Don’t hold me to this, but I think the earlier Thule/Dorset people were around 1000 CE, while the Inuit were later. I’d have to look it up. Both migrated east across northern Canada once the ice sheets cleared. However, paleogenetics show a lot of east <—> west cross flow between these peoples.

Has been for awhile (Monte Verde). Why are comments off on this thread?

Depending on where you’re talking about, but the earliest settlers in South America were definitely pre-Clovis and left a genetic signature. I believe that is true in North America also.

What about the White Sands footprints? Those are way earlier than 13k years ago.

Yeah, there were no indigenous people in Iceland before the Vikings got there. Seems that from what we know now, the Thule and Inuit stopped at Greenland.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

Zelensky clearly annoyed with Steve Witkoff, who views the war as some sort of real estate transaction & pushes Kremlin talking points. Recently he pushed Kyiv to accept Putin's demand for the rest of the Donbas because "it was incorporated into [Russia's] constitution." Read Zelensky's comments:

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

Wow, the season 3 finale of Foundation was really incredible. Interested to see where they go with season 4.

Idea for an amicus brief: We list the powers in a chart let's say Louis XIV claimed for himself, and maybe the courts can just indicate with a checkmark which ones of those Trump doesn't have. Seems more efficient.

My gov

I can

Let’s ask @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Somehow, putting a deranged eugenicist with a brain parasite in charge of our health infrastructure has gone terribly wrong.

Classic Rock is rock music from the 60s/70s, not the 80s/90s. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Cat video youtu.be/ROh8Bco64qo?...

The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

Hardworking people coming here to build houses and clean bathrooms and pick produce and thousands of other things that make the US thrive is not an emergency — it’s an economy. And when a real emergency hits, we’ll be short $608 million to help those affected.

should probably keep posting this

They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

As a retired USAF Lt Col, I 100% agree.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

Speaking of people who are making no sense, here’s one.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

This needs to stop

All federal government spending must be reviewed by a committee of 20-year-old computer nerds. As our Founders intended.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov also

NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

Still wondering

@djgrothe.bsky.social something to do on Sunday?

More evidence that the best way to understand DOGE is it’s effectively a massive cyberattack on the US govt, near worst case scenario. In addition to the direct damage, likely at least some of the DOGE operatives, their devices, or transmissions are compromised by Russian intel and other agencies.

The DOJ has instructed judges to predetermine whether or not an asylum seeker’s case is viable — essentially denying people of their right to prove that their case merits a hearing.

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

To explain: call options are basically a highly leveraged bet that a stock or stocks (with SPY it’s the S&P index) will jump. High volume minutes before a surprise market-moving announcement strongly suggests insider trading.