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Kim TallBear

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Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/LAX/YEG. https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 1

Bluesky may not be great for this yet. But i'm gathering reports/policies from universities, institutions, agencies on verification of #Indigenous membership/citizenship if anyone has any leads. So far, i have (and I'll add as i go): 🧵

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 13h

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 1d

Leah Kondes, the executive director of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a group advocating for a ban on assault weapons, said the progress on the special session is not surprising.

“We’ve had a lot of new folks join our movement since that Annunciation shooting,” Kondes said.

Special session on gun violence goes back to the drawing board after weeks of negotiation

Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota House and the Senate resume negotiating a potential special session on gun violence as pressure mounts. Walz and DFL leadership sent a proposal and a...

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 2d

Loved that part of the interview.

Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 2d

Happy late 50s birthday to me. I ended the day watching Jane Goodall’s last interview. She understood that death is also life, and the planet is a big bunch of relations. And some people should take a one way trip to a far away planet.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4d

Re California, "This campaign of genocide was carried out not by the military or police, but by a willing, participating public."

Whether ICE are seen as legit state agents or groups of unlawful "thugs," the settler state builds upon centuries of violent precedent, and they know it. Why don't you?

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4d

"Following California statehood..the state's first governor inaugurated an extermination policy that..paid between 25 cents and 5 dollars per scalp. At least 4,500 Indigenous people were murdered between 1848 and 1880...the state issuing close to $1.5 million in payments for their scalps." (3/4)

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4d

"In 1756 the Pennsylvania governor, declaring war against the Lenape, offered '130 Pieces of Eight for the scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy above the Age of Twelve Years' and '50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of every Indian Woman." (2/4)

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4d

"Unprecedented." "This isn't us."

Please read a book. Try Joanne Barker's 2021 "Red Scare: the State's Indigenous Terrorist," to start. On pages 28-29:

"In 1703..the Massachusetts Bay Colony offered.. between 250 and 300 pounds for Indian scalps." (1/4)

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 7d

First LOL of the day.

Good morning, “America”!

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

Which is more scary?

Cheeto Satan knows what he's doing or that he doesn't know what he is doing.

I can't decide.

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 8d

Poor NPR. First, the President goes after them; now it's pedestrians and cyclists complaining about a silly article promoting "defensive walking" when there is a growing cohort of aging people who can't swivel their heads or jump out of the way of SUVs.

Sorry, NPR: Walking while old kills more pedestrians than walking while distracted

NPR gets it wrong; "Defensive walking" is not a solution for an aging population

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 7d

Settlers gone wild.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 10d

““The truth is, just underneath their masks lies an infinite abyss of total and complete darkness,” said Homan, adding that ICE officers concealed themselves not only for their own benefit, but also to protect others from seeing the hideous, unknowable horror beneath.”

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 13d

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13d

Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 12d

That’s a good insight. Thank you.

Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 12d

The liberal outrage is ahistorical and self-serving. Natives are always footballs in settler party politics. Wounded Knee was quick and bloody. The “progressives” of that era would eliminate Natives to take the land via kidnapping children & forced assimilation, drawing out the trauma for centuries.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13d

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 13d

All these federal agent kidnapping videos, separation of parents and children, concentration camps for those seen as a threat to the settler state. That is how this land was first taken.

I guess one could be mildly surprised at the brown arms visible on some of those with cowardly masked faces.

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 15d

Those folks when confronted about their country's racism:

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15d

I find this super interesting considering De Niro's past friendship with RFK jr. and his flirtation with the anti-vaccination movement. I also know he has an autistic son and that maybe he's changed his mind a bit since the pandemic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 16d

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 16d

Re-watching this online talk by the brilliant Alex Wilson from @usask.ca for the seminar I'm teaching today. Very happy to be home in Dakota homelands in Minnesota, but it was a difficult choice to leave Cree territory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUI...

Alex Wilson, Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education

YouTube video by AIS Red Tawks

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 19d

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 19d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 19d

I need to look for that

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 19d

‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes

Plans to improve the world heritage site for tourists put its living culture at risk, say locals and campaigners

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 19d

Wow. It would also be really sobering to realize your life partner is ultimately such a de-centered person that they’d succumb to predation by some #AI app on their phone.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

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