People call on Bellingham to support tribe’s fight against Dakota Access Pipeline City Council member Roxanne Murphy, a member of the Nooksack Indian Tribe, will ask her fellow council members on Monday, Sept. 12, to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in its fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She will be joined by …

So glad about this.Obama administration orders ND pipeline construction to stop The order came after a federal judge denied a legal request from the Standing Rock Sioux. cross-posted on Facebook

Instagram photo by Maria Teresa Chavez • Sep 6, 2016 at 2:21pm UTC See this Instagram photo by @sacredearthwarriors cross-posted on Facebook

I am in awe of the bravery, dedication, and perseverance of the tribes and people leading this stop of construction. #noDAPL #standingrock #waterislifeLawrence Visits Standing Rock A federal judge has issued a temporary halt to SOME construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that Native American tribes have been protesting. Some of those protests …

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“Originally, the pipeline was supposed to cross the Missouri near Bismarck, but authorities worried that an oil spill there would have wrecked the state capital’s drinking water. So they moved the crossing to half a mile from the reservation, across land that was taken from the tribe in 1958, without their consent.”A Pipeline Fight and …

Fusion Stolen land. Broken promises. Genocide. The Dakota Access pipeline is just the latest way Native Americans are getting screwed. #NoDAPL cross-posted on Facebook

Obama to Create World’s Largest Marine Reserve Off Hawaii The president is set to vastly expand an sanctuary northwest of the Hawaiian Islands, part of efforts to burnish his environmental legacy before leaving office. cross-posted on Facebook

I was hesitant to take a position on this without further information, but after learning more I’ve concluded that this defies logic, and the best science which has shown the importance of predators in maintaining healthy ecosystems. One rancher’s interests should not trump the health of a resource owned by the US public and graciously …

“Individually, these pages have meaningful audiences, but cumulatively, their audience is gigantic: tens of millions of people. On Facebook, they rival the reach of their better-funded counterparts in the political media, whether corporate giants like CNN or The New York Times, or openly ideological web operations like Breitbart or Mic. […] But they are, perhaps, …

Good for them. It’s an interesting read because they did not come to this decision lightly. “This is not in keeping with NPR’s take-a-step-back, take-a-deep-breath reporting,” and noted, “Now, thread hijacking and personal insults are becoming the stock in trade. Frequent posters use the forums to duke it out with one another.”NPR Website To Get …

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The Earth Next Door Astronomers find an exoplanet that could be habitable—and it’s as close to us as it could possibly be cross-posted on Facebook

Please read the whole piece, it’s good meta journalism (journalism about journalism), but the takeaway: “Except it turns out not to be true. The nut fact that the AP uses to lead its coverage is wrong, and Braun and Sullivan’s reporting reveals absolutely no unethical conduct.” […] “The AP put a lot of work into …

Southern Poverty Law Center Wow. More major criminal justice news. “Holding defendants in jail because they can’t afford to make bail is unconstitutional, the Justice Department said in a court filing late Thursday — the first time the government has taken such a position before a federal appeals court.” We know that the “pre-trial” or …