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Saawanwa on Baxoje, Meskwaki, & Sac Land. Pronouns: wiila, he, him. Hasiski peteki, hini yeesihaataakootamakwe yeelaatoweeyakwe
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wtf, this is a major hub for Indigenous data sovereignty research azluminaria.org/2025/02/21/i...

My paper "Compounded extraction: An examination of early agro-extractivism in the US Heartland" is out today at EPE: Nature and Space. I argue that the land grants, particularly the railroad and education ones, used the land itself to bootstrap extractivist ag-centered development activities. 1/

Starting our next legal action against Trump over his effort to rubber stamp the destruction of wetlands and harm endangered species, all in the name of more profits for fossil fuels, mines and other extractive projects. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

I have no words. The distance between what our institutions say and what they do is becoming more apparent by the day.

A favourite piece of writing from Audre Lorde is this keynote presentation she delivered at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 1981, which is always one of the readings in my virtual Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx arts programming: www.blackpast.org/african-amer... 1/

They realize they can’t dismantle public agencies and get the same services. So many ignoramus fools are trying to re-hire people they traumatized and fired because Musk’s Incel Army of BigBalls can’t do the damn job.

Colour slide of the Kegg family boiling maple sap on the Mille Lacs reservation, Minnesota in the spring of 1947. 📷 Monroe Killy | Minnesota Historical Society

Reposting this for today as we remember missing and murdered Indigenous relatives.

No Prisons on Stolen Land Indigenous lead Non-profit in EKY buys land and blocks prison construction www.weku.org/the-commonwe...

This is terrific work! CC @louiseseamster.bsky.social , I do not think Danielle is here.

Once again for those in the back: conflating rural Americans with commodity farmers is a fallacy promoted by big ag and people (rightly) arguing against the dismantling USAID should not use industry tropes and should have a clue about how US foreign policy works. It’s not all fairies 🧚‍♀️ and roses 🌹.

Playing hockey | 🎨 Allen Sapp (1928-2015) Private collection

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Tribal colleges and universities receive 74 percent of their total revenue from federal funding. If the freeze continues, tribal colleges and universities could shut down completely.

I interviewed because I wanted to share the great work my colleagues and we have done for our first-year students. I wanted to highlighted the loss of this program for a rural PUI institution. Our future science leaders have the biggest loss and impact. No www.science.org/content/arti...

The D1.1 genotype is the one that was responsible for the death in the US in December. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

With a 2nd detected jump of #birdflu from birds to dairy cattle (something USDA insisted was unlikely) what is the chance that beef cattle are not becoming infected. We only know about the 2nd jump because of active surveillance of bulk milk. Who is looking at beef feedlots?

During Trump’s previous term, Mexico imposed tariffs of up to 20% on U.S. pork, leading to a $1.13 billion loss in one year. www.swineweb.com/canada/canad...

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My weekly list of must-read articles, along with some organizing resources, thoughts on disappearing data, an update on student repression, and a call to keep fighting. ❤️

Meat industry asks Trump to cut "costly regulations driving up food prices" = drop rules to make chicken producers & ranchers get a fairer price, drop a new rule to keep Salmonella from contaminating food, and allow meat processing plants to pollute rivers. www.beefmagazine.com/market-news/...

I laughed at this because I remember Cliff being a skeptic: "Sixteen years ago, Nellis found the idea of restorative justice “ridiculous.” Now, he is one of its strongest advocates." I appreciate all of the work and his team have put in over the past few years. news.wttw.com/2025/01/27/r...

A new site put together by Siembra NC that includes a playbook on how to defend your community against deportations and opportunities to sign up for trainings to learn how to organize and resist. defendandrecruit.org

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Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci! (1942 Artist: Leopoldo Méndez, Mexican, 1902-1969 off-view at the Art Institute of Chicago)

Important for progressive academics to know, from the @ccrjustice.bsky.social

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The NYT having a guest essay by a white woman about land acknowledgements is exactly on brand.

It's National Ribbon Skirt Day! Why? In 2022, Isabella Kulak of the Cote First Nation wore a handmade ribbon skirt to school. Isabella was shamed for not following her school's dress code for formal attire. She was a fifth grader. Isabella and her family stood against this racist decision. /1+

This one needed more than one post to answer, so I’ll do a mini-thread here. The biggest biosecurity risks for outdoor operations like mine are going to come from wild birds (predatory or otherwise) and the public’s relentless insistence on agritourism…