“This Oxfordshire hoard, buried nearly 2,000 years ago, really belongs to all of Oxfordshire residents.' Angie Bolton, curator of archaeology, Oxfordshire museum service But the sad fact is, under current legislation, Treasure Hoards can be sold for private profit, broken up and never seen again.

This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

can someone tell counsellor smith... the rule of law died 20 jan 2024?

dems should tell MAGAts, you got the votes, do what you want. you want our votes, we have a bill.

about. fucking. time.

Women losing their bodily autonomy, no due process, masked forces rounding people up, threatening the judiciary, ignoring the legislature, attacking artists and academics, throwing voters off the rolls, intimidating free speech, persecuting minorities How are we still calling ourselves a democracy?

one point of light lost to the darkness... #melissahortman

“I’m so happy” 🇮🇹 Italian drivers stuck in standstill traffic because of the massive nationwide pro-Palestine protests are… completely fine with it

the thing i noted abt sirota and his ilk is that theyre never satisfied w actual progress... its always, but they didnt do this other thing... i ignore sirota bcz hes an asshole.

This beautiful glass bowl looks modern, yet it’s about 2,250 years old! 🤩 Made using an innovative technique in which thin threads of twisted glass were spiralled over a convex mould. Wonderful example of the skill of ancient artisans! Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 me #Archaeology

And again. Mind you, generals are largely not stupid people. They will be aware of and uncomfortable about being used as pawns for optics. Milley learned that for all of them. Unprecedented things in military history are generally not received well by those in charge. They like not-chaos.

Because here's the optics: a President who has recently stood on a stage and declared he hated half the country and has signaled his wish to invade American cities has called in the generals on the day the federal government shuts down. And the generals are telling us they didn't plan any of this.

welp... now i am too. since 20 jan, ive been womdering how much are they gonna let slide.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

i say again... all yall are mutts. some of yall are inbred mutts.

Places that were more segregated experienced more Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Who's the Menswear Guy for baking?

“The actual state of Palestine” — brilliant front page from UK Observer

Can we get an afternoon cancel for little Artie who’s having a sun bath

Russian Occupation Update, September 25, 2025 @thestudyofwar.bsky.social understandingwar.org/research/rus...

isnt the mirror a murdoch paper???

Russia May Be Planning Violent Protests After the Moldovan Elections @thestudyofwar.bsky.social understandingwar.org/research/rus...

...and no one said a mumbling word abt how he would know the sex lives of 12yo kids...

One of the weirdest talking points of all time is that boycotts of Israeli settlements or cultural or academic institutions harms Palestinians. No it doesn't lol. Dumbest idea ever. Why can't you just argue against the merit of a boycott without lying?

There has been so much ink spilled over the Moynihan report over so many decades -- WHY doesn't every single analysis lead with this very important biographical and clearly psychological detail?!

Imagine writing a whole report blaming Black people, Black families and Black mothers in particular for a "tangle of pathology", quite literally defining Black culture as pathological while your own white family is in shambles?! SHAMBLES?!

Like.. WHAT YOU MEAN HIS OWN WHITE DADDY WAS AN ALCOHOLIC GAMBLER WHO ABANDONED HIS FAMILY AND HIS SINGLE WHITE MOM WAS ON WELFARE BUT INSTEAD OF FIGURING OUT WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON WITH THE CRISIS OF THE WHITE ANGLO FAMILY HE WROTE A RACIST FEDERAL REPORT ON THE CRISIS OF THE NEGRO FAMILY?!!

Taught Angela Davis and Spillers today in my Black Women's Studies course, delving into their respective critiques of the Moynihan report and after reading his racist screed for the umpteenth time, I was like.. wait a minute.. the lady doth protest too much! What was this man's family background?!

So today I learned that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the white social scientist who pontificated on the "crisis of the negro family", denigrated black mothers as matriarchs and decried 'absentee' black fathers was himself raised by a single mom after his alcoholic father abandoned their family.

Yes indeed!!🤦🏻‍♀️

how very white male to brag abt ignorance and think its cute.

know how i know #FAFO2025 isnt real???? whiteness hasnt done this yet...

TL;DR... all yall are mutts. some of yall are inbred mutts.

"history is rife with contentions about the purity of bloodlines of 1 group & claims over ancestral homelands..Instead..analysis..shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, & everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

they literally have a president from the party of benito mussolini, right?

You'll note that in 1945 the US Army flagged the term "Americanism" as a seemingly pablum term that American fascists might try to use to cloak their politics in. bsky.app/profile/seth...

The beauty of a term like "Americanism" is its vagueness. What American could disagree with promoting "Americanism," right? But it's vagueness is precisely why far right White Christian Nationalists like Walter Huss (future chair of the OR GOP) embraced it as a way to mainstream their radicalism.

Walter Huss wasn't just any old "Christian anti-Communist" activist. He was a former Silver Shirt who partnered with Oregon's leading neo-Nazis & far right domestic terrorists to try to take over the OR GOP for his distinctive brand of white Christian supremacy. rightlandia.ghost.io/walter-huss-...

In Tajikistan’s Saritag mine, workers extract antimony, a critical mineral vital for renewables and defense. As China leads operations, rivals from the U.S., EU, Russia, and Gulf states vie for Central Asia’s strategic mineral wealth.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

🇩🇪🇱🇻Rheinmetall has agreed to build a 155-mm ammunition production facility in Latvia. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/latv...

has anyone checked up on #melbrooks lately?

do they want a cookie???

my spirit just threw up...