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Also Brennan shining a light on Aabria being a “theme-hound” in the same way that Murph is a “plot-hound” is so succinct an true, what a great distillation of Aabria’s storytelling skill.

Had Summers widened her scope a little, she would have seen that there was a third role white women played in Europe's colonies: that of the Great White Mother. It was through harnessing the Great White Mother that white women were able to access a form of limited power through maternalistic intervention into the lives of Aboriginal women.

Margaret D. Jacobs uses the term "maternal colonialism" to describe the role played by white women in the removal of Indigenous children from their families in Australia and the American west. Focusing on the sixty years from 1880 to 1940, Jacobs uncovers a history of white women far removed from the usual image of steadfast pioneers who were ignorant of the reality of the colonial project.

As in other colonial outposts of empire, white women in Australia quickly learned to navigate European colonialism to their advantage, leveraging their status as both a subordinate class and a privileged class to "simultaneously collaborate with and confound colonial aims."

When it came to the removal and institutionalization of Indigenous children, colonialism was "largely a feminine domain, defined primarily around mothering, particularly targeted at Indigenous women, and implemented largely by white women." White women decided that the removal of Indigenous children was "women's work for women."

because like yes, it's extremely lloy of her, metal is her element and something she continually emotionally communicates with, of course she'd use metal to mark her loved ones, nothing could mean more

but also the spell itself. and i know at least mechanics wise it's because she's not high enough level yet to cast locate creature instead of object. lore wise though? the two spells are almost identical, except for the fact that locate creature requires you to picture the person in your head, and doesn't work on shapeshifters if they're currently in a different form than you're imagining. like druids often would be

a good portion of the people she looks up to and cares about are functionally immune to spells that seek them out, even before you take into account they have items like the walker's ward

but giving the piercings is saying by this you will always be known to me, and whatever form you take, i will find you again

In Maine, trigger-happy ICE agents shot and killed yet another Hispanic on Monday.

On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting, this time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine said the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, according to the Portland Press Herald. “He was a member of our community, a neighbor, and a human being whose life was cut tragically short. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and everyone now grieving this unimaginable loss,” the two immigration organizations said in a statement. Daniel Boucher, who witnessed the aftermath of the shooting, told the Portland Press Herald that he was getting ready for work and after hearing what sounded like fireworks, he witnessed agents remove the driver of a sedan. “He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher told the Press Herald. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”  A representative of the Biddeford Police Department said calls about the shooting should be directed to ICE; the Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to a request for comment. FBI agents were photographed at the scene of the shooting as part of an apparent federal investigation. [ ... ] It is unclear whether video of Monday’s shooting will emerge. The ICE agents involved were not wearing body cameras, according to (Sen. Angus) King. Monday’s victim is one of more than 20 people whom federal immigration agents have shot at since last year, according to the New York Times. Most of those shootings have involved people who were inside their cars. At least nine people have now been killed during encounters with immigration agents during President Donald Trump’s second term.

WMTW-TV in Maine identified the victim of the ICE shooters...

A family friend told Maine's Total Coverage Joan Sebastian Guerrero was killed in the shooting Monday morning. She says Guerrero leaves behind a wife, 3-year-old child, and sister.

This occurred just a week after a similar incident in Texas.

‘His blood is on Trump’s hands’: man killed by ICE in Texas mourned at vigil

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