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Arvina
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Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee. Momma. Roller Derby. Politics. Cats. Sifaka Lemurs.
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if you are a rule-follower who knows what's going on in your workplace or elsewhere in your life is deeply wrong but finds your social conditioning getting in the way of your desire to step out of line and make the ethical choice, I would be happy to talk you through those feelings nonjudgmentally!
February 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The U.S. Department of Labor is organizing a protest. Elon Musk’s staff will be present at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., today at 4 p.m. It was mentioned that staff should plan to stay late after the 4 p.m. meeting to assist with setting up Elon Musk staffers into their systems.
February 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Jackson also invoked pseudoarchaeological moundbuilder myths to justify this. He said that Indigenous people did not build mounds, but that mounds had been built by a prior "once powerful race" (guess who). Then it was argued Indigenous people had no claim to the land, but white settlers did.
In 1832 the Supreme Court affirmed that Native American nations were in fact independent and sovereign.

That didn't stop President Andrew Jackson from ignoring the ruling and pursing a policy of native removal anyway. It was "allowed" because no one stopped him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcest...
Worcester v. Georgia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It’s Black History Month. The earliest known to me, part black and part Hoocąk person ws Carrie (Elk) Webster “Hįįnuka” wanaǧira. She was born near BRF, WI the daughter of Lucy (Moonhouse) Elk the Black shoemaker in town. She went to boarding school, both in Wittenberg and Chilocco. 1/2
February 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”

HUMANS!
November 15, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM