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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Interesting that no one gets to know who the committee members are at SAA. Gov. affairs seems ✨ sort of relevant ✨ these days

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Matt Walsh -- who also wasn't there and who absolutely has an agenda -- has discovered something that has eluded the so-called historians despite all their "education" and "research" and "functional literacy" They're called "primary sources," nerds, and he's the first one to use them

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Figure showing NSF funding curve in 2026 compared to prior years. The line is nearly at zero as of mid February.

As Science and Nature have reported, NIH and NSF have made only a relative handful of new grants since their 2026 appropriations became law, partly because of the OMB delays. A new rumor among the U.S. academic community is that, even after OMB signs off, it will hold agencies to the levels Trump requested for them in May 2025 rather than the more generous amounts Congress approved. For NSF, which received an appropriation of $8.8 billion, a version of those rumors holds that OMB must approve any spending above the president’s request of $3.9 billion—and that any additional outlays must clearly align with the administration’s priorities.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hey Alex Goldman - we have a native passionfruit - it’s called “maypop” and grows wild all over the Midwest and Southeast US - Passiflora incarnata. I grow it in my backyard and have to keep it from taking over my entire yard! #botany #ethnobotany

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution," U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in his ruling. He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void. www.kuaf.com/npr-news/202...

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U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America

He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Was your NEH grant terminated because of DOGE? Welp they used ChatGPT to do that.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri critiquing David Graeber’s bullshit jobs book is ~chefs kiss~

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Having a wee insomnia so putting about on social and remembering that time a self proclaimed “greatest MeToo journalist ever” spent months in vitriolic Twitter rants at women in archaeology and even made female gendered sock-puppets to carry out some attacks and tell himself how amazing he was

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This makes me so angry. I am also a professional who got to where I am because of an (SEB) NSF DDRIG grant. Archaeological research was already so painfully underfunded.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23/11/2025

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

ICYMI: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its months-long deployment of National Guard troops to help police Washington, D.C.

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Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 14/11/2025

👇🏽 this is just the start of the fireworks for today 👇🏽

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

damn a lot of these epstein pen pals are kinda giving off ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ energy huh

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...

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Section 106 Isn’t the Bottleneck—But It’s on the Chopping Block

This week’s Senate Energy & Natural Resources hearing on Section 106 didn’t show that the NHPA causes permitting delays. It did, however, signal that threats to Section 106 are coming—and the preserva...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

How did our adversaries get all our command data and plans!? See what happened was…

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Literally the only thing I missed about living NOVA was access to the Ethiopian places in DC. Found a brilliant place when I moved to RVA but they closed a bit back (RIP Nile) - this is good reminder to go back to Buna Kurs here in RVA and try Addis as well!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2025

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2025

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This is exactly the kind of thing that Timothy Snyder is talking about in the essay I reposted earlier this week.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2025

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon. Here it is:

Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM|
Document 68
Filed 10/05/25
Page 1 of 2
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON; the
CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM
SECOND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security: and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.
Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be
extended for another 14 days.
Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply
shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

That this administration is mobilizing ANG from states largely controlled by Rs to states largely controlled by Ds is incredibly alarming. It’s not just the misuse of the ANG…yeah it’s alarming.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2025

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025 "In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

WTF? I dint even know why Im saying that. More like. Of fucking course.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2025

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In case there was any doubt about the anti-DEI sentiment is actually about…

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The whole administration in one quote

Some ICE officials call Sheahan "Fish Cop" behind her back because of her previous stint running the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana. Sheahan knows there are people who think that, without any law-enforcement background, she isn't qualified for a job usually occupied by veteran ICE officials. "I absolutely think Im qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?"

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

When one of your journalism crushes strays into your botanical world 🌱🩷

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In case you were wondering the “I’ve read some obituaries with great satisfaction” quote was not Mark Twain. More fittingly - it was Clarence Darrow “ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow 1932.

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