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This is where it begins. It began with a spark & we found ourselves within a garden. Matthew 13:3
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Freedom is the virtue which is the root of all other virtues. It is the material availability of options and ability to take them with your free will.
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And if citizenship status does make a difference, why has the ICE shooting in CA of an American citizen not garnered the same reaction? Is it because he was a Black man and a member of BLM? Or is it because he's an imperfect victim, alleged to have had a gun?
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
And if citizenship status does make a difference, why has the ICE shooting in CA of an American citizen not garnered the same reaction? Is it because he was a Black man and a member of BLM? Or is it because he's an imperfect victim, alleged to have had a gun?
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Immigration enforcement, detention, deportation, these things have always been killing machines. But if we are JUST talking about ICE agents shooting and killing people in American streets? Citizenship status should not be a determining factor in whether there's outrage.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Immigration enforcement, detention, deportation, these things have always been killing machines. But if we are JUST talking about ICE agents shooting and killing people in American streets? Citizenship status should not be a determining factor in whether there's outrage.
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New fee structure for entrance into #Yosemite and #NationalParks. I spent my life trying to make open spaces and wilderness more accessible for kids and families. This is heartbreaking to me.💔 #hiking #wilderness
January 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
New fee structure for entrance into #Yosemite and #NationalParks. I spent my life trying to make open spaces and wilderness more accessible for kids and families. This is heartbreaking to me.💔 #hiking #wilderness
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Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
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They also killed someone in Camarillo in July. The way that the invasion of LA has been memory holed even as it continues to this day, makes me insane
It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall.
It's probably not your fault—too much news.
But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.
It's probably not your fault—too much news.
But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
They also killed someone in Camarillo in July. The way that the invasion of LA has been memory holed even as it continues to this day, makes me insane
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this is what they do in broad daylight, on camera
what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?
what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?
we should start thinking about how we will respond when we find mass graves, because that is coming now
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
this is what they do in broad daylight, on camera
what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?
what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?
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what was the best political philosophy/ political theory paper published in 2025?
January 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
what was the best political philosophy/ political theory paper published in 2025?
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i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
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"Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says"
College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says"
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Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)
“Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…
zoestodd.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
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In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
buff.ly/iXOhxHj
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Trump just cut farm workers' wages $1-3/hr, and there IS something we can do about it.
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
Farm Workers: Here's How We Can Help
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Trump just cut farm workers' wages $1-3/hr, and there IS something we can do about it.
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
youtu.be/AnCJfhLxk_c
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Anne Bannatyne (1830-1908) was born to a wealthy Metis family in Red River & became a major funder of charitable causes like the Winnipeg General Hospital. She once horsewhipped a white journalist who had written awful things about Metis women, an event that may have inspired Louis Riel.
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Anne Bannatyne (1830-1908) was born to a wealthy Metis family in Red River & became a major funder of charitable causes like the Winnipeg General Hospital. She once horsewhipped a white journalist who had written awful things about Metis women, an event that may have inspired Louis Riel.
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Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett "were all part of Bush's team to interfere with the Florida recount
No Bush v Gore, no Citizens United. Etc
"Brooks Brothers rioters were original insurrectionists & now on the court
And Facebook's Joel Kaplan:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_...
bsky.app/profile/gast...
No Bush v Gore, no Citizens United. Etc
"Brooks Brothers rioters were original insurrectionists & now on the court
And Facebook's Joel Kaplan:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_...
bsky.app/profile/gast...
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett "were all part of Bush's team to interfere with the Florida recount
No Bush v Gore, no Citizens United. Etc
"Brooks Brothers rioters were original insurrectionists & now on the court
And Facebook's Joel Kaplan:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_...
bsky.app/profile/gast...
No Bush v Gore, no Citizens United. Etc
"Brooks Brothers rioters were original insurrectionists & now on the court
And Facebook's Joel Kaplan:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_...
bsky.app/profile/gast...
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"Players don't read" of the Devil fixes this by giving gamers poker chips for proving their reading comprehension 🧠
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Players don't read" of the Devil fixes this by giving gamers poker chips for proving their reading comprehension 🧠
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Appeasement. Isn't. Working
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Appeasement. Isn't. Working
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Where are those gringos that wanted to take back those jobs that the 'illegals' were stealing?? WHERE?? No seriously!
If ice is gonna kidnap great hard working people then perhaps they should be 'relocating' those red state Republican gringos to the fields!
If ice is gonna kidnap great hard working people then perhaps they should be 'relocating' those red state Republican gringos to the fields!
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?
You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
August 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Where are those gringos that wanted to take back those jobs that the 'illegals' were stealing?? WHERE?? No seriously!
If ice is gonna kidnap great hard working people then perhaps they should be 'relocating' those red state Republican gringos to the fields!
If ice is gonna kidnap great hard working people then perhaps they should be 'relocating' those red state Republican gringos to the fields!
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Israel has killed 237 journalists in Gaza in less than 2 years.
That's more than both World Wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan - combined.
Which is what, some 60 years combined?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
That's more than both World Wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan - combined.
Which is what, some 60 years combined?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Israel has killed 237 journalists in Gaza in less than 2 years.
That's more than both World Wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan - combined.
Which is what, some 60 years combined?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
That's more than both World Wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan - combined.
Which is what, some 60 years combined?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Let’s change gears. Do some good
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Let’s change gears. Do some good
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
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A part of a London antiquary’s handwritten copy of a Mi’kmaw woman in Halifax’s hieroglyphic writing from the 1760s. She is described as a “priestess” and she refused to translate the suckerfish writing for the colonial officials who sent it to London.
July 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A part of a London antiquary’s handwritten copy of a Mi’kmaw woman in Halifax’s hieroglyphic writing from the 1760s. She is described as a “priestess” and she refused to translate the suckerfish writing for the colonial officials who sent it to London.
HHS Advises Low-Income Seniors To Wallow In Mud To Stay Cool — theonion.com/hhs-advises-...
HHS Advises Low-Income Seniors To Wallow In Mud To Stay Cool
WASHINGTON—Following federal cuts to utility bill assistance programs, the Department of Health and Human Services released guidance Thursday advising low-income seniors to stay cool by wallowing in t...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
HHS Advises Low-Income Seniors To Wallow In Mud To Stay Cool — theonion.com/hhs-advises-...