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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

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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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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1h
A Honduran woman whose father was a victim (in Honduras) of gang violence. The kind that this anti-immigrant sentiment was whipped up around. It’s a tragedy.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h
just got my sales statement and realized how few people have bought my book of poetry isabout not being Akhmatova and Jewish diaspora. so...buy my book! paper and digital available. there are blurbs that say it is good! www.amazon.com/Not-Akhmatov...
Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project)
Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project) [Berlatsky, Noah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Not Akhmatova: Poems and Adaptations (The Jewish Poetry Project)
www.amazon.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4h
"being ill makes you morally compromised" is literally RFK's whole ideology! it's why he's evil!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4h
I wish ppl wouldn't go after RFK for being a heroin addict.

drug addiction is an illness. lots of addicts are lovely people who are not trying to destroy the public health system and murder children. 1

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4h
The President of the United States personally called and pressured Georgia election officials to declare him the winner of an election he'd lost. This is permissible.
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h
Roger Stone, Michael Anton, Kash Patel, Sean Duffy-- dandyism, usually ill-fitting, is a significant strain within fascism, a class variation of Andrew Tate-style machismo.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 4h
Pope Leo Returns Indigenous Artifacts from the Vatican Museum to Canada pattersonjournal.com/2025/11/25/p...
Pope Leo Returns Indigenous Artifacts from the Vatican Museum to Canada
By Brooke Bihl The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts from its large ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples of Canada, as a part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in …
pattersonjournal.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h
I’m sure Trump’s cratering approval will be fixed by him getting away with more crimes.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4h
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
DOJ fingers Kristi Noem as the person who made the call to defy a court order and send detainees to a concentration camp in El Salvador. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Noem made decision to continue deportation flights to El Salvador, justice department says
Justice department maintains that Trump administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to US
www.theguardian.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines
judge dismisses georgia election interference case against trump bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/p...
Georgia prosecutor kills the historic racketeering case against Trump and allies | CNN Politics
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, closing the cha...
www.cnn.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 6h
The 2020 Georgia election case is going to be dismissed in its entirety, with the prosecutor offering less-than-persuasive reasoning. A miscarriage of justice that weakens our democracy.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 6h
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h
The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 7h
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 8h
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 17h
—Helen Maria Williams, “To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris”

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 17h
Mysterious cake, whose folds contain
Life’s calendar of bliss and pain;
That speaks of friends for ever fled,
And wakes the tears I love to shed.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 17h
For magic surely lurks in this,
A cake that tells of vanished bliss;
A cake that conjures up to view
The early scenes, when life was new;
When memory knew no sorrows past,
And hope believed in joys that last! —

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 17h
What crowding thoughts around me wake,
What marvels in a Christmas-cake!
Ah say, what strange enchantment dwells
Enclosed within its odorous cells?
Is there no small magician bound
Encrusted in its snowy round?

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 17h
Thread.
luciankim.bsky.social Lucian Kim @luciankim.bsky.social · 2d
The question I get asked most often is how to understand Trump's push-me-pull-me Ukraine policy. To me there are a few constants that don't change:
1) He really wants to end the war fast. Results over process.
2) He respects Putin and wants a good relationship with Russia. 👉

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h
Once Trump is gone, where will the right’s power be centered?
www.ms.now/opinion/marj...
Opinion | What MTG’s resignation says about the post-Trump GOP
When Trump finally leaves the stage, six different MAGA coalitions will vie for influence in the Republican Party, says Philip Bump.
www.ms.now

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h
Trump: I don’t want to extend the subsidies

Politico: Trump leaves the door open for extending subsidies

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h
Originally posted this as "Leavitt's sister-in-law," but there's some strained language in there that makes it pretty pretty clear they're estranged, which could make this story even gnarlier. Either way, this woman appears to be the mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h
58% of Republicans back military action in Venezuela though 64% think Trump needs to explain why we should and only 50% think he has. www.pbump.net/o/republican...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h
For months, Ed Martin and Bill Pulte harassed Trump’s political adversaries with bogus claims of mortgage fraud. But in a twist, we’ve now learned that the DOJ is investigating Martin and Pulte themselves for allegedly improper conduct. lnk.thebulwark.com/4ofiJ8U
How Much Did Trump Stooge Ed Martin Blab to Alex Jones?
The InfoWars chief was hardly discreet in hinting he knew about DOJ’s “retribution” investigations.
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