Also, what kind of journalist would not disclose that the person he is talking about in this tweet (below)....IS HIS WIFE? Oh, right, the same kind of activist who is promoting a far-right Christian nationalist, IRS denialist conspiracy theory. You goofs are cooked.

As @truthinthesoil.bsky.social have argued, confronting this residential school denialism - ways that do not give these people the attention they are hoping to manufacture through free speech stunts like this - is an ethical and shared responsibility: theconversation.com/confronting-...

8/ Let this anniversary be more than a memory.

Let it be a commitment: To listen. To act. To fight for justice, not just when it’s trending, but every damn day.

#Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #35YearsLater #NeverForget #LandBack

7/ 35 years later, the barricades may be gone, but the struggle for land and sovereignty remains.

From Wet’suwet’en to Land Back Lane to Kanehsatake itself, the fight continues.

We remember July 11. We honour the defenders.
#LandBack #OkaCrisis #IndigenousResistance

6/ This was not a crisis for us. It was a revelation for Canada.

The Oka Crisis laid bare the lengths this country will go to protect settler interests. But it also showed the power of Indigenous resistance. Of unity. Of remembering who we are.

5/ At Kahnawà:ke, Mohawk warriors stood in solidarity, erecting their own barricades. When a mob attacked Indigenous women and children fleeing the area, it revealed what this was really about: racism, land theft, and control.

4/ The standoff lasted 78 days.

Armored vehicles. Riot squads. Snipers. Eventually, the Canadian army was deployed. Tanks on Turtle Island. Against people whose only “crime” was refusing to watch their ancestors’ resting place become a golf course.

3/ The Quebec police responded with tear gas and bullets.

In the chaos, Corporal Marcel Lemay was shot and killed. The state framed this as justification for escalation. But let’s be clear: this was Indigenous resistance to colonial violence, not aggression.

2/ On July 11, 1990, Mohawk land defenders set up a barricade to stop the expansion of a golf course over a sacred burial ground in Kanehsatake.

The land had never been ceded, surrendered, or sold. It was their responsibility to protect it.

8/ More soon. And thank you, truly, to everyone who has made it possible for me to still believe in my voice.

7/ This book won’t teach you how to succeed in the system.
But maybe, just maybe, it’ll help you remember who you were before it asked you to disappear.

6/ I’m writing this for the ones who were told their questions were too much.
For the students, artists, professors, and thinkers who had to shrink to survive.

5/ Each chapter traces a different fracture:
– Peer review as quiet censorship
– The crisis of voice
– Burnout as the norm
– Creativity as resistance
– Exploitation as structure
– And the question: who is knowledge really for?

4/ For those who still believe that knowledge can be beautiful. Embodied. Messy. Free.

3/ This won’t be a traditional academic text. It’s not for tenure. Not for peer review. Not to impress the “right” people.

It’s a refusal. A love letter. A survival guide.

2/ It’s tentatively called The Death of a Curious Mind, a deeply personal reckoning with how academia kills wonder, rewards performance, and punishes those of us who refuse to sever thinking from feeling.