Desiree Kane
@dbirdy.bsky.social
Miwok NDN / Walser journalist & documentarian | Find me or my work in: Truthout, Vox, The Guardian, NPR, The LA Times, Scientific American, & more | Bridging Indigenous voices & tech innovation.
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Desiree Kane
@dbirdy.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.
truthout.org
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous
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community-centered journalism is important because a lot of outsider takes are just wrong & corny.
July 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
community-centered journalism is important because a lot of outsider takes are just wrong & corny.
In this piece, journalist Jen Byers and I hold #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, this piece features voices of Rebecca Nagle & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #Indigenous
truthout.org/articles/ami...
truthout.org/articles/ami...
Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.
truthout.org
February 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In this piece, journalist Jen Byers and I hold #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, this piece features voices of Rebecca Nagle & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #Indigenous
truthout.org/articles/ami...
truthout.org/articles/ami...
Reposted by Desiree Kane
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous
Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.
truthout.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 AM
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous
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Trump has announced his selection for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights: Harmeet Dhillon, a far-right California lawyer with a track record that could pose significant threats to transgender Americans.
Trump Taps Anti-Trans Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Lead DOJ Civil Rights Post
Dhillon has openly advocated for overturning blue state laws that protect transgender individuals.
truthout.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Trump has announced his selection for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights: Harmeet Dhillon, a far-right California lawyer with a track record that could pose significant threats to transgender Americans.
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hey, this seems like some really good news!
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
hey, this seems like some really good news!
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Biologists survey a tributary of the Klamath River in Oregon for spawning Chinook salmon just a month after four dams were completely removed from the river.
After the Klamath River dams came down, salmon came back - High Country News
What it's like to witness the first run of fish above the removed dams in over a century.
buff.ly
December 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Biologists survey a tributary of the Klamath River in Oregon for spawning Chinook salmon just a month after four dams were completely removed from the river.
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So proud of my wife @daralind.bsky.social .
Her latest for NYT explains what mass deportation probably will look like so people know how to prepare for/defend against it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Her latest for NYT explains what mass deportation probably will look like so people know how to prepare for/defend against it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
So proud of my wife @daralind.bsky.social .
Her latest for NYT explains what mass deportation probably will look like so people know how to prepare for/defend against it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Her latest for NYT explains what mass deportation probably will look like so people know how to prepare for/defend against it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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This site really does feel like 2019 Twitter in a good way
November 21, 2024 at 6:25 AM
This site really does feel like 2019 Twitter in a good way
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The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have resulted not only in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, but have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and paved the way to hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
COP29 Ignores Militarism, Putting Meaningful Climate Deal Out of Reach
Leaders of the world’s top polluting nations skipped COP29, which also failed to address how militarism fuels emissions.
truthout.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have resulted not only in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, but have caused catastrophic damage to the environment and paved the way to hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
36,000+ followers on X, 48 on here, and already I'm so much more at ease. I'll never forget a year ago, losing 15,000 followers for posting history about Southwest Natives rejecting the swastika in solidarity against Hitler. That's when I knew it was time to go. Here's that image again, btw.
November 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
36,000+ followers on X, 48 on here, and already I'm so much more at ease. I'll never forget a year ago, losing 15,000 followers for posting history about Southwest Natives rejecting the swastika in solidarity against Hitler. That's when I knew it was time to go. Here's that image again, btw.
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“Our enemies are waging a war, and to many of them, it’s a holy war.”
We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives
“It is a self-replicating authoritarian system that has persisted over the course of generations,” says Talia Lavin.
truthout.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:34 PM
“Our enemies are waging a war, and to many of them, it’s a holy war.”
It's a tough day tbh. 11/20/2016: Police attacked the #NoDAPL Water Protectors on the Backwater Bridge, #StandingRock using water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, & other "less-than-lethal" weapons in sub-zero temperatures. 140+ came away with police-induced hypothermia. I was living @ the camp.
Police at Standing Rock Are Using Life-Threatening Crowd-Control Weapons to Crack Down on Water Protectors | ACLU
www.aclu.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 AM
It's a tough day tbh. 11/20/2016: Police attacked the #NoDAPL Water Protectors on the Backwater Bridge, #StandingRock using water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, & other "less-than-lethal" weapons in sub-zero temperatures. 140+ came away with police-induced hypothermia. I was living @ the camp.
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous
Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.
truthout.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 AM
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding #NexBenedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts. Coauthored for @truthout.org with care, @gallows.bsky.social and I uplift the voices of @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & Taté Walker, voices that need to be heard. Please share #TwoSpirit #TDOR #Indigenous
Reposted by Desiree Kane
For Trans Day of Remembrance, Miwok journalist Desiree Kane & I wrote this for @truthout.org, commemorating Nex Benedict 💜
We analyzed the relationship between the current anti-trans attacks & the historic, violent assimilation of Indigenous + Two Spirit people through the boarding school era.
We analyzed the relationship between the current anti-trans attacks & the historic, violent assimilation of Indigenous + Two Spirit people through the boarding school era.
Amid Legacies of Colonial and Anti-Trans Harm, Two-Spirits Struggle for Safety
This Trans Day of Remembrance, we are holding Nex Benedict and all Two-Spirit people in our hearts.
truthout.org
November 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM
For Trans Day of Remembrance, Miwok journalist Desiree Kane & I wrote this for @truthout.org, commemorating Nex Benedict 💜
We analyzed the relationship between the current anti-trans attacks & the historic, violent assimilation of Indigenous + Two Spirit people through the boarding school era.
We analyzed the relationship between the current anti-trans attacks & the historic, violent assimilation of Indigenous + Two Spirit people through the boarding school era.
Reposted by Desiree Kane
Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others, accusing them of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader
The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination
Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.
apnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others, accusing them of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader