the US got exemptions for their military from all international climate deals. they don’t report emissions nor are their emissions counted in US national emissions reduction goals. the war machine must be dismantled to address climate change and the US must be first. #🪶#birds

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On this day in 1939, influentual nêhiyaw-âpihtawikosisân (Cree-Métis) writer, educator and community worker from Treaty 6 territory, Maria Campbell is born, well-known for her 1973 autobiography, Halfbreed, and her work to uphold Cree-Métis stories and culture. anticolonialhistory.com/event/168/

It's out 😲 ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian share.google/hHdd51hP096w...

Tiny Hawk, Pro Skater

when looking at a specific hotspot target species page on eBird, it seems like you can only chose target sp for your world life list or that hotspot but you can change the url where it says 5&r2=world to 5&r2=US-ID for Idaho or whichever state you want to see your target sp. #ebird #birds

On this day in 1885, Métis, Cree, and Dakota forces numbering 280 routed Major General Frederick Middleton's North West Mounted Police and militia force of 900 at the Battle of Fish Creek. anticolonialhistory.com/event/45/

On this day in 1951, Inuit leader, Zebedee Nungak ᔭᐃᐱᑎ ᓄᓐᖓᖅ is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/315/

“When winter is still lingering with cold winds, the Chickadee will continue its plain one-tone ‘tee-tee’ song. As soon as it senses that warmer weather is on the way, it will change its tune…” #Indigenous #FirstNations #birds #goose #hunting #language

Today in 1968, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean—commonly known as the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which opened for signature in Mexico City on February 14, 1967—entered into force.

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

On this day in 1984, Tla-o-qui-aht and Ahousaht First Nations declare Wah-Nah-Jus Hilth-hoo-is (Meares Island) a tribal park. anticolonialhistory.com/event/331/

my first of year Caspian Tern today

"And the logical course of the class struggle is not to confuse anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. The former is reactionary, but the latter is one of the means of fighting the former." Albert Meltzer (1942)

£1.5 billion a day is being spent by the US on its illegal war on Iran - billions that could instead be spent providing genuine security to millions of people. A lesson for Keir Starmer to prioritise #NursesNotNukes and #WelfareNotWarfare! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

On this day in 1895, Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator, Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/167/

On this day in 1988, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision against the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, ruling that the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution doesn't protect Native ceremonial sites from development. anticolonialhistory.com/event/218/

First swift. First swallow. First cuckoo. You can keep them all. Nothing uplifts the spirit more than the first Bonxie. Over Hinso today. #Papay #firstbirds #Orkney #greatskua #bonxielove

The cast for the summer bird ensemble is almost assembled. The first Scootie Allans arrived yesterday, the islands favourite kleptoparasite is back! Arctic skua over South Wick. #Superseabirdsunday

South Polar Skua, Antarctica. #BirdOfTheDay #gulls #birds #SuperSeabirdSunday

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

Bureau of Land Management announced the next lease for Arctic NWR will be held June 5th. Hopefully no bids will be received, like last year but a great time to be vigilant in support of Gwich’in Steering Committee who leads this fight for sovereignty and protection of their lands and caribou

nice summary here of how oil companies are benefitting from the US/Israel war on Iran www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On this day in 1873, the Second Battle of the Stronghold begins during the Modoc War. Despite being greatly outnumbered, the natural lava bed fortress allows the Modoc to hold off US forces for two days, until their water supply is cut off, and they escape. anticolonialhistory.com/event/44/

On this day in 1885, Cree forces prevail over Canada's North-West Mounted Police (now named RCMP) at the Battle of Fort Pitt, in what's now Saskatchewan, during the Northwest Resistance. Police commander Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, surrenders. anticolonialhistory.com/event/43/

one month until two month leave of absence from boat job to go do bird job yayyy

"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination." George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)

#OtD 13 Apr 1890 Black Philadelphia docker and @IWW member, Ben Fletcher, was born. Joining the IWW in 1913, he organised a multiracial union on the Philadelphia docks when many unions were still segregated. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

great sparrows lately. fox, golden-crowned and my lifer Harris’s #🪶

On this day in 1865, Antonga (Black Hawk), a Timpanogos war chief, leads a raid on Mormon settlers in Utah, driving off a herd of cattle, shooting and killing one settler, and kicking off the Black Hawk War that would last until 1872. anticolonialhistory.com/event/40/

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

spotted towhee doing their explosive trill #🪶

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

reminder to request new (published within last 10 years) good books to your local library. free way to support Native authors and important history/political work and to radicalize your library offerings. @hollyguise.bsky.social

"RCMP say damage to police vehicles in First Nations protest includes 'urine-soaked interior surfaces'"

swallows are so back. protect aerial insectivores

Born on this day in 1946, Cherokee Nation linguist, ᏫᎵ ᏚᎥᎢᏅ (Wili Duvinv), also known as Durbin Duran Feeling, who wrote the primary Cherokee–English dictionary in 1975. anticolonialhistory.com/event/163/

On this day in 1885, Cree warriors retaliated at Frog Lake (in what's now Alberta) after a cruel April Fools' Day prank in which government official Thomas Quinn had promised rations to starving Cree people but then withheld them. anticolonialhistory.com/event/38/

in depth analysis of Voltairine de Cleyre’s varied and contradictory stances on colonialism and Indigenous people. Something to be learned for fans of Voltairine de Cleyre and also for American anarchists today who oftentimes have contradictory stances which could be reflected on

a black night in an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any hospitable shore

i love birds

pîhtokahânapiwiyin, ᐲᐦᑐᑲᐦᐋᓇᐱᐏᔨᐣ did nothing wrong

Happy Birthday to Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, who is currently raising money for dental work, which you can donate to here. He’s had three bad teeth pulled in the past month. fundrazr.com/campaigns/52...

🧵50 years after the commemoration of the first Land Day, Palestinians continue to confront a reality that echoes the conditions that gave rise to that historic mobilization: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

MADRID (AP) - Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war. @apnews.com

as separate from strike in Minab of children- “The Feb. 28 attack occurred the same day as a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck a school in the city of Minab, several hundred miles away, killing 175 people. In the case of Lamerd, though, it involved a weapon that had been untested in combat.”

Marius Mason is scheduled to be released from prison on May 4, 2026 to a halfway house in Detroit. At this time we do not know what restrictions will be in place, nor for how long...

more carbon capture bullshit. good summary here of how carbon capture projects like this are not real, just stealing more native land, dangerous to everyone along the pipeline, and really a justification to build up the oil and gas industry more. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...