High Plains Driftwood
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Decolonize up in this bitch Land Back. Woodworker He/Him
always a good reminder that columbus was so shitty, so god awful, so truly vile and evil, that the spanish royals who asked for and promoted the inquisition were like “yo this dude needs to be stopped fuckin IMMEDIATELY”
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it
What is residential school denialism? University of Manitoba professor Niigaan Sinclair explains that it isn’t the denial of the existence of residential schools – it’s the downplaying of experiences that have been proven time and time again.
Pipestone National Monument preserves active and sacred quarries that Native people have used for thousands of years. But now a proposed federal rule change could make it easier for the government to disregard Native voices in discussions over projects near sites sacred to Native people.
Federal rule change may pressure Minnesota’s historic Pipestone quarry, advocates warn
Preservation advocates are lining up against a proposed federal rule change that could affect how the nation cares for historic places, including the Pipestone quarry, a southwestern Minnesota site sa...
mprnews.org
What do we owe each other? This is what we must attend to.
John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] ― John Muir
An American legend has taken his final rest. John Kinsel Sr., one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to outwit the Japanese in World War II, has died at 107.
"This unfortunate race...have by their unexpected desertion & ferocious barbarities justified extermination" That was Thomas Jefferson. It's funny/"funny" how US rhetoric about American Indians was exactly the same as Israeli rhetoric about Palestinians. founders.archives.gov/documents/Je...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week
A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week
At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling
theguardian.com
Diarrhea in the lettuce, glass in the popsicles, E. Coli in the berries, screw worms in the beef, salmonella in the chicken & eggs, listeria in everything else. Man I love deregulation. Libertarianism is such a great philosophy.
First-of-its-Kind Grazing School Will Bring Tribal Buffalo Managers, Ranchers Together #TNC #SouthDakota #Buffalo www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
First-of-its-Kind Grazing School Will Bring Tribal Buffalo Managers, Ranchers Together
The training is designed to strengthen tribal buffalo management and support buffalo restoration.
nature.org
A dogshit take from The Atlantic? Absolute dogshit you say?
Rule 1: First rule about Fight Club, don't talk about Fight Club! (not good at abiding by it) The fight scenes 🤯 were something and many .. many happening in a crowded space. Never seen anything Ike this before. Bombay Hook NWR, 7 August 2026 #ECK #photography #birds #egrets #birdaction #stunday
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
