Please, archaeology & heritage folks, add alt text to your images. It's just describing the photo so that people who can't see it can still engage with the post. Describing things is a key skill in archaeology & heritage. I'm tired of seeing lovely images that I can't share

To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

Some new photos by @gardnergareth.bsky.social of the ceramic subway mural of mine that was just completed in Birmingham

🔥"It is estimated that more than 400 women and girls were abused and exploited within Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. I am one of them." A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.

“Now, evidence is growing that, faced with a climate crisis, the civilization did not disappear but adapted and moved.” #climateheritage ways that #archaeology provides the long view for thinking about #climatechange www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The obvious is proven over and over again. Stop messing with a virus that damages the immune system. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

Over the years social housing stock has been sold, real wages cut, profiteering unchecked, local council funding cut. Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings". What is the govt doing? Watch the Minister's reply.

Such a pity that frontline NHS staff aren’t given the space in newspapers to air their thoughts, as Streeting is. The NHS is currently missing around 100,000 staff. It’s no surprise when they’re bashed continually for fighting for fair working conditions🚨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

England’s top medical unions warn it’s unacceptable that Long COVID still isn’t classed as an occupational disease. Three years after official advice, frontline health workers are still waiting for recognition and financial support. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

What the hell’s this all about, @bsky.app? #FreeSarahKendzior

America will only be great once we guarantee universal healthcare, universal education, paid vacations, paid sick days, paid family leave, cheap green energy, easy & secure voting, and a living wage to all citizens.

Epstein vote aside, Adelita Grijalva needs to be sworn in today, no questions asked. More than 700,000 Arizonans have been without representation, and that’s flat-out unacceptable.

“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19… [which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs. Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”

Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe. More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Never forget that the only country in NATO history which triggered NATO article 5 is USA after a bunch of Arab terrorists took down some buildings in New York. Now when Europe is in existential threat by former Soviets, the USA is throwing us bones and expecting gratitude. EU need to step up.

Masking indoors in public spaces boils down to this for me now: I love never being sick from airborne infectious diseases. The last cold I had was in early 2019, with not even a sniffle since. The only thing I don't do is dine indoors in public spaces; a good trade for health.

Capitalism says productivity is the most important metric in determining value That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare. How do you earn it? By working until you die. It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable. It enriches the wealthy only

Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about. What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars. We're paying for the torture of children. I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism. They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

REMOVE THE CAP REMOVE THE CAP REMOVE THE CAP

Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease. 🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258 A big part this is from childhood asthma. www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...

so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers. What a scam…

"Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party." Noam Chomsky

🇦🇺 Australia is buying Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, - The Guardian. Energy supplies from Russia are being delivered to Singapore’s Jurong port, which is partly owned by the Australian investment fund Macquarie. Australia may have received over 3 million tons of petroleum products since 2023

Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally. If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.   Every Republican should have to answer for this.

President Trump refers to the Democrats as 'the enemy"

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I can confirm that Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI and my co-host on the UnJustified podcast, has received a subpoena in this case. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/u...

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

"Light therapy is another option. Research shows it can help up to 85% of people when started early in the season." www.healthday.com/a-to-z-healt...

Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada: Take a bow. You did it. You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud. You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.

‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her “Ruth was 14 years old & being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act…How did the system we trusted…fail us so tragically?”

I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

Imani has some scathingly accurate videos on how the Dems caved on healthcare (and will continue to do so) because 1) they'll be using it for midterms and 2) private equity is set to make trillions off of us since Covid mass-disabled this country. It pisses me off, bc I can see it.

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%... "The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I know I’ve got a lot of folks in my followers that fit this bill. Julia says email conversations are ok!

If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book. Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.