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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. People are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It's #ShowYourStripes Day! From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions. To learn more… theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... showyourstripes.info

Image from linked article showing how global temperatures have changed from 1850 to 2024 and projected through through 2100. It goes from cool blues on the left to intense reds on the right. The right has two sections. The first becomes deeper and deeper red and says "Delayed Action: A 3 degree C World". The second is a less deep red pattern that doesn't darken as much and says "Rapid Action and Net-Zeron by 2050s: A 1.5 degree C world". The two sections are separated by a line that is labeled "Our Choices."

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Washington’s legal community stands together to commit to the promise of the rule of law in a constitutional democracy. The same laws apply to everyone, and everyone is treated equally under the law; government power is bound by law; and human rights are guaranteed to all.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So when we say that, you know, it's all about the land, it's not just metaphorical. The entire project of the settler colonial state had to do with indigenous land theft.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When we talk about how the United States and the US legal system is predicated on Indigenous land theft and on the backs of black people via chattel slavery, these are how we can describe the actual process and relationship to the things that were happening at the time.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The initial framing is that settler colonialism, as it is enacted in settler colonial states like the United States or Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, etc. like they're all it is all about land.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It is this situation, the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The history of the use of the American landscape has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There is not the raw material in the woods, or beyond, to make all of us rich . And in striving for it, we will only make ourselves, all of us, poor. - Lopez, 1990

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was not active on Twitter so I am not sure why I believed I'd keep up with Bsky. But Cory Booker on behalf of the US, tho.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine. We are in an imagination battle (A. M. Brown).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"And the wisdom of it, the ineffable and subtle intertwining of living organisms on the Earth, is confirmed today by molecular biology and atmospheric chemistry" (Lopez, 1990)

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“So here I am, trying again because the story they have chosen to tell is wrong. They know it and we know it. It’s time to tell a better story.” Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What are rights? What are inalienable rights? What are inherent rights? Who gets to decide who is an alien or not? I can’t with this country, and yet I have to.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sometimes I think I am so smart. Then I read D. Haroway and she already wrote it a long time ago.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression" (Combahee River Collective, 1979).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation is us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sis ters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." Combahee River Collective, 1979).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It's Diversity Week at the UW School of Law and they're feeding students all week. Today is breakfast burritos, tomorrow is Indian Tacos from Off the Rez. Go #LawDawgs!

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

i wish that more people had listened and paid attention when trans people started facing attacks years ago. i wish you all had seen it as a threat to you, too.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and 'decentered' complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle" (Omi & Winant, 1994, 15).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology, but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place” (Omi & Winant, 1994, 13).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, definition of racism: “Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”

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Zahr K. Said @zahrsaid.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Great ruling; hard to imagine how *bad* the reasoning will have to get in future if a court wishes to support the EO banning gender affirming care for minors. It’s such a hateful and irrational exercise of executive power.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 14/02/2025

Rep. Trevor Lee's bill would ban pride flags in any government building and on any government property, but allow for the flying of Confederate and Nazi flags "temporarily" for "educational purposes."

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Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says

A new bill would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in Utah schools and government buildings, but pride flags would be banned.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My neighbor gave me an egg so Story and I could make chocolate chip cookies. Then I saw my friend Kerri post a pic of $37/dozen eggs at her local grocery store. And knowing the socioecological and political context of the moment, I am extra grateful and the cookies are en pointe.

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Then he butts her with his forehead and gets stuck to her pitchiness, overnight, in this awkward position. The next day, when the sun warms Miss Pitch, she releases Mink, knowing that she has made her point. Mink goes away. His search continues (Archibald, 2008, 91).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Mink won’t take “no” for an answer and gets angry, then violent, with Miss Pitch when he can’t have his way. He hits Miss Pitch with one arm, then the other, and kicks her with one foot, then the other. (Archibald, 2008, 90).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In the next five years, the world must decrease its carbon emissions by at least 43%. Yet greenhouse gas pollution continues to tick up alongside our planet’s collective thermostat, and 2024 hit record highs on both fronts (The Nature Conservancy, Feb 13, 2025).

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“The decision to remove essential public health data is a violation of treaty rights… The CDC’s actions undermine our ability to respond to urgent health crises that disproportionately impact American Indian and Alaska Native communities.” Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), executive director of UIHI

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Coll Thrush @collthrush.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I've just booked another Wrecked reading: June 12, 6:00 p.m., at Village Books in Bellingham. Watch their site for ticket sales, which will happen later. But in the meantime, Bellinghamsters, save the date!

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the US in 2024. It paid $0 in federal income taxes. I wonder what my taxes will look like this year…

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trump's sidekicks (Musk, Bezos, & Zuckerberg) are worth 920 billion dollars. They own more wealth than the bottom half of American society and have become wealthier (by the billions) since Trump was elected. This is how an oligarchy works (Sanders).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical. HCR

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Right now the rules of the game are being changed across the country. We are redoing mortgages, credit, education, employment, and transportation. At this time of re-doing, we can write rules that actually deliver (John A Powell, 2010, on Regionalism)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Seattle Public School Immigration Enforcement Policy for a Safe and Inclusive Environment: seattleschools-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/person...

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Theory is not simply an abstract thought or idea that explains overarching structures of societies and communities; theories, through stories and other media, are roadmaps for our communities and reminders of our individual responsibilities to the survival of our communities" (Brayboy, 2005, 427).

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/2025

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

“Indians are equally certain that Columbus brought anthropologists on his ships when he came to the New World. How else could he have made so many wrong deductions about where he was?” (Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins).

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

“ Indigenous peoples are still dying from residential schools. And still living, despite them.” - SugarCane, Julian Brave NoiseCat

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On my coffee endeavor, I came across a selection of final exam snacks for students to last for the whole week. I mean, when in Rome 🤷‍♀️ (except for the violence and exploitation, only related to snacks)

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Emma Elliott @4emmae.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It's appropriate to let Otter transcription take notes for me while I get a coffee since I've been up since 3 am. In related news, the coffee will come from a campus vending machine in Gates Hall. I am disappointed, given the well-resourced facility. Anyway, brb, ☕💜💛

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