The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Trump signals on Fox News that he may be invading Mexico and seizing Claudia Sheinbaum next. The message here is unequivocal: the Western Hemisphere is mine. I am the hegemon.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

For decades, the relationship between LGBTQ students and UWM authorities was filled with surveillance, violence, and other forms of systemic oppression. Check out this Story Map chronicling the evolution of this complicated relationship from the 1970s to today: bit.ly/uwmrelations #BeSeen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I think I know what it must have been like to see the iceberg from the deck of the Titannic, and to hear the folks in first class laughing and calling, "cheers!"

Penzeys is my hometown spice company, and I have the utmost respect for their business and how they source things. They’re a great company to support!

“In a late-night secretarial order, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced he was giving up oversight of Interior department and handing full control of department’s organization…to Tyler Hassen, Elon Musk’s DOGE operative” National Parks, National Wildlife Refugrs, Bureau of Indian Affairs et al

Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again

Found out from news media yesterday that 9 of our international students got the double hit of canceled visas and deleted SEVIS profiles. Still no message from our administration. Will try to find out today whether the students’s departments were at least informed. #highered

I dunno, I just think if you are a college administrator you should only use the phrase "we cannot protect you" vis-a-vis immigrant students if it is part of your resignation letter.

13/ The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research grant is cancelled: www.neh.gov/program/arch...

🎶 I hope you're happy I hope you're happy, too I hope you're proud how you Would grovel in submission To feed your own ambition🎶

Columbia has a $14.8 billion endowment. They gave up all of this for $400 million in federal funding. And now that they've given all this up, we all know that Trump will keep demanding more concessions. They've sunk themselves when at any time they could have just said... no.

I hope now, at least, people will stop talking about how universities are these left wing spaces dominated by flag waving Marxists--these are profoundly conservative institutions helmed and run by profoundly conservative people. No one else makes into leadership.

Our future

While the faculty annual review process can sometimes feel onerous, I have such profound gratitude for my colleagues who review the materials. I’m adding this year’s to my “Boost” folder-the collection of nice things said about me/my work that I can look at during those tough moments. #highered

Look at that Orange Menace

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. SUCHO has now made publicly available the 50 TB of cultural heritage data archived from websites ranging from national archives to local museums, 3D tours of churches to children’s art centers. www.sucho.org/press-releas...

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

No gods, no masters

Whoa! Our paper is paper of the month! Awesome work with my co-directors Sara Juengst (not yet here) and @archaeoguy.bsky.social, and our student co-authors! #ecuador #archaeology

EUGENICS: "SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN TO BE A BURDEN ON THE REST" Autism 👋 ((Mucker Fusk too BTW)) ADHD 👋 Asthma👋 Autoimmune disorders👋 Chronic illness👋 I'm targeted by a brainworm-controlled walking fucking leather bag. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2021/07/26/r...

Maybe this will finally get our administration to issue a statement? Maybe? www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

He said this a while ago and nobody I knew took it seriously. You bet your ass he's serious. This is how they manage the loss of migrants doing agricultural work - they send everyone with mental health concerns to do it instead.

If you want to keep up with how the Trumpist dissolution of constitutional government is impacting the CRM industry, one source is the regular ACRA "Your Congress in Action" series. It's sort of hidden under the "ACRASPHERE" tab on the website, no account required. 🏺 acra-crm.org/your-congres...

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

Breaking my rule abt not linking to twitter to share @emekshavehheb.bsky.social’s X post re Israeli Knesset Culture Committee’s debate on expanding Israel Antiquities Authority jurisdiction into the West Bank. “This is not about protecting archaeology…it’s about annexation” x.com/emekshaveh/s...

Took a break from doom scrolling to spend time on my mat. Yoga’s become a critical part of my coping mechanisms over the last few years, and I think it will be more important than ever.

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

Give them a follow. They feature Black scholars' works in STEM. youtube.com/@blacks.t.e....

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

I wrote up some advice for my college students about how to protect themselves from any breach of their financial information. Feel free to share: claresammells.scholar.bucknell.edu/2025/02/07/a...

Heads up American #archaeologists there is a joint resolution proposing to end the protections of Marine Archaelogical Resources. Time to call your elected reps!

And another

Another day, another gut punch

I’m teaching Issues in Culturales Heritage Studies this semester, and hoo boy did we have a lot of current events to talk about today. We’re still early in the semester, but students are making connections all over the place 1/

I am personally gutted that the proposal my co-PIs and I worked so hard on will probably never be reviewed, but I am more devastated by the bleak outlook for science and technology in the US

Good morning from Illinois, where I’ve been for the last few days for my grandmother’s funeral, still responding to urgent work emails, staying informed about and trying to push my R House rep to care about the Elon coup, and pretending like I’m not getting sick. Going home today, and I’m tired.

Trump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip… we’ll own it

Considering "Cultural Heritage" is in the NSF's DEI report as having no scientific value, we can expect museums & grants of archaeology, anthropology & history to die a sudden & painful death. Eliminating culture & history so people won't know where they came from.

"cultural heritage" this is every archaeology grant and doesn't even have anything to do with DEIA

So, is NSF just tanking the entire SBE?

“Some federal employees at the Education Department have been placed on administrative leave for previously attending a diversity training.”

If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.” But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.

Funny, Pinochet told Chileans the same thing in the 1970s.

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.