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.

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.

"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!

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2y ago

PENZEYS SPICES 📣Penzeys is having a sale ahead of the owner having to raise prices because of Trump's tariffs. (And phew!! that I learned about it in time!) If you already use Penzeys, you know what I'm sharing this information! If you don't, what a great chance to get on that! www.penzeys.com

“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

Melanie@passifloraresearch.com · 2y ago

Horrible.

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...

Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research

The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities.

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🎶 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🎶

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 2y ago

WSJ gift link: Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding "School to ban masks, empower police and rein in controversial academic department."

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.

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."

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.

Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 2y ago

So it seems Columbia gave the Trump administration everything they wanted and more, including a new "vice provost" who will review curriculum, hiring, and leadership. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Our future

John Lowe@archaeocore.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just saw a great presentation on a community archaeology project that ended with the speaker announcing that their NSF grant was being reviewed because of “outreach to disadvantaged communities” and that his publicly funded university is eliminating their Anthropology major due to PA lege pressure.

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

Guy Duke@archaeoguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

No peace with little brothers.

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

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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

Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 2y ago

The Paper of the Month from Latin American Antiquity is 'An Enigmatic Manteño Burial from Buen Suceso, Ecuador, AD 771–953' by Sara L. Juengst et al., available #openaccess! 📚 cup.org/4hXJ4FI #archaeology #LAQ

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...

a black and white drawing of a tree with the words eugenics on it

Alt: SCROLLING PHOTOS OF EUGENICS BUILDINGS. The last one you cannot see easily reads: SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN TO BE A BURDEN ON THE REST

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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2y ago

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

insidehighered.com

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.

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2y ago

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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. 🇺🇸