Global Indigene working in #IndigenousFilm & #IndigenousTV ✨Cheyenne & Mescalero Apache✨ Member of AMPAS, EP of #FancyDance Producer #FreeLeonardPeltier Doc

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Academy Museum Gala - more fashion! Wearing all-black edition! We have Cole Escola with arm hair, Bird Runningwater, Jessica Biel looking FINE! & Kylie Minogue…
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Watch the #freeleonardpeltier documentary on which I am a producer streaming on @netflix starting TODAY Oct 12 #Indigenousoeoplesday #Indigenousfilm
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Thank you, President @BarackObama. Your support means more to me than I can say. I got my start organizing for your campaign, inspired by the belief that together, we can make real change. That set me on a path fighting for New Mexicans. Now, I’m ready to deliver as Governor: lower costs, stronger schools, safer communities, and better healthcare. It’s go time! Early voting is open. Let’s do this!
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.@HillaryClinton has spent five decades fighting for working families, dedicating her career to making the case that every child in this country deserves a fair shot. I’m honored to have Secretary Clinton’s support, and I’ll proudly carry on her fight in the US Senate.
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HBD Mother ❤️ In honor of @Madonna’s birthday, we’ve unearthed every conversation we’ve had with the Queen of Pop from our archives for the very first time. Find her in her own words, from 1985 to today. interviewmagazine.com/music/…
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The 2027 #SundanceFilmFestival is coming into focus. 🎬 Festival Director Eugene Hernandez shares key dates, programming highlights, and a look ahead as we continue celebrating independent storytelling and the artists who challenge and expand the possibilities of cinema. Join us January 21–31 in Boulder, Colorado. At-home online screenings will be available starting January 28 across the country. Start planning: sndnc.org/44RmoTc
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I think Madonna just did something the industry insists women her age cannot do. Nearing 70, forty years into her career, she released 'CONFESSIONS II' and debuted with sales over 100k and near universal critical acclaim, dancing through the whole rollout in fishnets, bright colors, and mini skirts. No, this isn't a Taylor Swift record, and it was never going to outsell Olivia Rodrigo's latest era or dominate the Billboard conversation the way a twentysomething pop girl's album does. I won't pretend otherwise. But that comparison was never the point. The point is that the number exists at all, attached to a woman who refused to disappear on schedule. Because the music industry runs on a quiet, brutal clock for women. "Be young, be marketable, be palatable," and the moment you age out of that window, "fade gracefully into legacy artist status." Greatest hits tours. Nostalgia slots. A guest verse here and there where you play the elder stateswoman and stay in your lane. Men get to age into gravitas. Women get aged out of relevance, often by their thirties, and somehow the culture still treats that as natural law rather than a bias wearing an industry standard as a costume. 'CONFESSIONS II' answers that clock directly. Madonna didn't reach for a stripped-down singer-songwriter reinvention to signal maturity, and she didn't soften the choreography or cover up. She stayed on the club floor making the same unapologetic dance music she has built entire eras around since the eighties, sounding like she's having the time of her life doing it. The refusal is the radical act here, more than any sales figure, if we're being honest. There was an easier rollout available to her. Play it safe, lean into legacy-act comfort, get praised for "aging gracefully" the way the industry likes its older women to age, quietly and out of the way, not bothering. She chose the opposite. "This is me, take it or leave it," and let the work answer for itself. Critics engaged with it seriously. People talked about it. None of that required a blockbuster number, because the goal here had nothing to do with competing against pop's current generation. Madonna was proving the door doesn't have to close. And that reaches past Madonna herself. Every woman being told, in ways loud or quiet, that her value comes with an expiration date now has something to point to. Following your gut instead of the calendar the industry hands you can still work, even decades in, even against every assumption stacked against you. I don't think the real weight of this lands right now. It lands later, when the industry has had time to catch up to what just happened. Somewhere down the line, women like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Christina Aguilera hit their forties and fifties and sixties still making the music they actually want to make, and the path Madonna is carving out right now is what lets them do it without the industry demanding they soften, retreat, or rebrand as "mature." She's showing that the accommodation can run the other direction: the industry bending to an artist's vision instead of an artist bending to fit an age bracket. That's the part I'd call genuinely revolutionary, maybe more than anything else in her catalog. Not a single rollout, but a shift in how the business ends up treating women once they're no longer twenty-two. One album debut won't dismantle years of ageism in music on its own. The bias is still real, still landing harder on women than men for the simple act of getting older in public, and one artist's success doesn't erase that. What it does is offer proof of concept: a woman near 70 doing exactly what she has always done, unfiltered, met with real acclaim and real attention instead of condescension. That's the part worth celebrating.
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Bird Runningwater retweeted
I am a bit sceptical about what we call blessings. I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence, which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in your own mind.
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The only thing that will bring happiness is affection and warmheartedness. This really brings inner strength and self-confidence, reduces fear, develops trust, and trust brings friendship. We are social animals, and cooperation is necessary for our survival, but cooperation is entirely based on trust. When there is trust, people are brought together—whole nations are brought together. When you have a more compassionate mind and cultivate warmheartedness, the whole atmosphere around you becomes more positive and friendlier.
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Women deserve equal pay for equal work. It’s that simple. We must also recognize that women of color continue to face the greatest pay disparities. On the anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, we recommit ourselves to building an economy where everyone is paid fairly and every family has the opportunity to thrive. I’ve been in this fight from day one, sponsoring the bill and working to close the wage gap — and as governor, I’ll never stop fighting to make equal pay a reality for every New Mexican.
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I use the words physical hygiene and emotional hygiene. We should pay equally important attention to the hygiene of our emotions. Physical hygiene keeps us physically fit — but full of anger, what use is that? Real hygiene is emotional: peaceful, compassionate emotion. That is the real inner hygiene.
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Deb Haaland, a former US interior secretary and congresswoman, will win the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, CNN's Decision Desk projects. If she wins in November, she will become the first Native American woman to serve as governor of any state. Follow live updates: cnn.it/4vmYgmt
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What Really Makes Friends - Forget wealth. Forget power. His Holiness the Dalai Lama cuts straight to the heart of human connection — and reveals why compassion is the only thing that creates true, lasting friendship. Video originally recorded on November 20, 2014.
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Today, we honor the farmworkers who sustain New Mexico’s agricultural traditions and keep our communities fed. Their labor is essential, their contributions invaluable, and their dignity non-negotiable. Leaders like Dolores Huerta have shown us what it means to organize, to demand fairness, and to never back down in the fight for justice. Dolores is not only a trailblazer for farmworkers, she is someone I am proud to call a friend. Her courage, both in fighting for workers and in speaking her truth, is a reminder of the strength it takes to stand up for others, even in the face of pain. Because of leaders like her, generations of farmworkers have a stronger voice, safer conditions, and a path toward better pay. I’ve spent my career standing with workers and fighting to expand opportunity. As governor, I will continue that work by strengthening our workforce, raising wages, and holding employers accountable when they violate workers’ rights.
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MESSAGE I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach. Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace. An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters. I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end. DALAI LAMA 31 March 2026
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First trailer for ‘STOP! THAT! TRAIN!’ starring RuPaul. In theaters June 12.
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My heart breaks for my dear friend Dolores Huerta. Like so many women, she has long carried the burden of this horrific abuse and told no one. It takes immense courage to share this trauma publicly and immeasurable strength to relive what happened. Dolores is a fighter, and my love and deep admiration for her only grows as she selflessly continues to stand up and sacrifice for survivors and for us all. nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/ce…
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This is an amazing year of Academy nominated Feature Directors who we had the privilege of supporting through our Artist Program Labs on their first films. Sending Ryan Coogler, Chloe Zhao, Paul T. Anderson and Guillermo Del Toro huge congratulations on their great work!
Go Inside the Creative Process of the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Directors Who Got Their Start at Sundance Institute Labs Read more: bit.ly/4rfTzZo
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