Joanne Connauton
@geogjoarcher.bsky.social
Settler/Anishinaabe. FSU geography. PhD candidate. Indigenous geographies. Wahnapitae FN. Writer, thinker, singer, guitar player.
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Tomorrow, we fight for a piece of Canada.
The CBC isn’t just a broadcaster. It’s part of our lives, our identity—our connection to one another.
It’s where we hear our own stories, told in our own voices. It’s where Canada sounds like Canada.
If we lose it, we lose more than a channel...
The CBC isn’t just a broadcaster. It’s part of our lives, our identity—our connection to one another.
It’s where we hear our own stories, told in our own voices. It’s where Canada sounds like Canada.
If we lose it, we lose more than a channel...
April 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Tomorrow, we fight for a piece of Canada.
The CBC isn’t just a broadcaster. It’s part of our lives, our identity—our connection to one another.
It’s where we hear our own stories, told in our own voices. It’s where Canada sounds like Canada.
If we lose it, we lose more than a channel...
The CBC isn’t just a broadcaster. It’s part of our lives, our identity—our connection to one another.
It’s where we hear our own stories, told in our own voices. It’s where Canada sounds like Canada.
If we lose it, we lose more than a channel...
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When Idle No More started, before it became a national movement, it was started by four women who who were reading and paying attention to the massive omnibus bills Harper was pushing through that were going to have terrible negative impacts on the environment and Indigenous people. #BillC-69
April 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
When Idle No More started, before it became a national movement, it was started by four women who who were reading and paying attention to the massive omnibus bills Harper was pushing through that were going to have terrible negative impacts on the environment and Indigenous people. #BillC-69
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Poilievre voted against boosting seniors’ income—while locking in a $230K/year taxpayer-funded pension for himself.
CBC reported it. He wants it gone.
Defund hypocrisy, not journalism.
#SaveTheCBC #DefundPierre #CdnPoli #MediaFreedom
CBC reported it. He wants it gone.
Defund hypocrisy, not journalism.
#SaveTheCBC #DefundPierre #CdnPoli #MediaFreedom
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Poilievre voted against boosting seniors’ income—while locking in a $230K/year taxpayer-funded pension for himself.
CBC reported it. He wants it gone.
Defund hypocrisy, not journalism.
#SaveTheCBC #DefundPierre #CdnPoli #MediaFreedom
CBC reported it. He wants it gone.
Defund hypocrisy, not journalism.
#SaveTheCBC #DefundPierre #CdnPoli #MediaFreedom
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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The group saying Water Protectors and Greenpeace committed acts of “violence and vandalism.” static.politico.com/1d/31/e55b1c...
March 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The group saying Water Protectors and Greenpeace committed acts of “violence and vandalism.” static.politico.com/1d/31/e55b1c...
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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I’m in.
February 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I’m in.
There's no point posting, and tbh it seems no point reading. It's all been said.
February 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
There's no point posting, and tbh it seems no point reading. It's all been said.
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
Right there, acknowledged in the 15th amendment, are the words of US oppression based on race and/or color. The very words, scenarios, and questions I am not supposed to engage in my Intro to Human Geography course. #censorship
The 15th Amendment said: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
EnlargeDownload Link Citation: The House Joint Resolution Proposing the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, December 7, 1868; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of t...
www.archives.gov
February 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Right there, acknowledged in the 15th amendment, are the words of US oppression based on race and/or color. The very words, scenarios, and questions I am not supposed to engage in my Intro to Human Geography course. #censorship
I am experiencing a strange cognitive dissonance effect stemming from simultaneously reading of the dismantling of government by Trump over the past few days (I mean, really, he's staging a coup) and Via Rail advertisements encouraging me to "have fun" and "book your trip now."
February 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I am experiencing a strange cognitive dissonance effect stemming from simultaneously reading of the dismantling of government by Trump over the past few days (I mean, really, he's staging a coup) and Via Rail advertisements encouraging me to "have fun" and "book your trip now."
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Just kidding. Where do you think the Nazis got a lot of their ideas from?
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Just kidding. Where do you think the Nazis got a lot of their ideas from?
Just registered for an online songwriting workshop with @jlmusiccanada.bsky.social! Time to write another song. My brain has been stagnant in this area for awhile.
January 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Just registered for an online songwriting workshop with @jlmusiccanada.bsky.social! Time to write another song. My brain has been stagnant in this area for awhile.
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At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
I don't know how I'm supposed to focus when everything seems to be going to shit.
January 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I don't know how I'm supposed to focus when everything seems to be going to shit.
Working on my research proposal is making my head spin. Will I ever get used to this? #AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Working on my research proposal is making my head spin. Will I ever get used to this? #AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
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A country founded on violence will scorch the earth to get what it wants.
January 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A country founded on violence will scorch the earth to get what it wants.
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‘For the installation, the Six Nations artist used 100 corn husk dolls - 50 representing clan mothers and 50 representing chiefs encircling the Tree of Peace.’ - First Council Fire | © Elizabeth Doxtater
January 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘For the installation, the Six Nations artist used 100 corn husk dolls - 50 representing clan mothers and 50 representing chiefs encircling the Tree of Peace.’ - First Council Fire | © Elizabeth Doxtater
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism hyperallergic.com/984916/surre...
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
hyperallergic.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism hyperallergic.com/984916/surre...
In Oct 2024, I traveled with Witsuwit’en Likhsilyu to Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France, as they reunited with the K'egit Totem Pole. #Witsuwit’en #FSUgeography
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
In Oct 2024, I traveled with Witsuwit’en Likhsilyu to Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France, as they reunited with the K'egit Totem Pole. #Witsuwit’en #FSUgeography