White Privilege Is Real @WhitePrivIsReal

There's no reforming this rogue and monstrous agency. The only way forward: Abolish and prosecute ICE.

Montana is the only United States state to enshrine Indigenous education in its constitution. Adopted in 1972, Article X of the Montana Constitution recognizes the distinct and unique cultural heritage of American Indians. It commits the state through its educational system to the preservation of their cultural integrity. This constitutional provision laid the groundwork for the Indian Education for All initiative. Under Montana law every public school student whether Native or non Native is required to learn about the distinct histories and cultures of American Indians in a culturally responsive manner. Public school employees must also receive the necessary knowledge and resources to deliver this instruction accurately. The curriculum goes beyond presenting Native people solely as figures from history. It incorporates the histories cultures governments languages and contemporary experiences of Montana tribal nations. Schools are encouraged to collaborate with tribes when developing appropriate educational materials. Montana is home to 12 tribal nations and seven reservations making Native history an integral part of the state identity. For decades however many students received minimal instruction about the peoples whose nations predated the formation of Montana as a state. Several other states including Washington have enacted laws requiring the teaching of tribal history and sovereignty. Montana stands apart because its commitment is embedded in the state constitution rather than relying solely on legislation.

Yes. Obviously. Clearly. Completely.

Diane Garret @garrett_di71834

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CNN Poll says Trump is the worst President in history. Do you believe that? A. Yes B. No

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April 1, 2026 What God Said About Borders… youtu.be/XtxZEejn_dE

She was the twentieth child of twenty, born into a country that had counted people like her as less than fully human not even a century earlier.... Fannie Lou Hamer came into the world in Montgomery County, Mississippi, in 1917—the granddaughter of enslaved people, the daughter of sharecroppers, and poor in a way that wasn’t just about money. It was the kind of poverty that offered no softness: twenty people packed into one shack, children sent to the fields before they’d really learned what childhood was, a life measured in cotton bales and survival. She started picking cotton at six. By thirteen, she’d left school to work full time—her education taken not by a single villain, but by a system that valued her labor more than her mind. She could read some. She could sign her name. She knew the Bible because her mother taught her that the words inside it belonged to her, regardless of what the world insisted. That one idea—that something sacred could be hers—stayed planted in her for years. In 1944, she married Perry Hamer and lived the life Mississippi expected of her: plantation work, long days, no room for dreams. And then her body was stolen too. During surgery for a tumor, a white doctor removed her uterus without her consent—an abuse so common for Black women in the South it had a bitter nickname: the “Mississippi appendectomy.” She would never have children of her own. Instead, she raised other people’s children and poured into them the fierce love and stubborn hope she’d been denied. By the time she was forty-four, she’d spent nearly her whole life in the fields, exactly the kind of person the world trained itself not to see. Then James Bevel, a preacher tied to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, came to town talking about voting—about rights that had always existed on paper and been stolen in practice. He said the Constitution gave her the right to register. He said they’d been lied to for a hundred years. So on August 31, 1962, she walked into the Indianola courthouse with eighteen other Black citizens and tried to claim what was supposed to be theirs. They were turned away. Given a “literacy test” designed to fail them—questions white registrars didn’t have to answer themselves. She failed. She went back. She failed again. She kept going. When the plantation owner found out, he called her out and told her if she wanted to register to vote, she could do it somewhere else. After eighteen years on that land, she was evicted—home gone, job gone, future suddenly unsure. She left with almost nothing, held up by a husband who refused to abandon her, and a kind of resolve that couldn’t be negotiated away. She kept showing up anyway. And she sang. She’d always sung—spirituals and hymns, songs passed down through cotton rows, songs that carried grief and coded hope. Now she sang freedom songs in church basements and crowded meeting rooms. Her voice wasn’t polished, but it was powerful. When she started, people stopped and listened. In 1964, she helped create the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the all-white delegation Mississippi had sent to the Democratic National Convention year after year. She traveled to Atlantic City to demand that her party be seated. She was not supposed to be there—a sharecropper, a woman, a Mississippian from the “wrong” side of power. But she came anyway. And she refused to be quiet. Before the Credentials Committee, she told the truth in a way that left no room to look away: the courthouse, the eviction, the terror. She described being arrested in Winona, Mississippi, for trying to integrate a bus station—how she was beaten so badly the blood vessels in her eyes burst, how police forced Black prisoners to beat her while she screamed. She spoke of people shot, fired, driven from their homes for attempting to register to vote. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

@ABC But remember racism is all over and we don’t have to worry about it anymore. That’s not worse than somebody directing an attack on the SC. Of course it isn’t. When Whites do things to destroy people, we should not call anybody specifically a bad name. John Roberts Rules&Manners.

My problem with Jonathan Rauch’s (gay, but “1st” a white male journalist) argument about “free speech only safe space” is he misreads “safe spaces” concept. Kinda like responding “all lives matters” when confronted with the concept of Black Lives Matter. search.app/nhQskfdTSjvAqo…

Why does Anyone care about removing this, not any different than a “race neutral” category, really. The AR Supreme Court pauses lower ct ruling that blocks emergency rule which removes gender neutral markers on state IDs. Source: thv11.com search.app/gTomrYmo3YWm7L…

American (extreme) Unexceptionalism! cnn.com/2024/05/21/tra…

@michaelshermer In your book, the devil his due, you talked about how it was hard for conservatives to fit into liberal universities. Probably because it’s not a safe space for them.

And conservatives are going to focus on the core principles of science. Now that’s some scientific truth. Pull-leese!!

Michael Shermer @michaelshermer

2 years ago

Unscientific American What went wrong at the nation’s leading popular science magazine (includes my own run of 214 consecutive monthly columns at Scientific American and the ideological capture of the editors after 2016): city-journal.org/article/unscie…

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Don’t see it as coddling. The evidence you, @michaelshermer, present are displays of power. Shouting down a speaker (is about 1/2 anti-free speech)/demanding a “safe” space is persons flexing political power. You & @sapinker sound more like old cranks whining abt “kids nowadays”.

Texas style racism. full-stop.net/2013/12/11/fea…

Just because … google.com/gasearch?q=giv…

History is complicated. Few of us can escape its condemnation. #Israel -#Palestine timesofisrael.com/yitzhak-shamir…

Racists gonna be racists. insidehighered.com/news/2021/06/0….

Steven Koonin, ‘Unsettled’ is Bullshit: more misleading being done by conservatives. They know in huge ways that the truth hurts. So they can’t stand the reality coming from the science community on climate change… scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-…

.@JackMurphyRGR I do appreciate your journalism, especially sexual assault in the military series. While a couple flippant comments in book threw me off—a PC snipe & prior tweet—my dad “fought abuse the machine” too in WWII, ‘total’ victory w/words alone: youtube.com/watch?v=NwDriB…

@JackMurphyRGR says, Never criticize our nation because we have bombed other countries into the Stone Age and now they have it worse. And this isn’t how a bunch of children talk?

Like the #Minneapolis police should get a final date on this #DOJ consent decree. The abuse they have mete out for decades requires at least this purgatory. nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna9…