specific to the Kanaka experience but with relevance to Palestine and all national liberation struggles.

new insult just dropped

updated zine for your zine needs

Born on this day in 1918, Alcatraz reclamation co-organizer, Stella Leach (Colville - Oglala Lakota).

although they do devour everything in sight, including cannibalizing their own, descending upon the landscape like a plague, Mormon Crickets are not actually Mormon. Nor are they crickets! “Anabrus is a genus in the shield-backed katydid subfamily in the Tettigoniidae family” whatever that means!

let me in to the group chat, bluesky

I really encourage everyone to learn about the Bear River Massacre and question why you might know about Sand Creek and Wounded Knee but not this historic ethnic cleansing. Shoshone people have done a lot of work to right the historical record of this painful event, we should honor those efforts.

This is the kind of thing that it's very important for other settlers to take a stand against. Don't just leave it up to Native people to deal with this.

phalaropes continues to break gender/sex norms and expectations no matter how repressive to trans people western society becomes #🪶

although Canada focused, I highly recommend this book to Americans too as a case study on general tenant organizing, + critique of co-optation of that struggle by city councils and the non-profit industrial complex. Really good current information, genuinely found it inspiring and informative.

“Try as they would, the Metis could not get titles to their lands, while the government alienated large blocks of lands to speculators”

burrowing owl waiting for me to leave #🪶

On Wobbly-Indigenous relations: Ralph Chaplin Hanging Out With Chief Leschi in Tacoma, by Arthur J. Miller (2001) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/05...

Today is Ona Judge Day. While the United States gears up for its 250th celebration, which inevitably includes the likes of George Washington, Ona Judge made her escape on May 21, 1796. The Washington household attempted her capture several times, but she was never caught. Forever free

anybody like baby owls or no? #🪶

“We still consider ourselves prisoners of war. We’ll always be at war with the values of this society!”

first mountain bluebird of the year for me. also pronghorn #🪶

Best thing about spring birding on the prairies? Slough peeping! Every little pothole wetland is just bursting with life #birds

The report alleges that a total of 3 lithium projects in [Nevada] are proceeding w/o having obtained appropriate consent from local Indigenous. 2 companies headquartered in BC, Lithium Americas Corporation & Surge Battery Metals, jointly own 2 of the projects www.readthemaple.com/canadian-fir...

On this day in 1858, in the context of the Yakima war that began in 1855, Schi̱tsu'umsh / Coeur d'Alene, Palouse and Spokane forces are victorious over US forces at the Battle of Pine Creek (or the Battle of Tohotonimme). anticolonialhistory.com/event/334/

the hunt. the kill. #🪶

rainy yesterday #🪶

On this day in 1943, Assiniboine/Quinault activist Hank Adams was born. He went on to be instrumental in many of the Native sovereignty struggles of the 60s and 70s. anticolonialhistory.com/event/170/

Elon Musk should be hanged drawn and quartered

On this day in 1545, Gaspar Yanga (Nianga) is born. From the Congo region, sold into slavery and taken to New Spain (Mexico), he escaped his enslavers around 1570 with a band of other enslaved people that he led into the highlands near Veracruz. anticolonialhistory.com/event/169/

On this day in 1832, Sauk, Fox and Kickapoo warriors win the first battle of Black Hawk's War, causing Major Isaiah Stillman and his detachment of 275 Illinois militia to retreat in panic, due to which the battle would be called Stillman's Run. anticolonialhistory.com/event/55/

finally leaving for bird surveys again. boats are dead to me for two months don’t even mention The Sea to me.

i see a lot of comments on eBird rare bird sightings where people seem annoyed a bird is flagged as rare one day then not a few days later. the reviewers need to set the rare limits somewhere. these sightings are useful for monitoring the arrival of migrants esp as they change due to climate change

On this day in 2024, an uprising begins in Kanaky against French rule. A a voting reform which would have allowed many more 'local residents' (non-Indigenous) to vote in local elections is the spark that starts the fire. anticolonialhistory.com/event/219/

On this day in 1860, Paiute forces led by Chief Numaga defeat settler militia forces at the first battle of the Pyramid Lake War. anticolonialhistory.com/event/54/

Churchill, MB is home to the only deep-water Arctic port in Canada and the federal government wants to turn it into a major new trade corridor. APTN’s Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs asks the locals in Churchill how they feel about these decisions.

let’s go. last day at this job before two months off (to work a different job)

people who say “you missed a spot” to workers who are cleaning should be maybe not first but at some point, definitely, up against the wall

good article that illustrates some of the problems with the current system of environmental impact studies for major infrastructure projects and Indigenous consultation. Caribou are much like migratory birds, needing large areas and being sensitive to projects like this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

watching Lion of the Desert. some pretty excellent captions here from the Pirate Bay

Bulldozers preparing an expansion of the U.S. border wall with Mexico caused extensive damage to the Las Playas intaglio 280-by-50-foot etching in the Sonoran Desert. The intaglio, a site sacred to the Indigenous Oʼodham peoples of the Sonora, is estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.

Amazing news to start the weekend! The developer leading an exploratory drilling project at Pe’ Sla has withdrawn their drilling plan!!! Huge shoutout to NDN Collective and the treaty defenders who occupied the land and shut the operation down last weekend.

ok the radio just said they think the hantavirus patient zero guy might have contracted it BIRDING AT A DUMP. Do we have his eBird or the hantavirus eBird checklist or?

Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP's Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.

At the height of the siege there were an estimated 900 Indigenous fighters present. While Pontiac held siege on the fort, attacks occurred across the Ohio valley area and at one point Indigenous forces controlled nine of eleven British forts.

On this day in 1763, Pontiac and his allies begin the Siege of Detroit and the resistance known as Pontiac's Rebellion. anticolonialhistory.com/event/51/

On this day in 1860, a Paiute attack on Williams Station rescues two young kidnapped Paiute girls and ignites the Pyramid Lake War. anticolonialhistory.com/event/52/