So I just had to pay over a thousand for car repairs (which I obviously was not prepared for).

If any of y'all could spare some funds so I can at least make rent and maybe get some groceries I'd super appreciate it  

$136/400

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A Portland jury acquitted Indigenous community member Tracy Molina, also known as Cozca, of every charge submitted to them after a two-day trial centered on washable chalk messages written on a police precinct window, and police testimony riddled with lies that the jury ultimately rejected.

Read more here and hear directly from the defendant as she shares some thoughts on this political prosecution and her history being targeted by law enforcement in response to her Indigenous religious practices and political organizing:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/jury-acquits-indigenous-activist-of-all-charges-in-politically-charged-chalk-trial/

I keep noticing settlers reaching for Indigenous knowledge as if we have already lived through an apocalypse and can therefore provide a reusable survival template for the one that’s coming.

The story underneath is that colonialism was a kind of world-ending event, Indigenous people survived it, and therefore climate breakdown is just another rhyme in the same historical pattern. That framing quietly turns Indigenous survival into proof that “humanity survives” and even that things eventually come out morally right, with respect and recognition following endurance.

It is a comforting narrative because it lets the future feel familiar and manageable, rather than genuinely new.

From where I stand, that analogy is false at the level that actually matters. This is not about resilience or spirit or cultural continuity; it is about material conditions exiting historical ranges. I see ecological signals that settlers around me simply do not register as signals at all.

When I lived in South Dakota, the limestone was literally falling apart from acid rain. That is not a hard time, a bad cycle, or a familiar stressor. That is the chemical dissolution of the ground itself under conditions that have never existed here before. Knowledge formed in relationship with stable rock, water, and seasons cannot simply be “applied” when those substrates are no longer behaving like themselves.

What frustrates me is being asked, implicitly or explicitly, to translate “this is different” into a language that still assumes continuity. Often the turn toward Indigenous knowledge functions less as respect and more as reassurance: a way for settlers to believe they can face collapse without fundamentally changing how they perceive, inhabit, or take responsibility for place. But Indigenous survival under colonialism happened within a world that still operated inside Holocene norms, even as it was violently reorganized.

Climate breakdown is pushing us beyond those norms entirely. Treating one as precedent for the other erases the very ecological perception Indigenous people are trying to point to: the moment when a place stops being able to carry the stories told about it.

Medical dismissal triggers what neuroscientists call social rejection stress, the same neurological response as physical pain. Your emotional reaction to dismissive doctors isn’t oversensitivity. It’s your brain recognizing a genuine threat to your survival

Sound familiar?

If you're navigating healthcare and finding that some healthcare workers can be hard to get through to, this piece https://whn.global/the-long-covid-strategy-guide-for-talking-to-doctors/ offers a set of strategies / tactics, such as:

• Mirror and Label

forces them to actually articulate their position instead of rushing to judgment.

Follow with labeling their perspective: “It seems like you’re concerned about making sure we don’t miss a psychological component to this.”

• Calibrated Question

Instead of arguing about whether long Covid exists (you’ll lose), ask questions that gather information while forcing your doctor to actually think.

These questions force your doctor to engage with your actual clinical picture instead of retreating into dismissive generalizations. They also reveal the gaps in their knowledge without putting them on the defensive.

• Documentation Ultimatum

Most doctors will suddenly become more cooperative when they realize they have to write down that they refused to investigate debilitating symptoms with clear temporal correlation to an infection

• Scripts for Predictable Pushback

though I feel like we could easily crowdsource a more comprehensive list on Fedi

via https://sfba.social/@gypsyvegan/115731261383646483

#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #PASC

2025 year-end #MutualAid - Every little bit helps!

Because of MAJOR travel costs, I am in an extremely tight financial situation. Your gift will help me cover rent, utilities, medical and personal care costs, as well as the travel itself.

I know that almost everyone is having a rough time, so please help if you can take care of yourself & your family first. Thank you so much.  $2000 will totally cover me before Christmas.

Goal: US$ 1325/2000 (65% covered, only $675 to go!)

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