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Andy Fisher

@oddduck8.bsky.social
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I'm a historian who still sorta believes that studying the past can help us avoid making the same stupid mistakes all over again.

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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I saw this at the Wanapum Heritage Center last year. It's been on my mind this summer as we watch much of the world literally burn. This elder's words apply to children everywhere as the intensifying effects of climate change manifest in real time. #Indigisky 🌍
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#Indigisky
columbiariverkeeper.org
Protect Pushpum - Columbia Riverkeeper
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Some people can't handle the truth
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter and Signalgate anniversary! We're all Pete Hegseth's kids now.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Antifa frogs of the world unite! #nokings
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#Indigisky 🌍
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#nokingsprotest #nokings
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Think broken treaties are a thing of the past? #Indigisky www.underscore.news/justice/nort...
underscore.news
Northwest Native Nations Could Lose Hundreds of Millions in Federal Funding, Report Says  - Underscore Native News
Portland State University researchers say nearly half of federal funds allocated to Northwest tribes in 2024 is at risk under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Sanitized for your protection #Skystorians #HigherEdSky #EduSky
washingtonpost.com
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
medium.com
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
#Skystorians Absolutely. Hitler agreed to kill himself, Hirohito negotiated his unconditional surrender, and Mussolini consented to be hung upside down by Italian partisans. Let's do the Civil War now.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
a small, 2-person business called Two Crow Collective has a licensing agreement with PBS to use this image and shares profits with PBS when they sell this merch. twocrowcollective.com/collections/... also, either give to your local NPR station or to a station in a rural area.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Yahoo news indeed. You can always count on MAGA to draw the wrong conclusions from tragedy. Seriously, though, can we get some real science education in this country?
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! " -- Frederick Douglass, What to a Slave is the 4th of July #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A tale of three t-shirts for this July 4th
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Tangier Island is destined to go blue by 2050, when the rising waters of Chesapeake Bay will render it uninhabitable, but it looks like one resident is already having second thoughts.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congratulations to Jacob Bailey, Chris Ward, Elaine Harvey, Bronsco Jim Jr., Jeremy Takala, and the Kamiłtpah community for winning Best Feature Documentary at the World Cultures Film Festival! This well-deserved award for "These Sacred Hills" will help spread its important message. #Indigisky 🌍
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is your brain on AI #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #EduSky thehill.com/policy/techn...
thehill.com
ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research
ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a study released this month suggests. Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated sub…
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#Indigisky #thesesacredhills 🌍
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A message for our times. For all times. #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Come and see the violence inherent in the system
meditationsinanemergency.com
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Good article, written by a human being #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky ##EduSky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The wheel of karma grinds slowly but exceedingly fine #Indigisky medium.com/@lewiscounty...
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"The environmental policies of President Trump's second administration represent a direct threat to Indian Country. They erode tribal sovereignty, disregard treaty obligations and jeopardize the health and heritage of Indigenous communities." #Indigisky 🌍
nativenewsonline.net
April 22, 2025: This Earth Day Feels Different
Opinion. The United States commemorated the first Earth Day 55 years ago on April 22, 1970, as a means to galvanize Americans around protecting an increasingly polluted environment. Earth Day was the ...
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#HandsOff
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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hoodline.com
Oregon House Passes Bill Mandating Climate Science Integration into Education System
Oregon's House passed a bill to include climate and sustainability education across all grade levels, aiming to prepare students for environmental challenges.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A colleague recently saw this message while researching the Indian Claims Commission, which has nothing to do with "DEI" but got flagged anyway. Apparently, the history of our government's (problematic) efforts to provide restitution to tribes is "woke." www.bia.gov/as-ia/opa/on... #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“Are they going to attack the schools and tell them what curriculum they can teach and what they cannot teach? Will it take away some of the culture and language emphasis in schools?” #Indigisky #HigherEdSky #EdSky #Skystorians
tucson.com
Will ‘patriotic’ indoctrination be the next attack on Native American schoolchildren?
Soon after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he issued an executive order that some fear could become an assimilationist tool reminiscent of 19th century policies targeting Native Americans.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In 1906, at the Niagara Movement's meeting in Harper's Ferry, W.E.B. DuBois read a declaration calling for civil rights, an end to segregation, and equal education for African Americans; "either the U.S. will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the US." How's that going? #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"I’m not afraid of the American past, I’m alive with the possibilities — of finding common cause, of fighting for equality, of appreciating our shared humanity, of upholding our freedoms.” -- Katherine Benton-Cohen #Skystorians #HigherEdSky #EdSky #AcademicSky
washingtonpost.com
Trump says he’s erasing ‘shame.’ Critics say he’s hiding historic truths.
Changes in the name of preserving President Donald Trump’s version of American history, experts say, would minimize the accomplishments of people of color and women while downplaying the challenges th...
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Let them eat turnips #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Democracy is not a spectator sport."
newrepublic.com
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's definitely not about saving money (0.003% of the federal budget)... #HigherEdSky #EdSky #Skystorians
newrepublic.com
Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"For me it's important that Indigenous chiefs are invited to COP30... because leaders living in the villages are the ones who know the huge difficulties presented by the climate issue," said Sinesio Trovao, head of the Brazilian Indigenous Betania Mecurane community. #Indigsky 🌍
france24.com
Indigenous leaders want same clout as world leaders at UN climate talks
Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an equal say as politicians when the country hosts this year's UN climate confere...
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#handsoff in RVA
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“It’s always been instilled in us, by our elders, our mothers, our grandmothers,” Trina Sherwood said of speaking up for traditional foods. “We’re very protective of our resources.” #Indigisky 🌍
hcn.org
Forest Service pauses commercial huckleberry picking in Gifford Pinchot National Forest - High Country News
The berries are a critical resource for the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation and have become a big market of the Pacific Northwest food industry.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This headline says so much about our present moment in history, none of it good. slate.com/news-and-pol... #Skystorians
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#Skystorians #HigherEdSky #EdSky "If you are interested in sharing information about alterations to or deletions of this type of digital content [historical sources or information on federal websites and digital collections], please complete the form below."
oah.org
OAH | Records at Risk Data Collection InitiativeOAH | Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
History is reassuring *and* terrifying #Skystorians "What is unfolding in the country today is different in many ways, but this earlier period holds lessons for us about how swiftly the government can take away basic freedoms — and about our need to be vigilant to be sure it doesn’t happen again."
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | America was at its Trumpiest 100 years ago. Here’s how to prevent the worst.
During WWI, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.
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Andy Fisher @oddduck8.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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