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Some AI is going to tell a college age nazi to fire almost every incident and natural disaster response team in the federal government because they didn’t have much to do during February 16-23, 2025.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Dear God.

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Trump and Musk are purging federal workers by email silence now—and as always their own supporters are getting burned. One of them took to X to is beg Elon for his job back.

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 3 days ago • 751 comments

The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

What is notable here (amidst the editorialising) is that Nandy comes across as far more positive than in that recent op-ed. Are government comms really this poor? The mixed-messaging is terrible.

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🏺 Researchers in #Poland have discovered that some artefacts excavated in the Early Iron Age cemetery near Częstochowa contain meteoritic iron mixed with smelted iron. https://buff.ly/3Xbi0uI Scientific article here: https://buff.ly/4bcOYka

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The figure I suspect we'll all find ourselves quoting is the one on how Net Zero industry is now a bigger part of GDP that farming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 7 days ago • 2649 comments

Unapologetically. ✊🇪🇺

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

Good for Jeremy Bowen saying Trump lied. First time I have heard this self evident truth on the BBC today.

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This plan should help you explore @emztheartist.bsky.social and is so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye. Drawn by Curwen based on survey by Gurd, Jacob and Toms. www.cambridge.org/core/service... #HillfortsWednesday

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Holy shit. Senator Dick Durbin, the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, has proof suggesting Kash Patel may have LIED under oath when he said he did not know Stew Peters, a right wing extremist who worked with prominent Neo Nazis. See below: Vote NO on Kash Patel!

submitted 7 days ago • 482 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 8 days ago • 238 comments

The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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Here is the oath all executive branch employees take. It is to support and defend the Constitution, not to “implement the president’s agenda.” If the two purposes diverge, the Constitution prevails.

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Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 36 days ago • 2215 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. She has more courage than every single one of our politicians on both sides combined!!

submitted 36 days ago • 276 comments

Mariann Edgar Budde said, “I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.” I stand in unity with the Bishop, and you should, too.

submitted 33 days ago • 123 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde responds to Trump and death threats.

submitted 34 days ago • 84 comments

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

submitted 36 days ago • 1417 comments

Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

submitted 36 days ago • 1157 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

submitted 36 days ago • 2680 comments

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

#Neanderthals

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A map of parental-DNA exchanges charts course for studies of human evolution www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Interesting: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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This article is an utter car crash of jingoistic nonsense. The only 'legitimation crisis' here is manufactured and tells you everything you need to know about those behind it.

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Right, this may be controversial, but we're going to say it anyway.... We think the Boxford Mosaic is rubbish. 😬 Seriously we have art stuck to our fridge door that's better. (please don't @ us).

submitted 45 days ago • 25 comments

Periodically @mdpetraglia.bsky.social and I retweet these beautiful handaxes dating to several hundred thousand years ago from Saudi Arabia that our international team found in the Nefud Desert a few years back

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Another shot from last Sunday's visit to the impressive Dumnonii iron age hillfort of Woodbury Castle in Devon, for #HillfortsWednesday.

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Our professional archaeology team @archsoutheast.bsky.social is 50 years old and we are celebrating in April! Do come and join us for a day sharing half a century of archaeological discovery and contribution to cultural, academic and scientific life in Britain and beyond. #AncientSky 🏺🧪

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Recognising the unusual on the spectacular.

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