Rob Torres
@zorratowers.com
Lumbee/Boricua. Seeking and working towards a world in which we live the truth that we are all related - every person, animal and fellow denizen of this earth and universe.
This is about colonizer mentality versus indigenous mentality.
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Indigenous mentality
Overcoming the settler colonial mindset
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September 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This is about colonizer mentality versus indigenous mentality.
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ok maybe one data center
It can host the immersive virtual reality AI world.
Each of these folks including the guy currently "in charge" can have their own world in which their name is on everything (h*ll they can even pee on everything if so moved).
It can host the immersive virtual reality AI world.
Each of these folks including the guy currently "in charge" can have their own world in which their name is on everything (h*ll they can even pee on everything if so moved).
September 24, 2026 at 12:19 AM
ok maybe one data center
It can host the immersive virtual reality AI world.
Each of these folks including the guy currently "in charge" can have their own world in which their name is on everything (h*ll they can even pee on everything if so moved).
It can host the immersive virtual reality AI world.
Each of these folks including the guy currently "in charge" can have their own world in which their name is on everything (h*ll they can even pee on everything if so moved).
"Today, amidst staggering volatility, the search for peace feels overwhelming—but it has never been more urgent.
Peace is more than the absence of war; it is the foundation necessary to collectively tackle humanity’s challenges.
Peace is more than the absence of war; it is the foundation necessary to collectively tackle humanity’s challenges.
September 22, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"Today, amidst staggering volatility, the search for peace feels overwhelming—but it has never been more urgent.
Peace is more than the absence of war; it is the foundation necessary to collectively tackle humanity’s challenges.
Peace is more than the absence of war; it is the foundation necessary to collectively tackle humanity’s challenges.
High hierarchy, high control, low freedoms to overcome state narrated fears are common in monarchical, dictatorial, fascist and communist regimes throughout human history.
September 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM
High hierarchy, high control, low freedoms to overcome state narrated fears are common in monarchical, dictatorial, fascist and communist regimes throughout human history.
This sort of greed is insatiable…
It will keep extracting until the last life sustainable parts of our earth are depleted.
There is enough to share to meet our needs, but never enough to support this unquenchable want.
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It will keep extracting until the last life sustainable parts of our earth are depleted.
There is enough to share to meet our needs, but never enough to support this unquenchable want.
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They're Fighting for the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth. Ecuador Is Drilling It Anyway.
Three years after a historic vote to protect Yasuni, the wells are still running- and the Amazon’s peoples marched in Puyo to demand the state finally listen.
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September 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
This sort of greed is insatiable…
It will keep extracting until the last life sustainable parts of our earth are depleted.
There is enough to share to meet our needs, but never enough to support this unquenchable want.
indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/theyre-fig...
It will keep extracting until the last life sustainable parts of our earth are depleted.
There is enough to share to meet our needs, but never enough to support this unquenchable want.
indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/theyre-fig...
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“Feeling strongly about something does not release us from the responsibility to find out whether it’s true.”
“Feeling strongly about something does not release us from the responsibility to find out whether it’s true.”
We Do Not Learn With Our Heads Alone
What Indigenous ways of knowing can teach us about critical thinking, and about being fully human in the classroom
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September 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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“Feeling strongly about something does not release us from the responsibility to find out whether it’s true.”
“Feeling strongly about something does not release us from the responsibility to find out whether it’s true.”
Instead of spending so much time and energy tearing down those that have just found their backbone or just woke up to the evil that they have been supporting, how about using that energy to instead get more people learn backbone growth and how to wake up.
September 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Instead of spending so much time and energy tearing down those that have just found their backbone or just woke up to the evil that they have been supporting, how about using that energy to instead get more people learn backbone growth and how to wake up.
I'm not interested in your narrative, your intentions, with how you justify actions in the name of fear or ideology
I do care about your actions and the actions of those you support
Make action-realized morals and ethics, grounded in real sustainable care for life and our ecosystems, normal again
I do care about your actions and the actions of those you support
Make action-realized morals and ethics, grounded in real sustainable care for life and our ecosystems, normal again
September 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I'm not interested in your narrative, your intentions, with how you justify actions in the name of fear or ideology
I do care about your actions and the actions of those you support
Make action-realized morals and ethics, grounded in real sustainable care for life and our ecosystems, normal again
I do care about your actions and the actions of those you support
Make action-realized morals and ethics, grounded in real sustainable care for life and our ecosystems, normal again
If your economic and governmental system requires war to grow...
If it needs mass imprisonment that creates profits
If it needs lots of hierarchy and centralization
If it needs unsustainable extraction
You don't need more of all those things...
You need a new System
If it needs mass imprisonment that creates profits
If it needs lots of hierarchy and centralization
If it needs unsustainable extraction
You don't need more of all those things...
You need a new System
September 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
If your economic and governmental system requires war to grow...
If it needs mass imprisonment that creates profits
If it needs lots of hierarchy and centralization
If it needs unsustainable extraction
You don't need more of all those things...
You need a new System
If it needs mass imprisonment that creates profits
If it needs lots of hierarchy and centralization
If it needs unsustainable extraction
You don't need more of all those things...
You need a new System
“Darkness doesn’t kill the light—it defines it.” —Richard Wagamese
September 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
“Darkness doesn’t kill the light—it defines it.” —Richard Wagamese
“You can change a label on a map, but you cannot change the relationship that our people have with these lands and waters. You cannot rename away our history.”
Chief Margaret Sault
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Chief Margaret Sault
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Colonizer-in-Chief Tries to Erase an Indigenous Name
A trade war he’s losing, an executive order, and an Indigenous name Trump thought was his to take.
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August 29, 2026 at 1:31 AM
“You can change a label on a map, but you cannot change the relationship that our people have with these lands and waters. You cannot rename away our history.”
Chief Margaret Sault
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Chief Margaret Sault
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Follow the money
Where it is really going not where they say it is going
Which TechBros and Families are actually getting richer
Who gets richer with Data Centers, Flock Surveillance, ICE detention, more oil extraction and pipelines, more wars, bringing back colonization,
Where it is really going not where they say it is going
Which TechBros and Families are actually getting richer
Who gets richer with Data Centers, Flock Surveillance, ICE detention, more oil extraction and pipelines, more wars, bringing back colonization,
August 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Follow the money
Where it is really going not where they say it is going
Which TechBros and Families are actually getting richer
Who gets richer with Data Centers, Flock Surveillance, ICE detention, more oil extraction and pipelines, more wars, bringing back colonization,
Where it is really going not where they say it is going
Which TechBros and Families are actually getting richer
Who gets richer with Data Centers, Flock Surveillance, ICE detention, more oil extraction and pipelines, more wars, bringing back colonization,
Those that would train AI to kill people have obviously ignored every dystopian novel and movie ever written
Like somehow they'll be the ones not to lose control of it.
Hubris kills but in this case will take out way too many innocent others
Like somehow they'll be the ones not to lose control of it.
Hubris kills but in this case will take out way too many innocent others
August 25, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Those that would train AI to kill people have obviously ignored every dystopian novel and movie ever written
Like somehow they'll be the ones not to lose control of it.
Hubris kills but in this case will take out way too many innocent others
Like somehow they'll be the ones not to lose control of it.
Hubris kills but in this case will take out way too many innocent others
Netflix, please reconsider People of the West. Rejecting a cinematic, Native-led history series because your strategy is supposedly “more entertainment-focused than educational”—while filling your America 250 lineup with historical documentaries—
Netflix Has Room for American History; Just Not When Native People Tell It
The streaming service says its licensing plan is "more entertainment-focused than educational." Its own catalog, however, tells a decidedly different story.
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August 19, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Netflix, please reconsider People of the West. Rejecting a cinematic, Native-led history series because your strategy is supposedly “more entertainment-focused than educational”—while filling your America 250 lineup with historical documentaries—
Still happening, still very concerning, still violating fundamental rights
From last year: From the Declaration of Independence:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"
From last year: From the Declaration of Independence:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"
August 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Still happening, still very concerning, still violating fundamental rights
From last year: From the Declaration of Independence:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"
From last year: From the Declaration of Independence:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"
What you should really fear is the fundamental rights that they are taking away in the name of the false fears that they are feeding you
August 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
What you should really fear is the fundamental rights that they are taking away in the name of the false fears that they are feeding you
"There is a difference between guilt and responsibility. Guilt says, I am personally to blame for everything that happened before I was born. Responsibility says,
We Are Not Going to Evict You: What “Stolen Land” and Land Back Actually Mean
For the people who get angry when they hear that they are living on stolen land.
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August 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
"There is a difference between guilt and responsibility. Guilt says, I am personally to blame for everything that happened before I was born. Responsibility says,
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August 11, 1978, Congress enacted the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, removing bans of our ceremonies.
August 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
August 11, 1978, Congress enacted the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, removing bans of our ceremonies.
The people at the top lie quite a lot
That in of itself should give you pause
Even if the lies are currently benefiting you, one day they won't; but the roots of their power will be so deep you won't be able to do anything about it.
That in of itself should give you pause
Even if the lies are currently benefiting you, one day they won't; but the roots of their power will be so deep you won't be able to do anything about it.
August 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The people at the top lie quite a lot
That in of itself should give you pause
Even if the lies are currently benefiting you, one day they won't; but the roots of their power will be so deep you won't be able to do anything about it.
That in of itself should give you pause
Even if the lies are currently benefiting you, one day they won't; but the roots of their power will be so deep you won't be able to do anything about it.
Ancestors Wisdom 21
Your spiritual journey is unique and needs your own self reflection. You can't adopt someone else's. They can't just take yours. However, when we come together in inclusive community and share and deeply listen,
Your spiritual journey is unique and needs your own self reflection. You can't adopt someone else's. They can't just take yours. However, when we come together in inclusive community and share and deeply listen,
August 6, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Ancestors Wisdom 21
Your spiritual journey is unique and needs your own self reflection. You can't adopt someone else's. They can't just take yours. However, when we come together in inclusive community and share and deeply listen,
Your spiritual journey is unique and needs your own self reflection. You can't adopt someone else's. They can't just take yours. However, when we come together in inclusive community and share and deeply listen,
Ancestors Wisdom 20
Take time every day to express gratitude and thanks for what is really most important
Then seriously consider whether your decisions and the decisions being made in your name truly prioritize them
Take time every day to express gratitude and thanks for what is really most important
Then seriously consider whether your decisions and the decisions being made in your name truly prioritize them
August 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Ancestors Wisdom 20
Take time every day to express gratitude and thanks for what is really most important
Then seriously consider whether your decisions and the decisions being made in your name truly prioritize them
Take time every day to express gratitude and thanks for what is really most important
Then seriously consider whether your decisions and the decisions being made in your name truly prioritize them
"We declare our steadfast and fierce independence
From racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and endlessly voracious and avaricious capitalism."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/semi...
From racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and endlessly voracious and avaricious capitalism."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/semi...
A Semiquincentennial Declaration | Common Dreams
Meditations and incantations on America's 250th anniversary.
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August 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
"We declare our steadfast and fierce independence
From racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and endlessly voracious and avaricious capitalism."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/semi...
From racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and endlessly voracious and avaricious capitalism."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/semi...
There are things that are not for sale and it should stay that way.
There are things for sale that should not be for sale.
There are things for sale that should not be for sale.
August 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
There are things that are not for sale and it should stay that way.
There are things for sale that should not be for sale.
There are things for sale that should not be for sale.