One day after quoting MLK on MLK Day, Florida MAGA Gov Ron DeSantis cancels AP African American Studies Program, saying it ‘Lacks Educational Value’

This is literally white supremacist talking points & a reminder how much these people still hate MLK today.

Indeed, DeSantis banning AP African American Studies is a reminder of that old quote -- White privilege is when your history is the curriculum and every other history is an elective.
#BlackMastodon

Sunrise from a campsite on the Superior Hiking Trail. I took this shot in May 2021.

Instead of backpacking in, I solo canoed in. This was part of an old Ojibwe canoe route in northern Minnesota, USA. I was retracing a route from 1879, and this was my last campsite on the two-week canoe trip.

In the morning it was so cold that my boots were frozen solid. That cold weather created the steam mist on the river.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Minnesota #hiking

Today, far-Right supporters of ousted President Jair Bolsonaro, (who is currently in Florida), stormed the National Congress building and have attempted to enter the Planalto Palace. Check @CrimethInc for updates.

Since Bolsonaro lost the election, far-Right figures like Steve Bannon, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and head of the pro-Trump white Breitbart, has pushed election denial conspiracies while building ties between far-Right movements in Brazil and the US.

Jair son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, is also a part of Steve Bannon's group, "The Movement," which has linked together neo-fascist, white nationalist, and far-Right political parties across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Eduardo has also helped bring the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference to Brazil, further linking fascist leaning elements in the GOP with those from the Bolsonaro camp.

In November, the Washington Post reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Trump at Mar-a-lago as well as with Bannon and "former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr."

Bannon has pushed Bolsonaro not to concede to losing the election and is clearly helping to craft a strategy that seeks to seize state power by force - just like on January 6th in the US.

Like the fascists, our movements need to be global in opposition and just like in the US, we can't put our hopes on the neoliberals to contain and stop the spread of authoritarianism.

#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Bannon #SteveBannon #Trump #JairBolsonaro #BrazilCoup

if colonizers remain in power

our children will suffer

#landback #languageback

Bison in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #bison #winter #NaturePhotography #SouthDakota #PhotoOfTheDay #Wildlife

Heard @seis_matters give a 7-minute talk about this link between #geology, #slavery, and #democracy.

https://starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/how-a-coastline-100-million-years-ago-influences-modern-election-results-in-alabama/