Thus redacted Zarathustra

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes

When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

The #PaperOfTheMonth from Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social#PaperOfTheMonthis "Training for Transformation: Building a Responsive Archaeological Workforce in California and Beyond" by Kaitlin Brown et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4o2BQ60 #archaeology

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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Stanford University has apparently removed its land acknowledgment from campus-wide events. Native students have created a petition to have it reinstated. Learn more here: c.org/wxV5SxCtm2

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

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-...

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

Watching our mad king don his AI slop crown and publicly fantasize about rage shitting on our moment of collective power is the perfect counterpoint: he's the one isolated in his impotent fury, clinging to the online simulacrum while we primally express and experience our very real strength.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Great to see so many folks out in San Jose today. Hard to capture the scale, but definitely the largest one yet. #NoKings

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

We're hiring! Santa Clara University is searching for a TT assistant professor in biological anthropology. We're a friendly department with strong interdisciplinary ties across the SCU campus. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline is 11/1. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Los Angeles. D.C. Memphis. Portland. Our troops didn't sign up to intimidate their fellow Americans and be pawns in Trump's political theater. Shame on Republicans for being complicit in this abuse of our military.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Justice Jackson recently said that the Court is operating with just two simple rules. First, there are no rules, and second, the Trump Administration wins. When the government adopts a position squarely at odds with statutes and court precedents, SCOTUS should not be stepping in to allow it.

"Starting Sat morning, people walking a...trail at Coldwater Canyon Park will be able to scan a QR code and hear something new: wiit, the Indigenous word for California oak, and huukat, the word for elderberry, plus 17 other Indigenous names of #CANativePlants." @laist.com: laist.com/news/los-ang...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Imagine if they did all that every time someone got shot at school

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The Republican Party that hated racial quotas sure does seem to like racial quotas

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology." Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"? www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Join me at McMaster! We are hiring an archaeologist scientist with preference (but not limited to) PEB and/or zooarchaeology. Geography open, although preference for North America, especially Eastern North America/Great Lakes region. Applications due November 26th! (Pls share widely.)

This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.

Without this promised emergency loan from the state, millions of people in the Bay Area will suffer due to the steep cuts to transit service, the worsening traffic, and the rise in pollution. We need to turn out in big numbers Monday morning & get loud actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

If Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

When Klansmen dynamited the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed four girls, the blast knocked out the face of Christ from one of the stained glass windows. TIME ran the image on their cover. Of course, that was way back when we still cared about our kids being killed. Ancient history now.

Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.

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As the Trump Administration threatens the Native arts ecosystem through defunding, I have a look at how the de Young's revamp of its Indigenous art galleries helps put the voices of California Indigenous communities front and center. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

“The most powerful, well-heeled institutions of higher education in this country are cutting deals with the Trump administration that undermine the future of higher education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd

"In response to the white-supremacist bullshit the Trump administration is going to attempt to spray like a firehose across our cultural institutions, let me offer this counternarrative." @tlecaque.bsky.social on Trump's Smithsonian purge: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-smit...