Building a triumphal arch to celebrate how hard we're losing a war.

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in Texas, many of which haven’t been fully studied. wrd.cm/46s8TtK

Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.

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Archaeologist Joe Watkins on Section 106 changes. 🏺

An amusement park on Mount Vernon? The agency tasked to protect cultural heritage just abdicated its responsibilities, opening the door for federal agencies to wipe out our past

Proposed federal rule changes would eliminate the requirement for public feedback and consultation with key parties like Tribal Nations and ultimately lead to the destruction of much of our cultural h...

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“Of course he can! Special rules for the special boy!” — Always and forever, love, the Supreme Court www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Can Keep Building Ballroom While Supreme Court Weighs Appeal

The temporary order from the high court gives justices more time to deliberate.

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Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

Tenure track Assistant Professor opening at @uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvic.ca with preference for, but not exclusively limited to, Indigenous archaeologist and speciality in Salish Sea archaeology. 🏺please share. www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

UVic ANTH Assistant Professor NWC Archaeology - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

"If we want to replace yellow skies and devastated landscapes with good fire, California settlers need to reimagine our relationships with Native societies." An excerpt of "California Futures": http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/california-futures-daniel-lanza-rivers-wildfires-indigenous-decolonial

New paper from Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) at Stanford University www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Excited to announce the publication of my new book: WE WILL RECEIVE JUSTICE: NATIVE HISTORIES OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS! Coauthored with Gustavo Flores and rooted in collaborative research with the Ohlone community. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

We Will Receive Justice - Nebraska Press

We Will Receive Justice explores how Native people in the southern San Francisco Bay Area—the ancestors of today’s Ohlone community—navigated the colla...

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The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇

Save 40% on everything you order from our new Native American and Indigenous Studies catalog! Enter coupon code 6NS26 in your shopping cart, then click "Apply." Shop now: bit.ly/4515gud

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Officials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’

Pueblo leaders, New Mexico lawmakers speak out to protect Chaco Canyon - High Country News

Officials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’

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Article about this week's effort to quietly gut the regulations for the National Historic Preservation Act.

Trump admin seeks to quietly rewrite historic preservation rules to smooth way for pet projects | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is quietly moving to revise a decades-old rule governing historic preservation of buildings and landscapes that, if passed, would ease the path for constructing the president’...

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The regulations that give teeth to the National Historic Preservation Act are about to get wiped out. "Section 106" is what requires pipelines and roads to get checked for impact on archaeology. It's also the basis for federal consultation with Tribes on projects. And it's getting DOGEd this week.

Lisa Reyna Loe@lisaloe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨ACHP is rushing a Section 106 vote THIS FRIDAY that will eliminate regulations, further devastating historical protections. Section 106 is what allows US to document our history in areas endangered by actions funded/permitted by our federal govt. Contact ACHP👇🏽 ASAP — vote NO! (cont.)

🧵It's been a tough few days for #Archaeology and #HistoricPreservation in the US. ACHP released proposed regs changes to S106 on FRIDAY EVENING. They have betrayed all committments to an established timeline or collaboration with preservation partners. The proposed changes subordinate NHPA to NEPA;

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

"A history that’s only written to flatter our present leaves out the smaller stories, the reverberations of ambition and frustration, the minor hopes of making a living rather than ruling the world." Hua Hsu, on how Silicon Valley has changed since he grew up there, in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Silicon Valley Circuits

Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

We've all grown numb to Trump accusing an entire political party of committing felonies with negative proof, but that doesn't mean the Speaker of the House gets a free pass. Every media question he gets from now to November should demand he put up or shut up. Humoring this bullshit is dangerous.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In Alabama, the Roberts Court hands Republicans yet another shocking gerrymandering win

By reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upheld an Alabama Congressional map that denies Black voters fair representation. This decision flies in the face of democracy and is another critical blow to our voting rights.

This is so fucked up. Years of scholarship stolen and resold on Amazon, without a word of the archaeologists and historians who did the labour, the interpretations…the actual work. Dystopian stuff. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

Who Is Blake Whiting? - The American Scholar

The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

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One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9. Also remember massacres at — Orangeburg (2/8/1968) & — Jackson State (5/15/1970) Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ke...

May 4, 1970: Kent State Massacre

During an anti-war protest at Kent State University, the Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students, killing four. Students were also killed at Jackson State (May 15, 1970), and Orangeburg (Feb...

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The article she co-authored in 2017 is as relevant today: The Future of American Archaeology: Engage the Voting Public or Kiss Your Research Goodbye! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

free speech on campus going well, I see.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 5mo ago

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr EITM Texas Tech U notifies its five universities of a new campus "Don't Say Gay" policy barring professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses, eliminating related fields of study, and requiring skipping textbook chapters on the topic. 1/2

Get inspired for your conversations at #SAA2026SFO with a new collection of articles from archaeologists working in California, free to read (where not already open access) until 31 May! 📚 https://cup.org/4vJmBUH #Archaeology #CaliforniaArchaeology @saa-aap.bsky.social