CULT OF JAMES

On June 25, 1876, combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the river the Lakota call the Greasy Grass. The United States called it Custer’s Last Stand. They named the monument after the man who lost. Custer Battlefield National Monument. For 115 years, the only names carved into the site belonged…

South Dakota has 105 open missing persons cases. Sixty-six involve Native Americans. Forty-five of those are children. Native Americans are 9 percent of South Dakota’s population. They are 63 percent of its missing. For three and a half years, the state’s entire response to this was one woman with a phone number. Allison Morrisette, Oglala Lakota, grew up on the…

Disney called Midjourney a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Midjourney’s response: show us yours. In June 2025, Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging its AI image generator trained on copyrighted characters — Darth Vader, Shrek, Homer Simpson — without permission and let paying subscribers generate endless images of them. Warner Bros. followed in September with its own complaint:…

Seventeen Indigenous performers will take the stage tonight at the National Monument. Two drum groups. Powwow dancers. Two songs. Around 8:40 p.m., between the Joint Armed Forces Orchestra and the President’s remarks. The occasion is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Craig Marbin, Akwesasne Mohawk, will carry the Mohawk Code Talker’s Eagle Staff — honoring relatives who served…

In 2015, a nineteen-year-old Navajo and Maidu student named Chiitaanibah Johnson sat in a history class at Sacramento State. The professor told the class he didn’t like the word “genocide” because it implied the decimation of American Indians was intentional. Johnson disagreed. The professor said she was hijacking his class. He dismissed the class early and told her she was…

June 28, 1969. Police raid the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. The patrons fight back. At the front: Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, age twenty-three. Sylvia Rivera, a Latina trans woman, age seventeen. Rivera stayed for six nights without sleeping. “I’m not missing a minute of this,” she said. “It’s the revolution.” Fifty-seven years later, the National Park…

Terrence Lozeau spent years watching skateboarders on the Flathead Reservation and not joining them. He thought the sport was incompatible with being Indigenous. Then he saw Alishon Kelly — skater, artist, jingle dress dancer — and the incompatibility collapsed. “Another Native kid,” he told IndigiNews, “making something out of themselves through skateboarding and art.” He started showing up daily. The…

Grindr has 3 million daily users in 234 countries. Homosexuality is illegal in more than 70 of those countries. In 13 of them, it carries the death penalty. Grindr knows this. Grindr operates in those countries anyway. And Grindr, by default, shares its users’ GPS location, sexual orientation, and HIV status with advertising partners. This week — Pride Month, rainbow…

AB 2047, California’s Firearm Printing Prevention Act, passed the Assembly on May 27. It heads to the Senate this summer. The problem is real. 3D-printed ghost gun recoveries increased nearly 1,000% across 20 major cities over five years. Untraceable firearms manufactured in bedrooms and garages. Conversion devices that turn pistols into machine guns. This is not theoretical. The solution: mandate…

The FCC wants to stop spam calls. The method: require every telecommunications provider in the country to collect your government-issued photo ID, physical home address, and an alternate phone number before activating your service. The rulemaking is FCC-26-27A1, adopted April 30, 2026. It frames this as Know Your Customer — KYC — the same regime banks use. The logic: if…