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Christine Johnston

@archaeologuest.bsky.social
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Archaeologist of bronze age people and pots and environment 🏺public history and pedagogy with Peopling the Past

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 6h
I read this article, you should read it too. Highlights: "devaluation—defined as the experience of feeling excluded, disrespected, mistreated, or held to different standards—was the most distinctly gendered topic in our sample (38% of women vs. 16% of men reported experiencing devaluation)"
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9h
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 11h
it's (somehow) already half-way through October—are you getting in the Halloween spirit?? We've had some great #Halloween blogs this month focused on #TheOdyssey! Check out this great contribution all about Book 11 and Odysseus' trip to the underworld 👻
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Let us ask those whose lands were imperially stolen on every single continent whether their values were in favour of the colonial theft and violent occupation they were subjected to. And please tell me again the values upon which we can judge statues."
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 17h
Sounds to me very much like Rooney is in on what is a planned strategy to force the situation to its logical book-banning conclusion:
"In a statement provided to the Guardian, the bestselling author said: “‘In July 2025, the direct-action protest group Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. The following month, I wrote an opinion piece expressing my intention to go on supporting Palestine Action, which is not a proscribed or otherwise prohibited group here in the Republic of Ireland.

“As a result, the fulfilment of contracts to publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences.”

In a high court statement in support of the legal challenge to proscription, warning against its impact on freedom of expression, Rooney said her books could disappear from UK stores and the publication of new works in the UK could be prevented."
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...
Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...
Graph showing the number of NSF grants over 7 years—moving to zero in 2026.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Beautiful piece of writing in the New Yorker - 'How tree rings challenged the myth of American wilderness' www.newyorker.com/science/elem...
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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"walking away is also movement" 🙌
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💯 this
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
excellent dossier curated by @kwazana.bsky.social and Tavia Nyong’o socialtextjournal.org/periscope_to... with terrific contributions by @jennifercnash.bsky.social Grace Kyungwon Hong @blacklikewho.bsky.social
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A heartbreaking but important read
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are organizing a 1-day event on Palestinian & Egyptian living heritage! Conservations, zine + calligraphy workshops, exhibit, & art fair. October 23 at AUC Tahrir + on zoom. Join us! Program and rsvp link 👇 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/c...
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“Turathna al-Hayy”: Celebrating Egyptian and Palestinian Living Heritage – October 23
Join us at AUC Tahrir and on zoom on October 23 for a day of celebration of Egyptian and Palestinian living heritage! The event, the second of a series to be held this year in the context of EO’s 1…
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so excited for this event!
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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On ASOR and my Affective Disengagement
On ASOR and my Choice to Affectively Disengage Today, after twenty years as a member of ASOR, I am choosing to let my membership lapse. I am choosing affective disengagement, meaning that I am withdr...
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On ASOR and my Choice to Affectively Disengage Today, after twenty years as a member of @asor-research.bsky.social, I am choosing to let my membership lapse. I am choosing affective disengagement, meaning that I am withdrawing my participation and divesting from the organization. link 👇
PDF of the letter which can be accessed as a text file in the link in the replyPDF of the letter which can be accessed as a text file in the link in the reply
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov announced he will not clear the Trump administration’s proposed $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel due to concerns that those munitions would not be used in accordance with U.S. and international law.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was an absolute pleasure to join in this conversation w Sarah and Girish on corporate AI and the different harms they are inflicting on communities around the world
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Everyday Orientalism @eorientalism.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW post by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social - “Finally the smell of fresh gun powder”: EAA welcomes archaeologist who celebrates genocide 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/f...
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“Finally the smell of fresh gun powder”: EAA welcomes archaeologist who celebrates genocide
by Archaeologists Against Apartheid cover picture: U.Haifa archaeologist Michael Eisenberg topless in front of an Israeli tank (public fb post accessed in July 2026) It appears necessary to once ag…
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"the ivory tower has to do a much better job of cutting out the middleman and recognizing and elevating who the real experts are"(Kobby Graham) Such a powerful conversation🔥🙌🔥
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
another great episode! I loved the pairing of speakers and topics — all about the politics of water, landscapes, and resources
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Girish Daswani @girishdaswani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A conversation with three of my favourite people, Beverly Bain, Uahikea Maile & Rinaldo Walcott. Tune in to this episode. It's inspiring and with several mic drop moments. What does it mean to recreate the conditions of our relations in ways that are not built on colonialism, capitalism, death?
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.
Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org
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US Scholars Speak
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨🏺🩸Look: In addition to being actively complicit with Israel's apartheid & genocide in Palestine, @asor-research.bsky.social is now touring occupied Cyprus AND posting about it on their socials. Yet another reason to abide by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social 's call to boycott them
#boycottasor 
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ASOR TOURING OCCUPIED CYPRUSBellapais Monastery
not one to care about ethics, asor not only tours in occupied cyprus, but also posts about it. This is yet another reason to #boycottasor
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
More disgusting complicity by Zionist ASOR, w receipts spanning from the 1940s to last week's Zionist conference on "Judea & Samaria" ( = occupied West Bank). Thanks, @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for yet another well researched, & ethically solid, essay #boycottasor 🔗 tinyurl.com/3p2mxjt5
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Archaeology, Zionism & ‘Apolitical Neutrality’ or More Reasons to Boycott ASOR
The hosting of Huckabee at archaeological events—including those hosted by ASOR and its overseas research center—marks a glaring divergence from ASOR’s supposed apolitical nature.
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Álvaro López @bakadori.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Screenshot of Guardian article about FIFA's proposed plan to hold a friendly game between Israel and Palestine at the under 15 tournament next year
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨🚨🚨 "Israeli airstrikes caused severe damaged to the archaeological site of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site" Quotes + pics 👇 from Green Southerners 🧵1/: www.facebook.com/share/p/17wX...
Israeli airstrikes caused severe damaged to the archaeological site of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What a terrifying article ‘Already data centres are using 22 per cent of all electricity in the country – the highest proportion in the world. That figure is set to grow to more than 30 per cent in the next five years.’ This is all with next to 0 consultation with the people of Ireland…
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
*used to train
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Of the " thousands of pages" of academic work the author fed into LLMs for translation -- how many do we think were copyrighted? How many authors have now had their work stolen and used to these systems?
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's heartbreaking and enraging that this was written almost two years ago, and since then, the genocidal violence has not only been allowed to continue in Palestine, but also to expand into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, with global impacts #EOPalestine
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...
A screenshot of one of the course pages from the Data Feminism for Data Visualization course. The text reads: "Course:
Data Feminism for Data Visualization
Authors:
Lauren Klein
Catherine D'Ignazio

To get a certificate of completion, sign in to track your progress

Content updated in October 2025

This course draws from the award-winning book Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), challenging students to consider how examining questions of gender, power, and justice can transform the way we visualize data. Drawing from the rich history of feminist activism and critical thought, we will learn to recognize and counter biases in conventional visualization practices while developing skills to create more ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible visualizations of our own. The course brings real-world examples of data visualization in conversation with theoretical frameworks that question whose perspectives are included (or not) in data science and data communication, illustrating the need for approaches that employ visualization to amplify minoritized perspectives and draw attention to issues of equity and justice.

Chapters
Introduction

Introduction
Chapter 1: Core Concepts & Foundational Principles

Motivation and Definitions of Feminism
Definitions of Power and Race
Definitions of Gender
Examine Power
Challenge Power - Part A
Challenge Power - Part B
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
Chapter 2: Data Feminism Principles & Examples

Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part A
Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part B
Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part C
Rethink Binaries and Hierarchies
Embrace Pluralism - Part A
Embrace Pluralism - Part B
Consider Context
Make Labor Visible
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
Chapter 3: Applying the Principles

Challenging Deficit Perspectives
Inclusive Language and Ordering Data
Who is Missing? Who is Erased?
Colors, Icons, Shapes, and People
What’s Wrong With This Viz?
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
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Colors, Icons, Shapes, and People"
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
June is National Indigenous History month. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has summary reports that are a good start to understanding our shared history. nctr.ca/publications...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026
There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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Rita L. Portela @westernspinster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
1st review date 6/2 Indigenous friends - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. Heard through the grapevine that there are very few applicants. $240K-266K The University of California, Office of the President (UCOP) is committed to the timely repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items...
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚨💣🏛️🩸ISRAEL JUST BOMBED TYRE'S ANTIQUITIES AREA! 📸 from a clip recorded in the site's ancient hippodrome area. Source (shared w permission): www.instagram.com/stories/nell...
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just published over at Everyday Orientalism @isisnaucratis.bsky.social This one connects the dots between everything we’ve talked about in our Nakba series so far. And more. #nakba #archaeology #biblicalarchaeology
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨 Biblical archaeologists' study of an ancient children mass grave in the ethnically cleansed village of Zakariyya enables the Nakba through the same dehumanizing tropes as the 2023 burnt babies hoax - MUST READ by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/a...
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Ancient Children Mass Graves and the Dehumanization of Palestinians: The Case of Zakariyya
by Archaeologists Against Apartheid cover picture: “Tell Zachariah”, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Zakariyya was a Palestinian village located 25 k…
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.
Senator Andy Kim runs into the street as an ICE armored vehicle behind him prepares to deploy chemical agents against protestors in front of Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, NJ. His hands are outstretched and he appears to be shouting.
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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool.
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Interesting to see (+ have confirmed) that at the same time editors are resigning from @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social due to the org’s support for israeli war & heritage crimes, the same thing is happening at @asor-research.bsky.social Solidarity with our colleagues who have a conscience! 🇵🇸
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
FLAG: The Trump Justice Department is now acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection — calling the information about the prosecutions "partisan propaganda" (it is not).
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Trump's Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Cartoon in black and white from “The New Yorker,” by the artists “JOEDATOR and KEVIN MAHER.” A terrifying looking alien life form with three eyes and razer sharp mouth stands at a lectern on stage, talking to a sea of graduates sitting below. The alien is quoted as saying: “And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords—wait, why are you all booing?"
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