A lot to unpack here.

Also the guy is leaving office just as he came in: using Pocahontas' name as a slur, which tribes and tribal advoacay groups have condemned time and time again.
Speaking of Trump routinely degrading Native people + culture, today's insult falls on the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre.

That was when U.S. soldiers surrounded a peaceful group of Lakota people + slaughtered ~300. Mostly women + children. (h/t @Ruth_HHopkins)
In light of today being the anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre, a note that there is a House + Senate bill that would strip Medals of Honor from the 20 U.S. soldiers who slaughtered 100s of Native women and children.

Lots of tribal groups want this. huffpost.com/entry/elizabet…
Kinda surprised this bill didn't go anywhere in the House.

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27 Dec
Here's how we're looking in the U.S. today on COVID-19 risk levels, via covidactnow.org.

Dark red = severe outbreak

Red = active or imminent outbreak

Orange = at risk of outbreak

Yellow = slow disease growth

Green = on track to contain COVID Image
Of all 50 states, Hawaii is the only one currently slowing the spread of COVID-19. Image
I've been using covidexitstrategy.org for months and was sad to see that they won't be updating this site anymore. But now I see that their new effort, a partnership with @CovidActNow, is actually better.

You can toggle all the depressing AF data now! Yeah!
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26 Dec
Good morning! ☕ Trump's presidency is ending in a few weeks. But the more than 230 people he put into lifetime federal judgeships will be shaping the nation’s law for decades.

Most of them are white, male, right-wing ideologues. huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…
How will our federal courts look different after Trump is gone? He has confirmed...

3 Supreme Court justices
54 appeals court judges
174 district court judges
3 judges on Court of Intl Trade

All are lifetime appts.
Compared to recent past presidents, Trump has confirmed more lifetime federal judges than Barack Obama (175), George W. Bush (206) and Bill Clinton (204) did in their first terms.
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16 Dec
Good morning! ☕ Native American congresswoman Deb Haaland is Joe Biden's "leading candidate" to be interior secretary.

It's a BFD deal if this happens.

It would be historic.
It's who tribes overwhelmingly want.
House Dems + Republicans support her.
huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
Anyone following the interior sec selection process knows it's taking forever. Why?

At present, Pelosi/Hoyer want to keep her in the House.

“There is mounting pressure and increasingly vocal concern" by House Dem leaders, a source familiar with this process told me yesterday.
Has Pelosi given her blessing to Biden for Deb Haaland to be Interior sec?

Pelosi spokesman: “We have an existing policy of not commenting on private conversations concerning the transition."
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10 Dec
Today, Lindsey Graham went on a conservative radio show and claimed that Stacey Abrams “conned the Republican leadership in Georgia” into helping Joe Biden win by abetting voter fraud huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-…
Graham also said Georgia's GOP leaders must immediately change state laws to “stop Stacey Abrams from stealing the Senate race," referring to January's runoff elections.

That Stacey Abrams, she must be very powerful in her efforts to... strengthen voting rights & fair elections.
What Graham is saying: Abrams tricked GA Republicans! Fraud! Biden no real!

What really happened: GA officials agreed to a March legal settlement laying out steps for local election officials to notify voters if there's a problem with a ballot signature. Abrams supported it.
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8 Dec
I know there's a lot going on but FYI Senate Republicans are voting in a couple hours to confirm a guy, Stephen Schwartz, to a 15-year federal judgeship who has fought for discriminatory voter laws, severe restrictions on abortion access + discrimination against trans kids.
Schwartz, 34, argued on behalf of North Carolina in 2016 in a failed effort to get SCOTUS to review the 4th Circuit’s ruling striking down the state's discriminatory voter ID law.

The 4th Circuit found the law "target[s] African Americans with almost surgical precision."
Schwartz defended N.C.'s anti-LGBTQ law, HB 2, that barred people from using restrooms that match their gender ID + blocked nondiscrimination protections.

He was co-counsel in a Va. case, arguing Gavin Grimm, a trans high school boy, shouldn't be able to use the men’s restroom.
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Good morning! ☕ Tribal leaders all over the country have been urging Biden to pick Native American Rep. Deb Haaland for interior secretary. But for some reason, anonymous Biden advisers are telling news outlets she's not qualified. People are NOT happy. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
“Of course it’s offensive to say she’s not qualified,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. "Those individuals being anonymous should think that through for themselves, because by going after this person, you’re standing in the way of history."
The anonymous hits on Haaland by "Biden advisers" are shitty for a few reasons.

1) Hiding behind anonymity to hurt her chances at getting a historic job is shady.

2) She is qualified + very popular.

3) These "sources" want a different Native candidate who happens to be a man.
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