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Rosemary Joyce
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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ .. more

Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more

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Pinned
Election tension is not over in Honduras. It has moved to a phase where splits in the incumbent Congress are now producing a confrontation that at least rhetorically has hints of possible escalation. Buckle up for the simplest summary of events since the CNE declared a winner on Dec. 24.
Further on the declaration of a winner in the Honduran presidential election: the third electoral commissioner, Libre’s Marlon Ochoa, has characterized the action as illegal. News reports explain the two other commissioners voted with a back-up (suplente) to make the required third member. 1/

—Carl Sandburg, “Buffalo Dusk”

The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.

I wonder how many of us avoided watching? I still feel like I jinxed them over and over so playoffs are all retrospective now.
I wonder if the airplane will show me the Bills game. And … I wonder if I’d be happier not watching.

The chairman of the Federal Reserve being the most intense elder statesman in resistance is… unexpected.
Holy shit moment. Good statement. The corrupt authoritarians and oligarchs are at the gates. There’s no alternative to fierce resistance and putting down their lawless crusade against the American Republic. x.com/federalreser...
x.com
Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."

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I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?
I highly recommend “sound on” for this new angle

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I'd like to request an ad in the next print Onion promoting Hilton Hotels' new slogan "The Official Innkeeper for ICE!"

"Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Kidnapping"

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Also: the sentiment that law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to endure disrespect is craven, servile, and profoundly un-American. Saying is a relatively rare burst of truth from Trump,. People who agree show their ass as born bootlickers.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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born to run
Holy shit moment. Good statement. The corrupt authoritarians and oligarchs are at the gates. There’s no alternative to fierce resistance and putting down their lawless crusade against the American Republic. x.com/federalreser...
x.com

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googled "ICE polls" (from a fresh browser on a VPN with no cache). feels good

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the last year has been one long exercise in finding out who has principles and who is a spineless worm fit only to wriggle in the dirt.
we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

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we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

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me, learning about all the assholes joining ICE en masse who are never going to see a dime of those $50,000 bonuses they thought they were getting:
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
“The U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Mr. Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project…”
Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell
www.nytimes.com

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Now that I think of it, a great term for what you're describing is "encapsulation." That's a term from insect immune system response, in which foreign matter inside insect tissues is surrounded and cut off so it can't create damage. Really appropriate for this!

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On the phone with them right now.

You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.

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Most will still be in their 3-year probationary period when the next president takes office. So can be dismissed in mass without cause like Trump did to a bazillion other agencies that he decided to unilaterally downsize.

Gooses and ganders, don't you know?

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"Rosé all day, fight all night"

"I brought the wine, who brought the pork?!"

"Prosecco on *this* [image of rolled up constitution stuffed in ICE agent mouth]"
"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre

this could be the next heated rivalry
Ladies you “Zumba-ed” too hard!
ICE officers slipping on ice while trying to terrorize communities is the most accurate metaphor imaginable. No balance. No footing. No moral ground. Just cruelty, incompetence, and gravity doing its thing.

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Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov
"I am head of the defence committee in Denmark It is my job to be on top of security in Greenland and I get all relevant information about it. I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional."

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Bringing back "sewer socialism," literally. Gotta love it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_s...