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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Voting against Measure RTM means you’re totally fine with all of these folks on this BART car x10 cars driving 24, 680, etc. instead of riding the yellow line during rush hour. Sounds like an absolute nightmare.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A huge loss for Oregon's history and archaeology community ♥️

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E.C.Reetz @ecreetz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"BAAJA Title IV is a. . . destructive provision for climate and health. The amount of power it gives corporations over federal agencies could potentially be as significant for corporate dominance of the US federal agencies as Citizen United was for corporate dominance of US politics" tiny.cc/pqwb101

jeremysymons.substack.com

This is not the permit reform deal that was advertised

Dangerous provisions would hand Trump broad powers to block future presidents from acting on climate change and restoring the Clean Air Act

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LUSID Residencies @lusidresidencies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! We are an Indigenous & survivor led organization that takes children who experience sexual abuse on extended term healing adventures with service dogs and people who have done the hard work to heal. Decolonizing is a huge part of our work! And always, LAND BACK🪶🧡

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Senator, please support Oregon's Tribes and protect their lands and cultural heritage by voting NO on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act and opposing the proposed changes to Sec 106 of the NHPA!

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This indigenous peoples day, recognize that our public lands should be turned back over to the people we stole them from. Especially if we’re not even going to adhere to the conservation BS that was our original rationale for holding them

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Eagerly waiting for a response from @merkley.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov on this issue. Oregon's cultural heritage is facing existential threats. Some of the earliest and most significant archaeological sites in the U.S. are located on federal lands in Oregon.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Archaeologist: That's what we call an "occupational hiatus"

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No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

⚠️ Border wall contractors plan to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day. Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY
OCTOBER 12, 2026
BORDER WALL CONTRACTORS ARE SET TO BEGIN REMOVING SACRED SAGUAROS AND OCOTILLO IN THE FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION ON THE TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION.
THE TADAI ME: CAMP CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT TO THE BORDER TO STAND WITH THE TOHONO O'ODHAM IN OUR FIGHT TO PROTECT O'ODHAM JEWED (LAND).
THESE ARE NON-VIOLENT GATHERINGS!
EVERYONE WELCOME
ALL ONK AKIMEL, KE:LI AKIMEL, AK-CHIN, HIA CED, TOHONO AND MEXICO O'ODHAM STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
PLEASE COME
PREPARED FOR THE
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• -
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ELEMENTS (HEAT/RAIN), COME HEALTHY, AND
ALL ELDERS, SINGERS, AND
SELF SUFFICIENT.

10/10 - 10/11
GATHERING OF O'ODHAM SISTER
TRIBES AT TADAI ME:I CAMP
10/12 - Prayer to Action
SUNRISE
HIMDAG 'O WUD T-GEWKDAG (OUR
CULTURE IS OUR STRENGTH) GATHERING AT THE TADAI ME:I CAMP AT KO:LI KI:JIG.
9:00 AM
GEWKDAG HI:M (GO IN STRENGTH)
MARCH STARTING AT BASHAS PLAZA, BRING YOUR SIGNS AND WALK IN PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF O'ODHAM LAND.

Camp is located at the San Miguel Gate, on South Indian
Route 19
Turn right at the "Entering
Prayer Camp" sign
Be aware of cattle and Border Patrol on your way down
If you are planning on staying at Tadai Me:i Camp, you will be required to check in with Camp Caretakers for safety checks and information before entering camps.
Be respectful of camp protocols
No alcohol, drugs or weapons. Zero tolerance.
IF YOU AIN'T PRAYING, YOU AIN'T STAYING!

Tohono O'odham Nation Emergency Mobile Command will be stationed at San Miguel
Community Building
In case of emergency dial 911 or T.O.N. Dispatch at 520-383-6412

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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not only are saguaros sacred - which would be enough of a reason all by itself - they are nearly irreplaceable keystone species for a full environmental niche. They mature like trees and need YEARS to grow. But they provide homes and space for so many creatures

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BAAJA threatens all environmental protection laws, but the cultural resources protected by Sec 106 are NONRENEWABLE. Habitats can be restored, animal populations can recover, but there is no undoing the destruction of cultural heritage. The effects of this permitting reform bill would last forever.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Some more thoughts: #BAAJA would centralize decision-making in federal agencies, where there is often a single archaeologist overseeing Sec 106 review for massive districts sometimes spanning multiple states. Projects will be rubber-stamped w/o review simply bc there is no one to review them

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wanted to share my thoughts on the permitting reform proposed by the #BAAJA. This is adapted from the email that I wrote to my senators, so it is focused on Oregon specifically, but the effects of the bill will be similar in every state. Contact your reps & spread the word!!🏺

In an effort to speed up development and resource extraction projects, the permitting reform bill would functionally remove the public from decisions concerning their cultural heritage and historic properties, and strip Oregon's SHPO and THPOs of their ability to contribute to the decision-making process.
I sympathize with concerns about the effect of the regulatory review process on project budgets and timelines, however, in my experience working in cultural resource management for both private contractors and Tribal government in Oregon, the solution to regulatory delays is expanded funding for the SHPO and THPOs. The primary reason for delays in the Sec 106 review process is a lack of adequate resources to review projects quickly and effectively, leading to a heavier reliance on boilerplate recommendations over tailoring management approaches to the cultural resources concerns of each undertaking, which would often lower the costs associated with contracting private cultural resource management firms.

In contrast, the permitting reform bill's solution for expediting the Section 106 process is to put the burden of project review on FEWER people who would be MORE reliant on formulaic procedures and perfunctory investigations. Thus, the permitting reform bill's "solution" is not a solution at all— it is a surrender to the root causes of the problem itself.

As it stands now, with the resources we currently have in both the public and private sector of cultural resource management in Oregon, we are already overwhelmed by the number and scale of proposed federal undertakings in the state and we lack the investigatory and review capacity to comprehensively protect our state's cultural resources. If the permitting reform bill succeeds in limiting Section 106 investigations solely to desktop review (i.e. no fieldwork) and leaves nearly the entire review process to the small handful of archaeologists at federal agencies, the vast majority of these cultural resources will be abandoned entirely to a process that is, by design, incapable of protecting them.

The effects of this legislation would be especially acute in Oregon due to the amount of federal land in our state. While the SHPO would still have oversight over the protection of cultural resources on private and non-federal public land, they would no longer have any meaningful part in the management or decision-making for over half of the land in Oregon. The irreversible damage this would cause to archaeological sites, historic properties, traditional cultural properties, sacred sites and landscapes, and Indigenous burial sites is truly incalculable.

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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I can't believe this cutie is real and lives in my house!!!!! 😍😍😍

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StoriesbySammi🦋 @storiesbysammi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bureau of Land Management just approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to Nine Mile Canyon, UT, home to 10,000+ rock art images spanning 8,000 years. 47 historic sites sit in the blast zone. It's for oil tankers. Here's what's actually happening 🧵

The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it.

Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years.

The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers.

This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway.

It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through ground Park Service archaeologists hadn't finished studying. They found pottery and artifacts underneath that equipment they never got the chance to protect first. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed.

Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days.

THE HISTORY OF THIS ROCK ART

This canyon isn't one culture's story. It's layers of different peoples writing onto the same walls and the same ground across thousands of years.

Its rock art spans the Archaic, Fremont, and Ute periods. The Fremont lived here roughly 950 to 1250 AD, farming corn, beans and squash using small irrigation systems off Nine Mile Creek. Their panels show daily life and belief, abstract designs, hunting scenes, animals, people. Later, Ute people added their own rock art to the canyon, layered right alongside the Fremont record, in a style archaeologists describe as more dynamic.

The road through this canyon has its own history too. It was built in 1886 by Buffalo Soldiers, Black cavalrymen of the U.S. 9th Cavalry, to supply Fort Duchesne on the frontier. For 25 years it carried stagecoaches, mail and freight into the Uintah Basin.

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Section III of #BAAJA makes dangerous title 54 amendments that will GUARANTEE every development project gets to bulldoze sacred sites.

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Archeopark @archeopark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I appreciate this more in-depth look at how it all unfolded. There’s still concern about what happens to the artifacts, paperwork, and most importantly, human remains. bsky.app/profile/tmit...

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He has a congenital defect in one eye so we named him Geordi, after one of our fav vision-impaired characters from pop culture

A white and gray kitty sitting on a lap and looking at the camera with one good eye and one squinty eye

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've also heard that a lot of that initial "skeleton crew" has now been laid off as well...😵‍💫😬

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Same in Oregon! And those permit responsibilities fall onto the individual who applied for the permit, so I sincerely hope SHPO will not be penalizing former Chronicle employees for permit violations that are completely out of their hands

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Given that backdrop [of permitting reform and the broader threats to Section 106], Helmer says, 'it is particularly bad timing for the entire CRM industry to get bogged down in delays caused by Chronicle’s ungraceful exit.'"

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to speak to @science.org 🧪 about the fallout of the Chronicle Heritage shutdown and the effects it will have on the cultural resources management industry and the archaeologists who work in it 🏺 Definitely give this a read!!!

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah when I saw your post before opening the article I wasn't expecting additional reporting of any kind so I was kind of surprised to see that!

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Incredible reading comprehension skills on display here 😂

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you've been following the Chronicle Heritage news and worried that you and your coworkers may be next, remember that it's always a good time to organize a union and take control of your working conditions! 🏺🪏

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LUSID Residencies @lusidresidencies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are looking to host a Gives-Giving dinner ahead of Thanksgiving 🪶🧡 We have a location, and a new board member. We need all the supplies and the budget to make it happen! If you would like to be a guest (Auburn, WA), reach out to be put on the list! If you can help build, check out the list

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026

it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.

The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.

SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The senate deal gutting the endangered species act is the same one attacking #Section106 of #NHPA & the National Environmental Policy Act #NEPA. It's all one fight. Call & email your senators & tell them you don't support the permitting changes in the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like that some contractor looked at the building plans and had the foresight to think "well that elephant statue is gonna be too big to fit through a door so we'll just have to get it in there before we get to doors"

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BIA is proposing to make permanent records temporary, including trust account, murder cases and school records. This would allow those records, even those that are decades old, to be destroyed. Comment period through Nov 30. Info on turtletalk.blog Blog post dated October 6th.

turtletalk.blog

Turtle Talk

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dare I say it's nice to see someone's...digging into this 🪏

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's rare for CRM issues to get news coverage so I'm absolutely THRILLED that @science.org is reporting on the Chronicle Heritage shutdown!! Excellent work by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social 🙌

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⧖ big rock big water ⧖ (they/them) @bigrockbigwater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Channeled my rage about this latest move to dismantle the National Historic Preservation Act by writing an impassioned email to my senators today. I'm so tired of being angry, but I won't stop until they do 😤

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I updated the blog with information regarding the "permit reform bill," drawn mostly from my notes from the @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social webinar today. It is IMPERATIVE that we don't get exhuasted, and we call our elected reps. This bill will end #archaeology in this country.

thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wordpress.com

Resource Page for ACHP changes to S106

On the left, an aerial view of 1940s Denver. On the right is a post-urban renewal image from the ealy 1970s. Note the expanse of parking lots where vibrant neighborhoods once stood. October 5, 2026…

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chronicle shutting down and leaving work unfinished is likely going to delay Sec106 for hundreds of projects for months, which will only make it easier for bad actors in govt to frame the NHPA as an excessive regulatory burden. It's a bad time to be an archaeologist 🫠

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I cannot stress enough that the permitting reform bill will rescind the NHPA and 60 years of preservation practice. There will not be a CRM industry in January. Data centers will go unchecked. Transmission lines will run through the Sand Creek Massacre site. THPOs will be run by the federal gov.

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LUSID Residencies @lusidresidencies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone has offered their home for us to do a fundraising dinner, can anyone chip in for gas for the 250 mile drive so we can check it out and plan?? 🛣️🪶✨

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably the scene at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie when they open the ark...those ghosts and the face melting fucked me UP. I used to close my eyes and look away, just like Indy told me too 😂

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/10/2026

How much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene, Oregon. buff.ly/AlxYU8S

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This will happen everyday with the "permit reform" bill. Obama waived S106 for the border wall; this bill will remove all opportunities for cultural resource review. 🏺 #historicpreservation #S106

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love how often the onion does archaeology articles🏺, they nail it every time 😂

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