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Sometimes archaeologist, anthropologist, and professor in SRU’s College of Liberal Arts. Co-director of SRU’s Center for Middle East Studies. https://www.sru.edu/academics/colleges-and-departments/cla/mesru
A growing number of Americans, including 58% of Democrats, say the US should be responsible for some reparations to Iran for war damage - a measurable increase from the previous week.
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills
"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.
gizmodo.com
Hundreds of Jordanian political, legal and other figures sign an open letter calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Jordan in a rare public challenge to the government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
Some Jordanians Dare to Speak Out Against U.S. Troop Presence
Hundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk.
nytimes.com
“For the first time in my life, I felt completely helpless. There was only one of me and more than 40 of them, backed by the occupation forces. They threw stones at me as I ran; I had no idea if some of them were carrying guns."
We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War
If this passes, 90%+ of American archeologists, including my daughter, will lose their jobs. Another archeologist (📸 #1) explains the devastation to come. 👇🏽😳 ACHP - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Sources: culturalheritagepartners.com/war-room-for... share.google/1BkIaB7nFGi7...
This young man was valedictorian of his high school. He came to the U.S. when he was three. ICE held him for a month. Then they shipped him to El Salvador. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
Texas Christian University student deported to El Salvador
Luis Andrade Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador around age 3. ICE deported him this week following an arrest in Arlington.
dallasnews.com
As unpopular as the Iran war is, the coverage still doesn't do justice to the fact that they just could have not done any of this. There was literally no reason beyond general bloodthirstiness and incompetence.
Serbian President Vucic announced he’ll resign after 18 months of student protests. That’s Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Hungary, and now Serbia, all in the past two years. Anti-corruption is the most potent force for positive political change right now. The US remains ripe.
Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government prote...
reuters.com
Breaking news story at Bounces: Following cultural momentum around anti-trans pushes in sports, the WTA has enacted a new policy that will require *all* players to undergo genetic sex testing in order to continue playing on WTA Tour. Read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/wta-requir...
Breaking: WTA to Require Genetic Sex Testing for All Players
Following cultural tides, the women's tennis tour is mandating a strict new eligibility requirement.
benrothenberg.com
Gifted…. Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
nytimes.com
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
nj.com
The kind of shit that makes your blood boil. "The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention
Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners
theguardian.com
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.
UNFUN FACT: The 2026 FIFA World Cup features 48 teams co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico. Of the 48 participating nations, the United States is the only one without a universal health care system.
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
I am not a lawyer but I know the Supreme Court’s rulings today violate international agreements on refugees & migrations that the US is party to. Because international law matters when states enforce it, this is a political window for democrats to insist the treatment of refugees & migrants matters
The point of a university degree is that it changes how you relate to the world, opening up more and wider possibilities than you would otherwise have had Reducing it to a financial calculation is to *massively* miss the point www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime
New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.
bbc.co.uk
I buy these in bulk and ADORE them for all those annoying water places I cannot feasibly clean and drain regularly. I also toss the bigger mosquito dunks in the gutters. They should pay me in a lifetime of free bits for the frequency I evangelize the good news of how awesome they are.
Mosquito Bits® - Summit® Responsible Solutions
Mosquito Bits® When sprinkled into standing water where mosquitoes breed, biological Mosquito Bits® Kills Mosquitoes Before They’re Old Enough To Bite®! Easy to use – sprinkle or broadcast over standi...
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Albuquerque Journal@abqjournal.bsky.social · last mo.Health officials have found mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus in Bernalillo County, posing a potential risk of illness to people in the area.
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
nytimes.com
universities that still see their task as providing faculty-led teaching and supporting faculty-driven research have an opportunity here — if they’re not too busy Running It Like a Business, that is
According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...
Six reasons to save archaeology from funding cuts
The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.
theconversation.com
Stephen Miller today saying the whole budget deficit was people receiving money illegally too. One of the things I hate most about our current age is the lack of consequences for shameless public lying.