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@AdamsUnchained In other words, sane, rational, leadership. Thank you, Sir.

@archeohistories True for all humans throughout our history. The lesson is that, if you can’t defend it, then someone will take it.

Indigenous people in the United States have lost nearly 99% of the land they historically occupied, according to an unprecedented new data set. The data set—the first to quantify land dispossession and forced migration in the United States—also reveals that tribes with land today were systematically forced into less-valuable areas, which excluded them from key sectors of the U.S. economy, including the energy market. The negative effects continue to this day: Modern Indigenous lands are at increased risk from climate change hazards, especially extreme heat and decreased precipitation. “It’s an airtight article,” says Deondre Smiles, a geographer at the University of Victoria and a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, who was not involved in the study. By wrangling many disparate sources into one quantitative data set, the work “is going to represent a paradigm shift” for studies of U.S. colonialism and its effects. Starting in the 17th century, European settlers pushed Indigenous people off their land, with the backing of the colonial government and, later, the fledging United States. Indian removal policies intensified in the 19th century, including the forced migration of tens of thousands of people in the U.S. southeast to Oklahoma, known as the Trail of Tears. Indigenous people have always understood the devastating effects of these policies, Smiles says. But most of their stories existed only in qualitative historical records, including hundreds of treaties, or oral histories. “The pushback you get in academia is that qualitative narratives are not robust. The new data set spans 300 years and includes nearly 400 tribes. For information about where tribes used to live, researchers spent 5 years scouring multiple archives for treaties the United States made with Indigenous nations, which often included coercive agreements to cede some or all of their land. The researchers also searched U.S. legal documents chronicling decades of land disputes, tribes’ own public archives, and other historical records. They then compared those records with U.S. census data about present-day tribal lands. (To focus on people who had experienced similar colonial policies, the researchers excluded Alaska and Hawaii, and tribal lands that extended into modern Canada and Mexico.) The researchers found that Indigenous people across the contiguous United States have lost 98.9% of their historical lands, or 93.9% of the total geographic area they once occupied, they report today in Science. (The first figure is higher because the same land was sometimes occupied by multiple tribes before colonial boundaries were imposed.) Some tribes suffered even more complete dispossession: Forty-two percent represented in historical records have no recognized land today. For the tribes that still have land, its average present-day size is a mere 2.6% of their historical lands. In addition, present-day tribal lands can be far from their original sites: On average, tribes were forced to move 241 kilometers. One of the longest forced migrations in the data set was experienced by the Modoc people, who were moved from the Klamath Basin of California and Oregon to Oklahoma, 2565 kilometers away. The consequences of land dispossession and forced migration continue to affect tribes today, says co-author Kyle Whyte, an environmental justice scholar at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The data set shows present-day tribal lands are more at risk from climate change than tribes’ historical areas, as they experience more extreme heat and less precipitation. “It’s not just that Indigenous people happen to live in areas that are disproportionately impacted in negative ways by climate change,” Whyte says. They were often forcibly relocated to land that settlers considered less valuable, and those lands are more at risk from climate change hazards today. #archaeohistories

BOOM - THIS is why the Second Amendment is so important. Check this out. A pregnant woman in Texas was approached by an armed robber, who pistol-whipped her man. Big mistake. She pumped him full of lead. REPOST and remind the world why the Constitution matters. #thinblueline #lawenforcement

@Newsweek A poll of disgruntled Kamala voters says...

The majority of people believe that the economy was better under former president Joe Biden, according to a new poll. #Echobox=1774969771" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newsweek.com/donald-trump-e…

@JJJJAAAYYY6 @realsashastone No purpose? Iran wants nukes combined with ballistic missiles while funding proxy wars around the world. There is no military draft. Your "friends" joined the military to fight against foreign aggression. Odds are very good that they will not be "blown up" doing that job.

@MOneill225 @realsashastone Some of us are just sick of watching our friends get blown up in foreign wars that have no purpose and we just wind up losing.

Thanks for shitting on our president and our military while they're trying to win a war, you blithering idiot.

And so it begins. After it's much celebrated opening this past weekend, the brand spankin' new Mercer Island light rail station has already had it's first OD. If you're wondering, the junkie survived after being revived with Narcan. And the funny thing is, urbanists and transit nerds mocked the kind of people featured in this Daily Mail article (which I actually found kind of funny) as NIMBYs and pearl clutchers. But it looks like their fears are already starting to be realized. No one should be surprised at this point. Word has it that transit police ask people to show their tickets, but not the vagrants. It's not clear whether that's due to them being directed to leave them alone, not wanting to do their job, or to so-called "equity" concerns. And a friend of mine told me yesterday that he was at Bellevue Square, and he saw a vagrant on every street corner there. Four different vagrants flying signs. He's never seen that there before. Get ready, Eastside. If you think that shitshow at the Plymouth Housing facility near Bellevue College was gonna be the last of it, guess again. Seattle is coming to your doorstep, whether you want it or not. tinyurl.com/jwajwkx6

@NiohBerg You would have preferred that she blew her brains out or OD'd? She was an adult who made a sad, but voluntary decision. Suicide does not go away because you remove a dignified process. Had she done it, alone, none of the counseling and waiting periods would have been offered.

It just got worse. The lawyer for Noelia Castillo Ramos' father has allegedly stated: "Noelia requested a 6-month postponement of her euthanasia to take the time to think, which was denied to her." Straight up execution.

@DefiantLs An ingrate mother teaching her kids to be ingrates while living in the greatest country on Earth. Our enemies must be proud of their efforts to subvert gullible women and kids.

Mother and daughter at the No Kings protest have trouble explaining why they're protesting

@CBSNews Gee, how did I know race and gender would be injected into this story? Without it, I would have admired all of them just for their experience, but now I find myself questioning their primary qualifications. Except for the white guys.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts — three space station veterans and a Canadian rookie — stand out even in an astronaut corps full of super achievers. cbsn.ws/4dRgmaI

@MattWalshBlog You have turned into a whiny bitch. Just stating my experience.

Yes your husband had a good experience which means that the rest of us who had bad experiences must be lying. The logic is impeccable. Also, yes, you're right. I only just now started complaining about bad service, dogs, and air travel. I was famously so positive and optimistic about those subjects up until now. These are great points you're making.

@komonews The WA Supreme Court is packed with social justice warriors, so the legal hurdle is low. It will take WA hitting rock bottom before Seattle's liberal voters will be willing to vote for conservative candidates whom they have ignorantly labeled as racist, homophobic, nazis, etc...

A sweeping new tax on Washington’s highest earners is poised to become law. What do you think of the millionaires tax? Let us know in the comments. Full story on KOMOnews.com

@TheDemocrats The Democrat Party. Scaring the ignorant into compliance for 200 years.

NEW: Republicans are reportedly considering health care funding cuts to pay for Trump’s war with Iran. Hundreds of thousands of Americans could lose their coverage if this happens. Republicans are choosing war over health care.

Priceless.

Physics is fun ✍️

This video clip is going viral - and it'll infuriate you. It reportedly shows a guy who bought cases of water using food stamps... dumping out the water so he can recycle the bottles for cash. That's your taxpayer money, friends. REPOST this everywhere. #thinblueline #lawenforcement

I see this clip of me has gone viral. When Muhammad Ali arrived in Zaire for the "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman in 1974, a reporter asked him what he thought of Africa. "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!", he replied. Slavery was horrific for the enslaved. But the descendants of slaves alive today in the West have a far longer and higher quality of life than they would have if their ancestors had stayed in Africa. The truth is that, of the world's largest black populations, the richest black people in the world are black Americans. The next richest are black people in Canada and the UK. There are no victims of British Empire slavery alive today. Slavery was abolished almost 200 years ago (1834).

@LiveScience Social justice stories like this only make me question the qualifications of those involved. Not necessary.

The Artemis II astronauts will soon launch on the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. During this trip, they will travel farther and faster than any humans in history — and will each claim a different individual record. livescience.com/space/space-ex…

@Nature Obviously. Motherhood is a good thing. Whoever put together this worthless study should try it.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v0XLiz

You can't even make this stuff up - it would be funny if it wasn't so... well... true. WATCH as speakers at the Democratic Party conference in Canada literally battle over their “gender equity cards”. They're cards that let them to skip the line to speak. Seriously. THIS is the left. REPOST for widespread exposure! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

🚨 Passenger on ICE at Atlanta Airport: “Look you got ICE agents checking people in, doing their work. I don’t know what the f*** people are talking about how they’re just standing around. They’re actually ringing people up and everything… Thank you guys!” Thoughts?