A MAGA dude I saw online was simultaneously all about supporting Israel’s right to occupy Palestine because someone’s Jewish ancestor used to be there but also called for an all white america - please make it make sense.
Haudenosaunee (you say Iroquois) and Ngäbe-Buglé (we ended Columbus’ 4th voyage to the new world) digital artist residing in Boulder CO. Oswe:ge' dwagáhdęgyo: (I am six nations)
#landback #bisonback #languageback #killmanifestdestiny #fuckthedoctrineofdiscovery #fuckoffmaga
A MAGA dude I saw online was simultaneously all about supporting Israel’s right to occupy Palestine because someone’s Jewish ancestor used to be there but also called for an all white america - please make it make sense.
@spiegelmama thanks!!!
#trump: "You're taking people's land away from them."
President #Ramaphosa: "We have not."
trump: "And those people in many cases are being executed..."
This demented fucker is doing the "they're eating the cats and the dogs," South #African remix
Bless this Lodge #nativeart #digitalart
In case you needed a playbook for responding to would-be dictators. From the NYT:
"The funny thing is that there’s a playbook for overturning autocrats. It was written here in America, by a rumpled political scientist I knew named Gene Sharp. While little known in the United States before his death in 2018, he was celebrated abroad, and his tool kit was used by activists in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and across Asia. His books, emphasizing nonviolent protests that become contagious, have been translated into at least 34 languages."
“I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb,” a former Lithuanian defense minister once said of Sharp’s writing."
"A soft-spoken scholar working from his Boston apartment, Sharp recommended 198 actions that were often performative, ranging from hunger strikes to sex boycotts to mock funerals."
“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are,” he once said, “and people are never as weak as they think they are.”
"The Democrats’ message last year revolved in part around earnest appeals to democratic values, but one of the lessons from anti-authoritarian movements around the world is that such abstract arguments aren’t terribly effective. Rather, three other approaches, drawing on Sharp’s work, seem to work better."
"The first is mockery and humor — preferably salacious."
"Wang Dan, a leader of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, told me that in China, puns often “resonate more than solemn political slogans.”
"The Chinese internet for a time delighted in grass-mud horses — which may puzzle future zoologists exploring Chinese archives, for there is no such animal. It’s all a bawdy joke: In Chinese, “grass-mud horse” sounds very much like a curse, one so vulgar it would make your screen blush. But on its face it is an innocent homonym about an animal and thus is used to mock China’s censors."
"Shops in China peddled dolls of grass-mud horses (resembling alpacas), and a faux nature documentary described their habits. One Chinese song recounted the epic conflict between grass-mud horses and river crabs — because “river crab” is a play on the Chinese term for censorship. It optimistically declared the horses triumphant."
http://nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/authoritarianism-democracy-protest.html
@MxVerda if not friend why friend shaped
Got us a bear in the neighborhood
I love writing up quarterly goals.
New house for my corn
Planting amaranth, tobacco, sage, basil, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini - look at that rich soil
The Land Engraved in Our Skin | Atmos
Every tattoo, every scar is a recognition that we’re still here, that they did not kill us.”
— David Hernández Palmar, Wayuu co-founder of Asho’ojushi collective and organizer of Tattooed With Thorns
https://atmos.earth/the-land-engraved-in-our-skin-indigenous-tattoos/
@carnage4life and a big fuckkkkkkkyouuuuuuuu to all those white couples who chose to have their wedding at the site of so much suffering. Burn baby burn.
In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.
Because of drama with drunken ass renter next door have had to install security cameras. Spent half the morning up on a ladder. Let’s see if anyone still wants to win stupid prizes.
Ancestral Moon #nativeart #digitalart
Corn’s coming up!!
Some days you also have to walk your property line and burn cedar and play ceremonial pow wow music.
Next evolution in the logo for thunder wolf native. Still maintaining that petroglyph look but adding some swerve to the outline.
Squirrels have been going after my corn so I put down some netting. Let’s see if that does it or if I’ll have to escalate to spent coffee grounds