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”
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have all of you a good day/night 
what’s up with that
Thank god the EU got Apple to use usb-c
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Actually am considering upgrading because USB C. I’d do it in a heartbeat if batteries could be changed.
That fugitive in Pennsylvania is now armed and was sighted 25 miles outside of the existing search perimeter, they are never going to find that dude. Jawn Rambo.
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Very easy solution for people trying to gaslight you into thinking Bidenomics work: lie to them. Say you totally agree, you totally voted for Biden, and you’re totally going to vote for him again. Let their lives be this carousel of constantly going “BWUUUUH?!?!? HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?!?!?” They’re not going to change.
Just say Bidenomics don’t work, and refuse to explain further
It will gnaw at them until they either die or they educate themselves
Better yet. “Bidenomics works great in theory but it doesn’t survive in the real world. They failed to take human nature into account.”
Say its working and this is why you voting for jill stein, you want it not to work
One of my friends is starting to talk like a redditor IRL
Me laughing at this vs remembering I’d probably be saying “yoooo poggers dude” on the regular if I had any IRL friends
When they talk about movies do they say stuff like “You have made an error in watching the movie only once. Upon the fifth viewing…”
what did they say?
“absolute specimen” among other things
The narwhal bacons at midnight!
Few things elicit a groan as reliably as seeing a Teams notification from a coworker whom you’ve never spoken to before, almost guaranteed that you are going to have to spend 10 minutes explaining some basic-ass bullshit and they still aren’t going to understand when the conversation is over.
“Can we expedite the micro testing on this product”? Yeah sure Susan, I’m gonna go give a pep talk to the bacteria to make them grow faster.
My lib friend told me Biden has done ‘a lot better than expected’. 🤔
no more half measures walter
The bar was so low you have to call 811 before you start looking for it
Well, Biden did say “nothing will fundamentally change”, but instead, things have gotten even worse! That’s called going above and beyond, Jack!
I’m kind of curious what he even meant but I didn’t ask because it would have just been something dumb.
Got my e-reader, oh yeah its theory time
If someone knows of a good way to split a scanned pdf of a book in half to serpate pages and convert to epub please let me know
Is non-meme stuff allowed on c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns?
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Yep, until we decide otherwise. It feels weird to police people on genuine requests for help and advice
poggers champion
Thinking about becoming a butler to some bougie shithead and just not doing my job, getting fired, then collecting unemployment not before doing an upper decker in the executive bathroom.
God I’m so tired of hearing people talk about age. Zoomer this, boomer that, shut up.
I’ve been watching a lot of Street Fighter stuff now that I’m actually playing the game with 6 being good, and it’s like I have to listen to the entire FGC experience their midlife crisis all at once.
I’m always thinking of peltier element first instead of comrade leonard
Got invited to work on an academic project looking at political values and mental health stigma… please god grant me the power to steer them away from a “liberals” vs. “Conservatives” framework
