Advances in Archaeological Practice. 'Inspiration from California' - A new collection for SAA 2026.
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!
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I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong
Cover of book titled, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions." It features a painting of a single Native individual holding a bow and arrow standing in the abandoned courtyard of a mission complex with dark clouds and hills in the background.
Excited to announce that Gustavo Flores and I have a new book coming out later this year with @univnebpress.bsky.social! More details coming soon, but for now here is the amazing cover featuring art by Katie Dorame.
Ask everyone you know what their favorite and most memorable class was in college and take careful note of how few of them name a course from their major or that is relevant to their current career.
We at Stanford University are grateful to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the North Fork Mono Tribe for this collaboration on Muwekma Ohlone land.
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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
"I think it's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity."
Scoop from @davidgilbert.bsky.social
God bless Billy Bragg, still out there being Billy Bragg.
it feels a lot like today's murder is in response to the mass protests yesterday, as if to tell us we're powerless, that our solidarity won't protect us.
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Understanding Trump means grasping that he sees our government and our country the way private equity sees a company it takes over. You crack it open, extract all the value from it as fast as you can, line your pockets with it, and walk away.
If it means nothing to you, destroying it is irrelevant.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
One reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is because every societal institution, including the media, has completely normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
Thus redacted Zarathustra
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Limits of mission influence contrasted with federally recognized tribes in California, circa 2010
I had this map in my 2013 American Antiquity article, "Archaeologies of Persistence." Happy to send a pdf if you need one.
Cover of "Advances in Archaeological Practice" journal, showing a group of researchers examining artifacts at a table, with text announcing it as the "Paper of the Month."
The #PaperOfTheMonth from Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social is "Training for Transformation: Building a Responsive Archaeological Workforce in California and Beyond" by Kaitlin Brown et al., available #openaccess!
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