What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

A new book by “Sioux chef” Sean Sherman seeks to erase colonial borders from across Turtle Island by sharing Indigenous recipes.

Laguna Pueblo golfer Aidan Thomas wins the New Mexico Open - his first professional tournament.

The B.C. Conservatives are again dealing with controversial comments perpetuating residential school denialism, this time from a high-profile staffer who had a key role in shaping the party. #bcpoli

Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop. The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump. But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why. www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

New in PN: Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship "So far, nothing he's done has prompted a critical mass of Republicans to speak out about his abuses of power. And in his address to military brass, Trump signaled he intends to go much further."

This "lethality" shit: don't people understand that it's a FAILURE in war when you have to kill people, that the point is to make them surrender before that happens? That keeping score by "body count" is one explanation of why America lost in Vietnam?

The legislation, introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to dedicate a stretch of M-22 near Peshawbestown as the "Company K Indian Veterans 1st Michigan Sharpshooters Civil War Memorial Highway." upnorthlive.com/news/local/l...

"Begay and Tarica began to discuss the concept and agreed that their artists would retain all intellectual property rights and 10 percent of T-shirt sales. Begay also stressed the importance of manufacturing products with 100 percent U.S.-made sustainable materials." www.inc.com/petala-ironc...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Read this one sentence from Zohran Mamdani: “I will be a mayor who doesn’t bow down to corporate interests, doesn’t take his orders from billionaires, and sure as hell doesn’t let ICE steal our neighbors from their homes." It's the perfect rebuttal to "Trump's authoritarianism is a distraction."

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" was a reckoning, a collection of a hundred My Lais that shattered the myth of how the west was won. The book has never been out of print and has sold 5 million copies worldwide. cdispatch.com/opinions/sli...

Answer: No. "In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden said it was 'abhorrent' that soldiers involved in the killings received Medals of Honor. The Biden administration had ordered a review of the honors given out, but no details on the review were publicly released." www.sdnewswatch.org/fact-brief-w...

"Rep. Frank Lucas has long argued that the tribes have been compensated for the patch of land in his district. The tribes disagree. Now, the governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes says Lucas is doing everything he can to avoid working with them." www.notus.org/oklahoma/okl...

"A shutdown is something tribes can't afford. Tribal nations and communities depend on hundreds of thousands of government personnel and programs for roads, tribal police, energy, health care, food and other programs." ictnews.org/news/indian-...

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: The Michigan shooter and the myth of "Christian persecution." Read and subscribe! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com Music by Meek Mill.

Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

NYT/Siena poll confirms what most other polls have shown of late - the country has rejected his "strongman" authoritarian tactics, and he is deeply unpopular. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/p...

Brandeis University has awarded its prestigious Creative Arts Award for 2025 to playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse. FastHorse, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. www.brandeis.edu/stories/2025...

She and many others will be marking Orange Shirt Day at events around the country on Tuesday, in remembrance of the tens of thousands of Native children who attended these schools, the goal of which was to "kill the Indian … save the man." www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

"In California, where the Gold Rush sparked a decades-long genocide of Native Americans that killed tens of thousands of people, parks staffers must decide how to deal with this state’s painful history around its Indigenous communities." www.kqed.org/news/1205565...

"The U.S. House has passed a measure that would pave the way for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to receive federal recognition, a status that has been just out of reach for more than 100 years." www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

"Did Native Americans have irrigation systems? The answer is an emphatic yes, with Native ingenuity laying a foundation for the digital, drone, and AI-based irrigation revolutions now optimizing water management and crop yields in 2025 and beyond." farmonaut.com/usa/did-nati...

"This administration — which likes to pretend, ludicrously, that Black Americans don't still face racist barriers to success in our society — wants to wave slavery away like it never happened. And they're not even doing it openly." www.altoonamirror.com/opinion/edit...

NEW: I interviewed Leonard Peltier at his new home in North Dakota. Now 81, he has a LOT to say about his ~50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to finally release him, how Indigenous people are "in danger" under Trump, and his next chapter. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Truly, his politics are a mystery and we will never learn the secrets that motivated this lone wolf killer with absolutely no connections to anyone else, certainly not in politics. Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.

In case the misogyny of this fake Tylenol panic isn't obvious enough, RFK made fun of rape victims during the press conference. Joe Rogan also jumped in, showing this is about controlling and punishing women, not health care. www.salon.com/2025/09/29/r...

"Bending over backwards to appease Trump for any reason — to protect yourself or your institution, to demonstrate your bipartisan apolitical bona fides, to secure a government deal — absolutely never ends well."

There's something almost pathological about the blind spot on display here, and it's constant. Leading liberals and journalists simply *never* acknowledge that the Future Forward strategy failed. It's as if this is a taboo subject, for some reason

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years. And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Henry, I know folks who worked for Amnesty in the US long ago on the death penalty with the Catholic Church. They agreed not to talk abortion. I get it. But I draw the line at people who have advocated for and promoted harassment of others. You don't terrorize your coalition partners. 1/

I like that we are moving, by fits and starts, to a new, better understanding of the current corruption of SCOTUS and how to fix it. Good stuff here from @joshtpm.bsky.social. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

Getting a lot of "those numbers are shockingly high" responses. No, they aren't! They're terrible! They're historically low this early in a presidential term. Stop actively looking for ways to persuade yourselves that Trump is invincible.

Trump has fried all our brains. Too many people just don't believe he possibly can be this unpopular. The "realist" stance becomes: He's secretly strong! That taints media coverage and debilitates the Dem response. My exchange with @lakshya.splitticket.org on this: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Masked men posing as ICE agents are kidnapping and assaulting women—taking advantage of the chaos and fear Trump's detention and deportation policies have fostered. Guest writer Cammy Pedroja exposes how Trump’s fear-driven immigration crackdown is endangering immigrant women.

Spencer summarizes that "West Virginia was an interface between Fort Ancient people to the west and Siouan-speaking people to the east." For example, a 1671 journal describes a tribe of "Salt Indians" near Charleston who traded the area’s natural salt deposits. wvexplorer.com/2025/09/27/w...

"Vision Maker Media (VMM) has announced $940,310 in funding for 22 Indigenous film productions, marking the largest number of awardees in the organization's history. Each filmmaker received up to $205,000 to complete their project." nativenewsonline.net/arts-enterta...

"This is one of America's darkest days and the medals must be revoked. They tarnish America's Medals of Honor. There is no honor in murder. Secretary Hegseth made this decision on his own concurrence with no contact or request for consultation to the Tribes." nativenewsonline.net/currents/nca...