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My dog’s anxiety still goes up when it snows…she knows very well how good she has things now

This is such hard core nerdery! And I absolutely adore it!

Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Consumptive Capitalism
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Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Consumptive Capitalism
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Soooo little snow and soooo warm here in western Montana…truly terrifies me for the coming fire season…last year was bad…looking to be worse this year…

Frederick’s had the best Santa photos too!

Love Kalaloch! So many memories from summer camping trips there as a child!

Why not both? Deluded, because their brain power has been diluted?

Seems late for blackberries in sea-town? I remember picking them in July and August as a kid…

Anybody know if Hizentra will be subject to the new ridiculous tariffs? This stuff already costs $5k a month…

Poodle cabbage!

Woohoo! Way to go!

Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died — The Dallas Morning News At the outset of Texas’ abortion ban, medical experts worried pregnant women would die from delays in care. The Dallas Morning News examined two such cases.

Ho-lee sh*t! Clearly Texas’ idiotic anti-abortion laws are NOT about “life.” These were wanted babies, who were already dead through no fault of their mothers’. And these idiot hospitals delayed care for the mothers anyway. Causing the women to die.

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Wait, “Don Cherry collaborator?” What does that mean? Does he coach peewee hockey? Honestly confused over here…

Tuscaloosa, by W. Glasgow Phillips

It’s to keep her alive

Awesome spot for stargazing too!

Every dog. We don’t deserve them. ❤️

Pretty sure my parents, who went from two to five children under age six the summer I was born, heard my cries as proof I was alive and slept right through them…

None! I loved lots of things in my youth, but PLEASE, come up with something NEW! Sooo tired of so-called reboots! Pick a new idea!

Maybe just stay in the mountains for good??

I was pointing out that none of us should assume that summer food programs at schools are still happening. I know the food bank in my rural Montana community has lost major funding already. Unsure if the schools have. We might all be wise to check.

Many of these programs rely on USDA food program money which has now been cut.

Many of these programs rely on USDA food program money which has now been cut…

Only problem here is that (as I understand it) the Duwamish lived in long houses, not tipis…?

OMG, where can I get some of these stickers??? I’m very abled, but I work in Physio and see this allll the tiiiime! I have literally confronted people asking if they “forgot” their placard…

F*ck yeah!!

Article excerpt: ...an investigation found that the district’s Native American students were disciplined far more harshly than white ones. They also were kept from enrolling in advanced courses. The OCR said that when speaking with an investigator, the superintendent of schools at the time said that Native American students in her district had higher truancy rates because they operated on what she termed “Indian Time.” She said, too, that they don’t value education, according to the investigation’s findings. The former superintendent, Nicole Swigart, denied saying any of that. “I recognize those comments are horrendous,” Swigart said in an interview with ProPublica. She noted that the OCR investigation was opened in 2010 and that she first spoke to an investigator in 2022. “I’m not lying when I say I didn’t say it. I didn’t say it, and I don’t know where it came from.”

Article excerpt: In the agreement with the OCR, the district promised to examine its practices and make things right; the OCR would monitor its progress. The district also brought in a new superintendent. But last month, the OCR abruptly terminated that agreement, based on its differing interpretation of civil rights law. The OCR’s new view is that equity and diversity efforts discriminate against white students. It was, in the view of agency attorneys, the most severe breach of the OCR’s mission and methods to date. There was no public announcement. “Native students in Rapid City just lost a layer of protection,” the Lakota People’s Law Project announced on Facebook. “Native students are still being pushed out of classrooms and denied opportunities.” Darren Thompson, who is Ojibwe, said the OCR’s decision to abandon the agreement was “another cycle of the federal government failing to uphold its promises.”

The Education Department’s civil rights office once helped push a South Dakota school district to treat its Native students equally.

Under Trump, that same office decided that helping Indigenous students would discriminate against white students: propub.li/3GIdTRr