#north dakota
I’ll dream of black asphalt ribbons tonight, tying up the gift-wrapped silence of rolling plains.
Clouds’ summits thunder on the horizon, echoing future dreams.
Come wind.
Come rain.
Catch me.
Recording History at the Dakota Access Pipeline with Camille Seaman
To see more of Camille’s photography and coverage from North Dakota, follow @camilleseaman on Instagram.
Camille Seaman (@camilleseaman) has her #EyesOn the Dakota Access Pipeline. “The message I heard over and over when I was growing up was any harm you do to the environment, you’re doing to yourself,” the California-based photographer says. “I felt called to come not only as an indigenous person, but as a recorder of history.” Camille arrived in North Dakota nearly a month ago, but since April, there have been times when thousands of people gathered near the town of St. Anthony in response to the construction of the pipeline, a means for transporting crude oil out of the state. “From the point of view of the people standing up here, they are calling themselves protectors. They see themselves as not just protecting their own access to water, but the access for those 18 million Americans who also rely on that water,” Camille says. Earlier this week, an appeal to halt the project was struck down in court; the pipeline has permission to continue construction. “This is a huge, global call to stand and say that not only is clean water essential and important, a sacred thing, but it’s time to draw the line in the sand and say enough,” says Camille.
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Video shows authorities arrest one of the last remaining demonstrators at Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp after evacuation deadline passes. http://abcn.ws/2leOWys
Prepping for ValleyCon! Picked up a box full of Obey Cthulhu shirts from the screen printer this morning.
I’ll be selling shirts, stickers, posters, and more. I’ll also have some handmade items that you can’t get at redbubbleorsociety6, like squid plushes and hand-screened items.
October 24 - 26 in Fargo, ND.
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This Man Legislates isn’t even a year old but it already has 102 posts documenting some of the most outrageous behavior from elected officials across the nation. I started this blog after years of frustration over legislators doing and saying things that should disqualify a person from holding an elected office, but somehow don’t. And I’m glad to see that it’s caught on. We’ve had more than 20K page views and nearly 10K notes!
Outrageous statements and actions will always garner some media attention, but no one seems to cover this broadly. These aren’t isolated incidents, and while I enjoy poking fun at terrible legislators, what I’m really trying to show is that these individuals are merely symptoms of a much bigger problem with our electoral system. My hope is that those who visit this blog come to laugh but leave outraged that our tax dollars pay their salaries.
Below are my top 10 favorite posts from 2015. Enjoy!
10: NH State Rep: Women Deserve Less Pay Then Men
“Men, by and large, make more because of some of the things that they do,” he said. “Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.”
9: Idaho Rep: ‘Slave Owners Were Good People Who Made Bad Decisions, Like Gays’
“Slave owners were very good Christians and good people,” he said, adding that he disagrees with slavery itself. “They weren’t terrible, rotten, horrible people. And that’s how I see gay people.”
8: New Hampshire Legislators Kill Fourth Graders’ Bill, Dreams In Front of Them
But the nine and ten-year-olds were in for a brutal lesson in realpolitik. At the start of the day, legislators turned and applauded to children for coming to the statehouse. When lawmakers began to consider the bill, however, Republican Rep. Warren Groen—who has devoted his career to combating abortionand marriage equality—took the floor to denounce the Red Tail Hawk. “It grasps [its prey] with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb,” he explained as the children watched. “And I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”(Slate, emphasis mine)
It should be noted that Tony Dale is a Republican and a proud recipient of an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association!
“I actually called a gentleman, it was a couple months ago, he was so upset, he took his children to an animated movie … guess who the villain was? Evil Mr. Businessperson. It’s insidious. That propaganda starts very early,”
5: California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove: Abortion Causes Droughts
“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience, presumably referring to HB 2, the omnibus Texas abortion bill that included a 20-week ban based on junk science. “It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California.”
4: Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Calvey Threatens to Set Himself on Fire over Abortion
He loudly said that if he were not a Christian, he would go across the street to the state Supreme Court building, douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire to “protest the evil in that building.”
“Scrolling through the conversation, however, Smith found more than sexually suggestive messages. He found an unsolicited picture of the public servant’s not-so-public parts.”(WaPo)
2:New Mexico State Rep. Ken Martinez: Rape Is Sometimes ‘Just Drunken College Sex’
Thanks Ken for being one of a small, but real, minority of Democrats who’ve made this tumblr. You are proof that horrible legislators are a bipartisan phenomenon!
1: Texas State Representative Matt Schaefer Wants Women to Carry Deceased Fetuses To Full Term
With 8,754 notes, this was our most popular post of 2015 by a wide margin. You might ask yourself, why would Matt Schaefer want to legislate this? Of course he has an answer.
Schaefer said that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”
There you have it. Thanks so much for reading, supporting, and sharing this tumblr in 2015. Can’t wait to see what our favorite elected officials do next year!
North Dakota State Rep. Dwight Robin Kiefert took to Facebook to express his opinions on the recent SCOTUS marriage equality decision.
I do love it when terrible legislators don’t bother with the media filter and post their unedited thoughts right to social media. Makes it so much easier to gather material.
BTW The ND House Majority Leader, who leads Kiefert’s caucus, was quick to say that party disagrees with Kiefert’s own views.
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Our frequent visitor’s collar has changed from a blue one to, from what I can tell, a Rastafarian one.
I was checking out the baseboards at the top of the stairs and picked up a shady-looking hitchhiker.
Ahh — (checks calendar) — still spring.
Canadian chokecherry trees can be a pain with the suckering and black knot and so on, but today they are a delight.
I won a box of various paper things in various conditions at Saturday’s North Star Auction in Bismarck, ND, and one of the unexpected treasures I found within was a book by Sylvia of Hollywood, one of America’s early fitness gurus.
Fanta knows about that bag of candy you hide from everyone else, but she’s willing to keep it a secret if you say something nice about her.
On the Road - 10 days across the Prairies.
I’m leaving one small town for a raft of others. I’ll be on the road for the next 10 days travelling through Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Manitoba. Finding all the small down break downs. All the beautiful long roads and abandoned farms.we didn’t even get through Palm Springs pictures and now we’re onto another place.
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Velva, ND 10 June 16
I was going to just let this blog go and post on my other two sites but it turns out there’s no room for them there so I’m going to get better at posting here.
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DAPL Company Attacks Native American Protestors with Dogs & Pepper Spray
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imagine living somewhere flat….with like……almost no hills…..what do you guys do for fun get picked off by birds of prey or
