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@techspecs.bsky.social

A 30-something Indigenous social scientist at Michigan Technological University working on a Master’s. Ojibwe from the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. I call Michigan’s Upper Peninsula my home. #landback | #freepalestine

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Friends and colleagues,

I’ve helped publish a book! Please check out “Wash Tubs and White Weasel: Memoirs of a Reservation Indian, 1940-1960” by Anita M. Chosa (a.co/d/2PgOBDh). Consider purchasing and/or sharing this post to help spread the word.

10.05.2025 15:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Let’s close the chapter on this part of the story: I have successfully completed my Master of Science in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. There’s so many people to thank for sharing their knowledge and guidance to help me achieve this goal. Thank you!

18.04.2025 00:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”

Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

15.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 15615    🔁 6251    💬 958    📌 686
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Manitoba premier, advocates praise families' love, strength after remains found in landfill search | CBC News Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a...

Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for their loved ones' remains. #mbpoli #mmiwg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

08.03.2025 23:13 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Remains of Morgan Harris confirmed among those found at Winnipeg-area landfill | CBC News RCMP have confirmed a set of human remains found in a landfill outside Winnipeg late last month are those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four victims of a convicted serial killer.

😢 💔

And shame on the previous PC government for refusing to search the landfill.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

08.03.2025 04:09 — 👍 33    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
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Remains of murdered Indigenous woman found in Canadian landfill The murders of two Indigenous women by a serial killer led to a pressure campaign to search the landfill near Winnipeg after authorities initially refused.

The women’s families, First Nations people and their supporters had been pushing reluctant authorities to search the landfill since 2022 @bartschaneman.bsky.social reports
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

08.03.2025 17:31 — 👍 103    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control' Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

apnews.com/article/trum...

08.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 14062    🔁 3740    💬 753    📌 192
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That is exactly true.

08.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 61661    🔁 15722    💬 1263    📌 675
Dozens of teslas burnt to a crisp

Dozens of teslas burnt to a crisp

France just can’t stop showing off. Now they’ve burnt down their first Tesla dealership in protest to Elon Musk. #E3 #TeslaTakeOver

07.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 12748    🔁 2736    💬 769    📌 452
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The Case for Returning U.S. Public Lands to Indigenous People "If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?" asks Joe Whittle.

"The US needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them." time.com/7262838/us-p...

07.03.2025 02:42 — 👍 108    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 3
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Groundbreaking play premieres at Kennedy Center despite upheaval Award-winning playwright Rhiana Yazzie stands firm in taking her story to Washington audiences

Groundbreaking children's play written by a Navajo playwright using elements of the Navajo creation story premieres at Kennedy Center despite upheaval. ictnews.org/news/groundb...

07.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 45    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

I don’t want to take the high road anymore, I want to do property damage

07.03.2025 00:53 — 👍 816    🔁 116    💬 43    📌 18
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

06.03.2025 05:45 — 👍 43539    🔁 14315    💬 881    📌 1418
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What childhood was like before vaccines The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.

What childhood was like before vaccines www.vox.com/health/40268...

06.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 5851    🔁 1906    💬 246    📌 111
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'If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less': Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat A community organizer and former farmworker based in California reflects on the vital role of Indigenous migrant labor in U.S. agriculture.

Migrant Indigenous farmworkers feel deportation threat: Interview with Arcenio López of the Mixteco/ Indígena Community Organizing Project, who describes the particular hardships of his community—roughly 1/4 of all farmworkers working in California today. civileats.com/2025/03/04/a...

05.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Well said!

05.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 77165    🔁 19409    💬 1259    📌 617

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

05.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 70586    🔁 18922    💬 1292    📌 816
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Jon Stewart Rips Musk Over His 'Bullsh*t' Excuse For Backing Out Of 'Daily Show' Interview Offer Scared, Elon?

Are you nervous, Elon?

05.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 14300    🔁 2320    💬 590    📌 160
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This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.

04.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 45342    🔁 9599    💬 3627    📌 880

Dump is a facist loser. He’ll never be my president. I will engage in any protest against him or treat him like the garbage he is. This is my resistance and he will never take away my free speech.

05.03.2025 04:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

Alight runs six centers for extremely malnourished children in Sudan, where the group treats babies + infants so sick that they will die within hours without ongoing care...They're trying to fundraise, knowing that the day they close their doors, children will die

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

03.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 232    🔁 112    💬 7    📌 4
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Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests (Gift Article) The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

Because of course. That's why you don't need an agency to oversee national parks, because there won't be any.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

03.03.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Of course Sugarcane didn’t win an Oscar. Hollywood still does like Natives originally films that promote Native advocacy. It’s still a win for Indian Country.

03.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

In February, one nonprofit got waivers for its programs supporting refugees in war-torn regions.

On Wednesday, the waivers were terminated.

In Somalia alone, its clinics served 1,200 patients/day.

On Thursday, all those clinics closed.

@propublica.org by @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy

01.03.2025 21:22 — 👍 505    🔁 208    💬 14    📌 9

Given how unhinged the Republicans currently are, this legislation will most likely not be saved. At least ICWA stands at the federal level (for now). People think that once laws are in place, they can’t be dismantled. They can…

02.03.2025 01:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

01.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 33777    🔁 9134    💬 709    📌 420
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THE MOST DEPLORABLE MOMENT IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Who Will Stand Up to the Traitor Regime?

Here is my latest reflection.
The attack on President Zelenskyy shattered the last of our wishful thinking.
Many countries hoped that if they fawned over him, he would pick on someone else.
Now we know: that we either stand up or get dragged into the abyss.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-washin...

01.03.2025 13:23 — 👍 3257    🔁 951    💬 196    📌 113

Free speech news

01.03.2025 14:59 — 👍 58    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
Tweet: "Have you said thank you once?" -@VP JD Vance - pic of jd Vance looking oddly symmetrical.  Why are his pants so tight?

Tweet: "Have you said thank you once?" -@VP JD Vance - pic of jd Vance looking oddly symmetrical. Why are his pants so tight?

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

01.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 22949    🔁 3650    💬 879    📌 306