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No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land No, you are not on Indigenous land, argues Noah Smith. Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.

Noah Smith's assertions here lie in the assumption that Indigenous nations are not truly nations, but rather, 'racial groups'. This is neither true nor demonstrates a complete understanding of Indigenous nationhood.

www.thefp.com/p/no-you-are...

It also opens the doors to further attempts to delegitimize connection to land, because it leads to definition of Indigenous nations at the genetic level, which then leads to the very tired arguments of "Actually, Native Americans are from Siberia, so they're immigrants too".

Traffic deaths are policy choices.

Not huge ones though, hence the adjective there. Back up cameras certainly do, and US car companies have used them as an excuse to make the SUVs and trucks bigger and bigger and bigger. We can't ignore that in the US. Do you at least agree that the size of SUVs trucks is a safety issue?

Of all of these - automatic breaking and seatbelt airbags are the obvious improvements. Cars shouldn't be big enough to have huge blindspots or need rear-view cameras.

And for the number of people that has saved in the car, it has made injuries and deaths outside of the car much more common. Car companies can say "we have blind spot detection and cameras, so we can make the car as huge as we want" increasingly lethality in collisions with pedestrians.

I won't debate 50 years ago. But, cars 15-20 years ago have most of the same safety features as today and were not as massively huge to be a danger to people outside of the car.

Cars today have a lot more fancy gadgets to distract people though!

guys… we only have to suffer through 13 more months of this if we play our cards right, register to vote, donate, canvas, and vote in the primary and general

alaskans: we need a 2/3 majority in the senate to do this—so dan sullivan has got to go next year

PART I: The E-Bike 'Problem' is an E-Moto Problem — Streetsblog USA PeopleForBikes separates fact from fiction to protect the future of e-bikes in America in this new series. This is Part I.

We need to separate facts from fiction when it comes to what is — and isn't — an electric bicycle.

And for anyone reading this on the fence - I got the COVID vaccine early this fall and so far despite lots of interactions with sick students have not gotten COVID. So the vaccine this year may be pretty effective!

becoming increasingly convinced that the best way to push back against AI slopification of everything is via BOOKS. Physical, paper books. An object you can trade, gift to people, carry around, stick your nose in and smell, and generally attach yourself to.

That picture above was taken at noon.

This event was one of the most important toxic events in the postwar period that sparked the rise of the environmental movement and groundbreaking legislation to protect Americans from the worst impacts of industrialization.

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!

Amos Lawrence memorably said:

"We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Stuff like this can be radicalizing.

When Anthonhy Burns was kidnapped in Boston in 1854 under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act, thousands of ordinary white and Black Bostonians responded with outrage like this and stormed the jail in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.

That last sentence should be the story on Sunday front pages and news shows.

Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Good article!

Hater’s Guide to the 2025 MLS playoffs: Why each Eastern Conference team won’t win MLS Cup Your favorite team? They'll crush your hopes. At least we're letting you down easy...

The MLS playoffs start today in full — and your team probably won't win it all.

@joeclowery.bsky.social and @benwright.bsky.social examine each team's biggest weakness to find out why they'll fall short 🏆

West: www.backheeled.com/haters-guide...

East: www.backheeled.com/haters-guide...

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

"A crop we call manomin. A crop we plant. A crop we harvest. But, 'wild' rice encourages us to see this Anishinaabe crop as an incident of nature." - Brittany Luby

niche-canada.org/2018/12/10/k...

#Indigenous #foodstudies #agriculturalhistory #cdnhist #envhist

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Looks like Norton is going to try to put AI in history textbooks. Here is their survey where you can tell them to keep AI out of the classroom - www.surveymonkey.com/r/HistoryAI

"Jewish Americans told us —by a margin of nearly 3 to 1— that Trump manipulates antisemitism dishonestly, using it as an excuse to pause or cut university funding. Only about one-fourth of all Jews nationwide believe the president “truly cares about protecting Jewish students on college campuses.”"

Normalizing mask wearing in the winter (especially between Thanksgiving and late January) seems like it would help a lot of people avoid getting sick, either flu or COVID. Hell even normalizing wear a mask when feel sick would help!

Which was "winter bad. Can't bike."? Lol. Well the Finnish kids and I will enjoy. Shame you are missing out