Anthropozoomorphic pectoral gold c. 100-700 CE Tolima culture Colombia #handmade #gold #pectoral #anthropozoomorphic #shaman #tolimaculture #colombia #ritual #religion #precolumbian #prehispanic #culture #afterlife #protection #fertility #rebirth #regeneration #spiritual #metropolitanmuseum #nyc

“Abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men.” The freedom to decide whether to continue a pregnancy is a fundamental right rooted in bodily autonomy, privacy, and dignity. Those decisions belong to the individual and their doctor.

The Survivors’ Truth Commission meets today, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. MDT to present its interim report and walk through its mission investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/08/04/e...

Epstein Truth Commission to present interim report Wednesday - New Mexico Political Report

By Kevin Hendricks The Survivors’ Truth Commission — formally the House Special Investigatory Committee — meets Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. in State Capitol Room 307 to present an interim report and ...

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holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

Today’s termination of Haitian TPS is heartbreaking for tens of thousands of families who have built their lives in MA and across our country. We can't lose sight of the human impact of this decision. We’ll feel the effects in our health care system, our workforce, our economy, and our communities.

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation

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Memento Mori@mementomori4950.bsky.social · 4h ago

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This is extraordinary! So spare and powerful. Really an astounding piece.

Patrick Kapty@patrickkapty.bsky.social · 4h ago

Jaguar and Snake Hacha effigy stone c.550-950 CE Late Classic period Mayan culture Mexico #handmade #carved #stone #snake #jaguar #transformation #spiritual #religion #faith #belief #culture #mayanculture #lateclassic #mesoamerica #mexico #precolumbian #prehispanic #precolumbianart #sculpture #art

Will this stop you from continually slagging off Democrats and encouraging democratic candidates to run against the democratic brand?

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Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5h ago

Democrats are consolidating as predicted. Excellent. Whitmer, Stevens, McMorrow and even Schumer rally behind Abdul El Sayed. He can and will beat Rogers who is weak and tied to an unpopular Trump and GOP. All gas.

OK I hope someone helps him realize that belligerence and all this macho posing is not going to help him get over. He needs to take a leaf out of Mamdani and Obama’s book and start being charming and sweet—as he was in his ad with his grandparents. I hate this “keep the name out of your mouth” shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Absolutely fascinating. Can’t wait for further information to be published. The more I get in Anthropeum.com the more I realize I lack real knowledge and appreciation of pre-columbian cultures. My basic knowledge base was formed when I was a child, 60 years ago, and so much less was known then.

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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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En Buen Ora@enbuenora.bsky.social · 3d ago

@flintdibble.bsky.social This seems another occasion in which archaeologists discover, publish, and emphasize new things, things which change how an entire part of the planet has been thought to have been settled, versus the pseudos saying academics suppress new things. phys.org/news/2026-07...

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Living up to his nym here.Yes, its unreasonable—verging on insanity to continue to revile and insult someone who got nearly the same number of voters as your preferred candidate. All of those D votes are needed in the general election elec. Of course you should let bygones be bygones.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4h ago

I'd be inclined to be gracious and humble in defeat if that wouldn't be the same as letting one of the most revolting, racist statewide campaigns in the modern history of the Democratic Party pass without comment.

moon past its prime, no longer hot

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... huh, interesting about what archaeology and dna is showing about Scandinavian ties to Rome, even in the absence of (like any) written source

Michael Kulikowski · Polar Bears in Rome: Roman Scandinavia

Writing protohistory – the narrative of times and places that don’t have a written history of their own, but are...

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This also seems right to me. I don’t have a boss anymore but lots of my patients do and this describes what is happening in their workplaces to a T. Managers are displaying the worst traits of learned helplessness and authoritarian abuse simultaneously.

𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔶@amaryllis.no · 10h ago

I feel like the misuse of AI chatbots has gotten so bad that managers and CEOs just treat their employees the same way, giving less than the bare minimum of vague instructions for the worker to infer, because they can't spend the cognitive effort it takes to formulate what they want

You’d think this would be a bigger deal to the commentariat obsessed with signaling their affinity for the working class by deriding office workers and what they describe as “HR Ladies” etc.

Liz Shuler@lizshuler.bsky.social · yesterday

At least 530 workers died from heat-related causes on the job last year. As temperatures rise, workers need stronger protections. Every worker deserves water, shade, rest and the right to come home safely at the end of the day.

Good Morning ☀️ Alan says, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird or a photo of a bird on bare winter branches. Female Northern Cardinal in Winter #ECK #photography #birds

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

On World Owl Appreciation Day, what better way to appreciate owls than to marvel at this ancient Greek warrior owl. He brandishes a long spear, a large hoplon shield and sports a magnificent crested helmet. So appreciate him. OR ELSE. 🕰️c390BC 🏛️📷Louvre

The next blockbuster: The Sea People Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit Villain: Odysseus Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted Chris Nolan: call me Visuals:

Not an epidemic so much as it is ENDEMIC.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h ago

Sure, Democrats are not perfect and we have some bad apples. But sexual harassment and abuse of women has become an absolute epidemic among elected Republicans because it is the culture of the party under lifetime serial sexual harasser Donald Trump.

MO Senator Eric Schmitt, posting on his personal Xitter account, is whining bc his Dem colleagues laid out how Schmitt and his Republican colleagues are endorsing tax crimes and rewarding terrorists and cop beaters.

What, you say serial harassers Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are taking steps to encourage *more* harassment? How utterly not shocking.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

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Politico@politico.com · 21h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court