Interesting that no one gets to know who the committee members are at SAA. Gov. affairs seems ✨ sort of relevant ✨ these days

Matt Walsh -- who also wasn't there and who absolutely has an agenda -- has discovered something that has eluded the so-called historians despite all their "education" and "research" and "functional literacy" They're called "primary sources," nerds, and he's the first one to use them

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Hey Alex Goldman - we have a native passionfruit - it’s called “maypop” and grows wild all over the Midwest and Southeast US - Passiflora incarnata. I grow it in my backyard and have to keep it from taking over my entire yard! #botany #ethnobotany

"Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution," U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in his ruling. He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void. www.kuaf.com/npr-news/202...

Was your NEH grant terminated because of DOGE? Welp they used ChatGPT to do that.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri critiquing David Graeber’s bullshit jobs book is ~chefs kiss~

SECTION 106 Regs under review…worth taking note if you are a US based archaeologist.

On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

Having a wee insomnia so putting about on social and remembering that time a self proclaimed “greatest MeToo journalist ever” spent months in vitriolic Twitter rants at women in archaeology and even made female gendered sock-puppets to carry out some attacks and tell himself how amazing he was

This makes me so angry. I am also a professional who got to where I am because of an (SEB) NSF DDRIG grant. Archaeological research was already so painfully underfunded.

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ICYMI: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its months-long deployment of National Guard troops to help police Washington, D.C.

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

It’s like real life who is on first

Something we are working on at Cultural Heritage Partners. And there’s been additional news! www.culturalheritagepartners.com/eeob

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

👇🏽 this is just the start of the fireworks for today 👇🏽

If you weren’t sure whether the wealthy often occupy a predatory role in society….

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

damn a lot of these epstein pen pals are kinda giving off ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ energy huh

Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

How did our adversaries get all our command data and plans!? See what happened was…

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Literally the only thing I missed about living NOVA was access to the Ethiopian places in DC. Found a brilliant place when I moved to RVA but they closed a bit back (RIP Nile) - this is good reminder to go back to Buna Kurs here in RVA and try Addis as well!!!

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

This is exactly the kind of thing that Timothy Snyder is talking about in the essay I reposted earlier this week.

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon. Here it is:

That this administration is mobilizing ANG from states largely controlled by Rs to states largely controlled by Ds is incredibly alarming. It’s not just the misuse of the ANG…yeah it’s alarming.

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025 "In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

WTF? I dint even know why Im saying that. More like. Of fucking course.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

In case there was any doubt about the anti-DEI sentiment is actually about…

dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity

IT IS TIME.

The whole administration in one quote

When one of your journalism crushes strays into your botanical world 🌱🩷

In case you were wondering the “I’ve read some obituaries with great satisfaction” quote was not Mark Twain. More fittingly - it was Clarence Darrow “ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow 1932.