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CRM Archaeologist living in Northern California. Historical archaeology of class and labor. Socialist. Currently researching working-class households in 19th-c. San Francisco, when not thrashing through underbrush in extreme weather.

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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.

Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.

Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.

This is what congress is advancing today πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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Video: Politics UK via X (@PoliticsUK)

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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

I remember Edge.org being ubiquitous in the 2010s, back when evolutionary psychology and race science were having an unpleasant popular moment--"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing."

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The Local Democratic Socialist Chapter Making Waves in Eureka Politics Humboldt DSA is the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

Local coverage of Humboldt DSA. #HumboldtCounty

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For the archaeologists, especially the ones into pre-marxist socialist utopian communes.

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#humboldtdsa

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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Academics vying for a spot in Epsteinβ€˜s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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Who is Pro-Israel California Rep. Jared Huffmanβ€”Really? Protestors probe his political psyche and we follow the money Northern California congressperson Jared Huffman, 60, held his annual β€œHootenanny” campaign

Glad to see some sort of spotlight on Huffman. I've always thought of him as, at best, a rather mousy nonentity. But, as with any machine Dem, his ineffectiveness is paid for.

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Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge

Immigration authorities are being told β€œincitement” and β€œfighting words” are not protected by the First Amendment, per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...

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These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

A small conflict here between the Right's purported admiration of the ancient Greeks and the Classics, and what the ancient Greeks and the Classics actually say.

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There are no pure cultures – we have always been global | Aeon Essays All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history

For most people I know this is nothing new, but as politics seems to be increasingly about the (re)creation of pure ethno-states that only ever existed in propaganda, I wonder if it has been taught enough.

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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g... - I appreciated this essay

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The US educational system.

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I hope I never get trolled by Somali immigrants πŸ˜†

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Holes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

As an archaeologist, I wish I'd known there was a philosophical literature on the ontology of holes.

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🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

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"Widespread child sacrifice". And why brothels? These people are so goddam strange.

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A union banner in the local labor temple. "Bartenders' League of America"

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism β€œIndicators” New order targets β€œanti-Christian,” β€œanti-American,” and β€œanti-capitalism” opinions

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," β€œanti-Christian,” and β€œanti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

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Shades of the Ahnenerbe.

"Officials from the Israel Antiquities Authority have followed Israeli troops into occupied zones in search of artefacts."

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'In these conditions, Chomsky’s injunction to choose dissent, to β€œspeak the truth and to expose lies,” feels incomplete...Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished.'

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Good article, but we shouldn't be too comfortable with the idea that scientific racism is confined to the Right. Some of the most influential proponents of scientific racism are self-professed liberals.

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Just causally dropping this here

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E.Β P. Thompson’s Romantic Marxism E.Β P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism β€” and the fierce resistance it provoked.

E. P. Thompson died on this day in 1993. He brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism β€” and the fierce resistance it provoked.

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