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Indigenous Studies job in MN minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Minnesota_St...

Blows my mind to see my name on this #clearcut #grahamgreene

Time for me to buy another box of 1-5/8” drywall screws cuz the box I bought last year phased out of existence again

Better Half - A Ghost Story A recently dumped man finds himself a willing victim of an entity in his house.

My kid is in a horror thing that needs some kickstarting www.kickstarter.com/projects/bry...

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Ellie was a hunter. As a hunter who has field dressed a variety of animals (and killed a lot of people), she’d be able to at least try to emergency c-section a baby, especially when the mother has no chance of making it. #TheLastOfUsSeason2

an Indigenous reading of Ferrara's "The Driller Killer" an Indigenous reading of Ferrara's "The Driller Killer," drawing upon Dick Hebdige's analysis of subcultures, primitivism in modern art, and cultural appropriation in modern music.

Some thoughts on Abel Ferrera’s 1979 film “Driller Killer,” punk, primitivism, art, cultural appropriation, and colonialism. #drillerkiller #abelferrera

Pretendian discourse is the q*non of ndn country

I’m playing a show Saturday

Plus, instead of feeling overwhelmed, I feel empowered to choose the parts of the flurry that I can actually engage with. Then, I am able to appreciate how others in my community are dealing with their parts of the flurry, and do my best to support them, as we all try to make it through this storm.

And more importantly, it becomes an opportunity to get to know different perspectives and experiences within my community, and a way to build solidarity within the community.

Then it becomes not a distraction, it becomes an opportunity for some humility, a moment where I can just know that I don't know what that specific thing is all about because my life and my experiences haven't made that into a critical issue for me.

If I notice something that might not be relevant to my life, instead of calling it a distraction, I wonder who in my community may be impacted by this, who could explain the potential impact, or tell me about how that part of the flurry has been dealt with by folks recently as well as historically.

I recently decided that if I fell into thinking "this is all too overwhelming and distracting" that it meant I was losing perspective on the thing that I think is most important in life: community.

A community is made up of people with different perspectives, interests, values, and ways of being.

There are many people who have different needs or interests or expertise or experiences, or have different statuses socially or economically or politically. Who are we to decide that those interests and statuses are mere distraction?

Insisting that it's distraction is a dismissal of all the moving parts in these flurries that may appear irrelevant to our own interests or expertise, but that doesn't mean those parts of the flurry aren't matters of great importance to people out there who are not like us.

I know folks really got into "the shock doctrine" how people in power use overwhelming flurries of changes that no one of us can respond to. And I know how easy it is to get worked up about the bits and pieces that manage to catch our attention. But, here's the thing: it's not all distraction.

US law is more than just the Constitution. Hence them already interpreting precedents within the EO. But that’s a procedural point, and I’m talking about the intent.

And there is some history between the executive and the judiciary where the constitutional checks and balances give way to intent.

I don’t see that as a problem. I see that as perhaps by design, given how many of their friends and spouses would be impacted if it was retroactive lol

I also don’t see that as a bigger problem than a possible invention of an extrajudicial system to handle immigration cases and abuses.

My guess is such an invented jurisdiction would be marketed to the electorate as necessary, more efficient, and as allowing immigration enforcement officers more flexibility (as well as added layers of immunity) in carrying out their jobs.

But if we look at this another way, if they remove jurisdiction over temporary visitors, visa holders, or any other status that isn’t full citizen, then they can invent a new jurisdiction that covers such persons, as well as the children born of such persons on US soil.

If someone commits a crime within the borders of the US, that person falls under US criminal jurisdiction unless they have some ambassadorial position or special immunity. Right?

It seems they’re suggesting by this argument that someone here illegally isn’t under the jurisdiction of the US. But if that’s true, then there is no legal basis to arrest them or remove them, and clearly that’s not their goal.

That is, they’re saying that persons here under temporary visas are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US—which makes me (excuse the rhetorical Qs) wonder, then, who is issuing the visas? Aren’t visas evidence of coming under some kind of jurisdiction in the US?

The EO focuses on the “and subject to the jurisdiction (of the US)” and that is a super weird move. It’s like they conflated “jurisdiction” with “legal standing” of individual persons.

So I finally read the EO on birthright citizenship.

It’s ridiculous for a reason no one seems to be talking about.

If you were visited by 3 ghosts on Christmas Eve, who would you want them to be?

Super excited that this amazing book is finally available for preorder. It was written by over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world and contains stories, poetry, and critical thought pieces on how TEK is used and extracted from our communities and what folks are doing to protect it.