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JQ Jacobs
@jqjacobs.bsky.social
Educator, archaeologist, gardener, potter, Peace Corps Peru.
Writing and photography at jqjacobs.net.
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KML link now in the ArchaeoBlog: jqjacobs.net/blog/
"Southwest Loops KML" placemarks include 68 lidar overlays, 46 loop outlines, 45 site placemarks, selected study results, and a readings list.
#Southwest #Archaeology #Lidar #KML
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February 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...
FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show
Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.
substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spent 100s of thousands of dollars and expended thousands of man-hours of labor all to send just NINE people in chains on a Boeing 737 from Minnesota to Texas today 👀
February 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.
February 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Heather Cox Richardson points out that Pam Bondi’s bizarre testimony makes more sense when you realize she couldn’t talk about the Epstein files without perjuring herself. Watch our discussion here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...
Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill Discuss Republican Spying and Weaponized Justice
Watch now | A recording from Allison Gill's live video
www.muellershewrote.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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A strange find from the Epstein files:

A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."

Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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The Trump Administration Is Waging a Global War on Children. An OpEd with my friend and co-author @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
The Trump Administration Is Waging a Global War on Children | Common Dreams
​By cutting aid abroad and the social safety net at home, while spreading vaccine skepticism, the administration is ensuring that more children will suffer and die.
www.commondreams.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

With @texastribune.org
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show

www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-bar...
Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show
Tom Barrack, a top U.S. diplomat and longtime friend of President Trump, networked and socialized with Epstein for years, CBS News found.
www.cbsnews.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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$38.3 bn for concentration camps, shuffled into the pockets of Trump's billionaire cronies in the prison industry. Nothing for health care.
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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WIN: An Arkansas court blocked a state law that required signatures from at least 50 counties to be collected for an initiative to qualify to be on the ballot — a significantly higher threshold than the state constitution requires.

The state may no longer enforce the measure.
🚨 New Filing in King v. Thurston
Read the latest filing in King v. Thurston.
www.democracydocket.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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WIN: A Montana court blocked a state law that would have required students to declare their intent to remain in the county after graduation to register to vote using their college address.

If upheld, the measure would have barred thousands of students from voting in their own communities.
🚨 Montana Student Residency Requirement Challenge
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." Trump cabinet member.
Sometimes, in the wee hours of the night, one's mind may find itself wandering towards the question of whether or not it was wise to hand the reins of all US healthcare to the cocaine-snorting meat vessel of a brain worm
"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
February 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Overturning the endangerment finding means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades

go.nature.com/4kzTf5L
US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat
Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.
go.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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This is Dalai Llama, our alpha. Not to be confused with the spiritual leader of millions of Buddhists around the world, our Dalai is nonetheless at peace with his choices in life. Choose love and the world will come to you. Choose power and you become like the current AG of the USA. Ouch. Not good.
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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NEWS: In April, Oversight Dems will be in Palm Beach, Florida hearing directly from survivors as we begin the next phase of our investigation.

Palm Beach was ground zero for Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship and we know that multiple women were recruited for Epstein from Mar-a-lago.
🚨🚨🚨 @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social just announced that we will be hosting our first public hearing on Epstein in Palm Beach, FL in April.

Expect to hear from survivors and key witnesses who have critical information to share. We are taking this investigation to Epstein and Trump’s backyard.
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.

It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

(Published Dec. 2025)
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Kevin Moncla, who pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge and was ordered to pay more than $3 million for secretly filming guests in his home bathroom, has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud.
The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM