THREAD. Politico published what it billed as a bombshell investigation claiming some sort of scandal at the LA Times. In reality, it is Politico’s reporting and coordination with right-wing extremists that is a danger to serious public discourse.

Politico is a classic case study in how media establishment attacks progressive threats almost like an auto-immune response to protect the status quo. The message: if you deviate too much from standard corporate media and political orthodoxy, the establishment will crush you.

Sheriff has 42 full-time employees dedicated to shaping media narrative and has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to terrorize the LA Times, including threatening its reporters with arrest: youtube.com/watch?v=eiXNcU…

I want everyone to keep in mind that Politico is an organization at which the owner demanded that all employees “pray” for Trump’s re-election and then demanded that staff declare loyalty to Israel. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… and fair.org/home/politicos…

7. This also applies to food choices. Certainly individual actions can & do matter at scale. But it's easy for companies to tell you to buy organic, all natural, & use misleading certifications to make their own climate footprints seem less meaningful. direct.mit.edu/glep/article-a…

WHAT KILLED THE CRABS? The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.” If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea. A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀

The cold pool connects the snow crab to climate collapse. But let’s not forget that on top of all these environmental factors is industrial-scale extraction and bycatch by the fishing industry. What role is this playing? We’ll come back to that. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/v…

First, let’s study their counterpart: the king. King crabs once numbered in the hundreds of millions in the Bering Sea, but crashed in the early 80s and never recovered, numbering less than 10 million in recent years. Who killed the king crab? The story is crazy.

So, by a quick show of RTs... Who here wants to see the entire first episode of SEASON 4 of #TheDragonPrince a whole week early? Tune in to Netflix Geeked TOON-IN to watch live! 🗓️ Thursday, Oct 27 🕔 5pm PT / 8pm ET ✨ twitch.tv/netflix

A lot of journalists I've spoken to privately are minimizing vigilante right-wing violence (like the attempted assassination of Pelosi). The extent to which a lot of people in elite Democratic circles and liberal/centrist media are underestimating the rise of fascism is alarming.

White folks in Georgia regardless of gender and education chose Herschel Walker.

🔑 activities to prevent & mitigate ongoing #Ebola transmission: 1⃣ ensure people understand the need for safe & dignified burials 2⃣ support infection prevention & control ➡️ adequate 🧼 & 🚰 for cleaning hands ➡️ safe waste management 3⃣ close coordination with communities

During the #SCOTUS oral argument in #Brackeen several Justices seemed to think #ICWA takes Native children from foster parents they attached to & that’s bad. So here’s a list of every time the foster parents in this case moved a foster kid or fought for a kid to be moved:

We’ll start with the Brackeens. The first child they ever fostered was not an ICWA case bc the kid was not Native. After 5 months, they asked CPS to take the child back bc the 3 yr old was “difficult” and “suffocating”.

So if maintaining the “attachment“ a foster child has to their foster parent is the “best interest” of that child, why did the Brackeens decide to move foster children twice?

What is most true about the “attachment” argument about ICWA is that it is made about children’s attachment to non-Native families, but not about their attachment to their own Native relatives.

The Family Court didn’t even have a hearing on her best interest considering her attachment to her dad. Without ICWA, the court ordered the child back to the adoptive couple.

Rebecca Nagle National Congress of American Indians Call it what it is. It’s child trafficking and a human rights abuse. Not to mention genocide as defined by the UN. And I think there’s more than enough room here to ally with those already doing the work of protecting migrant children—many of whom are also Indigenous.

Native ppl from across the country rallied at #SCOTUS Wednesday in support of #icwa. Coverage from NDN Collective. ndncollective.org/video-ndn-coll…