Greg O'Brien

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

Recipes for Resilience Discover the history of the Choctaw gift that symbolizes generosity and connection between Indigenous and Irish communities.

What connects the Irish Famine, the Choctaw Trail of Tears, and seasonal stories of survival?

In this new article, Shelley Angelie Saggar from the @sharinglands.bsky.social project explores the intertwined histories of Indigenous and Irish food cultures.

Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dashed the hopes of Native American communities that long sought the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

apnews.com/article/indi... decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities

TV Whiskey Pete is one of the most embarrassing fools ever to serve in the U.S. government. It's a national humiliation to see this idiot strutting and fidgeting before our nation's top military men and women, every one of whom are his moral and intellectual superior yet required to sit and listen.

Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.

Excited to co-author this study led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the devastating consequences of not vaccinating pregnant women vs Covid

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

He should go to Pine Ridge and say this shit.

He should go to Pine Ridge and say this shit.

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

breaking news from unc: former provost chris clemens is suing the university for open meetings and public records violations during their discussion about delaying tenure votes

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Seems too on the nose

Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.

Instead of cuts, Social Security can afford to INCREASE benefits if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!

Maybe we should refer to "generative AI" as "calculated mediocrity."

Bloat at the top, insufficient resources at the bottom

Portrait photo of John G. Hutton, General Engineering Lab of General Electric

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up.

C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.”

allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show The Author Who Warned America: Sarah Kendzior

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to h...

Full interview now available on our website ⤵️
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/le...

Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’ Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.

As pressure on universities heats up, one academic union has published guidelines to help its members stay safe

The fact that the folks who want to get rich off of AI are lazy, grifting charlatans - or that we don’t seem to want to adequately fund higher ed anymore - doesn’t mean that what makes for high quality teaching & learning has changed. & it’s bad that so many in the academy are pretending otherwise.

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

(Jerry Lewis voice): GROYPERS

So tell me this ...

Regarding the Trumpers calling for WAR! over Charlie Kirk ... are they going to go to war with themselves now?

Every Shooting Is a Tragedy—and a Chance for the Right to Play Bully Some on the right are genuinely in mourning. But from Trump on down, they’re using Charlie Kirk’s murder to create a more authoritarian society.

The right always jump to conclusions, and to talk of revenge, not justice. The biggest jumper of all is Trump himself, who delivered an absolutely chilling address Wednesday night from the Oval Office.

And when Trump says it, we should assume that he and his movement mean it. trib.al/pNOXAAi

Yep. Our "phones" are now operated via Microsoft Teams and never work. We have to use our personal cellphones to make any calls.

The Democrat who gets my vote in 2028 will be the one who doesn't condone Charlie Kirk's racism and bigotry by lowering American flags to half-mast

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:

1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society

2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth