Jeffrey A. Becker
@serviliusahala.bsky.social
Mediterranean archaeologist | Binghamton, New York U.S.A.
Seriously, what are we doing, America?AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
apnews.com
abolish ICE. shut it down. send these fucking homeroom bullies with guns and masks to do hard labor breaking rocks in a prison yard until the end of fucking forever.
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.gov · 10h agoMy office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.
If we make it that far Reconstruction 2.0 is going to be lit
#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 12h ago'Devastated' scientists fear worldwide fallout as Trump guts 20-year Arctic research #RawStory
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections
"Stranger things have happened,” Trump said after a far-right media host implored him to declare a national security emergency on elections.
democracydocket.com
Ancient relics in Syria face new dangers after end of civil war www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
Ancient relics in Syria face new dangers after end of civil war
Syria has a rich archaeological heritage full of ancient Roman and Byzantine sites and treasures. Damaged and stolen during a civil war, they now face an increased danger of looting.
npr.org
it is wild how people in high positions of our government either do not understand where people live or actively work to deceive people
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoTom Emmer: "Minnesota doesn't necessarily lean Democrat. In fact, if you look at the 2024 presidential heat map, it is overwhelmingly red. There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities."
SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
POLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change report
The authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region.
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The steep declines come as the city enters the fourth year of its literacy overhaul. City officials say the results raise questions and require further analysis. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/10/n...
NYC Student Reading Scores Tank on State Exams, Undoing Progress Seen in Prior Year
The steep declines come as the city enters the fourth year of its literacy overhaul. City officials say the results raise questions and require further analysis.
thecityreporter.nyc
Trump "understands that once it is there, it will be hard to for anyone to make it go away". www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o...
Opinion | It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.
nytimes.com
“Todd Blanche now becomes the symbol of Donald Trump's corruption of the rule of law in America” Retired Judge J Michael Luttig minces no words over what it means that Todd Blanche has been confirmed as attorney general and the danger that poses to the upcoming midterm elections.
Wow. I'm curious how common such reactions from military families were in previous conflicts.
MS NOW@ms.now · 4d agoMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...
Low Danube water levels in Bulgaria expose Roman-era bridge | Reuters www.reuters.com/business/env...
Low Danube water levels in Bulgaria expose Roman-era bridge
Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, giving Bulgarian archaeologists a rare opportunity to document what they describ...
reuters.com
The chart tells the story: Recent economic history is weaker than we thought, and July's new number is downright concerning.
NASA grants Voyager 2 probe another year of power with risky 'Big Bang' maneuver. Now, will it work for Voyager 1? www.livescience.com/space/space-...
NASA grants Voyager 2 probe another year of power with risky 'Big Bang' maneuver. Now, will it work for Voyager 1?
Voyager 1 is running low on power for science, but a successful energy-saving maneuver on Voyager 2 raises hope that the 50-year-old spacecraft can keep going.
livescience.com
Is there a bigger and more glaring example of institutional failure than the sad and ridiculous ass hats who sit in the US Senate? These people are supposedly important but many are just dangerously ignorant idiots with the intelligence of a pebble.
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.👇
Pillage = "Defined as a serious war crime in both international and non-international armed conflicts under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Articles 8(2)(b)(xvi) and 8(2)(e)(v))."
Venus of Alicante: The 2,000-year-old Roman head inside a supermarket bag | Spain | EL PAÍS English english.elpais.com/spain/2026-0...
Venus of Alicante: The 2,000-year-old Roman head inside a supermarket bag
There has been some controversy in the Spanish coastal city for the way the discovery of an ancient sculpture inside a ditch was handled
english.elpais.com
In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
What is left of America makes me want to vomit.
every day he finds new ways to degrade the united states
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
"We have no alternative but to believe the promises of a man who has brazenly lied to us time and time again. You see, I am but a simple United States senator, bereft of any power and beholden to the whims of the pedophile president's consigliere."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
Monumental 2,500-year-old marble statue unearthed at Sardis in Türkiye: www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/monu...
