Dr. Twyla Baker

I feel for you, fam. 🙏🏾

In addition to protests at the Whipple federal building just outside the Twin Cities, a massive crowd is protesting in arctic temps outside the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport.

My joints don’t like it, but I like the coziness part of all of it. I think Swedes call it ‘hygge’, the art of being comfortable. 🙏🏾

Me at the post office a bit ago. I’m off to a town about 70 miles away shortly for an appointment. Life keeps on! 🫶🏾 I’ll take those sunrays!

Send it this way please.

Actually no, the cold is making it super uncomfortable for 🧊 operations, and their pansy asses, so keep it there. 😉

Enit. 🥴

New Town, ND!

Its cold. 🥶

Are we seriously about to go to war with Denmark, Norway, and France because an old man with obvious dementia and the nuclear codes is running our country, and a pack of enablers won’t do the bare minimum and get him into a care facility where he belongs?

This is the craziest fucking timeline.

Bobby Weir

Bobby Weir: “Register and vote. Get those assholes out of there.”
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It’s astonishing to me when I see Native people defending what this administration is doing. They would not hesitate for one moment, to deliver this cruelty to you, too. In fact, our peoples are ones that should be the most familiar with this history, since it’s been that way since first contact.

Inuit from Alaska and Canada stand with our relatives in Greenland 🇬🇱 Quyana @ayyu210.bsky.social for organizing this video

Mornings like this make me grateful for my cozy little home. ☕️

Idk if it’s possible for me to care less about movie awards shows than I do right now.

Prayers over Minneapolis, my friends and family there. 💙🙏🏾

I am angry a lot these days. I don’t like that. I suppose I’ll go lift or something.

A Disturbing Pattern Has Emerged In Trump's Second Term — And It's Playing Out With Renee Good “How else do you justify shooting a stay-at-home mom with stuffed animals in her car?” the attorney for one woman who survived a federal agent’s gunfire told HuffPost.

A reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.

The same mindset that handed our ancestors smallpox blankets, stole our children and forced them into boarding schools, are the mindsets ripping apart families now, k*lling, beating and terrorizing people now. History repeats, and it is irresponsible to deny it.

Native people making excuses, downplaying, caping for 🧊, is when colonization has won; because where is their soul? What would the ancestors have thought?

Thou Shalt Not K*ll.

The Hidatsa and Nu’Eta (Mandan) people of the upper Missouri fell to biological warfare (smallpox) in apocalyptic numbers about 5-6 generations ago for my family; upwards of 90% of the population for the Nu’Eta.

And yet here I am. Talking to you. My Nu’Eta and Hidatsa blood flowing in my veins.

Today was horrifying.

We can no longer pretend like this isn’t happening before our eyes. Every person has a moral duty to oppose this developing tyrannical government

So thankful my mama was Motown, not country when I was growing up. 🫶🏾

Anyway it is generally a good idea to listen to the elders not the pundits.

Guano and the Rise of the American Empire - Mauricio Betancourt, 2024 Ecological imperialism refers to the center’s robbery of nature from the periphery, emphasizing the ecological dimension of trade, often overshadowed by monetar...

If one is interested in the historical antecedents of the current situation, it's important to remember the 1856 Guano Islands Act.
The US has always been extractivist and imperialist. When thinking of better futures, we must be honest about the deep roots of our problems.

(Open access article)

Absolutely.

Yknow I’d like to say that the U.S. isn’t supposed to go around invading countries (and it’s not), but I’m a citizen of a Native Nation of THIS land, and this country is BORN of invasion. This is standard practice for this country, yall.

And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.

😂😂😂😂😂

The world's worst people are having a collective meltdown over Mayor Mamdani.

I love it.

Happy New Year.