Reposted by Natalie M AvalosKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more. 522179837328
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The AI rush is following the money. That’s historically continuous, eg The Cold War funding model. But the AI rush is also about currying political favor and signaling political loyalty. When that aligned with the money, it was a no brainer for feckless university leaders. 321248
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...ms.nowWhistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millionsA former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers. 10905375
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026im genuinely distressed by the Arday news, I can't quite get my head around the cruelty I saw on display and I don't want to share a profession with those who did hunt him for days. 733233
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?" 491277466139
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188764436
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:table.mediaDie Freiheit der Wissenschaft lässt sich nicht in den Begriffen der radikalen Rechten verteidigenUS-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk... 10486147
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is. 574274696248
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE. 255136303304
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosNatalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 28/03/2026In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨ classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-345-relat...classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.comThe Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie AvalosNatalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r... 194
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 28/03/2026In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨ classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-345-relat...classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.comThe Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie AvalosNatalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r... 194
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time. 348108203774
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.” 955133966183
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosNatalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...open.substack.comYour Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation 063
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...open.substack.comYour Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation 063
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosJoaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up. 158117975045
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026@jennylsq.bsky.social Palace Music’s New Partner and then Elliot Smith soon after 🥹 whew, these break up songs had me crying in the car AND remembering the bittersweet ennui of youth… thank you 💕 120
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...themountaineer.comNo crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operationsCanton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining. 143274737
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously? 7591281738
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2026Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America” 668405959618
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosRebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs 1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--" The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."yahoo.com'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifiesMarimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story. 417138645873
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich 42113942916
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language. 282593565
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.nonviolent-conflict.orgCANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNCYou may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r... 358153176167
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Yesterday, over 30,000 people protested against ICE in below-zero temperatures. Amazing work, everyone. Minnesota strong. Tomorrow, there will be more of us. 17593241797
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come 584130392241
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/01/2026This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream. 634132536362
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities 9114104511539
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosTheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 18/01/2026To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography 1244788595
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosThe Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 10/01/2026ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!" This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️ youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...youtu.beMinneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'YouTube video by MS NOW 549127306228
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE. 754187237311
Reposted by Natalie M Avalosdoodlemama2424.bsky.social @doodlemama2424.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Let’s be honest. He shot her because he was angry that she wasn’t intimidated. He was pissed because she said “it’s ok I’m not mad at you” - that’s why after he shot her, he said “fucking bitch.” He wasn’t afraid for his life and she wasn’t threatening him. Her calmness was the threat. 25710
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 08/01/2026There is no "normal" to go back to. Only what we do next. 457147803805
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you. 10634382316959
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks. 74162164110
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosSabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela. 1668289636843
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...abcnews.go.comAlgeria votes to declare French colonization a crime and demands restitutionAlgerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule 343944881
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosTheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race - Michelle Alexander Pic of the day #photography 743228579
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇 42258352948
Reposted by Natalie M Avalosjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works 158105411809
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Excellent read by the brilliant @drstaceypatton.bsky.social Starvation is about control but also obedience. Discussed here as the neuroscience of coercion open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...open.substack.comStarving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in AmericaWe are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back. 130
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.propublica.orgMore Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near... 23059673058
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time. 17035594020944
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosTheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography 169103622067
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution. 363180845718
Reposted by Natalie M AvalosKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/ 498195019816