“Stevenson..would like to see a “critical evaluation” of the major institutions in Canada that have supported non-Indigenous scholars, writers and thought leaders who have claimed Indigenous identities. She wonders why their stories have been "so compelling and convincing" to these institutions..”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

This is the way.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

Kirk also called for reinstating public executions and said they should be televised. He thought it would be good for children to watch them though he wasn't entirely sure at what age that would be appropriate. www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

It’s so weird hearing right wingers talk endlessly about how the left wants to hurt them. With what? Health care, equal rights and living wages?

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Marxist engineering professors of Utah State strike again

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die people don't have to be threatened and bullied into pretending they're sad about it.

These hairy spiders spend almost all of their lives underground. But when it's time to mate, they must brave the great outdoors before they perish.

showing up to CVS with tuberculosis does not seem like a great plan tbh

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

An “unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump cuts 100% hit young scientists hardest. It’s also incredibly elitist to focus this article on Harvard, a university that gives out an absurdly tiny fraction of graduate degrees in the U.S. And I would venture to say that things are much worse at most flagship state unis (even in blue states).

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump attempts to execute an armed takeover. Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.

We are at a point where the distinction between the party and candidates identified with that party is extreme. I wouldn’t raise a finger for the party. I will wear myself out for a candidate who fights.

Bye Bye Big Bird 😢 No more #npr

It's important to note that due to ecosystem changes, notably the extermination of the Cheyenne, millionaire Texas ranchers have few natural predators. While the individual loss is tragic, ultimately it maintains the health of the millionaire Texas ranchers herd. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

Good morning, friends. I've got a rather busy day, so I'm afraid I must be quick with the eel post. But don't worry, friends...I won't leave you eel-less. Please enjoy this wonderful interlinear eel and heron. Perhaps they're having a conversation about the evils of lightning. 🗃️🧪

i know i am late on this but is there more glaring example of the utter lack of agency the right wing is afforded where is the guest essay taking the right-wing family to task for being such assholes that their own family members snub them

UTAH… this is not a game…

Friday Finnish! Rise and Shine!! Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 - “The Merry Aunties “ “I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

So much damage.

I logged into to Bsky this morning, when it's British, and it was a British official describing a future for higher ed where AI teaches content classes and profs teach, like...critical thinking? On top of that? And it was the most depressing thing I read today, not least bc it was like

Message of support from the Canadian Archaeological Association to American archaeological societies 🏺

It’s Trump’s 100th day! Or is it? America is so divided it can’t even agree on how counting works

You guys!!1!1 I just accidentally made a schnitzel that looks EXACTLY like the Hohle Fels bird! 🧪🏺

Baby Kim would have been absolutely thrilled to know that my work was going to be featured in Archaeology Magazine one day! It's all about evidence of fruit found under the floorboards at the 19th century Female Immigration Depot and Destitute Asylum in Sydney, Aus🏺🗃️

A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan!!!! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🏺🦣🧪

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them. 📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...

The late 19th to early 20th century bottling company site in downtown Gettysburg, PA, was a nightmare of glass. The Icehouse project saw us shoveling glass out into buckets in approximate 10 cm levels because of the difficulty that much glass entails & safety, too. #Archaeology

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO.

As infuriating and abhorrent as this is, it's standard colonizer violence, which colonizer laws and doctrines will always work to justify. How do colonizers come to terms with being treated as they've treated others? It must involve historical honesty and restitution.

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

JUST IN: While Trump's executive order takes aim at Perkins Coie, the judge said it "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession."

nope — no-one digs up Indigenous, Native American, First Nations or African ancestors without consent today as for Europe you have it upside-down: the coroner strictly controls excavation of human remains but there’s no such regulation or transparency in museums apart from post-1948 human tissue