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🐝🧠(ADHD) meets cultural restoration | Catawba Nation citizen | Indigiqueer | White coded | yękapįsáwača | he/they
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Tanake Niitemp! Helloooo new followers. My name is DeLesslin but everyone has always called me Roo. I’m a citizen of Catawba Nation, an artist, a doer of things that catch my interest.

Here’s a thread of some of my work over the years…
If walls could talk
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I...
Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Prohibition? We really are speed-running the last century.
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is an insult to 'pussies'.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I lost it, but whoever skeeted that all donations to Dems must cease until there is a change in Dem leadership is correct.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Well, unfortunately
Threat of victory looms large over Election Day as an ominous portent of a future that could leave Dems in array; party elders scramble to contain the risk
The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Fuck. I am livid.
"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again
Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.
zeteo.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r
Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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IRS Notifies States There Will Be No Direct File Program For 2026

We knew this was coming, but it doesn't make it any less stupid. The road to the IRS' Direct File program was long and hard-fought. We here at Techdirt have been talking about, and advocating for, something like the Direct File…
IRS Notifies States There Will Be No Direct File Program For 2026
We knew this was coming, but it doesn't make it any less stupid. The road to the IRS' Direct File program was long and hard-fought. We here at Techdirt have been talking about, and advocating for, something like the Direct File program for at least 15 years. The concept behind the program is a simple one. For a class of citizens with very simple income and tax payments, the IRS already has all the information it needs to process a tax return.
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Senate Republicans*
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
🤘
A heavy music festival in Blackfeet Nation this summer was abut more than just music – it was a protective ceremony to shelter Indigenous youth from suicidal distress.

buff.ly/aQQC7EX
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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While millions of Americans went hungry … the government thought it necessary to waste tax dollars prosecuting a man for throwing a sandwich.

They’re wasting money trying to determine if a sandwich can be a weapon.

A sandwich is a sandwich. You know what it can do?

Feed people. Let’s do that.
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
O. M. G.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I bet you'll never guess who the guests are for that Douthat "why women ruined the workplace" podcast
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This is an incredible sale, and Haymarket has put together some great five book packs on various subjects. $10 for five great books!
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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From yesterday's rally calling for the impeachment of RFK, Jr.

www.dcnewsnow.com/video/hundre...

@standupforscience.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Can I get a BlueSky algorithm defying million retweets and million likes asking the New York Times to please suggest to Ross that his career might be better served by moving to The National Review? I’m sure they would hire him. I’m not canceling. I’m bored. He’s boring.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Kristopher Hewson...
Hewson also says tear gas "doesn't harm people."

Loevy: "It really should be a last resort, would you agree?"

Hewson: "No."
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM