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picture of a carbon atom with the words “the whole world was created for me” and “I am but dust and ashes” written into their particles.ALT

There’s a teaching in Judaism that one should carry two notes, one in each pocket. One should say “I am but dust and ashes,” and the other should say “the whole world was created for me.” They are seen as opposites; you check one when you’re feeling down on yourself and the other when you’re feeling especially full of yourself. The idea is to maintain balance, but I think the way to achieve full harmony is to realize how they are saying the same thing.

That’s why I have imagined them as a carbon atom. Carbon is a main component of dust (and ashes), but also one of the main building blocks of life. Carbon simultaneously encompasses all. It’s in us, it’s in the stars, the planets, the trees. We are built to exist, yet we are also the building blocks of existence. If we keep both in mind, we can live in balance all the time.

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new weed idea

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just heard that the emergency rule banning trans healthcare for adults in missouri was terminated today! hope you and other trans folks in the state are feeling a little better about things. still a road to get to undoing the ban for trans minors but now more focus can be put on rolling back that ban now that the path forward for adults is more clear!

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The Indian Child Welfare Act.

Youve hopefully been hearing about how the supreme court will hear the case of Brackeen v Haaland where the validity of ICWA will be decided on November 9th.

Here is a helpful breakdown on why it's so important.

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(this includes food, healthcare, and our sovereign rights)

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The Lakota People's Law Project petition.

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As a native who didn't qualify for tribal protections because of tribal blood quantum laws, when I was separated from my family I wasnt placed with natives. I was placed with homophobic white christians. I'm nearly 30 now and still trying to reconnect with the culture and family I was cut off from.

ICWA fucking matters. We need to protect it. Kids need their family, they need their people. And right now they need you too.

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The ICWA is not a hypothetical. So many Native people have lost aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings to the foster system. So many people Native people are disconnected from their cultures and tribes because their parents or grandparents were stolen from their families. So many Native people, even under the ICWA, were removed from their families and placed into foster care.

So many children today, right now, are being removed from their families, tribes, and cultures.

All it takes is one generation to kill a community, to kill a culture. We've lived through this before. We're still living through this now. We know firsthand what it means to lose our children and we know what will happen to us, to our families and our tribes and our cultures and our bonds with each other, if the removal of indigenous children from their families becomes the law of the land again.

The entire case being brought against ICWA rests on the argument that tribes are not nations, but racial categories.

Even if this wasn’t “just” important to prevent genocide, i.e., destroying over 500 tribal nations by stealing their children right out of their homes on the flimsiest pretext, or “just” important because of the absurdly high rate of abuse for Native kids placed in white homes, the argument they’re making is being backed by major interests in oil and mineral extraction,

because what they want is to take away Native nations’ sovereign status by declaring them to be a racial/ethnic category instead of nations with whom the U.S. has a treaty/diplomatic relationship.

But also, even if somehow THAT wasn’t the case, if ICWA is overturned but by some miracle our bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court judges issue a ruling that dismantles ICWA while not explicitly declaring Native people to be a racial/ethnic category (instead of, again, sovereign nations, which is what they ARE), I return your attention to the above. This will hurt so, so, so many kids and families. Native kids are incredibly likely to be neglected and abused in non-Native families. Even kids who aren’t abused still suffer severe emotional and psychological tolls because they’re separated from their relatives and their culture.

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I'm having trouble feeling sympathy for anyone shelling out a kilobuck for Elon Musk's 2023 version of twitter.

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