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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Mar 7

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

if we're ever in any kinda sketchfest scene again Paul can we work up "Larry par-lui meme" which will be a version of this documentary but with Larry Fine instead of Sartre www.imdb.com/title/tt0142...

Sartre par lui-même (1976) ⭐ 8.3 | Documentary

3h 11m

www.imdb.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

it was one of the best shows I've ever seen!!!

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17h

I’m about to see Alan Howarth play live

Photo of a man (Alan Howarth) on a stage in front of a screen. Keyboards to his right.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you man!!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17h

Noted, thanks!

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h

amazing field. vote!

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 23h

I don't care about those other polls, just be good to PPP -

It's #BPHM8285 time and the second half of 1983 in the

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 poll

You have until Tuesday night to get this done!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Black Pop 1983 Round 1 Part 2

Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...

docs.google.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

I can't believe I typed "Steely Can." everybody look at that squirrel over there

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

well, Steely Can ~is~ king, so they'd be right about that

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 23h

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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HÆLÏCK (hr_freud) @ocean37.bsky.social · 23h

IDOLIC DREAMSPORE
(comm for @taeszara.bsky.social)

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1
And yet I
dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the
federal case law that applies to this dispute.
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY
AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving
Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that
the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By
doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and
condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements.

Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized
Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the
land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate
Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government
employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to
strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2
Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings.
The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8
L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty.
That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John
Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal
government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents
tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would
follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of
white supremacy.
Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong
and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually
sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man
was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils:

Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United
States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
Id. at 17.
This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward,
was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions.
In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903),
often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,”
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the Court used that rationale to
justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes.
These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities
dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food.
Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and
helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L.
Ed. 228 (1886)).
Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that
same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be
both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805
(1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111
(2020).
3 See A

Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was
less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes:
I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the
applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of
organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are.
Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to
equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the
conquered. Id. at 23.
In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope
used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages.
[W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become
agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of
humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel.
. . . .
But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states
or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law
of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held
together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or
government, beyond what is required in a savage state.
Id. at 23, 27-28.
This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030
(1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23h

!!! It is wild and very affirming that an unreleased song finds a use like this

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

gonna make a t-shirt with a clock showing blurred hands to indicate “all times at once” & the text of this post, and cut you in on the profits

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👻 🧹 🐈‍⬛ hob bug boo 🐈‍⬛ 🧹 👻 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 1d

time to listen to the mountain goats

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

I will die for Jim

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

playing that game stoned left indelible trails in the mind’s eye

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

in what universe do people not revere and adore Johnny Cash lol

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

my jam is “victory” but this album is also fire

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Yes: I have major beef with the way the medical industry often uses the term “same-day surgery” as a selling point. It’s still surgery! Recovery is still going to be a whole thing!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

wait til you hear Josh Kaufman's guitar solo on the album track

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

ok no way. I saw them on the Vivi Sect VI tour. I have been getting back into them lately. they are goth royalty to me. this is the best news thank you

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

you have a point