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Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social

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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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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13d

This is who runs this account

Photo of a child with curly blonde hair seated inside a television cabinet, looking out at the viewer through the glass. The CRT tube has been removed but she is on TV.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway The Beatles were so bored of European culture they wanted to be Chuck Berry, and the Rolling Stones were so desperate to find escape from their culture that they wanted to be Muddy Waters. But sure little Marco, it’s Columbus, cathedrals and Michelangelo paintings all the way down.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 8h

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...

this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the
memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link
between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the
common civilization to which we have
fallen heir.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

—Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird”

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty furry moms and their cunning hands. No one would want to make liking them…uncomfortable?

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

Otters.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 1d

That’s been my message to Congress…

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

shutdowns aren't generally a negotiating strategy—people don't usually get more than they otherwise would have out of a shutdown.

but in this case I think Ds are hearing from the base that they'd rather the thing just be defunded.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the more whales the less fish

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

If you can remember a world before “The Santa Clause 2,” you can remember the world before DHS. If you can’t, well, imagine you can imagine it.

www.startribune.com/minnesota-im...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, huge congratulations to @veenadubal.bsky.social and the entire @aaup.org team. This is one for the history books.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The SAVE act will disenfranchise millions, mostly women

It requires ID that matches your birth certificate or passport

If you’ve had a name change, your birth certificate won’t match

The State Dept is banning libraries from processing passport applications

They don’t want certain people to vote

State Dept. orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications

Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

Now there is a further wrinkle, and I hope all UC researchers with federal grants read this: This injunction may need to be enforced.

UC FACULTY: If you see something where the federal government violating this injunction.... say something.

Tell your faculty association, who can tell the lawyers.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

I have never seen an injunction like this, which basically says stop using flimsy, bogus "civil rights" to attack your perceived political opponents!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

When ICE shot Alex Pretti ten times, he was trying to defend a woman who had been pepper sprayed & violently shoved.

He was trying to help his fellow human.

She was an EMT, and when she saw he had been shot, she tried to help him.

ICE wouldn’t let her.

They hate the helpers.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

What's even better about this victory is that it means the federal government no longer contests that Judge Lin was right about their strategy of weaponizing Title VI.

They had a playbook, Judge Lin identified it, it's ugly, and the government no longer appeals an injunction ordering them to stop.

1 That language is as follows: “At stage one, a Task Force Agency announces investigations or plannedenforcement actions related to alleged civil rights violations at a school. At stage two, Funding Agenciescancel the school’s federal grants en masse without following Title VI and IX procedural requirementsor limiting the scope of the terminations to non-compliant programs. At stage three, DOJ demands thepayment of millions or billions of dollars—a penalty that Title VI and IX do not authorize—and requiresa wide range of policy changes as a condition for restoring funding and avoiding further fundingdisruptions.”

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

which isn't that close, but does indicate that lobbying on this issue has been pretty effective, I think. even if some Ds have balked at saying, "defund ICE", they are now (at least temporarily) defunding ICE.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

anyway. Ds can't abolish ICE, and can't even really draw down its funding effectively given how much it's already got from the BBB. so, this is kind of as close to abolish ICE as they can get.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard to know; I don't think there's a lot of precedent for this kind of one agency shutdown.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

Thune says there's progress on a deal...we'll see. they won't keep it shut down forever, probably?

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

That strategy is dangerous. But UCLA no longer has to worry about it, w/regard to any grant cancellations ostensibly based on a Title VI violation, or any of the wave cancellations from last July.

UCLA can respond to any grant cancellations/refusals by suing the govt for violating the injunction.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

Rs had the option of funding everything except ICE I think and turned that down. unclear what they think they're getting out of that. they may hope to pressure Ds...but given current polling and the mood of the D base, hard to see that really working.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

shutdowns aren't generally a negotiating strategy—people don't usually get more than they otherwise would have out of a shutdown.

but in this case I think Ds are hearing from the base that they'd rather the thing just be defunded.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

so, mindful of @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social 's point that shutdowns only happen when somebody wants them, it seems pretty clear that in this case Democrats wanted to shut down DHS. they had the option for another 2 week extension and they turned it down. 1

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

The administration has busily been building the case for stopping universities from pursuing their claims about the (blatant, extreme) procedural violations involved since the start of the DOGE grant cancellations by rerouting these claims to the Court of Claims.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

...they go through all the considerable procedural and substantive steps laid out in the relevant statutes.

Now you might say, wtf, this injunction just says "we promise to obey the law next time" so what good is that?

Actually it's great.