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Natalie M Avalos

@nataliemavalos.bsky.social
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Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own

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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, 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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The 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.
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Dominique 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...
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Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions
A 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.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
im 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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-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?"
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Thomas 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:
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Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft lässt sich nicht in den Begriffen der radikalen Rechten verteidigen
US-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk...
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Well this is a problem
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.
Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In 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...
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The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos
Natalie 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...
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In 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...
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The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos
Natalie 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...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Deploying 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.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Conversation 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...
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Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.
Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Conversation 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...
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Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem.
Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An 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.
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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 💕
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For 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...
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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
It 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?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Gestapos 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."
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'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Epstein’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
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We 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.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You 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...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yesterday, over 30,000 people protested against ICE in below-zero temperatures. Amazing work, everyone. Minnesota strong. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/01/2026
This 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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography
Giant red rock formations in the desert near Page, AZ. Rocks are about 30’ tall.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
ICE 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?...
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Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
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doodlemama2424.bsky.social @doodlemama2424.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Let’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.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There is no "normal" to go back to. Only what we do next.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You 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.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Rubio 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.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Algeria votes to declare French colonization a crime and demands restitution
Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Like 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
Looking down on Cinnamon Cay Beach on St John USVI.

Aqua waters meet a white beach and lush green growth. A small Cay or two rise from the water a short distance out. 

There’s an underwater trail of coral here being grown by scientists in a lab and then transplanted here. Hope for the coral. 

Top 10 beach I’ve ever been to for sure
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF 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? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
incredible 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
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Omg yes
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Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Excellent 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...
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Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America
We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Americans 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.
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More 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...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I 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.
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Nobody 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
The tall red mountains of Zion national Park
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025
Folks, 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.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Luckily, 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/
Map of Sinclair stations
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