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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1h

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.

Which is your favourite?

From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photos show four ornate Visigothic bronze belt buckles arranged in a 2 x 2 grid. Each buckle has a rectangular plate decorated with colourful glass (red, blue, green) inlaid into metal cells using cloisonné technique, and a chunky curved metal loop and prong. They adorned leather belts which Visigothic women wore over a tunic (probably) as a status symbol. Excavated between 1942 and 1949 by Antonio Molinero from the necropolis of Duratón near Segovia, Spain. They are on display at the Casa del Sol Museum in Segovia.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fiercely independent and proudly pro-democracy. It has no corporate overlords, no venture capital investors, and no billionaires pulling the strings.

Instead, Democracy Docket relies on you. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

60 Minutes Obeys in Advance

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 6h

America: We can’t have nice things, like leadership in green energies.
The US should be a world beater in energy development. Trump & Republicans pull us backward.
We only can watch as the rest of the world moves ahead.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 4h

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 4h

A constant favorite. Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine. 1916.

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KCarp @kcarpdiem.bsky.social · 18h

I'd love for a reporter to ask how many of these people are / were Christians? Don't ever want to hear pro-life out of their mouths again. bsky.app/profile/jayl...

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 19h

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

www.bu.edu

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 22h

People are parsing “Why exactly did Mamdani win?”
Meanwhile, national Dems can’t find a message to deliver.
Mamdani had a clear and strong platform.
The Dem one…?
I haven’t heard *anything* so concise and easily understood.

Mamdani:

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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 1d

Not just on immigration.
Business leaders go on TV and complain about how the tariffs are driving up their costs. Small businesses are closing, etc..

Yet, Trump was very clear what he was going to do.
Either they supported those policies or didn't believe he would do it. No one thought it through.

Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

Again, the information environment is broken because it was clear with Miller what was going to happen but most of the press refused to entertain the idea that this would mean mothers being pulled from car windows while picking up kids from school.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”

The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

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PaulaBehnken @phbehnken1234.bsky.social · 1d

It's despicable. And I think the speeches we heard last night make it clear we will not permit this kind of evil to happen again, by the very fact that none of the speakers ran on the hate platform.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s never get accustomed to this kind of evil.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Armed federal agents in black balaclavas climbed into the car of a U.S. citizen they had detained and drove off with his toddler still strapped into her carseat in the back.

Masked Feds Drive Off in U.S. Citizen’s Car With Toddler in Backseat

A video shows masked and armed agents arresting the man outside a Home Depot, then taking his car with his 1-year-old daughter still in her carseat in back.

trib.al

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

We knew it would happen like this: Self-assigned armed brutes, satisfying their violent urges:

“Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin…
by the FBI.”

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

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Ken @bludrone.bsky.social · 1d

“We have all three key ingredients of a strongman state: a rubber-stamp Congress acceding to the president’s desires;Supreme Court enhancing the president’s powers;and a power-hungry president behaving like a king, disregarding laws and checks and balances.”
newrepublic.com/article/2026...

Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now

Trump’s authoritarian playbook has 10 rules. He’s following every single one of them.

newrepublic.com

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Ken @bludrone.bsky.social · 1d

“Vermeer’s best paintings have a meditative quality exceeding the genres to which they belong.The devotional attentiveness of The Milkmaid slowly dispensing her milk in a thin trickle from jug ; the rapt fixation of the gaze of the Woman with a Pearl Necklace”
literaryreview.co.uk/a-devotion-t...

Kathryn Murphy - A Devotion to Art

Kathryn Murphy: A Devotion to Art - Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon

literaryreview.co.uk

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take: The people of New York have displayed more wisdom (and dare I say character) than much of the current leadership of the Democratic Party.

I've visited New York several times and found it to be a vibrant, dynamic, diverse metropolis. It's new mayor won because he embraced that vision.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

This man knows how to speak. How to charm. Democrats could—should—watch and learn how to connect with voters.

Democrats deserve fire like Mamdani’s!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 1d

more good news
@11tulips.bsky.social @stevesawyer12.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @jakichantler.bsky.social @tepizep.bsky.social

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

My best friend in fourth grade wouldn’t stop singing this in the lunch line:

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough, it ain't no good to pine

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to fellow Stretfordian Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, 78 today. Born in Davyhulme, went to Stretford Grammar School.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 1d

These people are the absolute worst of us. May their comeuppance be weighty.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d

🏆 Raise the bar!

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from the FBI Agents Association after Director Kash Patel fired, unfired then re-fired several agents who had worked on cases targeting Trump and allies.

Complete shambles.

"The actions yesterday - in which FBI
Special Agents were terminated and then reinstated shortly after - highlight the chaos that occurs when long-standing policies and processes are ignored. An Agent simply being assigned to an investigation and conducting it appropriately within the law should never be grounds for termination. Director Patel has disregarded the law and launched a campaign of erratic and arbitrary retribution. FBI Agents deal in facts, and we urge Director Patel to do the same. When leadership abandons due process, it doesn't just erode trust - it makes the American public less safe. FBI Agents must be free to focus on protecting the American people, not fear losing their jobs over third party social media posts." (edited)

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Mat B @buckwheatmat.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank

Fogbank - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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PaulaBehnken @phbehnken1234.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a print person, so folo some of the best (former) print journalists on their own sites. See Substack, for one. On YouTube, you'll find excellent commentary/intrvus by Lawrence O'Donnell, Heather Cox Richardson, Brian Tyler Cohen,etc. Also PBS. Cable + network media are owned by $$, and for $$.

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 2d

Today's perfection..

Gondolier's Siesta by the American artist John Singer Sargent.
#Art #FineArt

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