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Tara Houska

@zhaabowekwe.bsky.social
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ojibwe. mama bear. land defender. founder @giniwcollective. co-founder @notyourmascots. words @nytimes @vogue @cnn. zhaabo@gmail.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/10/2026
Advocates say the case is an alarming example of the prevalence of unsubstantiated forensic science.
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Maryland Used Discredited Science to Convict a Woman of Murdering Her Newborn
Advocates say the case is an alarming example of the prevalence of unsubstantiated forensic science.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 04/10/2026
"We don't die when the body starts to end. Because what we leave is a message, which is left and this will survive us." - Rita Levi-Montalcini, awarded the Nobel Prize 40 years ago for her discovery of growth factors. She was the longest-living laureate, passing away at the age of 103 years.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nothing to see here, just prepping the plebes for water shortages…
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/08/2026
Not even about mysterious medical equipment delivered to the senator’s Washington home trib.al/CNDFCHJ
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Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates
Not even about mysterious medical equipment delivered to the senator’s Washington home
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also stop using our tax money to kill kids. Somehow that seems to be the hardest one to swallow. Prayers for Palestine, for Sudan, for Congo.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nothing to see here, just prepping the plebes for water shortages…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/08/2026
Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank to help relatives defend their family home. Israeli settlers have surrounded the home for more than a week. Settlers have even trapped people inside and cut off water and electricity in some cases.
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Israeli Settlers Have Surrounded Home of Palestinian American Visiting West Bank
“They’re not allowing us to leave the house. They’re not allowing anyone to come to my house freely,” says Loui Ridi.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Psaki: Why do you think Mike Rogers is so far refusing to agree to a date for this debate? El-Sayed: I mean, I hate to say it, he’s a coward. Rogers the Dodger does not want to actually debate because he knows that he’s an empty suit with no new ideas
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giniw collective @giniwcollective.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Miigwech to all who helped this significant victory come to be! We now look to the MN legislature to make these protections permanent, to First Nations to keep our homelands and watershed intact, to fellow stewards to stand up. Not everything has a price tag. #HandsOffTheBoundaryWaters
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
70% of Americans don't want energy-guzzling AI data centers being built in their communities, including 63% of Republicans. Trump's response? "You can't fight it, you have to go with it." Reminder that Trump owns millions of dollars worth of stock in Big Tech corporations pushing data centers.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/07/2026
The last time measles cases were this high was in 1991—and the past 18 months have seen more cases than the last 25 years combined. trib.al/InOPLjk
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
But hey we fired those Black military generals and are rounding up the brown people again, so we’re winning, right?
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Coming to a data center-Flock camera-DOGE citizen info breach-masked ICE domestic army-not arrested Epstein class-big brother near you. Just comply, right?
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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A post that reads "homosexuality is found in over 400 species

Homophobia is found in one"
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Phil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Same office that covered up prosecutor's crimes in the Broadview Six case just covered up a police shooting. Feds said a teen beat up a cop before he's shot. They have clear video evidence showing the kid just squirmed away from him. They hid it from the judge. Judge just set a sanctions hearing.
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Video contradicts FBI agent's account of shooting during undercover sting in Country Club Hills
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling ordered the video’s public release Thursday after its discovery prompted federal prosecutors to drop charges related to an attempted robbery during an underc...
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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth, St. Louis! Today marks Freedom Day, and we’ll spend it celebrating the history of Black activists from STL and across the country whose tireless struggle for justice and equality paved the way for us.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Honor the Earth continues to operate, like so many in our communities. As I learned first-hand and heard from community, numerous children were harmed by and predators were protected within the organization up to 2023.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“.. at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate ..” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thanks so much to our amazing community of supporters! You've all given over $42K in donations to get back some of the $50,000+ that we spent in our fight for press freedoms against Energy Transfer, but we still have some left to recoup, help us!🦄🙏🥰 donorbox.org/unicorn-riot...
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Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on Unicorn Riot DAPL SubpoenaUnicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet anoth...
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Did everyone just block out reading The Lorax as a kid? Is nature nothing more than a sad pic to scroll by in our current human-constructed “reality”? This is so very shameful and sad. If you’re not already, get involved. Push back. Nature’s karma is reality.
Florida panthers sits beside last remaining tree in massive clearcut field, alone.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is why they want everyone addicted to AI. It's in their interest for people to have no attention span, inability to read, and limited imagination beyond consumerism. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. READ. Reading is awesome!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026
"The cost of data centre growth in Ireland: Households paid an estimated €715 million more in electricity bills" Excellent, detailed new FOE Ireland modelling confirming with hard evidence that this industry is making power less accessible www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/the-cos...
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Here in the U.S., land of global arms deals via corporate politicians who divide the prole class: The insurance premium for me & my toddler is $1100/mo. I went to a doc, @bluecrossmn.bsky.social paid $39. I owe $364. Outrageous. Cherry on top: they labeled her ‘uninsured’. She owes $355.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 07/04/2026
"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026
In Jan 2024, Die „Letzte Generation“ staged a climate protest in Leipzig where they sat on toy tractors so they'd be treated the same as these other protestors The police were not fooled
climate protester is arrested by the police and he's sitting on top of a small children's toy green tractor like the ones used by right-wing farmers when arguing for subsidie
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Kurt Bradley @kurtbradley.co · 08/04/2026
Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.
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Pilounette ✨ @pilounettes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
1-month old Adam was bitten by a rat in the makeshift tents the surviving people of Gaza now live in. “But whitey’s on the moon.” Gil Scott-Heron.
Infant with deep animal bite lacerations on their cheek.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026
Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
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Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer
An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026
The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A second photographer in Los Angeles lost an eye to law enforcement "less-lethal" munitions while just taking pictures at protests. These weapons are supposed to be used ONLY for immediate violent threats. Marshall Woodruff and now Tucker Collins were armed with nothing but a camera.
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Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...
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Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Santa Muerte takes everyone, in the end. These fascists think their cruelty makes them powerful, but it won't save them. Look how easy and common cruelty and hatred are. They're not special. Solidarity, courage, kindness are. Keep living, keep fighting. May your love outlive their hatred.
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“Murderers and rapists” they said. An Indigenous mother who missed a few check-in hearings back in 2019. What a threat she posed to us all. The cruelty and joy European-descended folks get in watching brown folks of the Americas be terrorized to this day is sick.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/02/2026
Trump’s fuel embargo is pushing Cuba into a deepening energy crisis, forcing emergency measures like slashed transit and shortened work and school hours, as Washington threatens tariffs on any country that sells oil to Havana.
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Trump’s Fuel Embargo Forces Cuba to Take Emergency Steps to Avert Catastrophe
The Trump administration has threatened to slap tariffs on any country that sells oil to the Cuban government.
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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The low quality feels like the point here, since the plausible goal with all of it is to denigrate the whole idea of craft and creativity and push people to accept less
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AI-generated ads dropped the ball at this year’s Super Bowl
This year’s Super Bowl ads were a testament to how sloppy gen AI still is.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
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ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...
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giniw collective @giniwcollective.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Help us protect some of the most pristine water left on the planet. Call your Senator, tell them #NoHJRes140 Despite what corporations say, not everything is for sale. Our children deserve a chance to find peace in nature, to experience where the wild things still live. #HandsOffTheBoundaryWaters
A sunset on a lake, with a graphic to call the Senate to protect the Boundary Waters.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
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