"Can a man become a woman?" is not a question anyone asks in good faith as it's a complete misunderstanding of what being trans is. Absolutely a GOP op.

"Trump’s aides know if the changes they propose were actually turned into law, it'd be a political disaster. Which is how we get what we got: A plan that's not a plan, released so they can say they have a plan but not actually do anything. And that’s just fine with Trump." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened. www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...

I'm glad Douthat admits the public is turning against Trump's ICE raids, but he undersells this. The mass deportations aren't just unpopular because ICE agents are terrorizing and killing people. The core underlying goal is itself unpopular, as I try to argue here: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

"Cherokee native Andrew Clingan started J.A.M in 2023. The band strives to put traditional tribal sentiments to modern music. According to Clingan the group's sound is unique but fits into genres like alternative rock and country rock." www.thesylvaherald.com/arts_and_ent...

fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)

From 17 bases at the Cold War peak to just one today. If we wanted more security, we could simply return to past basing practices. So it's CLEARLY not about that. Trump admitted to the NYT it was about his PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED. That's the Greenland story in it's entirety: Trump's delusional neediness.

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

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"'Skeleton Canoe' is told not only through music, puppetry, humor, dance, and drumming, but also through audience engagement, as the performance moves fluidly among past, present, and future, reflecting a circular sense of time as rich as the moon hand drum." www.americantheatre.org/2026/01/14/c...

When non-Native people are exposed to mascot representations, studies "show that people end up, surprise, surprise, endorsing stereotypical portrayals, not being as supportive of Native rights and modern native people in all kinds of ways." ipmnewsroom.org/psychologist...

"Our Diné people should not have to live in fear of being stopped, questioned, or detained simply because of who they are or how they look. We are citizens of the United States and citizens of our sovereign tribal nations, and our rights must be respected." opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/260116-deten...

"We didn't expect ICE to start capturing Native Americans. There is nobody more American than American Indians, but yet here we are. Extremely worried." said Iron Eyes. www.dakotanewsnow.com/2026/01/17/t...

"This is about medicine people, and all Indian country, exploiting their people under the guise of spirituality," Leone said. "That must end." In "Dances with Wolves," Chasing Horse starred as a character named Smiles a Lot and made a "noticeable cameo." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Some takeaways by the CFR's James Lindsay from the launch panel discussion w/@cmcknichols.bsky.social & @marydudziak.bsky.social on the @cfr.org survey of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social members on the best and worst US foreign policy decisions in history🗃️ www.cfr.org/blog/convers...

"The number of Americans embracing the 'liberal' label climbed to 28% — the highest total since Gallup started asking the question in the early 1990s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

At least a quarter of the entire population of Greenland’s capital marched in protest, waving their national flag 🇬🇱 and chanting “Greenland is not for sale” And we know how a Trump administration would treat those protesters if allowed. www.theguardian.com/...

This is like saying that the whole history of America is a history of allowing people to be enslaved. Things change.

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

How it started/how it's going

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

"It is hard to miss the irony of locking up the first people of this land in an immigration sweep," Echohawk said. "It's indicative of the racial profiling that is happening, and we refuse to stand by while the United States government abducts Native people." nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

"This is the same tactic that was used centuries ago, and we're reliving that now in 2026, over 100 years, and our people still continue to be targeted. Indian country is coming together because we don't want to relive the bad history, the trauma of the past." www.abc4.com/news/native-...

"Native Americans—the first peoples of this land—are among those being abducted and detained. These arrests and detentions blatantly violate the treaty, as well as the constitutional and civil rights of the Native Americans being apprehended." narf.org/narf-stateme...

This is important & revealing. Gallego is from AZ. He ran to the right of Dems in 2024 on immigration. The fact he's saying this speaks volumes. He sees where the public is on ICE. Tear it down. Build another non-police-state-freak-show immigration enforcement agency.

glad they're on this. i've noticed this and you probably have too. shattering drivers side car windows appears to be a top and preferred tactic for ICE. even when nothing is happening that makes it necessary or even on the most generous interpretation warranted. it's terror tactic.

Just another reason why the President of the United States must not be “involved” in decisions about approving megamergers. It’s simple: Any review needs to be based on the law and facts — not Donald Trump’s political opinions and personal investments.

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

Trump's guilty as sin.

Given how much Trump is fighting against the release of the Epstein files, he's likely not just in them: he's probably a main character.

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Trump has deployed ICE on militarized invasions of blue cities for months. They’re only getting more violent. Now, ten days after ICE murdered a woman on video, Democratic elites are very concerned that anyone might say, “Abolish ICE.” w/ @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/trump-war-...

"Pop Art as pop culture is something that contemporary artists continue to draw on their work today." It's influenced the work of artists, particularly Native American artists, who are grappling with the complexity of colonization and of dispossession. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

"Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola said on Monday she would challenge Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in this year’s midterm elections, delighting party leaders who view her candidacy as critical for efforts to retake control of the U.S. Senate." apnews.com/article/alas...

"The problem with these mascots is that they're not about Native people at all. They're about, you know, white people fantasies about Native people, which have to do with a bunch of complicated psychological dynamics, again, that have nothing to do with Indians." ipmnewsroom.org/psychologist...

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

Miller’s miscalculation - the logic of a privileged and sheltered brat - is that violence would pull white folks away from black and brown folks, when in fact it’s done the opposite. And now America’s other cities also know how to face him.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

The Exclusive Citizenship Act seeks to ban dual citizenship for all U.S. citizens, requiring dual citizens to either renounce their foreign citizenship or their U.S. citizenship. For Natives, it could imply choosing between assimilation or their Tribal identity. icmagazine.org/ice-against-...

"The irony is not lost on us," Frank Star Comes Out said. "Lakota citizens who are reported to be held at Fort Snelling — a site forever tied to the Dakota 38 — underscores why treaty obligations and federal accountability matter today, not just in history." www.wboy.com/news/native-...

I was one of the folks interviewed for this article truthout.org/articles/dis...

Who was in charge of Japanese internment? The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Why? B/c many Indian reservations were first established as prison camps. My rez is Prison Camp 334. Google ‘Poston.’ On the Navajo Nation, this was an internment camp within an internment camp. We’ve been here before.

An Indigenous perspective: Democratic socialism has been here for thousands of years — everyone had a say, everyone had a vote, families didn’t starve, no one was homeless, children didn’t go hungry. Caring for people wasn’t a hard math.

Congratulations to North of North! When the Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 30th annual awards, North of North appeared five times, sweeping every nomination for the Comedy Series category. redpopnews.com/north-of-nor... #redpopnews #northofnorth #indigisky

At the heart of a new report about the importance of Australian Native Foods and increased First Nations leadership by Marlon Motlop, a former Port Adelaide footballer & proud Larrakia, Gulumoerrgin, Kungarrakan, and Erub man, is a story about connection. redpopnews.com/how-marlon-m... #redpopnews