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Josh L they/them
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DJ on @uncertainfm featuring the wide variety of North American Indigenous rock and pop music artists. White trans person from Boston, MA, USA. No one is illegal on stolen land. https://www.decolonize.show/
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This has become my most popular episode. Thanks for listening, friends! You can catch it here on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/joshledwell/...
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Job alert: Dir of Narrative & Storytelling at NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power.
Salary: $100-$130K
Remote

“… will lead the development of storytelling strategies and will work with teams across the ecosystem to honor authenticity, equity, and […]
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November 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Cannot emphasize this enough.

If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.

Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Post something awful or you’ll have a random December.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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“No Thanks for Colonialism. No Forgiveness for Genocide” banner hoisted beside the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC happening now.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
More apple pie for me!
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Centuries before the American Revolution, Native nations created sophisticated systems to prevent tyranny: consensus councils, balanced leadership and protections for future generations.

Their political blueprint rivals anything the founders designed.

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#KenBurns
Before the American Revolution, Native nations guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Read their names. Say them aloud. These beautiful humans mattered.

In societies across history, trans and gender-nonconforming people were included, even honored with special social roles. It would have been unthinkable to hound them to death for being different.

It doesn't have to be this way.
Trans Day of Remembrance is today.

The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.

#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025

tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports - TDoR 2025
1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New Indigenous radio TODAY 2pm ET! Decolonize Your Playlist goes tradish with classic tracks from Archie Roach, Sara Curruchich, Pura Fé, Morgan Toney, Joanne Shenandoah, Robbie Robertson, Andrina Turenne, Hawk Henries, Rhiannon Giddens, Joy Harjo, much more! Stream uncertain.fm
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They knew.

The latest Epstein file revelations are more evidence on top of the huge pile of the orange dictator's known abuses and crimes. There were so many opportunities to stop him coming to power, and so many people along the way who failed to act or chose complicity.

THEY KNEW.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I’ve seen this before and I love rereading it every time.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you veterans for your service and sacrifice. #veteransdayUS
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients

link: mysnapmap.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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“Democrats should no longer fear the trans fight. Engage with voters, learn what they care about and design your messaging around that.”
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New Decolonize Your Playlist 2pm ET TODAY and 8pm ET TOMORROW. Listen for new Indigenous folk, hip-hop, and rock music from Nataani Means, Tasman Keith, Baker Boy, FONTINE, Sub Islands, Burnstick, VNSSA & Trixie Mattel, Silla, Dead Pioneers, plus much more! uncertain.fm
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
October 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Pass this one along to your music-lovin' friends. How long a list can you make of an artist who records a cover of another artist and then a different artist who records a cover of THAT artist and then a different artist who records a cover of THAT artist and so on and so on?
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I am exhausted from an insanely busy week, but here is your Sick Burns weekly recap, hot off the presses!

This week, I mini rant about that NYT article about the cis women taking testosterone to feel hornier.

www.burnsnotice.com/gender-affir...
Gender Affirming Care for me, Not for Thee
The New York Times this week ran a magazine feature about a group of cis women who take testosterone for to get a more active libido. It got me thinking about the double standards we have for trans pe...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Featuring Indigenous goth and darkwave music, Decolonize Your Playlist goes to the dark side! Stream now at uncertain.fm
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM