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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 6h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 20h

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i’ll never get over this

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 1d

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come?

I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶

Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 1d

This Tribe is taking on coal.

The Northern Cheyenne have a long history of defending their land from coal mining.

Now, they're showing how to make clean energy progress and developing solar infrastructure for their community.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Erik Simpson @erikthesimpson.bsky.social · 8d

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443

Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

joblist.mla.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

www.cnn.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Today, a thread to honor and celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay.
The world is so big, so there will be a second and maybe a third part.
We will begin with Zuni weaver We’wha (1849-1896).

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Aug 27

We’wha (1849-1896), a notable weaver and potter Lhamana (Zuni Two Spirit), took on both masculine and feminine tasks as a Zuni cultural ambassador and pottery and textile artist.
Also a spiritual leader, We’wha endeavored to preserve the history, traditions, and knowledge of the Zuni people.

A black and white, full body portrait of We'wha, a highly respected cultural figure in Zuni culture, known as a "lhamana" (two spirits). We'wha is standing, looking at the camera, wearing traditional Zuni attire, with patterned clothing, woven belts, a long beaded necklace, and earrings. The hair is styled with side buns adorned with ribbons.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a great day to read @sgj.bsky.social's fabulously violent, puzzle-box time travel comic series Earthdivers, which, among other things, includes a mission to save the planet by going back in time to kill Christopher Columbus.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24d

JUST found out @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, WHO I AM CURRENTLY PLANNING AN ENERGY STUDIES SYMPOSIUM WITH, has been given Burton V Barnes Award for Academic Excellence by Sierra Club

Jeff did not tell me. Or post about it. Because Jeff is a Hoosier GenXer

Jeff probably asked the Sierras to reconsider

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 2d

also @calebwellum.bsky.social, @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social, and many others with us in spirt by way of citation. so much enlivening conversation, companionability, and solidarity! buoying in these dark days.

Thomas S. Davis @thomassdavis.bsky.social · 2d

This was such a treat to be with @mattseybold.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jlb.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social( & others not on here?) to think through the knots of energy, aesthetics, politics & the hell we inhabit. Thanks Matt, Jeff, & Joe for having us.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 4d

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching.

[email protected], 512-245-2121.

aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

Texas Conference of American Association of University Professors

AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty and staff to promote economic security and quality education.

aaup-texas.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

A nice piece from Ben Folds on Hayley Williams and her political music: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Hayley Williams on Fallon

If you missed Hayley’s performance on Jimmy Fallon, be sure to watch it.

substack.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 2d

It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc.

And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 2d

5 days left to demand tighter regulation of the oil storage facility in northwest Portland

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 7d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 5d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

radio.garden

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 6d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?

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