Rosemary Joyce
@rajoyce.bsky.social
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
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
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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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/
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.
So US insistence that the results are final is definitely not reflecting knowledge of or respect for *Honduran* law. END
Luis Redondo desafía a EEUU con amenaza de escrutinio desde el Congreso
"Será el Congreso Nacional el que hará el escrutinio, tal como lo establece la Constitución de la República", declaró Luis Redondo.
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For his part, Luis Redondo rejected US pressure to accept the results declared by CNE on December 24. I’m still working to confirm if the latest moves are in conformity with Honduran electoral law, but that law provides for everything up to a complete repeat of an election, if ordered by the TJE.
Honduran president orders enforcement of vote recount, invites Trump to discuss elections
Ruling party dismisses election results, demands total recount - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
(Added as unnumbered items because I want the current situation seen as a *Honduran* issue, not a US one): in her speech President Castro called on Trump to meet in person to learn about the electoral situation, which she says he interfered with by backing a specific candidate.
10/10 The congressional faction led by a National Party member, styling itself themselves the “pleno” or plenary session of Congress, is thus walking a dangerous line: invoking a tradition of apolitical care that has been questionable since 2009, when the army seized and deported the president.
9/ The Honduran Constitution presents the Armed Forces as apolitical, a neutral arbiter guaranteeing fair elections. They are charged with transporting ballot boxes to the capital city and guarding them from interference.
Oposición respalda a las FF AA para frenar "órdenes ilegales" y mantener el orden constitucional
La Comisión Especial del CN emitió un firme espaldarazo a la cúpula militar, instándola a ignorar mandatos que busquen romper el orden constitucional
www.elheraldo.hn
8/ The new law says if the CNE won’t do the recount, Congress will. A recount would require access to the ballot boxes. These are under guard by the Armed Forces, a role enshrined in the Honduran Constitution. The other half of Congress is calling on them to refuse access for a recount.
Luis Redondo desafía a EEUU con amenaza de escrutinio desde el Congreso
"Será el Congreso Nacional el que hará el escrutinio, tal como lo establece la Constitución de la República", declaró Luis Redondo.
tiempo.hn
7/ During the session the number attending shrank to 69– still a majority. They passed and published a demand that the CNE do a vote by vote recount. That part observes the structure of the reformed election law (although I still wonder where the TJE is in all this). But there’s more.
6/ Which brings us to internal divisions in the Liberal Party. There are 3 Congress members from minor parties (not reliably aligned with Libre) so some large part of the 70 attending the session were Liberal Party members. (Trying to get details but didn’t want to delay longer— at least 32 of 41).
5/ Congress has faced a crisis for a while in which the out of power parties refuse to attend sessions Luis Redondo calls. So the 70 delegates who came did not include any National Party members (49 currently, out of 128 total). Libre only has 35 members, so the session was attended by some others.
4/ In her speech, Castro notes she is bound to follow Congressional direction (resolutions passed by simple majority and published in the official Gaceta are laws). So next question is what did Congress do? Apparently the head of Congress called a session attended only by his party majority.
3/ According to Xiomara, more than half a million votes lack biometric confirmation, a requirement under the latest Honduran law. Scrutinizers from the Liberal Party made this point to nullify some vote tallies (zero them out), which Nasralla insisted on, but which the CNE commissioners rejected.
Honduran president orders enforcement of vote recount, invites Trump to discuss elections
Ruling party dismisses election results, demands total recount - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
2/ Starting from yesterday: President Xiomara Castro stated she will support a complete recount, ballot by ballot, ordered by a session of Congress. She cited the CNE decision not to review (scrutinize) almost 5,000 vote tallies. New here: clarification that these represent 1.5 million votes.
It may have been the best meal I ever had in a restaurant full of information about Mexican plants and foods. And the week itself was like a family getting together and celebrating. Especially good since our project was disrupted last summer by an illegal grant cancellation (later reversed).
—Fernando Valverde, “Antonio Machado Listens to the Shadows of the Sunset in Long Island” (trans. Carolyn Forché)
This is the future,
an afternoon of rain spilled into the sea,
a shadow that stalks the names and songs,
the face of my mother under the barren land.
an afternoon of rain spilled into the sea,
a shadow that stalks the names and songs,
the face of my mother under the barren land.
I can listen, but it’s no use,
my voice does not join with the children’s singing nor the dawn
surrounding the foreign country of happiness.
my voice does not join with the children’s singing nor the dawn
surrounding the foreign country of happiness.
This is the future,
to contemplate how the armies advance,
how fire devours lips and clouds
in a twilight of pulpits and the blood of innocents,
clean and clear blood
that once was love and lightning.
to contemplate how the armies advance,
how fire devours lips and clouds
in a twilight of pulpits and the blood of innocents,
clean and clear blood
that once was love and lightning.
I can hear the drums of victory
that silence the night of those in exile.
I can hear the clouds floating past,
the ocean currents
and the footsteps of the young clambering over the weeping piers.
that silence the night of those in exile.
I can hear the clouds floating past,
the ocean currents
and the footsteps of the young clambering over the weeping piers.
It’s raining.
It rains on every word
and on the verses that I write.
These blue days and this childhood sun are the rain
soaking a house in ruins.
The ocean is the homeland of pain.
It rains on every word
and on the verses that I write.
These blue days and this childhood sun are the rain
soaking a house in ruins.
The ocean is the homeland of pain.
They call you the New World
but I close my eyes and the cold is a cloud
that envelopes history.
Sorrow is ancient.
but I close my eyes and the cold is a cloud
that envelopes history.
Sorrow is ancient.
Really amazing dinner to celebrate an anniversary during a week working on a project with multinational colleagues, many former students.
5/5 These are ideologically charged words that express views of the world. They are world-making. Minneapolis today is living the horror world they invoked.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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people knew they were voting for cruelty
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
I do not think even the worst of them knew they were voting for a literal invasion of Greenland and the end of relations between the US and Europe because President Dipshit over here had a big mercator projection map over his bed as a child
4/ When we replace, rebrand, or supplement an Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service with Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, you literally replace service to the people with force exercised to enforce laws and protect territory.
3/ The branding wasn’t innocent even in that moment. It was part of defining a harder boundary around an “us” threatened by an outside “them”. I saw the slippage in 2001 as people talked about the thousands of “American” lives lost on 9/11– ignoring the noncitizensc many immigrant workers, who died.
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Liz Lykens on Instagram: "OP: @hereswhykevin bringing more information to light regarding the Target employee abductions in Richfield, Minnesota!!!
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Early this week (I think, I can’t keep track), ICE Nazis grabbed two teens out of a Target at which they both work. Both are citizens. It turns out that ICE threw one of the two teens out onto the road some blocks away. This is the video of this poor kid.
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2/ The aggregation conceived of to overcome communications and coordination failures didn’t have to come branded as blood and soil. It could have been “domestic” security to mark the spheres of operation distinction. (I have a separate rant about “security” I will spare you…)
I also have worked with people under DHS, notably on international antiquities trafficking. As I think your post acknowledges those pinpoints don’t make up for the corruption of the whole. For me—living through its creation— the selection of “homeland” was a bad sign from the first. 1/
Emmer: "You got Tim Walz literally sounding like Jefferson Davis. Our governor is saying we're at war with the federal government. He claims he can call the National Guard up. They want to tell people to protest, but what they're literally doing is encouraging more violence."
The governor of a state can, in fact, call up the national guard. What Emmer means is that this is a threat equal to secession.