Emma Elliott

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.

It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.

People are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.

The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

Image from linked article showing how global temperatures have changed from 1850 to 2024 and projected through through 2100. It goes from cool blues on the left to intense reds on the right. The right has two sections. The first becomes deeper and deeper red and says "Delayed Action: A 3 degree C World". The second is a less deep red pattern that doesn't darken as much and says "Rapid Action and Net-Zeron by 2050s: A 1.5 degree C world". The two sections are separated by a line that is labeled "Our Choices."

It's #ShowYourStripes Day!

From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions.

To learn more…
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

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“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

Washington’s legal community stands together to commit to the promise of the rule of law in a constitutional democracy. The same laws apply to everyone, and everyone is treated equally under the law; government power is bound by law; and human rights are guaranteed to all.

So when we say that, you know, it's all about the land, it's not just metaphorical. The entire project of the settler colonial state had to do with indigenous land theft.

When we talk about how the United States and the US legal system is predicated on Indigenous land theft and on the backs of black people via chattel slavery, these are how we can describe the actual process and relationship to the things that were happening at the time.

The initial framing is that settler colonialism, as it is enacted in settler colonial states like the United States or Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, etc. like they're all it is all about land.

It is this situation, the dispossession of
Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through
the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that
has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous
resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).

The history of the use of the American landscape
has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47

There is not the raw material in the woods, or beyond, to make all of us rich . And in striving for it, we will only make ourselves, all of us, poor. - Lopez, 1990

I was not active on Twitter so I am not sure why I believed I'd keep up with Bsky. But Cory Booker on behalf of the US, tho.

How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine. We are in an imagination battle (A. M. Brown).

"And the wisdom of it, the ineffable and subtle intertwining of living organisms on the Earth, is confirmed today by molecular biology and atmospheric chemistry" (Lopez, 1990)

“So here I am, trying again because the story they have chosen to tell is wrong. They know it and we know it.

It’s time to tell a better story.”

Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.

I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.

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What are rights? What are inalienable rights? What are inherent rights? Who gets to decide who is an alien or not? I can’t with this country, and yet I have to.

But that medicine is patented. We need to imagine new models that are accessible and not privatized. Stop reifying the status quo.

Sometimes I think I am so smart. Then I read D. Haroway and she already wrote it a long time ago.

"Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression" (Combahee River Collective, 1979).

"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation is us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sis ters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." Combahee River Collective, 1979).

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It's Diversity Week at the UW School of Law and they're feeding students all week. Today is breakfast burritos, tomorrow is Indian Tacos from Off the Rez. Go #LawDawgs!

'The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told': A conversation with author Keith Richotte, Jr. An excellent new book by my friend of 35 years comes out today. On this episode of The Friscalating Dusklight Podcast, we have a conversation about the content and the writing process.

New: @randball.bsky.social interviewed Keith Richotte, Jr. about his book The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told on The Friscalating Dusklight Podcast #ReadUP

i wish that more people had listened and paid attention when trans people started facing attacks years ago. i wish you all had seen it as a threat to you, too.

"The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and 'decentered' complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle" (Omi & Winant, 1994, 15).

"The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology, but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place” (Omi & Winant, 1994, 13).

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, definition of racism: “Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”

Great ruling; hard to imagine how *bad* the reasoning will have to get in future if a court wishes to support the EO banning gender affirming care for minors. It’s such a hateful and irrational exercise of executive power.

Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says A new bill would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in Utah schools and government buildings, but pride flags would be banned.

Rep. Trevor Lee's bill would ban pride flags in any government building and on any government property, but allow for the flying of Confederate and Nazi flags "temporarily" for "educational purposes."

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.