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Freelance writer focused on Native American, social justice, and pop culture issues; publisher of Blue Corn Comics; host of Creative Spirit Screenwriters

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‘Can’t Drink Salt Water’ tackles grief, missing and murdered Indigenous people - ICT Lummi playwright Kendra Mylnechuk Potter’s original play delivers a range of emotions for theater-goers

A new play by Kendra Mylnechuk Potter confronts grief, trafficking and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people through the story of a mother searching for her daughter.

09.03.2026 17:22 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

09.03.2026 11:31 👍 1752 🔁 551 💬 182 📌 75
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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

“Hegseth insisted that “we, of course, never target civilian targets,” but large-scale bombing raids often hit and kill civilians, including children. This is one reason that it is immoral, as well as illegal, to launch a war of aggression.”

Latest in PN:

www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-eleme...

09.03.2026 11:56 👍 468 🔁 92 💬 6 📌 4
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Coming soon from Blue Corn Comics!

09.03.2026 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Facebook post claiming private company bought this Idaho Falls statue is fake - East Idaho News IDAHO FALLS — The alleged sale of a Native American totem on the northeast side of Idaho Falls is raising eyebrows. A Facebook post dated March 3 claims that the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of…

"All of these monuments stand against racism and injustice, against prejudice and bigotry and oppression," Toth said. But the stoic, stone-faced statues reinforce the "wooden Indian" stereotype. www.eastidahonews.com/2026/03/face...

09.03.2026 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Highlighting Ada Deer, esteemed Native American leader, for Women's History Month MADISON, Wis. — March is Women's History Month, and For the Record is highlighting some influential Wisconsin women.

"Ada Deer was an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the BiA. Before being appointed by Clinton to serve as the assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, Deer served as chairwoman for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin." www.channel3000.com/news/highlig...

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'Aviatrix' takes flight under guide of journalist and playwright Angela Poe Russell A special March 14 event is set for "Black Voices Matter: Aviatrix" at the Northwest African American Museum.

Bessie Coleman was the first Black and Native American woman to obtain an international pilot's license. "When I first heard about [her], I was angry," Poe Russell said. "I was angry that I had gone 30 years or so and had never heard of her." www.king5.com/article/news...

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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

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Required reading. And that's a gift link:
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08.03.2026 21:29 👍 75 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 0

About 2 miles north of the Heard Museum "stand more quiet monuments, testaments to Native American resistance and resilience. They are the remaining buildings of the Phoenix Indian School." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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Walker Youngbird Foundation Teams With Lite Brite Neon Studio to Launch Native Neon Residency for Indigenous Artists The Walker Youngbird Foundation has partnered with Lite Brite Neon Studio to create Native Neon, a $50,000 annual residency supporting one Indigenous artist in producing their first neon work. The pro...

The Walker Youngbird Foundation has partnered with Lite Brite Neon Studio to create Native Neon, a $50,000 annual residency supporting one Indigenous artist in producing their first neon work.

redpopnews.com/walker-young...

08.03.2026 09:28 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

38% is the MAGA floor. Rock bottom. Zero, ZERO war bump.

07.03.2026 18:52 👍 284 🔁 46 💬 8 📌 1

In February, employers cut 92,000 jobs in Biden's economy. Meanwhile, Trump's economy is the best ever.

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Trumponomics: Tariffs + bombs + ICE + ballroom = affordability!

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Trump says his goal is to OBLITERATE Iran's nuclear capacity which he also OBLITERATED the last time he bombed Iran.

07.03.2026 22:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.

A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

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Trump proposes a new reality show where he chooses which politician will be the next leader of Iran.

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Whiskey Pete says our allies are united as "Christian nations under God." Thanks for finally giving up your Judaism, Israel!

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Once again, Biden is causing gas prices to rise. Will he ever stop his assault on the US economy?!

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I'm so old I remember when FOUR American deaths in a Middle Eastern conflict were a horrific crime. #Benghazi

07.03.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's no truth to the rumor that Trump is renaming his resort "War-A-Lago" while he bombs Iran.

07.03.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Could the government ban baptisms as long as Christians have 'virtually unlimited access' to water? Or could the State ban Lord's Day services because the church is empty six days a week? These are judgment calls we simply do not make." reason.com/volokh/2026/...

07.03.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First Nations artist Crystal Shawanda sure does ‘Sing Pretty Blues’ - ICT The First Nations artist is nominated yet again for a Juno Award for her latest album

Nearly two decades after her breakout debut, Crystal Shawanda is once again up for a Juno Awards, this time for Blues Album of the Year for 'Sing Pretty Blues.'

06.03.2026 18:24 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

the problem with Markwayne Mullin is not that he doesn’t have a college degree, or that he worked in plumbing, or that he has a compound first name

the problem with Markwayne Mullin is that he is cruel and prejudiced and willfully ignorant and without principles of any kind

let’s focus on that

06.03.2026 23:11 👍 71 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 2

Gift link: share.inquirer.com/v8VS80

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Native golfer Gabby Barker records first professional win - ICT Shoshone-Paiute player takes the trophy in Florida but is already looking ahead to the next one

"Barker, Shoshone-Paiute, won the NXXT Women's Championship Event on Feb. 4 with a score of one-under-par, a win by four strokes over the next competitors in a field of more than 60 women golfers." ictnews.org/news/native-...

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Cartoon Saloon Reveals Trailer for ‘Kindred Spirits’ Feature Tomm Moore was at Cartoon Movie to tease his upcoming animated film about an Irish refugee and a Choctaw boy on a magical journey across 1840s America.

"'Kindred Spirits' tells the tale of two children dealt a very bad hand. Mara, an Irish refugee child alone in New York in 1847, meets Tushka, a Choctaw Nation son far from the warmth of his family." www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

06.03.2026 23:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UA Little Rock Leads Nation in Preserving Native American World War I History More than 12,000 American Indian and Alaska Native men served in World War I, yet many of their stories have long been scattered or overlooked. Now, the University of Arkansas ... UA Little Rock…

"More than 12,000 American Indian and Alaska Native men served in World War I, yet many of their stories have long been scattered or overlooked. Now, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is leading a national effort to restore them to the historical record." ualr.edu/news/2026/03...

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Yale professor presents ‘The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution’ in a fascinating lecture On Mar. 2, Yale University history professor and award-winning author Ned Blackhawk gave a remarkable lecture about the American Revolution’s indigenous origins.

Franklin made a pamphlet that identified racist beliefs within white Christians that targeted Native Americans. "The only Crime of these poor Wretches seems to have been, that they had a reddish brown Skin, and Black hair," it said. dailycampus.com/2026/03/04/y...

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Mar-a-Lago face couldn't save Kristi Noem The former DHS secretary's firing shows women are disposable to Trump — no matter how hard they try to please him

Happy Friday! Enjoy my piece about how Kristi Noem was disposable to Trump, despite being the saddest booklicker in his Cabinet.

You can destroy your face to please MAGA, ladies, but it doesn't matter. You're still a woman and they don't respect you.

www.salon.com/2026/03/06/m...

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