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Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.

"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”

Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

They said they wouldn't give us homework for this workshop I'm doing, then they did anyway. Said "fuck it I'm not doing this," show up the next day, nobody else did it either. Bluff called comfy-cool

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

What the fuck the Spotify app now has gigantic videos being forced onto ur screen and huge tiktok sections ?? Why is everything so fucking ugly now angery

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Dread from it, run from it, enshitification still arrives

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

if someone knows how to turn it off let me know, an mp3 player app has no rights to be streaming video, if i wanted that i'd be playing shit off youtube

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

A twink in a relationship with a ginger man, call him a gingerbredman

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Accidentally posted my rant in the wrong mega

Fucking fantastic, yet another private "festival" has fenced off the public park near me, blocking access for 2 full months. And of course it's never the public parks in richer areas that get taken over by this bullshit! These bastards enclose a supposedly public area and charge $30 a head to wander around a public fucking park looking at plastic pumpkins while listening to a mix of generic spooky music and Disney soundtracks. Not to mention they leave their garbage all over the place and tear up everything driving around in giant pickups. Yesterday I accidentally wandered into their cordon because they hadn't finished fencing it and I had a couple dipshits escort me out by driving behind me to make sure I didn't look at their shitty fake jack o' lanterns.

Apologies for the rant but it pisses me the fuck off

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

2 months is actually crazy wtf. I feel like a weekend is fine, good even

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

why does drinking fuck your appetite so bad, i ate like twice my daily while drunk, how tf my body demanding MORE???

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck I just got a new driver's license and my dysphoria is awful and I can't tell if it's the picture or I just like need to lower my expectations for myself way way more or if it's dysphoria. I'm literally taking critical morale damage every time I accidentally see it like Harry Du Bois thinking about his wife. I'm thinking of just using my old wrong gender presentation photo I'd like just fucking clock me at this point and protect me from psychic damaging myself

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i forgot where i saved my mushroom pics. i was so excited to share them on c/myc, im on my knees 😭

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

My financial situation is really bad this month. Im on social security and I'm already down to 350 with a 60 dollar half of the gas bill yet to come out (no idea why its that high in the summer????). It was already looking bad and I thought, without looking, that my frustratingly high electric bill had already come out, but it hadnt yet and it just hit and now its looking RELALY bad and I also have to pay my half of the internet still (that isnt that much at least). I didnt even spend all that differently other than that this month so I dont know why I'll be under 300 before the halfway point? That leaves absolutely NO pleasure money really and its only the 12th idk wtf happened. At the end of last month I had a decent suprlus (which I immediatly spent on food orders because I wanted to enjoy myself with it) and now I'm not even spending all that much differently this month and somehow I'm in dire straights? Wtf is happening? I hate money!!! FUCK.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

can someone unleash a new supervirus so we can go back to taking things seriously for a couple weeks.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Sorry, the "take a virus seriously" power is on cooldown until the next... generation

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://youtu.be/RvRPlRTdAvA

I fucking hate artificial scarcity so much. Now I want to make counterfeit copies of this plastic garbage and sell to some soyfacing nerd on ebay using a fake account (joke).

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

lets have a shark struggle session:

shark-apologists go way too far with their 'statistical likelihood' and 'its all accidents' BS. you're very unlikely to be attacked & eaten by a tiger, -statistically- but we don't have cohorts of people insisting they're not predatory & dangerous animals. if someone disappears in the woods in 'bear country', we quite reasonably assume they could've been killed by a bear---but if you disappear in shark territory oh no, you're just lost at sea no possible way an animal had something to do with it.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Is Lemmy a nickname?

Are we using Leomard?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Comrades I have my first ever job interview tomorrow, any advice? It's for a pretty big tech/finance company and I am qualified, but I'm also socially anxious and a fresh graduate.

What do you wear? I have a black button up, a white button up, and a short sleeved blue button up, but that's it. Do you wear a tie? How much am I going to be fucked over for being a butch? I mean, I couldn't "dress as a woman" even if I wanted to because I haven't owned makeup or women's clothes since adults stopped being able to physically force me into them, so a "male" outfit is really my only option anyway. I have a full suit, but that would be overkill for a zoom interview, right?

My friends in tech (all men) have said that companies generally want women and lgbt people for the sake of quotas so I should have an advantage, but personally I can't help but assume the opposite. idk

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't get it- when I divide the pizza dough I make into two, one portion always rises much more than the other

Does all the yeast always end up in one portion thonk

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

>do code's compiling joke with "query's running"

>boss roasts me for writing inefficient queries

powercry-2

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

What does whisky taste like? I can not try it because it is haram

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It varies, but it usually has a malty flavor. The kind I like tastes a bit spicy and like caramel. Depending on the type of barrel it's aged in, it can also taste a bit like that wood (oak and vanilla, usually)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I hate private torrent trackers. It's like the whole point of piracy was to make things free and open for everyone, and somehow people managed to turn that into exclusivity and gatekeeping. I've been on private trackers too but it's always a case where either the things I want to share are too obscure so no one is downloading it or it's so popular that me seeding it doesn't contribute much. And they really expect you to fill your quota.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

TITANIUM IS USED IN SPACE EXPLORATION TITANIUM IS USED IN SPACE EXPLORATION TITANIUM IS USED IN SPACE EXPLORATION TITANIUM IS USED IN SPACE EXPLORATION TITANIUM IS USED IN SPACE EXPLORATION

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Our manager keeps spamming the work group chat with criticisms and things we've been doing wrong. Wouldn't hurt to say "good job today guys, keep it up, thank you" once in a while.

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