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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 19h

One of the guys in the local Buddhist group I went to years ago was essentially starving himself. It was a weird blend of ascetisism and a desire to extend his life based on experiments that calorie limited mice live longer. Looked like an eating disorder to me.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

ok its five am but I finished it

A "Personal Curriculum" for Native American Literary History

Seven units to guide you through Native American literature from 1800 to 2025.

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 6d

Do you like Elisapie? I am always happy to find people doing pop in language.

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 7d

Momofuku Milk Bar?

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 8d

NYC tonight friends.

Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 14d

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 8d

Through her music, Cree singer-songwriter Ger Carriere infuses pop, rock, folk and EDM in songs that explore resiliency, identity and her untamed self-expression.

Cree singer-songwriter Ger Carriere on her music, writing and TikTok trends | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago: Come visit with Uahikea Mailie and me tonight at Haymarket House.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12d

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) will be in the US next week discussing her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps for the Times Ahead.

Details and RSVP: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/531-th...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson US Tour
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
10/6 Chicago: haymarket house with uahikea maile
10/7 New York: museum of modern art with joseph m. pierce & candice hopkins
10/8 Minneapolis: birchbark bizhiw
10/9 Minneapolis: university of minnesota with nick w. estes

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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 11d

“The people will stay here like the stars are stuck in the sky; they are not going to move as they shouldn’t, because our treaties say so. We should be unhindered, we should be unmolested and free to roam in our territories and our homelands” - Michelle Paul
#Mikmaki #Unimaki #NSpoli #LandBack

Mi'kmaw land protectors vow to stand their ground as Nova Scotia law passes

Nova Scotia has passed the Protecting Nova Scotians Act which allows police to move in and remove land protectors from Hunters Mountain.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13d

Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.

Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 14d

We remember the revolutionary Assata Shakur, who passed away last week in Havana, Cuba at the age of 78.

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 13d

Owamni moving to Guthrie Theatre in Spring 2026. I hope you can still walk in to eat like on the patio in the current location. Not going up very much to MSP but went often when I could. I hear the view from the theatre is great.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 13d

Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 13d

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee Annual Report to Congress includes recommendations for needed legislative changes including increased funding. Post from the Turtle Talk Blog turtletalk.blog/wp-content/u...

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds like what happened at Hyundai ICE raid but even worse. Limited warrant used as excuse for arresting everyone. Also pretty clear Venezuelans are the ones they are using to open the door. I would not be suprised to see Haitians attacked like this next.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 13d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17d

Afternoon task: process on of @manetooleefa.bsky.social’s Cushaw squashes from Johnson county’s poor farm plot. This one is almost 7 lbs.
I will cut it up, roast it in olive oil. The portion we will eat tonight will get tossed with some sage from the garden too.

A Cushaw squash on a cutting board. The squash has a round body and a long neck, and is bicolored, alternating dark and light green stripes.

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 18d

From Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem ‘Diction,’ a fragmented account of the massacre at Wounded Knee that communicates the immeasurable loss.

A poem with staggered, right-aligned text. The layout creates a visual flow, with individual words and phrases emphasizing reflection and contemplation.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19d

Chicago!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Uahikea Maile about water as a catalyst for radical transformation, hosted w/ @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social.

Monday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
@haymarkethouse.bsky.social & online

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Uahikea Maile
theory of water: Nishnaabe Maps for teh Times Ahead
Oct. 6th 6:30 pm CT, Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 20d

Is Rep. Miller Meeks trolling me. I wrote her as a constituent and now am on her mailing list. I think she won by six votes in the last election and she just sent me an email about the Biden administration censoring free speech. Who is president now & going whole hog on censorship?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

To keep my newsletter sustainable, I am looking for eight paid subscribers this month. If you appreciate this work, please subscribe—or share this ask and join for free.

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delesslin @delesslin.bsky.social · 23d

An atrocity

ProPublica @propublica.org · 23d

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.

Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.

(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

www.propublica.org

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 23d

@eveewing.bsky.social did not make it to Iowa City but her potential visit got me to look up her work again and I learned about her new book Original Sins which is just what I need to read now. Orange shirt day is coming up September 30.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

Stories like this are too important for you guys to get precious about them not coming to you on your preferred silver platter bsky.app/profile/chan...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time

“While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'”

www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

www.blackenterprise.com

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SteveRoach @manetooleefa.bsky.social · 24d

It actually requires "tribalism" and living in a world of relationality not the hierarchical individualist bs that Europe adopted and forced on the rest of the world.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26d

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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