Interesting that no one gets to know who the committee members are at SAA. Gov. affairs seems ✨ sort of relevant ✨ these days

Matt Walsh -- who also wasn't there and who absolutely has an agenda -- has discovered something that has eluded the so-called historians despite all their "education" and "research" and "functional literacy" They're called "primary sources," nerds, and he's the first one to use them

Rich Condon@richcondon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

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

PSA: Grant Witness (@scott-delaney.bsky.social & @noamross.net) now has NIH funding curves à la @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Perhaps Berg curves for NSF will be there soon, too?

Hey Alex Goldman - we have a native passionfruit - it’s called “maypop” and grows wild all over the Midwest and Southeast US - Passiflora incarnata. I grow it in my backyard and have to keep it from taking over my entire yard! #botany #ethnobotany

Hyperfixed@hyperfixedpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week, we've unlocked our most popular bonus episode ever, a story of us biting off more than we can chew and attempting to solve a problem that afflicts the entire country. While Passionfruit is cheap and plentiful in tons of other countries, it's not only rare but extremely expensive inthe US.

"Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution," U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in his ruling. He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void. www.kuaf.com/npr-news/202...

U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America

He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers.

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Was your NEH grant terminated because of DOGE? Welp they used ChatGPT to do that.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change

Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri critiquing David Graeber’s bullshit jobs book is ~chefs kiss~

SECTION 106 Regs under review…worth taking note if you are a US based archaeologist.

ACHP Review of Section 106 Regulations | Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC

🚨 Action Alert: The future of Section 106 is at stake. For the first time in over 20 years, the ACHP has launched a comprehensive review of the Section 106 regulations. From “streamlining” permitting ...

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On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

OPB@opb.org · 9mo ago

OPB has closed this year’s $5 million budget gap created when Congress ended federal funding. Our work is not done. A strong future for free and fair journalism requires your support. https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/ 

Having a wee insomnia so putting about on social and remembering that time a self proclaimed “greatest MeToo journalist ever” spent months in vitriolic Twitter rants at women in archaeology and even made female gendered sock-puppets to carry out some attacks and tell himself how amazing he was

This makes me so angry. I am also a professional who got to where I am because of an (SEB) NSF DDRIG grant. Archaeological research was already so painfully underfunded.

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ICYMI: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its months-long deployment of National Guard troops to help police Washington, D.C.

Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC

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Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago. It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit. It's 233 pages. Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

It’s like real life who is on first

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Also: I still don’t understand what’s going on here! Huh??? 🧐

Something we are working on at Cultural Heritage Partners. And there’s been additional news! www.culturalheritagepartners.com/eeob

Protecting the EEOB - Cultural Heritage Partners

Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC (“CHP”), and the DC Preservation League, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking an emergency injunction to prevent any federal...

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Julie DiCaro@juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Preservationists concerned by Trump’s public musings... about painting a 137-yr-old building next to the WH completely white sued him Friday to halt the work, arguing that he could not unilaterally alter “one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital.”"

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

👇🏽 this is just the start of the fireworks for today 👇🏽

Delegate Katrina Callsen@katrinacallsen.com · 9mo ago

The gaslighting is just wild. Youngkin is urging the BOV to, “take advantage of the most inclusive and successful Presidential search process in UVA’s history.” 🕵🏽‍♀️ Facts: - Federal overreach - Forced firings - Hasty Appointments - Votes of No Confidence - Lawsuits - Secret deals to appease Trump

If you weren’t sure whether the wealthy often occupy a predatory role in society….

Italy probes claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians

Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.

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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

damn a lot of these epstein pen pals are kinda giving off ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ energy huh

Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...

Section 106 Isn’t the Bottleneck—But It’s on the Chopping Block

This week’s Senate Energy & Natural Resources hearing on Section 106 didn’t show that the NHPA causes permitting delays. It did, however, signal that threats to Section 106 are coming—and the preserva...

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That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

How did our adversaries get all our command data and plans!? See what happened was…

Jay Kirell@jasonkirell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Officers

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Literally the only thing I missed about living NOVA was access to the Ethiopian places in DC. Found a brilliant place when I moved to RVA but they closed a bit back (RIP Nile) - this is good reminder to go back to Buna Kurs here in RVA and try Addis as well!!!

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...