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Citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.Turtle clan. PhD candidate (ABD) at Umich in polisci, working on a dissertation titled “Blood and Soil Liberalism: The political economy of American Indian assimilation policies.”

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Latest posts by tomklemm.bsky.social on Bluesky

sam altman isn't mad at deepseek because they used others' intellectual property without asking, but because using others' intellectual property without asking technically constitutes infringement of openAI's proprietary methodology

29.01.2025 15:51 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Israel games the US in the most absurd/horrific ways imaginable.

16.01.2025 00:45 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

the real answer is either "looks good" or "fuck this shit looks rank"

03.01.2025 23:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hakeem inspired me to do the same, but with a Native man and holay it made him all sacred lmao

03.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
An image of Pope Francis reading a statement, beneath the headline "Israel lashes out at Vatican after Pope Francis condemns killing of children
The pontiff's condemnation of atrocities in Gaza reveals an increasing anger over Israel's actions in the holy land."

An image of Pope Francis reading a statement, beneath the headline "Israel lashes out at Vatican after Pope Francis condemns killing of children The pontiff's condemnation of atrocities in Gaza reveals an increasing anger over Israel's actions in the holy land."

This would definitely induce an "are we the baddies?" moment in me.

28.12.2024 16:37 — 👍 153    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 0
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The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern. U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

The US govt pressured the aid groups to withdraw the claim because it disputed the number of people affected - who could not be accurately determined because so many had fled. The fundamental problem of not enough food for too many people remains.
apnews.com/article/gaza...

26.12.2024 21:47 — 👍 273    🔁 126    💬 13    📌 19

He’s 100% correct

27.12.2024 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There has always been a chunk of Christian Natives/veterans in Indian country that are frankly just regular republicans. What’s changed is that conspiracy theories have turned a lot of people who would otherwise not be MAGA/Republican into ones, and it comes with a superiority about Really Knowing

27.12.2024 01:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One way to know that Zionism is a racial project is in the amount of anti-Palestinian racism that exists! That did not exist 100 years ago, Zionism made that, through a logic of race

25.12.2024 05:00 — 👍 209    🔁 26    💬 7    📌 0

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

24.12.2024 18:51 — 👍 2743    🔁 456    💬 61    📌 43

Hawk Mountain by Connor Habib. Grabs you quickly and I think it is actually better on audio because the author breathes so much in to it. I ended up reading it right after listening to it I liked it so much.

23.12.2024 02:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A recently discharged Division 252 officer describes the arbitrary nature of this boundary: "For the division, the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see." But the issue goes beyond geography. "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," he says. "The IDF spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200."

These accounts of indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists emerged repeatedly in Haaretz's conversations with recent Gaza veterans.

A recently discharged Division 252 officer describes the arbitrary nature of this boundary: "For the division, the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see." But the issue goes beyond geography. "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," he says. "The IDF spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200." These accounts of indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists emerged repeatedly in Haaretz's conversations with recent Gaza veterans.

Fucking hell... Seriously, there's no going back from this. If it were not from Haaretz, nobody would believe it. Worse part? Nobody fucking cares.
archive.ph/NVG4p#select...

19.12.2024 07:48 — 👍 1798    🔁 829    💬 25    📌 58

When I spotted Eric Adams I legit spit out my drink lol One of the funniest guys of all time

19.12.2024 21:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A reminder to this bubble that Israel is still mass slaughtering Palestinian children

19.12.2024 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh no Lakotaman is on here 😭😭😭

14.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From making Zionist a protected category to deeming faculty protestors persona non grata, NYU once again leads the charge against academic freedom.

12.12.2024 19:25 — 👍 62    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0

I have a pet theory I have no evidence for he and some others will go whenever Fetterman does (although I could see Fetterman pulling a Mike Duggan and going independent)

13.12.2024 04:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They got me and I came over here lol. There’s certain people who I do miss reading on Twitter who are only on here now, so I followed them, but there’s been a lot more people who have been jump scares upon seeing their names again lol

12.12.2024 18:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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