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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 3m

I am still here but I desperately need your help to stay here

So if you can do anything —please, I beg you, do whatever you can, even if just reading and replying to this.— I’m grateful for you.
Chi miigwetch
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 4m

And every month the interest stacks.

So it’s not that everything is ok, it’s just I’m freezing up from exhaustion and new horrors as I struggle to stay above the waves.

But I am still here, still disabled, still Indigenous, & still trans.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 4m

A funny statement I’ve found myself saying to others going through incredible hardships is “I hate that and I hope you’re in a safe place regardless to get whatever you need,” precisely because I am not and I only realized it now?

Also, the late fees are ~$870 alone.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 4m

* possibly tmj clicking ear, possibly ear infection, and
* possible bladder issues and 1 more graphic issue that I will not discuss.
* And that’s nothing on top of the usual cerebral palsy and diabetic symptoms.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 4m

I’ve not written a new thread about my situation this week and there’s an iceberg situation there but here are the bullet points? Bullet tips of the iceberg?

New symptoms:

* Cellulitis of the left foot up to my knee,
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Capital.

thehill.com/opinion/...
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Sharp is the 23rd President of the National Congress of American Indians, former President of the Quinault Indian Nation, and serves as a Global Board Member of The Nature Conservancy and a Council Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Natural
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

The stakes are clear. The world is watching.

Fawn R.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

If this country claims to uphold religious liberty, self-determination, and justice, then it must apply those principles to the First Peoples of this land — not just to the politically powerful or religiously familiar.

The court still has time to change course.
22/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

As a global advocate working with Indigenous nations across five continents, I see this case for what it truly is: a litmus test for the soul of the American legal system.
21/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

It is about whether Indigenous religions deserve equal standing in the eyes of the law. It is about whether we will continue a pattern of dispossession cloaked in bureaucracy — or rise to meet this moment with moral clarity and courage.
20/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

That ruling temporarily safeguards the sacred site and allows the various lawsuits, including Apache Stronghold’s, to continue before Oak Flat is destroyed.

But this issue is even bigger than Oak Flat.
19/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

While the Supreme Court considers their case, the fight in the lower courts continues. Recently, in two of the three related lawsuits, the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked the government from giving Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

The Apaches have now asked the court to reconsider in light of Mahmoud. Their argument is powerful: If reading a book burdens religious freedom, then surely obliterating the cradle of an entire religion does too.
17/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Their absence is not only deeply painful — it’s strategic malpractice. If the court is already expanding religious freedom in sweeping terms, progressive justices should be using that very doctrine to protect Native peoples whose traditions predate the Constitution itself.
16/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

least have troubled itself to hear their case.” He’s right.

What’s more troubling is the silence of the court’s progressive wing. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson could have joined the dissent to form a majority. They did not.
15/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

calling the court’s inaction a “grave mistake.” Gorsuch, who has a strong record on Indian law, rightly warned that “before allowing the government to destroy the Apaches’ sacred site, this court should at
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Meanwhile, the court has refused to even hear a case about the destruction of a Native sacred site.

To their credit, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented,
13/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Just this summer, the court ruled in favor of parents who objected to gay- and transgender-affirming books in public school (Mahmoud v. Taylor), declaring that merely exposing a child to ideas contrary to a parent’s faith burdens religious freedom.
12/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Every Democratic appointee dissented, calling the ruling a “tragic error.”

The Supreme Court had the chance to correct that error. Instead, it declined to act — despite clear precedent supporting religious liberty in far less consequential contexts.
11/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

In 2024, the Ninth Circuit, in a 6-5 ruling, rejected the Apaches’ claims, saying that reducing Oak Flat to rubble doesn’t burden their religious freedom. Every judge that sided with the mining company was Republican-appointed.
10/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

In response, Apache Stronghold — a grassroots coalition of Apache spiritual leaders and their allies—brought suit, arguing that destroying Oak Flat would violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. But four years of litigation have not delivered justice.
9/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Their plan: a vast mine that will collapse the sacred site into a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit—permanently ending Apache religious practices tied to that land.
8/25

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

For decades, it was protected — until 2014, when mining lobbyists quietly inserted a midnight amendment into a must-pass defense bill, transferring the land to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of two of the world’s largest mining conglomerates, Rio Tinto and BHP.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

It is where ceremonies are held, where language is spoken, and where generations have connected with the Creator.
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