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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Missed our webinar on The Odyssey? The recording is now available on YouTube! Our recent webinar brought together scholars to discuss the 2026 film adaptation and its portrayal of the ancient world. Watch it here: buff.ly/D0hMKfC #TheOdyssey #BronzeAge #Archaeology
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Our new policy limits student-facing AI use from 2-K through eighth grade, reflecting Norway’s approach: kids need to learn to think critically, use their imaginations, and stay curious.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reporters Without Borders maintains an index that tracks press freedom in 180 countries, clocking governmental threats, subpoenas and the vindictive use of regulations against journalists. The United States now ranks at 64, just below Botswana.
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How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...
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An update to JSTOR’s free reading program
Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
GEO was my grad union. Outrageous is too mild to describe it. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-...
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The U.S. government is going after a Michigan labor union over its Palestine activism
The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/08/2026
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'Search for Napried wreck revives debate over Cyprus antiquities' #archaeologynews 🏺 The Napried sank in 1872 carrying items looted from the island by Luigi Palma di Cesnola www.kiprinform.com/en/news/sear...
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Search for Napried wreck revives debate over Cyprus antiquities – Cyprus Inform
Napried Exploration aims to locate the 1872 wreck and return its cargo of Cypriot antiquities to the island.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 14/08/2026
Looking for materials you can use in your teaching or research? The AHA Resource Library includes syllabi, primary sources, teaching tools, and disciplinary guidelines—all developed or vetted by historians. Whether you’re building a course, revising a lecture, or exploring new topics, start here:
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AHA Resource Library - AHA
Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources History department chairs are on the front lines of the dis...
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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If any Hollywood producers are lurking, wondering “What other ancient epic poems are available for me to make the next Odyssey?”, may I present Lucan’s Pharsalia? It has everything: witches and necromancy! Epic battles! Treks across the desert! Seductive Cleopatra! And, like Nolan: running away!
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COYG @jamespmahaffey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I will forever be haunted by the findings of this study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
The present work examines beliefs associated with racial bias in pain management, a critical health care domain with well-documented racial disparities. Specifically, this work reveals that a substant...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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hdixon.bsky.social @hdixon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni's review of the Odyssey with a nod to oral epics and "authorship" in that context: "if faithfulness to the original Odyssey had been desirable — or attainable — as a goal, the film should have been a musical"! www.ucf.edu/news/song-fo...
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Song for the Ages: The Late Bronze Age World of the Odyssey
UCF Associate Professor Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, historian and archaeologist, examines the influences that shaped one of ancient literature’s great epics.
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Jo Kirton @archaeojo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hugely proud to see this go out today. Co-created and youth-led from the start, the Unearthing Futures project has been one of my work highlights over recent years. Our @archaeologyuk Youth Advisors, especially Anna, Ihini, Sam and Eva (pictured below) worked incredibly hard throughout 🤩🤩🤩
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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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National Human Rights Commission - Lebanon @nhrclb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
UNESCO places ancient Lebanese city of Tyre on heritage danger list UNESCO on Wednesday added Tyre, an ancient coastal city in southern Lebanon founded by the Phoenicians, to its list of world heritage sites in danger following months of Israeli bombardment. Founded around 4,700 years ago, Tyre is…
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UNESCO places ancient Lebanese city of Tyre on heritage danger list
UNESCO on Wednesday added Tyre, an ancient coastal city in southern Lebanon founded by the Phoenicians, to its list of world heritage sites in danger following months of Israeli bombardment. Founded around 4,700 years ago, Tyre is home to archaeological treasures including two protected UNESCO areas. Tyre, an ancient Phoenician city in southern Lebanon hit in recent months by Israeli bombardment, was on Wednesday added to the UNESCO list of world heritage sites in danger. "The site has been directly hit and has sustained damage. Furthermore, its state of conservation is a cause for growing concern, particularly given the possibility of further impacts," the organisation said.
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh my loving and actual god, someone (Jonathan Witcoski) made a PLAYABLE antikythera survey project. If this is not the best use of open data for world building in #archaeology idk what is. jwitcoski.github.io/raiders-of-a... one for @clmorgan.bsky.social
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Raiders of Antikythera — Field Journal
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Syria's ancient sites face widespread looting and systematic bulldozing, satellite images reveal phys.org/news/2026-07...
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Syria's ancient sites face widespread looting and systematic bulldozing, satellite images reveal
Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024. Because the last comprehensive analysis was published in 2017, the extent ...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects. Update (24 July 2026) www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/20... Coptic Magical Papyri
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Kyprianos Update (24 July 2026)
An illustration of the angelic lute-player Davithe from British Library Ms. Or. 6794 We’re pleased to announce that we have just updated the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects. …
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NPR @npr.org · 26/07/2026
Unable to return home, some Lebanese displaced by Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon are buying satellite images to see whether their houses survived. n.pr/44LQrM7
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Lebanese displaced by war turn to satellites to check their homes
Unable to return home, some Lebanese displaced by Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon are buying satellite images to see whether their houses survived.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/07/2026
Incense burner from Pompeii, still containing the residue of incense burnt in it. Analysis of the ash revealed the surprising substances burnt in Roman domestic rituals, including resins sourced from as far away as India or sub-Saharan Africa! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Ceramic incense burner containing ash residue, overlaid with a text box that reads 'Credit: J. Eber, courtesy of the Ministero della Cultura - Parco Archeologico di Pompei'.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thinking about presenting a poster for the 2026 ASOR Annual Meeting? Join the ASOR ECS Writing Group for “Preparing a Poster Abstract” — the first of two sessions on conceptualizing, composing, and submitting a poster abstract. 🗓️ Monday, July 20 | 11am EST | Virtual Register here: buff.ly/VqNVY1x
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 08/07/2026
The AHR’s new #AHRSyllabus project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, features 30 teaching modules on authoritarianism across global history, with primary sources, historical context, and teaching resources. Start exploring today.
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Authoritarianism 101 - AHA
Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A cemetery conservation project revealed the gravestone of Boston, a well-known free (formerly enslaved) Black man who lived and worked in Boston, MA, in the early 18th century. 🏺🧪
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'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in Boston
Experts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New in IA71: Arrington, N.T., D'Acri, A., Baloukidis, D. and Tasaklaki, M. 2026 Always in the Field: Introducing the WebDig App doi.org/10.11141/ia.... 🏺 #Archaeology
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Always in the Field: Introducing the WebDig App
Amongst the digital tools that projects use to gather data in the field, an application created for use in the Athenian Agora excavations has gained traction in recent decades: iDig. It is used on mul...
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Query for OA people and STEM academics - is there a list anywhere of *non-OA* STEM journals/journal parts? I suspect it's mostly archives that have not been digitised, but for ~reasons~ I'd love to find a list (or are there still major STEM journals that are not fully OA?)
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 07/07/2026
NEW Thousands of prehistoric standing stones have been found across Iberia, but their functions are unknown. The chance discovery of three new examples suggests they served both as grave markers and territorial landmarks, facilitating cultural exchange. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Plan of burial structures along a trackway, annotated with the locations of the three stelae. Inserted photographs depict the stelae: three standing stones engraved with anthropomorphic designs.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/06/2026
If you have not yet, please join us in taking action against the latest OMB proposal, here: fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social for Important Context and @assignedmedia.org: The Trump administration is breaking ground, targeting nonprofits whose politics it disagrees with—groups focused on climate change, reproductive rights, Palestinian freedom, racial equity, LGBTQ+ rights, etc.
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MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians.
“The Trump administration is really the first to all-out attack nonprofits.”
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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ASOR seeks Session/Workshop Assistants to support the hybrid 2026 Annual Meeting. In exchange, assistants receive Annual Meeting registration plus a set number of nights at the Hilton Chicago through the Thomas/Bishop Annual Meeting Endowment. Learn more: buff.ly/rLWvKmH
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/06/2026
NEW: The American Postal Workers Union is “deeply alarmed” about the new USPS rule carrying out Trump's attack on mail-in voting. The union says it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needs to comply with Trump’s orders.
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Postal workers lash out against new USPS rule that helps Trump’s attack on mail-in voting
The American Postal Workers Union says it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needed to comply with Trump’s anti-mail voting order.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/06/2026
The Israeli military confirmed hitting a vehicle and said the incident is being reviewed. Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun called the strike "a flagrant violation to Lebanese sovereignty and international law." n.pr/4o9OXnL
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Israeli airstrikes kill 9 including Lebanese army officers after ceasefire deal
The Israeli military confirmed hitting a vehicle and said the incident is being reviewed. Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun called the strike "a flagrant violation to Lebanese sovereignty and international law."
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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Members, submit your poster proposals for the 2026 Poster Session during the ASOR Annual Meeting, Nov. 18–21, in Chicago & online. Poster abstracts of 250 words may be submitted in the ASOR Online Portal by August 1. Please read the 2026 Call for Posters to learn more: www.asor.org/am/2026/post...
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Monica Land is a journalist, producer, and niece of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. Land remembers the inspiring life of the Mississippi voting rights activist who asked “Is this America?” #WeAreAmerica250
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Trump’s ceasefire handed Israel 53% of Gaza, but it has since expanded to 64% and Netanyahu now orders the army to seize 70%. Andrea Popescu & Rami Ayyub, @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Netanyahu directs Israeli forces to expand Gaza control to 70 percent
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ​said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the ‌population is already penn...
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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy June everybody! June panel from a #Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #art #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #academia #mosaicmonday
June panel from a Roman mosaic of the months, Tunesia, 3rd century AD.
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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
So true - the Trump Administration has decided to murder people it thinks (maybe) are engaged in drug trafficking, rather than relying on our criminal justice system to determine guilt or innocence, let alone punishment. And Congress is doing nothing. And it doesn’t register as a campaign issue.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/05/2026
Israel has captured the 12th-century Beaufort castle that overlooks southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The move suggests Israel is planning an extended military presence in Lebanon. n.pr/49Z6Oru
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Israel seizes medieval castle as it expands major offensive in southern Lebanon
Israel has captured the 12th-century Beaufort castle that overlooks southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The move suggests Israel is planning an extended military presence in Lebanon.
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praying mantis @gentlem.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Scientists, providers, educators, researchers, academics, advocates, anyone with critical knowledge & feedback: public comments are open until 7/13/26. We are counting on you. Thank you. #OMB #grant-funding #research-funding This is #Project2025
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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Fellow ancient history artists look at this!! Fully funded artist oppurtunity working with North East archives about Hadrians Wall, hosted by @vindolandatrust.bsky.social 🏛️🌿 If I didn’t already work at an archive three days a week I’d be all over this www.vindolanda.com/2027-artist-...
Info on the opportunity
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