cherry78.bsky.social
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Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many top U.S. museums and universities still have the remains of thousands of people in their collections.

Use our database to check on institutions near you (last updated Jan. 2025):
Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?
Use this database to find out where Native American remains were taken from and which institutions report still having them. Check on institutions near you.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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If I grin at you and stare you down like a maniac, will you throw the ball for me..? - Pepper #PepperTheGSD #GermanShepherdsofBluesky
June 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway.

I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
June 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.
June 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The EPA has dropped a legal case against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor, over its misuse of harmful chemicals in an ICE facility.

“This is a complete surrender,” said an attorney who worked at the EPA for almost 40 years.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social‬ and @lisalsong.bsky.social
EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility
A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage…
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June 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that Washington's minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.

By @mckenziefunk.com
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
propub.li
March 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas.

By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the…
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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In 2021, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level using EPA data ⤵️
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Over the past year, KYUK and ProPublica crawled under buildings and climbed into attics in schools across Alaska and found black mold, bat guano and a pool of raw sewage — health hazards that can cause respiratory problems, headaches and fatigue.

Read the full story: propub.li/4if0iPr
March 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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BREAKING NEWS:

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams.
February 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Arizona’s Medicaid agency acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers as much as $2.5 billion.

But the state hasn’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths caused by the crisis.
Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the…
propub.li
February 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Kilauea's most recent eruption. From Hawaii Volvano National Park, shot by me ☺️ 💙 #volcano #eruption #Pele
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I don’t want to hear about the Hunter pardon ever again from these asswipes
January 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!
January 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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See number 3:
January 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM