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|USian beholden to Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka, Nimiipuu 🧓🏽 for not mangling land-water-human webs.| |On autogolpe-watch.| |”If you can only be tall if someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem." (Toni Morrison)| | Ever so earnest.😁|

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No: in federal general elections on the first Tuesday in November, eligible voters’ party affiliation or lack thereof doesn’t dictate whether or not they may vote. In primary elections, which are a runoff among candidates in each party, other rules apply, depending on the state.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A five-part series on the power and repercussions of Greek life at the University of Alabama. Also addresses how and why the system perpetuates the worst impulses of its participants. Well worth your time. annehelen.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Bama Confidential
Part One: Rush
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In Montana, the moral panic over “we’re gonna have boys playing team sports as girls!” is powerful and widespread. It taps into both the cultural bedrock of middle & high school team sports, and people’s cherished truisms (there are 👦 and there are 👧, full stop).
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Available in Canada:
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Nestle Smarties Candy Bag
ALT: Nestle Smarties Candy Bag
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They love fig bars!
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Young Frankenstein (1974) - What hump? scene
YouTube video by Wonder Movies
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Skumform.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve no proof to back it up, but I suspect the widespread local custom (Northern Rockies, where teens first learn to drive the tippy family pickup truck on icy/snowy streets) of starting up slowly from a stop sign/traffic light has added a measure of safety to my decades of bike-commuting.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Phono?
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BA owes you a pony.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Amazing focus, on your part, to speak so coherently on the range of topics you cover - including the dynamic (sometimes challenging) Q&A portions. Last week’s office hours were speedily-delivered, which forced me to pay attention and underlined the volume of material. Nothing wrong with that. 👏👏
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lock the phones, for sure!
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Lock-Keeper
YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stan Rogers rabbit hole (sorry): Listen to the Verdi-ish lyricism of "The Lock-Keeper," how alliteration & internal rhymes are married to those melodies, via seafaring jargon. The lyrics also reflect Stan's own home vs. travel dilemmas - minus the bougainvilleas. Makes me miss melodic writing.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Helluva good demonstration of elegant lyrics sliding right into a rollicking a capella groove - for all their busyness, Stan's lyrics sang themselves. Not your typical spoof!
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Written as a spoof, crowds didn't get the memo, song took on a life of its own.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Currywurst?
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In the early Seventies, three members of my second-grade class were photographed for our local newspaper in our Halloween costumes, with our names and home addresses listed (and costumes described).
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Seaweed lovers unite. 🍙
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🍾🥂🍻🍷🍺🥃🍸🍹
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
TIL: “Africa dominates the global fire activity. So if there’s a trend in Africa, then that’s going to be the trend in the global fire activity. In sub-Saharan Africa, fire activity over the last 25 years has gone down pretty dramatically.” apnews.com/article/wild...
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Wildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasing
Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact. Wildfires in Europe, Canada and the U.S. are high, and flirting with record levels in Europe.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Glenn! Shoot dang. 🏍️
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Anecdotally, it hit 117F at a baseball tournament in Billings on Sunday.🫠
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election
WASHINGTON—In a wide-reaching decision likely to affect every era of American life, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Tuesday upholding a temporal gerrymander that would cost Democrats c...
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Love how EV enthusiastically turned the assignment into a hands-on collaboration with the teens, creating something new in the process, and keeping the spotlight on the kids. 👍
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Hawaii enacts law modeled on ‘Montana Plan’ • Daily Montanan
A measure to prohibit corporate spending in elections passed the Hawaii Legislature this spring, using the Montana Plan as a model
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
You've cultivated a perma-rage-free zone. Bless ya!
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
9th circuit climate case decision: "Tuesday’s decision was unpublished...the court issued a ruling significant enough to affect the lives and futures of an entire generation of young Americans, and then quietly signaled that it wasn’t a decision worth repeating." dailymontanan.com/2026/06/13/t...
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The court told us to come back later. We are out of time. • Daily Montanan
The lead plaintiff in federal climate change challenge, Eva Lighthiser writes that the youth will have no choice but to go back to court to defend their rights and a healthy environment.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Especially women. “If this trend continues, the United States risks joining countries such as Hungary, India, Israel Turkey, and other democracies that have experienced self-reinforcing cycles of authoritarian slippage and outmigration.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One reason US democracy is in trouble? Its supporters are moving elsewhere | Justin Gest
The recent exodus of people – voluntary and not – from the US threatens to worsen America’s authoritarian slippage
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There's nothing I like better than borrowing (for the North American crowd) a phrase like "...mentally kick an arsey work day up the clacker." 🫏
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Treaties between tribes and the federal government in the mid-1800s established reservations across the region, but maintained hunting rights in places deemed 'unoccupied.'" I've driven past tribal hunters and their 🦬kill in Beattie Gulch, surrounded by 🚔. www.hcn.org/issues/55-7/...
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Treaty rights, bison and the country’s most controversial hunt - High Country News
Last winter’s harvest in the Yellowstone region illustrates the complexity of bison restoration.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
On Forest Service inspections of firefighting aircraft--especially Bridger Aerospace's water scoopers: "The process is 'a relic of a bygone era and has become an unnecessary barrier to asset availability'" (Sheehy spokesperson) @jfallows.bsky.social - thoughts? dailymontanan.com/2026/06/09/s...
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Sheehy pushed to cut firefighting aircraft inspections the same month his former company failed one • Daily Montanan
U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, has pushed for fewer inspections of firefighting aircraft even as his own firm has failed safety inspections.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Don't forget the radio station.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank the Montana Stockgrowers Association for this. “That language is “code for anything but indigenously managed bison,” according to the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT), which represents more than 50 tribes managing 25,000 bison on land that accounts for about 95 percent of Indian Country.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
2. Paywalled version of article. “Excess and surplus line insurance are often a last resort for people who have struggled to find coverage. Carriers who sell these policies are licensed out of state and exempt from certain regulatory processes and oversight.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Some California homeowners now face ‘wildfire deductibles.’ Why that’s a problem.
After a Washington Post inquiry, Michael Soller, deputy commissioner of communications for the California Department of Insurance, indicated Commissioner Ricardo Lara will launch a review of these ins...
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1. Depending on your 🇺🇸 state’s regs, your insurer might deny your homeowners claim for hurricane, wildfire, or wildfire smoke damage, thanks to the policy’s separate natural-disaster🔥🌀💨deductible. Forced into an excess/surplus-line policy? Buyer beware. 🎲(Unpaywalled.) archive.ph/202606051109...
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Watching helplessly as SCOTUS *unconstitutionally* dismantles 🇺🇸 civil rights law is 🤮🤬. 6 🐘🧑‍⚖️ + ♾️ quislings. “After tonight’s decision, it isn’t just impossible to win a Voting Rights Act claim—it’s also impossible to win a *constitutional* claim against egregiously racist gerrymandering.“ - MJS
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Backing up to the inveigling, pre-slopaganda phase of the interactive Web: “humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and no other medium that came before has been able to tap into that as effectively.” Paul Ford www.ftrain.com/wwic
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The Web Is a Customer Service Medium, by Paul Ford
I look forward to your feedback.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
That's why there is Bolts Magazine. 😊 bsky.app/profile/bolt...
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’d place reform of the 🇺🇸 federal courts (esp. SCOTUS), voting rights reform, and guaranteed $ support of an independent 4th estate at the top of the 🇺🇸pro-democracy priority list. This proposal might fall within a large, second-most-urgent tier of priorities. Keep 👀 on the ☠️ that we *must* dilute.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated. And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Follow this: First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock. Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.” Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dell Wins $9.7 Billion Defense Deal To Streamline Software Buys
A unit of Dell Technologies Inc. won a $9.7 billion contract to help the US military handle its licenses for Microsoft Corp. software related to email, spreadsheets and other needs across classified a...
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“Anne Keast-Butler, head of the British electronic intelligence agency GCHQ, said Russia was “going backwards on the battlefield” inside Ukraine for the first time since late 2022.” #Ukraine
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is like an evening of Samuel Beckett shorts, with fewer down-and-outs and more plot.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Or Steven Harper’s Canada.
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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One scene in the 2025 film “Mile End Kicks” (set in 2011, I think) shows the main characters giving some Montreal Haredi uneasy side-eye. There’s no follow-up; it’s as if the filmmaker is confirming her ongoing view of that visible minority in that ‘hood as other and weird. Careless editing, maybe.
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