Desiree Kane

community-centered journalism is important because a lot of outsider takes are just wrong & corny.

Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.

In this piece, journalist Jen Byers and I hold #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, this piece features voices of Rebecca Nagle & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #Indigenous

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Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous

Trump Taps Anti-Trans Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Lead DOJ Civil Rights Post Dhillon has openly advocated for overturning blue state laws that protect transgender individuals.

Trump has announced his selection for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights: Harmeet Dhillon, a far-right California lawyer with a track record that could pose significant threats to transgender Americans.

hey, this seems like some really good news!

After the Klamath River dams came down, salmon came back - High Country News What it's like to witness the first run of fish above the removed dams in over a century.

Biologists survey a tributary of the Klamath River in Oregon for spawning Chinook salmon just a month after four dams were completely removed from the river.

Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations How big will the Trump administration go, and how quickly?

So proud of my wife @daralind.bsky.social .

Her latest for NYT explains what mass deportation probably will look like so people know how to prepare for/defend against it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

This site really does feel like 2019 Twitter in a good way

I pity the person that tries to fleece you tbqh

COP29 Ignores Militarism, Putting Meaningful Climate Deal Out of Reach Leaders of the world’s top polluting nations skipped COP29, which also failed to address how militarism fuels emissions.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have resulted not only in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, but have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and paved the way to hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Signing Document Banning Swastika Symbol (Original Caption) 2/28/40-Tucson, Arizona: Florence Smiley and Evelyn Yathe, Navajos of Tucson, Arizona are shown signing the imposing parchment document which formally outlawed the Swastika symbol from designs in Indian art, such as basket and blanket weaving. Four tribes, Navajos, Papagos, Apaches and Hopis banned the symbol which was in use by the Indians long before it came to have a sinister significance. The document tells why Indians banned it.

36,000+ followers on X, 48 on here, and already I'm so much more at ease. I'll never forget a year ago, losing 15,000 followers for posting history about Southwest Natives rejecting the swastika in solidarity against Hitler. That's when I knew it was time to go. Here's that image again, btw.

We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives “It is a self-replicating authoritarian system that has persisted over the course of generations,” says Talia Lavin.

“Our enemies are waging a war, and to many of them, it’s a holy war.”

Police at Standing Rock Are Using Life-Threatening Crowd-Control Weapons to Crack Down on Water Protectors | ACLU

It's a tough day tbh. 11/20/2016: Police attacked the #NoDAPL Water Protectors on the Backwater Bridge, #StandingRock using water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, & other "less-than-lethal" weapons in sub-zero temperatures. 140+ came away with police-induced hypothermia. I was living @ the camp.

Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous

I know all the people I missed that somehow meta filtered out for us are here, and that's rad too!

You got this!!! :)

Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.

For Trans Day of Remembrance, Miwok journalist Desiree Kane & I wrote this for @truthout.org, commemorating Nex Benedict 💜

We analyzed the relationship between the current anti-trans attacks & the historic, violent assimilation of Indigenous + Two Spirit people through the boarding school era.

The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others, accusing them of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader