On the morning of August 24, 2024, a water buffalo in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, escaped from its owner. The owner had been preparing to slaughter it for meat. He called the police and asked them to put the animal down. The police refused. The buffalo spent the next four days loose in suburban Des Moines, was filmed on a Ring camera walking up to someone's front door at night, was shot by a police officer, tranquilized twice, hospitalized at Iowa State University, and is now living at a sanctuary. The community named him PHill. A water buffalo in a Des Moines suburb is not something anyone expects to see on a Saturday morning. Water buffalo are native to South and Southeast Asia. The wild species, Bubalus arnee, is endangered and lives in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, and Cambodia. The domesticated version has been bred for thousands of years for milk, meat, and draft work across Asia, the Middle East, and southern Europe. Italian mozzarella di bufala is made from its milk. A small number of domesticated water buffalo are kept in the United States on private farms and exotic ranches, but there is no feral population anywhere in North America. PHill was a privately owned farm animal being raised for slaughter six miles east of downtown Des Moines. When the responding officer arrived Saturday morning, the owner described the animal as aggressive and asked police to kill it. The officer told the owner the department would not put down an animal unless it posed a direct threat to the public. The buffalo had already disappeared into the surrounding area. Over the next three days, PHill moved through Pleasant Hill and into Des Moines. Residents spotted him in backyards, along fence lines, and in standing water. On Monday, Jessica Eshelman's Ring doorbell camera captured him walking up to her front porch and snorting at the door. The footage went viral. A neighbor filmed him standing in his backyard the same day. At some point during the search, a Pleasant Hill police officer shot PHill with a firearm. The department's public statement did not explain the circumstances of the shooting in detail. By Tuesday evening, PHill was located in a sand pit filled with water on the east side of Des Moines. Police, Polk County Conservation, the Blank Park Zoo, the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, and multiple law enforcement agencies coordinated a plan to capture him alive. They decided to wait until daylight rather than attempt a recovery in the dark with storms approaching. Wednesday morning, responders coaxed PHill out of the water. A veterinarian administered a tranquilizer dart. PHill kept walking. Drones and ground crews followed him along property lines as the first tranquilizer took partial effect. Thirty minutes later, a second dart was administered. PHill went down. The team loaded him into a trailer, administered reversal drugs, antibiotics, and vitamins, and transported him to Iowa State University's Large Animal Hospital. The prognosis was listed as guarded. PHill survived. The gunshot wound and the stress of four days on the run had taken a toll, but he recovered at the veterinary hospital over the following weeks. His owner surrendered him to the Des Moines Police Department. The Iowa Farm Sanctuary took him in and announced that PHill would not be sent to slaughter. He would live out his life at the sanctuary. The Washington Post called him a folk hero. The Iowa Farm Sanctuary's statement said the local community absolutely rallied for PHill and did not rest until he was given a fair chance at safety and freedom. They noted the irony: an outpouring of love for a farmed animal in the epicenter of American animal agriculture. PHill escaped the morning he was supposed to die, outran the police for four days, took a bullet and two tranquilizer darts, and ended up in a sanctuary because a suburb full of strangers decided he deserved to live.
BREAKING🚨 A 2-year-old named Kaleth stopped eating for 12 days inside an ICE family detention center in Texas. His mother watched his face grow gaunt and his eyes sink into their sockets. Kaleth and his mom Joani had never missed a single immigration appointment since seeking asylum in 2024. In March, they showed up to a routine check-in in California. ICE took the whole family into custody. As they cried, Kaleth's father was handcuffed and driven to an adult facility. Joani and her toddler were shipped to the Dilley detention center in Texas. Separated from his dad, Kaleth kept scooting a tiny table to a wall-mounted phone, climbing up to try to reach his father. Joani kept pulling the table away so he wouldn't fall. When she tried to make him eat, he vomited. He stopped having bowel movements. Doctors called it depression. He is one of at least 500 babies and toddlers held in ICE custody since Trump retook office. On an average day, 25 children aged 3 or younger are now in immigration jails — ten times the number under Biden, when fewer than three were held and none were kept past the legal 20-day limit. Now at least 175 have been detained longer than that limit. A 1-year-old named Amir spent four months locked up. There were barely any toys, so children played with rocks. His parents couldn't find books in their language. His speech slowed until he stopped saying anything but "mom" and "dad." His mother sucked spicy sauce off noodles so she could feed them to him, and hid cereal in her socks so he wouldn't sleep hungry. When the family complained, his father says staff in CoreCivic uniforms woke him in the night, threatening to send the parents to separate facilities and Amir to foster care. ICE says detained families get proper food, water and medical care. CoreCivic says its facilities are safe for infants. A pediatrician who has spent her career on this called infancy "probably the most harmful time of their lives to have them in detention." Kaleth started eating again only after he was released. Amir spoke two words in four months: mom and dad. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
People keep saying, “It won’t affect the truly disabled.” Tell me you’ve never loved someone with a disability without telling me. Medicaid isnt “free stuff.” For so many families, it’s the reason their child gets to come home from the hospital. The reason their child was able to recieve care in the first place. It’s oxygen supplies. Wheelchairs. Nursing. Therapies. Medications. Feeding tube supplies. Specialized formula. The ability to keep our children at home instead of in institutions. It means our children got to sleep in their own beds, surrounded by people who love them. These aren’t luxury services. They’re basic needs. It’s for the little one who can’t speak but has so much to say. The kid who needs a nurse to safely go to school. The adult with disabilities whose entire independence depends on the support they receive. It’s parents who haven’t slept through the night in years because they’re providing around-the-clock care when their nursing gets cut. As a medical mom, I can tell you this community has never been asking for luxury. We’ve been fighting for the basics. The chance for our children to live with dignity. And the loudest opinions are almost always coming from people who’ve never had to fight an insurance company while their child was in the hospital waiting for a surgery they need. Never had to choose between paying the mortgage and paying for medical supplies. Never had to leave a career because no daycare can safely care for their child. You don’t get to call disabled people a burden while expecting their exhausted families to somehow do even more with even less. We’re already doing everything. And disability isn’t some rare thing that only happens to “other families.” One diagnosis. One accident. One complicated pregnancy. One stroke. One drunk driver. That’s all it takes before you’re praying the very programs you once dismissed are still there. Maybe that’s what hurts the most. So many people don’t care until disability affects them. By then, they’ll understand what families like ours have been trying to say all along.-"They're not taking away home care." I keep seeing people say that. As the mother of a disabled child, I need you to understand that many of us barely have home care to begin with. My son had a 10-hour surgery on June 11. He's 250 pounds. In the hospital it took 3-4 staff members, a Hoyer lift, and a Sara Stedy just to move him safely. At home, it's just me. We don't qualify for a Hoyer lift. We don't qualify for full-time home health. We were told we could buy the equipment ourselves for hundreds of dollars after I'd already missed weeks of work. His abdominal incision has opened back up and become infected. His wound requires packing every day. We qualified for 20 minutes of home health twice a week for wound care—but if we accepted that, we couldn't receive the physical therapy we desperately needed to learn how to move him safely at home. So I had to choose: Protect his wound, or learn how to safely lift and transfer my 250-pound son. No parent should ever have to make that choice. This is the reality disability families are already living. Before anyone says our rights aren't being affected, please understand that many of us have been fighting just to access basic care all along. We don't need less support. We need a system that actually supports the people it's supposed to serve.
From Winnipeg but it could’ve been anywhere: Yesterday was day two of a reported ten-day zero-tolerance approach to open drug use in downtown Winnipeg. What happened last night sits directly in the middle of a toxic drug supply crisis, housing instability, and the enforcement approach unfolding in our city right now, while supervised consumption services continue to face delays. Victor and I, along with our toddler, were on our way to Alleyways Market in the Exchange District. It was one of those beautiful Winnipeg summer evenings where the city felt alive. Patios were full. Sidewalks were busy. Cars lined the streets. It felt good to see our city like that. As we were walking down Bannatyne Avenue towards Main Street, just outside Across The Board Game Café, Victor noticed someone slumped over on the corner. At first glance, a lot of people probably assumed he was sleeping. There was a half-empty two-litre bottle of alcohol beside him, so it would have been easy to tell yourself he had simply passed out. But that is exactly why you do not make assumptions. As usual, Victor did not hesitate. He knows what a drug poisoning can look like, and he knows every minute matters. He walked over and asked if the man was okay. No response. He asked again, louder. Still nothing. He shook his shoulder, then performed a sternum rub. Nothing. Victor carefully lowered him onto his back and checked his breathing and pulse. I pulled out my phone and asked if he wanted me to call 911. I dialled. Busy signal. I tried again. Finally got through. While I was on the phone, Victor clipped the naloxone kit from his belt and administered the first dose. The man was breathing, but only about seven breaths a minute. Far too slow. He remained completely unresponsive. 911 instructed rescue breaths, and Victor immediately began while preparing a second dose of naloxone. Still no response. A few minutes later, I heard a fire truck turn off Main onto Bannatyne Avenue. For a moment I thought they were coming for us. They were not. There was another emergency nearby. Eventually his breathing became more regular. But he still did not wake up. Later, while we debriefed, Victor explained something that has stayed with me ever since. This is increasingly what people on the front lines are seeing. Naloxone reverses opioids. It does not reverse the tranquilizers now contaminating the street supply. The opioid effects can be reversed. The sedation remains. And I have not been able to stop thinking about one thing. He was found because he was visible. It was a busy corner on a Friday night. People were walking in every direction. Cars were passing constantly. He was wearing a bright red shirt. He was not hidden. And somehow, nobody had stopped. I do not write that to shame anyone. I write it because I know how easy it is for a moment like that to be missed entirely in a busy city, or to assume someone else will step in, or to simply be caught in your own direction and not realize what you’ve passed. And I keep coming back to that. Because if he had not been visible, I do not know if he would have been found in time. That is what I keep thinking about when I read about what is happening downtown right now. Over the past two days, I have been reading reports of people experiencing homelessness being searched, detained, having harm reduction supplies confiscated, and being pushed out of the places where outreach workers, harm reduction teams, and healthcare providers know to look for them. And I cannot stop thinking about what that changes. Because when vulnerable people are pushed further from public spaces, further from outreach teams, and further from the supports they rely on, we have to ask what else we are pushing out of sight. We cannot confuse making suffering less visible with making people safer. And during a toxic drug supply crisis, isolation can become deadly. I keep hearing people say they are tired of seeing open drug use in Winnipeg. I understand where that frustration comes from. But I think we need to ask what we are actually reacting to. And maybe the truth is this. We should be angry. But not at people whose lives have been shaped by trauma, substance use disorder, homelessness, poverty, or all of it together. We should be angry that so many people in our community are suffering with nowhere safe to go. We should be angry that people are using substances in public because there is no private place where they will be safe if something goes wrong. We should be angry that the drug supply has become so toxic that drug poisonings often require multiple interventions and people can still remain unconscious afterward. We should be angry that visible suffering is treated as the problem instead of what created it. Mayor Scott Gillingham recently said, “I’ve grown tired of looking out my office window and seeing the same thing.” And I cannot stop thinking about what it means when frustration with visibility becomes the driving force behind how we respond to crisis. Because in Winnipeg, we also need to be honest about who disproportionately carries the weight of these failures. Indigenous people are vastly overrepresented among those experiencing houselessness, among those struggling with substance use, and among those most impacted by systems that continue responding to trauma with punishment instead of care. We cannot talk honestly about this crisis without acknowledging generations of colonial harm, family separation, displacement, systemic poverty, and policies that continue to fail Indigenous communities today. Because if our anger is pointed in the wrong direction, nothing changes. We need to make sure people have support long before crisis becomes survival. Housing. Mental health care people can actually access. Trauma-informed care. Addiction treatment without impossible wait times. Detox. Safe supply. Drug checking. Supervised consumption services. Recovery supports. Connection to community and culture. And prevention for youth long before trauma turns into addiction. This is not about choosing one approach over another. This is not harm reduction or recovery. It is both. People cannot recover if they are dead. Harm reduction is often the first point of connection. It keeps people alive long enough to access housing, healthcare, treatment, or recovery when they are ready. And recovery itself requires systems that are available when people ask for help. We need all of it. Because different people are at different points in survival, and no single approach meets every need. Last night reminded me of something our city needs to understand. Visibility can save lives. That man received help because he was seen. Because he was in public. Because someone stopped. And I cannot stop thinking about what might happen when policies push vulnerable people further away from the places where intervention is possible. We cannot confuse making suffering less visible with making communities safer. Because pushing suffering out of sight does not solve suffering. It simply makes it easier for the rest of us to stop seeing the consequences of our collective failure. The question facing Winnipeg right now is not whether people are tired of witnessing addiction and homelessness. The real question is this: Will we be the kind of community that responds to suffering with care… Or the kind that simply demands suffering disappear? #Winnipeg #DowntownWinnipeg #ExchangeDistrict #AlleywaysMarket #Manitoba
BREAKING🚨🏳️🌈 Kansas forced Kris Ripper to change her driver's license to say "male." Then a cop pulled her over, looked at that same license — and decided it must be fake. Ripper is a trans woman. Back on March 25, the state made her switch the gender marker on her ID to "M" to comply with Senate Bill 244, a new anti-trans law. She didn't want to. She did it because Kansas required it. On May 5, she was driving home from work in the rain. Her headlights had automatically switched off, so an officer pulled her over. He took her license — the one the state ordered her to carry , and stared at it. "After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman," Ripper said. "It has to say 'M' legally." He handed the license back and let her go with a verbal warning. No citation. She thought that was the end of it. Weeks later a notice showed up: she'd missed an arraignment for a charge she said she never knew existed , operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. A Class B misdemeanor. Up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail. The paper warned that if she didn't appear within 30 days, her license would be revoked. "I'm just a little scared and freaking out," Ripper said. Kansas forced her ID to say "male." An officer decided that same ID looked wrong. The county tried to jail her for carrying the document the government demanded she carry. The charge was only dismissed after her story spread across LGBTQ+ media and reached readers overseas. Attorney General Kris Kobach insists licenses must list a person's "biological sex" so police can identify people accurately. His law nearly put a woman behind bars for six months for obeying it.
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Whether you agreed with, watched or liked Charlie Kirk.. How many of you have noticed.. Since he was..."taken out" by a very well planned, tactical operation with MANY players involved who got VERY close to him.. In the months leading up to his elimination.. That you see VIRTUALLY NO clips anymore on your reels or otherwise on social media.. Of his college campus debates and events? He was literally scrubbed from social media almost entirely.. When before, when he was still here and running TP U$A... You would see him pop up every couple reels or at least a few times per day.. If you have noticed this as well.. Let me know in the comments and I'll do a video on why they did this.. Whether you liked him or not, agreed with him or not.. What he was doing and saying was FAR more important to our society than I think most realize.. Which I am going to explain why.. Even though he unfortunately made his bed..or in this case coffin.. When he shook hands and took that $$.... From the devils.. Who ultimately made him pay for it in the end.. (And believe me.. I'm a proud "conspiracy the0rist" as the simple minds of society label those like you and I as.. But trust me... He's very much de@d....I know there's people who believe that event was "staged" and I'm one of the first to admit I AM ALWAYS skeptic of anything we see on these screens here when it comes to more popular figures, politicians etc...... But... There's just some human reactions you can't fake... Not to mention that The mistake Charlie made.. Was that He started to REALIZE and awaken to.. The evils of the group.. He took that money from.. AFTER they gave it to him... And so they did to him what they do best to anyone who doesn't bend the knee to their every command after they flash that money and life of luxury at you.... They JFK'd him).... Let me know your thoughts below ... More to come on this topic
just seems everyone you encounter in the matrix is like a fucken cow now like the obviously large framed possibly trans? (no problem with that) its just she is a huge fucking postal cow that works at the post office I am scared of her now if I miss a delivery of silver they send to to her postal booth and I have to see the cashier from hell lol cause I have to sign for it they dont just put it in mailbox its worth it cause on ebay its counterfeit silver so I go with silver gold bullion and they make me do all this like really if I only had to go out once every 17 weeks I would be okay but getting better hahaha
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I've been living with diagnosed HIV for many years. And, I've had my share of sexual and romantic rejections on the basis of my HIV status. While these don't make up any of my happiest memories, I've tried to take it on the chin. I've always been a firm believer that individuals have a right to work out the sexual strategy that is right for them – and that included rejecting people on the basis of their HIV status. But, you know what – I've had a change of heart. It's bullshit. Firstly, as a safer sex strategy, it just doesn't work. We've known for some years now that someone on treatment is very unlikely to pass on the virus. How unlikely? Well you're more likely to be infected from sex using a condom with someone who isn't on treatment than you are to be infected from sex without a condom with someone who is on treatment. So when someone says that they're going to avoid John because he has HIV (and is on treatment), and then runs off with Jonah, whose status is unknown, they're taking a far bigger sexual risk. Then there's the idea that you ditch the condoms with the one you settle down with – but you don't want to do this with a poz guy (despite the fact that treatment makes transmission very unlikely). It sounds great in theory but even if you've done the responsible thing and tested together, a negative test result just relates to that moment in time. Monogamy is great, don't get me wrong, but it can fail. The truth is most HIV infection is a result of sex with someone who doesn't know their status. If you've dumped some hot guy because he was responsible, got tested and told you his HIV status, you could be just opening yourself up to some other, far greater risk. If you're worried about an HIV-positive partner getting sick or dying, then it's time for you to realise that it's now the 21st century. Life expectancy for people with HIV who are diagnosed when their immune system is still robust is expected to be more or less the same as anyone else's. Some studies even suggest we may live a bit longer than our negative brethren (only because we're always going for check-ups so any other conditions are likely to be detected earlier). Or maybe there's still some lingering sense that people with HIV are unclean or unworthy? Please. It's a virus, it's not a moral judgment or a matter of personal hygiene. Sure you can find some guys with HIV who are, shall we say, socially generous, but you'll find the same in the HIV-negative community. And the same goes for personal hygiene. I want people to be able to have open and honest discussions about HIV and about what they know or suspect about their own status. I think it's vital if we're going to reduce new infections and challenge stigma. A blanket rejection of anyone with HIV means that fewer men feel able to be open and honest and this provides a foundation for ongoing ignorance and fear. Avoiding sex or a relationship with someone just because they're living with HIV isn't a good strategy: it won't prevent you from becoming HIV-positive, it won't reduce the number of new infections and it contributes to an unacceptable caste system within our communities. It's time to say 'enough'. Written by Matthew Hodson #queerhuman
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If we are going to get through this ALL the other countries UN ICC royal families vatican etc etc are going to have to come together and SURROUND the united STATES place leadership under arrest if the freemasons military is unwilling to stop this in their own borders and start an "actual" historical war crimes tribunal again and restore things to a functioning democracy- stop this illusion that everything is ok? or that it will all take care of itself this is all a massive movie set not an actual functioning world so fucken everyone do something before people are put in gas chambers TRUMP is the REINCARNATION of hitler so FUCKEN wake up everyone before hundreds of MILLIONS more? are PUT to DEATH by this madman by the freemason elites - for me personally if it comes to a gas chamber or firing squad for myself...I have lived a good life If its time its time these fucken losers can have an empty world and RULE over ashes I gave it my all and they can all go to hell and be fucken creeps/nerds/losers and perverts together all day for all I care with all their "money"
got this email and my heart dropped a bit I thought it was regarding my test but was some other student that took it when I did lmao good thing I did not cry or anything lol I thought I did something wrong and it somehow passed me but changed its mind lol I thought it was from the school to b honest lol
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We figured the billionaire bunkers would fail, but get this… It’s happening early. I’ve been following bunker stories ever since Douglas Rushkoff wrote about them. Soon after, someone sent me a 2017 article from The New Yorker that revealed the secret bunker culture of bankers and hedge fund managers. They really do get together over tapas and brag about their doomsday plans. And then there’s the story of C. Wesley Morgan, a Kentucky bourbon baron who advertised the bunker under his mansion on Zillow. It attracted the attention of an ex-military dude who invaded his home. Morgan’s daughter died in the gunfight that ensued. The bunker is now an Airbnb. Maybe you’ve heard of Vivos xPoint. It’s an old bunker site in South Dakota where the military used to store bombs. It’s home to hundreds of bunkers. About ten years ago, a real estate grifter named Robert Vicino bought the place and started advertising it as the safest haven on earth, somewhere the super rich could bug out during an extinction event, like nuclear war or a global famine. Things haven’t gone so well. It’s been getting some attention lately. According to recent news, a bunch of bunker bros have filed a class action lawsuit against Vicino. Why? Well, he promised them a doomsday utopia with a medical facility, a laundromat, a general store, a security force, even a gym. He didn’t build any of it. Instead, he took their money and required them to “improve” the bunkers by installing their own plumbing and utilities. Then he used predatory lease contracts to evict them. He kept the upgraded bunkers. And leased them again. (Lol…) The tragi-comedy of Vivos xPoint recently graced the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Canadian Prepper also did a beautiful takedown. When you put a $55,000 downpayment on a bunker at xPoint, here’s what you get. Have a good laugh: There’s not much going on at xPoint. No guilds. No orchards. No farms or gardens. No ranch. There’s not much in terms of lakes, rivers, or streams. It’s really just a bunch of bunkers out in the middle of nowhere. Look at the history, and you learn that the military built them for an entirely different purpose than survival. The high altitude and low humidity of South Dakota maximized the shelf life of bombs. They put the bomb depots in the middle of nowhere so they wouldn’t kill anyone if they accidentally exploded. The bunkers were designed to keep explosions on the inside, so they didn’t damage other depots. The bunkers themselves don’t come with the modern infrastructure and air filtration systems to protect anyone from radiation. That would fall under the “improvements” that residents have to add themselves. About the community: According to the reports, residents have been getting into a lot of fights and feuds. They’ve been litigating each other. They’ve been harassing and threatening each other over things like failing septic systems. They’ve been pulling guns on each other. In one incident, a bunker bro even shot a contractor during a prolonged confrontation with the site management. It’s exactly what you’d expect to happen when you put a bunch of entitled jerks together in a remote location. They don’t know how to cooperate. They got where they are by exploiting everyone and everything around them. Of course they weren’t going to make it out there. They never were. The same goes for the rest of them. By now, we’ve all heard about the bunkers. Stories have saturated the internet. The mainstream media can’t stop talking about them. Some of them are carved into mountainsides. Some are built into old missile silos. Some have actual drawbridges and lakes of fire built around them. Celebrities all have them now. So do all the tech billionaires and their friends. None of them will make it. Many of us predicted these bunkers would fail at some point during the collapse of civilization. It’s just a bad idea to put a bunch of rich people together in a remote location on the premise that they’ll build a community. That’s not how they accumulated their wealth. They built their wealth by extracting it from us, and then flattering themselves. What’s interesting is that they’re already failing. It’s ahead of schedule. Places like xPoint have already collapsed. The doomsday events they fantasized about haven’t even started happening yet, and they’re already pulling out their guns and trying to kill each other. Another bunker project failed a couple of years ago. Maybe you remember a piece in The Lever about Barrett Moore, a doomsday tycoon who tried to build a bunker community, conning hundreds of thousands of dollars out of rich people. He wound up drowning in lawsuits. Bradley Garrett wrote an entire book on bunker culture called Bunker. He spent months touring all the bugouts and came to the conclusion they wouldn’t last six months inside these things. They were already joking about making dungeons and chaining up teenage girls in them. Some of them were even fantasizing about going Rambo on nearby neighborhoods and putting everyone’s heads on pikes. Sounds lovely. There’s a definitive lesson here: Don’t envy the billionaires and their bunkers. Don’t envy their security teams. Don’t go around believing they know something the rest of us don’t. They know nothing that climate scientists and activists haven’t been screaming for decades. That’s all they know. And they know because they’re the ones who’ve been committing all the destruction. It’s all liability dressed up as privileged. In almost every case, you’re better off where you are. You’re better off doing what you’re doing. It’s sad that the groups with the power and resources to undo some of this damage are, instead, choosing to build bunkers and weep into the arms of Davos prostitutes about how screwed we are. They’re not going to change. So, there you have it, rather conclusive evidence that bunkers aren’t going to help anyone. Not only were they a terrible waste of resources in the first place, they’re already failing. They were always going to fail. It’s just happening early. --- By Jessica, for Grounded. - shared from Collective Evolution
We’re not Canadians, we’re not Indians, we’re not Native, we’re not First Nations, we weren’t Aboriginals & we’re not even Indigenous, for we were born long before all those colonial blanketed terms. We are Ahousat, we are Kelsmaht & Yuuthluithaht. We are not Canadian & we were not born in Canada, it’s actually quite the contrary, Canada was born IN US and through genocide. This so called country that was born very intentionally through the deaths of so many nations, through the loss of various unique languages, through all those rich rituals ripped away & through the loss of lands that were our villages and are now your homes. So their country was born through murd€r, through rap€ & through those concentration ped0phil€ camps, which you call Residential Schools & we call HELL. Hell that Jesus was apparently sent to save us from through religion & those ‘schools’. Yet the only ones who were saved were those priests, nuns, rcmp + governments who were magically forgiven for their sins. Which I’m assuming that’s how one can mysteriously jump to Truth & Reconciliation without accountability (through sins that were forgiven?). Look no further than the confessions through files with zero accountability & onto the next distraction. But we weren’t the only ones that were brain washed in their school systems, they - maamaalee also were too, considering that they were probably taught that some white man discovered this land & these “Indians’. You can’t discover what already existed & newsflash, if you think you have nothing to do with us ‘Indians’ or our language, the word Canada derives from #kanata which is an Indigenous word meaning village & every town you live in was once a native village territory (& still is). Some towns are even named after our village, such as Ucluelet, because they could not pronounce Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ, or Tk̓emlúps - kamloops. Before Canada decided to be known as a village, until 1982 July 1st, it was known as Dominion Day. What does dominion mean? To dominate, to control. Canada doesn’t want sovereign beings, they want control and not just of Indians, right now they are on the fast track to remove access to Natural Health Products. (Bill C-47, that’s a whole other post). So protect your natural medicines & pick your battles, for their system has always been smoke & mirrors intended to blind you, but when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change & wouldn’t you agree that this country needs continued change? When Indians are drunk or drugged, it was much easier to steal from them, because a sober healing Indian is a changed indian & threat to the system and sober Indians spiritually connected WILL protect the land and the water over profit & poison & there is no shortage of scary Indians healing from a country that loves to see us wounded.  This was an old write up on the gram, my Instagram and my Facebook business page are very different - I feel like I filter for fragility on my Facebook business page and on Instagram I am more unapologetic and not even fragility for only maamaalee but for our own people too, because some of our people think that I hate white people, I don't hate white people I hate white systems of suppression, big difference & I most definitely can NOT relate to human beings who fear equality accountability, closeness, humility and humanity. Again pretty big difference.  Our people have remained silent for so long, but not only silent, but polite & by being 'the bigger person' who would never say such harsh things. I'm a truth teller and there's no silencing me or painting the truth or the past pretty, which is probably why my closest friends are elders because they're truth tellers too who leaned into uncomfortable conversations & confronted and resisted such sick systems.  As a person fascinated with psychology , it is easy to reflect on the dynamics between Indigenous and government, it is very much a narcissistic - empath relationship & obviously indigenous people are the empaths. We continue to feel sorry for them even when they are not sorry. We continue to believe in its healing, but you can't save anything or anyone that is NOT participating in its own rescue 🛟 . The system does not want to be saved, it needs to continue to suppress to survive. Narcissist's specialize in manipulation, their words and actions never align, they constantly move the goal post, they get their fuel from gaslighting & fear the truth, accountability and being seen of course indigenous people saw them before they saw themselves.  Needless to say I do not celebrate a country that was born through the death of our people & that continues to suppress. I celebrate all the villages that survived & am thankful for all of the allies who have done their own personal healing & are also actively fighting to protect the home we all live in.  Here's a video for those truly learning truths & are leaning into uncomfortable spaces and conversations intentionally & not only to grow with us as Indigenous, but to grow into a human who also protects the planet & brown beings globally. https://youtu.be/dfJAp7NwgVA?si=fnm-s7D-l80Rm2IE You cannot protect what you are not connected to & Indigenous people are connected to themselves, to other's (we dont even know) & to the plants, animals, waters & planet.  Makes one curious how connected is any government to Nature? When Nature is seen as simply something to take & make money from while both threatening brown beings connected to Nature and yet too scared to say such.  l
BREAKING🚨🏳️🌈 The woman who led the weeks-long torture and murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old trans man, just pleaded guilty to every single charge — with no plea deal, nothing in exchange. Precious Arzuaga, 38, is expected to be sentenced to life. Sam was from Minnesota. He had met Arzuaga online — outlets described her as his online girlfriend — and bought a round-trip plane ticket to upstate New York in September to see her. He was due to fly home in October. He never got on the plane. Instead, prosecutors say he was held captive and tortured for weeks before he died in February 2025. His body was found discarded in a field in the Finger Lakes region. Investigators say Sam endured horrific abuse before he died, beaten by punching, kicking, and striking him with sticks, dog toys, rope, bottles, belts, canes and wooden boards. He was sexually assaulted with a table leg and a broomstick. Prosecutors say Arzuaga also coerced a 7-year-old and a 12-year-old into participating. A state police captain with 20 years on the job said it was the most horrific crime he had ever investigated. The local district attorney called it the worst thing they'd ever seen. Prosecutors called Arzuaga "pure evil." Seven people were charged in Sam’s killing. Police said it did not qualify as a hate crime. Another defendant, Emily Motyka, already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and kidnapping, while others still face charges. Sam's sister Kayla sat through Friday's hearing and didn't buy the show of remorse. "She wasn't guilty when she was raping him and beating him and starving him. She didn't feel guilty then. I don't believe she feels guilty now." Then she said the thing the whole country should hear: "I want the world to know Sam Nordquist's name. He was a genuinely good person and he did not deserve this. My poor brother. He was just a baby." His mother put it plainly. Sam will never have another birthday, another holiday, another family dinner. He was 24. He was loved by everybody. Rest in power, Sam Nordquist. If you appreciate Gay News, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
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