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Archaeologist in the PNW studying land, anarchy, and all things zooarch. Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge, déanaimis comhrá! Catch me in the woods cracking open a cold one with Bigfoot. they/iad 📍Kalapuya Land *THOUGHTS MY OWN*
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If you’re handling todays rain with anything more than a hoodie you’re a coward and a scoundrel

Indigenous fishing at Celilo Falls, Oregon, 1941. Lee Russel photo via NYPL digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/acb0f8...

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

Seal party in Coos Bay! 🦭

A source within NOAA tells me firings are happening “imminently” including veterans and disabled workers thehill.com/policy/energ...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Only problem here is the past tense: “People burned plants to produce more pliable & straight shoots for weaving; to stimulate plant growth; to foster biodiversity; to facilitate hunting by reducing undergrowth; to smoke out pests or destroy disease; & to minimise destruction wreaked by wildfires.”

Seeing Leonard with the sun shining on his face is so healing and powerful

It's fun looking up the grant I'm funded under a few times a day to see if it still exists

For folks in DC with animal pals

Scrolling through LinkedIn today is like a bloodbath...so many federal archaeologists have already lost their jobs

I have an appointment today to update my social security card to reflect my full legal name...placing bets on whether or not I leave the office with all my ID documents 😵‍💫🫠

if i'm trans *and* have ADHD, anxiety, and depression... do i get to pick which camp i get sent to?

Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

jesse eisenberg's marxist-leninist wife,,,,,hello

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

oh no, a California marine lab faces closure www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

bi-con dana scully cross stitch 🛸👽

Cultural burn on the University of Washington campus in Seattle www.dailyuw.com/science/burk...

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Nevada lithium permit violates indigenous rights: HRW

AI cannot be used to address climate change because it directly contributes to it

Remember, labor unions were the negotiated compromise to blowing up factories with dynamite

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

"Trans people all deserve better — but while Democrats keep fetishizing Robert’s Rules of Order instead of taking this shit seriously, we’ll just have to keep showing up for each other instead."

How Do You Organize in a Remote Workplace? Organizing in remote workplaces is based on the same principles of in-person organizing, but it can be daunting to reach out to people you’ve never met.

After the fire: “Federal Cultural Protection Laws (e.g., National Historic Preservation Act, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act): Typically forbid hazardous projects on sacred lands, yet this protection appears to have been waived due to emergency status.”

Love zines? Love the Black Trowel Collective? We've added many of our zines to our webpage for you to download and distribute. 🏺 blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/zine-library/

When the journal article title starts with "In response to:"

From KSUT Tribal Radio @ksutpublicradio.bsky.social

Coping with the things I can't control by rearranging everything in my house

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

I'm so deeply deeply tired. Key terms from my industry are being flagged for censorship, I can't risk updating my passport without my documents being seized, and I'm just sitting around waiting for the next disaster

Hey Portland! 📣 This event will be happening at the Oregon State Capital in Salem on February 5th (this coming Wednesday) At noon. We've already seen Salem can show up, now lets show up for Salem, for Oregon, and for eachother.

bringing back some #InvertebrateShitposting from the archives

Direct action is more important than ever now that we're facing the looming threat of the complete obliteration of the NLRB

Oh good, "cultural heritage" is being flagged🏺🫠

San Andreas Earthquake Welcome to Launch West Coast Off to Sea Anytime Now: bit.ly/4fwhVsg

Beannachtaí na Imbolc ort, ullmhú le haghaidh athnuachan

California water politics is an issue I have been obsessive about for years and I do NOT appreciate having to follow it closely while literally everything else is also falling apart 😵‍💫

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