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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

thanks Neil. I don’t engage here much, but happy to connect privately.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

In my new book I wrote about disenrollment as a problem of the concentration of power in Indian country. I write specifically about Mark Macarro and others, exposing a web of influence and power that entangles certain tribes and tribal leaders, Hollywood, media, and the philanthropy world.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Trump/trumpism was the initial cause of the implosion of my marriage. On the other hand people always show you who they are…..and when they do, believe them.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Not surprising coming from a privileged white South African. He probably liked it better before the fall of apartheid.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I say this often and said this in class yesterday. They might take an American Indian studies class thinking easy A, but then find out it’s a lot more challenging than they thought.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Wonder how trump’s SIL and Jewish convert daughter feel about it?

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Idk Mike. Didn’t you just help normalize the fascist broligarchy? Democracy means nothing to them, only power. It certainly didn’t matter 4 years ago. These are not normal times and we cannot treat them as such. You must stand up to them ✊🏽

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Barron always looks vacant, or miserable. He also sends off a vibe of being a ticking time bomb.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Those EO’s trump rescinded seem to be mostly related to DEI and climate/environ. Let’s be clear: tribal issues are not DEI issues, they are sovereignty issues. This represents trump 2.0’s first strike against tribal sovereignty.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The crumbling of the empire has a disorienting affect, fueled by social media disinformation. People can no longer distinguish reality from fantasy, and conspiracy theories pass for critical thinking. We are truly in Orwellian times.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For the next 4 years we cannot stop exposing the man behind the curtain.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When will the dem leadership stop playing nice with maga? Trump doesn’t deserve that kind of courtesy

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I feel like I’m living in a reality tv show where nothing is as it seems

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I was there for Obama inauguration 1.0. Me and a million other people braved the cold and no one died that i know of, and were super proud to be there. But i guess it’s not surprising that this one would pander to a bunch of pansy-ass billionaires.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Going surfing with a group of badass older women to celebrate a birthday of one of them.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I like Bluesky, but we really need more response options than just the heart button.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hell to the no. Surfing and hanging out with friends is a much better use of my time than giving one second of my time to the sociopath-in-chief.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Buyers remorse seems to be spreading. Bring. It. On.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The right might think they can derail soc sci and humanities by rebranding as wokeism but the train has long left the station and there are too many of us doing the work of history correctives and sociopolitical reframing. Too many of us also care about climate change to stop us.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

We all know that “deporting immigrants” only applies to certain immigrants, and it’s not the highly educated ones who come for the high end STEM jobs.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There’s nothing more virtue signaling than plastering the American flag all over your car, your clothes, your head. It says I am more American, more patriotic, more deserving of the benefits of Americanness than you.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Agent Orange swore up and down before the election that he knew nothing about Project 2025, still no surprise that he intends to pack his cabinet with a bunch of P25 architects. Those who voted for him not really knowing what they were voting for are in for some rude awakenings.

axios.com

Top Trump picks have ties to Project 2025

Trump contended he knew nothing about Project 2025 — but several of his Cabinet picks certainly do.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I think a lot of people are in for a rude awakening when they realize they don’t know what they were voting for. The midterm elections could easily be a game changer just like in trump 1.0. We are always playing the long game.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Critiquing the US as a place with white supremacy at its foundation is not the same as hating white people. White people need to get over their fragility about this and conflating criticism with hate.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Twitter was always too much of a cesspool for me. BTW, I picked up a galley of your new book from Beacon, who is also my publisher. Looking forward to reading it.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Nuclear is making a comeback with new technology that supposedly makes it safer, as this article shows. Nowhere however is the issue of uranium mining discussed. Uranium mining has a horrible history of contamination of Native lands in the US and is ongoing. How will it be different in the future?

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Los Angeles Times - Fri, 11/22/24

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Check out this lecture series on Radical Resistance. I was honored to be part of it this week. My talk isn’t posted yet, but check out this great talk by Laura Pulido on climate change obstructionism in the GOP.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is an anti-fascist veterans group to keep watching. commondefense.us

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Common Defense

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I for one am glad for vaccines, as someone who almost died from adult chicken pox at 44 years old. If there had been a vaccine for that back then I would’ve taken it. The shingles vaccine? Hell yes. I’m vulnerable to shingles because of my adult chicken pox. Let me say it again: hell yes.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m Native American. We never give up. That’s how you survive genocide. We will survive agent orang and team maga.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Yes, that’s why I’m here to remember that not all people are morally and psychologically challenged.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Like x or truth social are not massive echo chambers for maga meanness. Go back to your echo chambers and stew in your own pot toxicity where you like it. We come here so we don’t have to deal with that crap.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s not just being underinformed. It’s willful ignorance. I see it over and over again. They just don’t want their views challenged and can’t be bothered with facts. The are patterns; upon being confronted with facts they get defensive or just go silent.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Maga meanness knows no limits. Some of us don’t believe that free speech means hate speech and we shouldn’t have to apologize for it. They have their own cesspools to bathe in. I want nothing to do with them.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yet we have a president elect who is an adjudicated rapist and a Supreme Court justice who was publicly accused of rape. Sexual predation is now normalized in our public spaces and half the country doesn’t see a problem with it

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The misogyny in social media land is off the charts. Really worried about what our future looks like, especially for younger women.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have been accused of joining the echo chamber too. My response is “yeah, I don’t see anything wrong with not wanting to be abused on social media for what I think”.

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

But not surprising. Just another piece of the “burn it all down” trump agenda

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker @dinagw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Somehow I’m not convinced that he’s “full of empathy”. But curious what he said that we didn’t see?

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