This is disturbing, though not really surprising I suppose. For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New.
While North Dakota engages in a gigantic herd immunity experiment (over 1 out of every 600 people in the state tested positive for COVID just yesterday), complete incompetence and Trumpian.
One of my hobbyhorses is that the way we talk about race and racial in this problems actually erases the struggles of Native, Asian, and, to a lesser extent perhaps,.
North Dakota Republicans have developed a quite rational response to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests: Republican lawmakers in North Dakota are taking aim at protesters with a handful of bills.
The obvious solution to the North Dakota pipeline protests is just to reroute the thing so that it stays far away from the reservations. This is not rocket science, even.
A useful story on how energy companies place pipelines as close to Native American reservation land as possible without any input (or very little anyway) from Native Americans themselves. This.
