If the tweet embed fails, here's the House link
I'm about an hour behind the live-stream, but this is my live thread of the House Oversight Committee's hearing on "The Rise of Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States."
— Heron Greenesmith, Esq. 🐀 (@herong) December 14, 2022
Watch live or along with me here: https://t.co/3yKnrJ4TaE
Among topics I'll miss when Twitter finally goes lights-out (or I turn them out for my account) are these conversations about books and art.
I'm wondering if there would be a desire (on both creator and consumer side) for youtube videos that are just a good reading of an indie book's first chapter?
— SciFi Author James Krake (@KrakeJames) December 9, 2022
Readers, please feel free to seek attention by tagging me in your compliments of my work. You have my corrupt blessings. https://t.co/eaapaEnpuZ
— Joe Koch (@horrorsong) December 10, 2022
We talked about emoji in philosophy of language & two questions came up: why is emoji considered inappropriate for serious settings? And how can we characterize the generational divide in how emoji is used?
— Hannah Kim (@thisishannahkim) December 5, 2022
Really pleased to see this article about @SkeuomorphPress from the @UofIllinois News Bureau—"For me, the point of a printing press like we have at Skeuomorph is to help students understand where the design and assumptions of contemporary media come from" https://t.co/nkQyCClugR
— Ryan Cordell @ryancordell@hcommons.social (@ryancordell) December 8, 2022
I wrote this Solstice piece aimed at a new generation of creatives hungry for meaning. Thrilled by the collaboration. Fab Mpls musician/artists cello, violin, voice. Here's to the beauty of restorative darkness & emergent wonder.
— trishinmn (@trishinmn) December 9, 2022
MSP area swing by, contemplate, burn stuff, eat pic.twitter.com/pd31ocXeEE
One of my advance readers for The Communion of Shadows said he intended to read for an hour and stayed up till 4AM, and that it's one of the best books he's ever read. I started crying.
— @TalesOfWhoa (@TalesOfWhoa) December 5, 2022
Oh my God. OH MY GOD. I have found The Book. You know, the one that you read when you were 13 and barely remember anything about but then spent, like, 20 years on a holy quest to find said Book, just to prove that it actually exists?
— Carlie St. George (@MyGeekBlasphemy) December 2, 2022
IT EXISTS.
Uh, when I went to bed, this had like 20 likes, holy shit. Gonna have to mute notifications now, but
— Carlie St. George (@MyGeekBlasphemy) December 2, 2022
A) My book was a YA horror called Only Child by Jesse Osburn
B) If you're looking for a book and haven't checked this site recently, check again! (1/2)https://t.co/4MXVx9kuk8
AITA for panning a novel that seems to be in everyone’s 2022 top ten list? 🤷♀️
— Lorraine Berry (@BerryFLW) November 30, 2022
Have any of you had a really good experience with an independent press that's not vanity/hybrid and that takes unagented submissions?
— Brittany Terwilliger (@Brttnyblm) November 12, 2022
3 bills with major climate implications (IIJA, CHIPS, IRA) have passed the 117th congress. There are more opportunities for smart, effective climate philanthropy than ever. Here are 4 strategies we think have particular promise:
— Giving Green (@GivingGreenE) December 8, 2022
1/
1⃣Win the IRA
— Giving Green (@GivingGreenE) December 8, 2022
2⃣Stand firm behind firm power
3⃣Heavy industry, heavy challenges
4⃣Don’t forget agriculture https://t.co/0j1lUMElON @CEPData
2/
Yah bro. 🙋♂️ https://t.co/nA43MRMab9
— JesseJenkins (@JesseJenkins) December 9, 2022
Or if you want a seminar https://t.co/aBO905O6tP
Esther Gabara:
When Aníbal Quijano elaborated his critique of coloniality in collaboration with Immanuel Wallerstein, the two argued that the continent's history of violence against and resistance by indigenous peoples made it possible to 'speak of Americanity as a concept' that structured global modernity. Here this study has been influenced by methods and insights of long-standing research in decolonial thought led by distinct groups of theorists in the Americas, including, but not limited to, Ramón Grosfoguel (Puerto Rico/continental United States), María Lugones (Argentina/United States), Walter Mignolo (Argentina/United States), Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Bolivia), and Catherine Walsh (United States/Ecuador). All these thinkers recognize the influence of decolonization struggles in the 1960s and 1970s in Africa, Asia,Latin America, and the Caribbean on their current research that seeks to decolonize thought and life practices. Even so, they differentiate epistemological decolonization from that political process.
Research into Amerindian thought permeated theories of American negation in the generation of the 1960s and 1970s, in and beyond Acha's and Gullar's prefixes. The Argentine Rodolfo Kusch founded an interdiscipline he called antropología filosófica americana (American philosophical anthropology) in his landmark book La negación en el pensamiento popular (Negation in Popular Thought, 1975). Amerindian epistemological, spiritual, and affective imaginaries helped Kusch to comprehend the importance and shape of American negation and led him to break with Claude Lévi-Strauss's influential structuralist anthropology for its failure to comprehend the universality of indigenous thought...
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Kusch thus identifies the limits of the European tradition he calls conocimiento (knowledge), which myopically focuses on objectivity and so produces knowledge that is ultimately univocal. Instead, he embraces the popular thought that he terms comprensión (comprehension), which values subjective emotions and opinion, and so creates forms of understanding that provide multiple answers to the same question.
Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism, Esther Gabara (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
"My colleague Joey Miller (Mvskoke) & I are putting together a very cool Indigenous Philosoph(ies) event. If you are a Native scholar studying philosophy, a non-Native scholar studying Native philosophy, a Native scholar studying Native philosophy, please reach out! Please share!" — Shelbi acornXcore Nahwilet (@qaxaawut) December 8, 2022 (see www.nahwilet.com)
Here's a list of 5 classic books of Native American philosophy. Thread🧵
— Indigenous Peoples Movement (@IndigenousPpls) December 1, 2022
I'm thinking of making videos on US American Indian philosophy. What do you want to see from them?
— New Amauta (@AmautaNew) November 13, 2022
Stop using the term “rewilding”. You are perpetuating the erasure of Indigenous peoples & our relationships to our lands since time immemorial. It’s a recipe for continued failure in ecological restoration. Land healing isn’t “reset it and forget it”. #nativesinstem #ecology
— Dr. Jennifer Grenz (@Jennifer_Grenz) November 11, 2022
Hmmm being seeing tweets saying a lot of allies want to help #ProtectICWA but don't know how to start having the conversation because they lack historical and contemporary context, so let me help you. You don't HAVE to say anything other than #ProtectICWA.
— Johnnie Jae aka The Burnt Ball of Fury (@johnniejae) November 12, 2022
I saw other people tweeting in November 2022 that ICWA is "literally a genocide-prevention law" (Daniel Delgado) and that "If the Supreme Court overturns ICWA, the result will be - and I cannot stress this enough - genocide." (Kisha James) (In 2025, those accounts were gone.)
Why ICWA is important to me:
— WitchyTwitchy (@witchytwitchytv) November 1, 2022
I was a baby when a judge gave custody to my white dad. Despite it being a time when courts overwhelmingly favored mothers in custody battles, my Native mom didn't stand a chance in rural Alabama. The judge decided I needed a "Christian household."
See Custody X Change for more info, updated to 2025.
"In the late 1880s, around the time when the Lake Mohonk gang was advocating for a dramatic expansion of the residential school system, a Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision. He said that the Creator had come to him with a new dance, one that would bring about a better world without white settlers and their endless expansionist wars. The dead would reunite with the living, and the buffalo killed by settlers would roam the plains again. It’s not difficult to understand why this message would be profoundly moving for people who had lost so much in the Indian Wars and whose children were being taken away for reeducation by the US government. It was a story about a hopeful future, where Indigenous culture flourished and the land came back to its original caretakers. Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) historian Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future, writes that the government had outlawed Indigenous dancing at that time, and therefore ‘the Ghost Dance was fundamentally oppositional in spirit.’”
Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. W. W. Norton, 2024. Chapter 2: A Fake Frontier.
Great Inuit movie called Atanarjuat; not exactly the area you’re asking for but it’s really cool
— Eric Hirsch🥥🌴 (@ehirsch.bsky.social) Jul 31, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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In December 2024, HuffPost has a good explanation of the Leonard Peltier case.
A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research Dominique M. David-Chavez, Michael C. Gavin, Norma Ortiz, Shelly Valdez, Stephanie Russo Carroll. Home > VOLUME 29 > ISSUE 2 > Article 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14768-290211
Relatedly, see the comments on this LinkedIn post for other resources.
And this book, forthcoming in 2025:
Commonwealth by D.A. Lockhart, Kegedonce Press
Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life by Ki'en Debicki, Daniel Coleman, and Bonnie M. Freeman, WLU Press
Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman, by Wolsak & Wynn
You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People by Stephanie Sinclair, Penguin Random House Canada
‘Their vision needs to be shared’: the tiny shop championing the literature of the Amazon Banca do Largo contains the world’s largest collection of titles by Amazonian writers – and its owner believes their Indigenous knowledge and voices should be more widely heard. Mélissa Godin, The Guardian, 7 Dec 2022.
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The 2010s and 2020s are the "Fourth Turning."
Buy the book:
Book description: The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unravelling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis - the Fourth Turning - when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. By applying the lessons of history, The Fourth Turning makes some bold and hopeful predictions about America's next rendezvous with destiny. It also shows us how we can prepare for what's ahead, both individually and as a nation.
Update: Please note harmful uses of the idea. For example, transphobes may identify a "fourth industrial revolution" as the ground for transgender self-determination; they believe transgender people are "new" and that such an era must be rejected because it contains or affirms trans people. https://www.the11thhourblog.com/post/noho-t%C5%ABturu-noho-tangata-stay-real-stay-human
"[Steve] Bannon’s Manichaean worldview started young. At a Catholic military school in Richmond, Virginia, he learned about the 1492 reconquest of Spain as the turning point in an ongoing clash of civilizations between the Christian West and the Muslim world. As an adult, he devoured books on Attila the Hun and great military campaigns. He was obsessed with history, specifically the concept of historical cycles — the idea that time was not, as Americans usually learned, a linear march of progress, but rather, more like the view of ancient traditions, a recurring pattern of distinct phases. Bannon especially liked the version of this theory in “The Fourth Turning,” a 1997 book by historians Neil Howe and William Strauss, which ordered American history into generation‐long periods of highs, awakenings, unravelings and crises. The book predicted a coming rise of nationalism and authoritarianism, across the world and in America.
Bannon was not merely a student or passive observer of this prophecy; he wanted to be an agent of it, and an architect of the era that came next. So when he watched Trump glide down a golden escalator to announce his campaign for president, in 2015, his first thought was, “That’s Hitler!” By that he meant someone who intuitively understood the aesthetics of power, as in Nazi propaganda films. He saw in Trump someone who could viscerally connect with the general angst that Bannon was roiling and make himself a vessel for Americans’ grievances and desires."
— Isaac Arnsdorf, Finish What We Started, released April 9, 2024. Excerpt published in the Washington Post.
Howe has got a new book:
Here's another example from a June 2, 2023 blog post citing the idea:
[A video clip of Tim Pool and Joe Rogan talking about civil war is
"from four years ago, but I think we’ve escalated even more recently.
Just yesterday, Twitter blocked sharing and boosting a film titled “What is a Woman?” and the dispute was so serious that it caused their head of trust and safety to resign.
The film critiques gender ideology and the transgender activism movement. It was labeled as sensitive material and commenting and sharing were blocked.
I stumble upon pornographic content on Twitter all the time, and it’s never marked as sensitive. How is it controversial to have a discussion about what it means to be a woman?
It doesn’t make much sense, right? Well, unless you consider that we're in the fourth turning and in the middle of a full blown crisis that is about to blow like a volcano."
https://www.heidibriones.com/p/the-fourth-turning-is-upon-us-what
The author of this post tweeted "Don't call me cis" on June 20, when Elon Musk declared it was a slur.
"TESCREAL stands for "transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism (in a very specific context), Effective Altruism, and longtermism." It was identified by Timnit Gebru, former technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google and founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), and Émile Torres, a philosopher specialising in existential threats to humanity. These are separate but overlapping beliefs that are particularly common in the social and academic circles associated with big tech in California.
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Longtermism is the belief that we should discount short-term harms to real existing human beings — such as human-induced climate change — if it brings us closer to the goal of colonizing the universe, because the needs of trillions of future people who don't actually exist yet obviously outweigh the needs of today's global poor."
— "We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus," November 10, 2023, Charlie Stross, antipope.org
JD Vance saying don't sweat the end times.
Read: "Climate: Now a national security issue." By Russel Honoré. Salon.com. December 4, 2022. As a U.S. Army general, I prepared to do battle with enemies and face disaster. All of humanity must do that now
I also wrote on this topic in 2004, and finally published it in 2022: "Yes, Climate Change Is Expensive" (on Medium).
Watch the video in the article:
"Huge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions." Elizabeth Wolfe and Robert Shackelford, CNN, December 30, 2023
What on earth does climate have to do with national security?: With Lieutenant General Richard Nugee. Rob Cooper, Climate Unfucked, Apr 30, 2026
The alternate history novel To Climates Unknown by Arturo Serrano was released on November 25, the 400th anniversary of the mythical First ...
