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Aksel
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Sometimes archaeologist, anthropologist, and professor in SRU’s College of Liberal Arts.

Co-director of SRU’s Center for Middle East Studies.
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aljazeera.com
Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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jayowens.bsky.social
The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions.

He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)

Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Bret Stephens and the NYT played major roles in manufacturing consent for the Iraq War.

Now they appear to be running the same playbook on Venezuela.
The New York Times GIVE THE TIMES OPINION BRET STEPHENS The Case for Overthrowing Maduro Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 p.m. ET
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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kbspangler.com
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.

I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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arkeogato.bsky.social
Las Tumbas, ancient Maya building in Merida. There are flat stones of a Puuc style, so this probably had cool decorative elements. People lived here from 400 BCE to 1100 CE and 19 former residents were buried on-site.
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#maya #hiddenspots #ancientamericas #archaeology 🏺
A small ancient Maya structure with a tree growing up on the edge
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ehusman.bsky.social
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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aljazeera.com
Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.
UNRWA slams Israel for crippling Gaza efforts, aid woefully short of needs
Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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abradacabla.bsky.social
Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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billybragg.bsky.social
If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth

And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Billy Bragg - The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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theonion.com
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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isasaxonists.bsky.social
Obligatory post in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day. Have a blessed one (unless you're a racist, then you can go to hell).
Bad Place characters in two panels Top panel: Fun fact: Columbus is in the bad place Bottom panel: because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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mollyploofkins.bsky.social
Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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aljazeera.com
Plumes of smoke from Israeli attacks were seen rising over Gaza hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan, brokered by Donald Trump.
October 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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brennawalks.bsky.social
so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...
Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick
University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.
www.lancashire.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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roguestrands.bsky.social
As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
December 15, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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martamlahr.bsky.social
Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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npr.org
The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela's grandson and European lawmakers aboard, includes some 50 boats and 500 activists and is carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid.
Activists say Israel's navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela's grandson and European lawmakers aboard, includes some 50 boats and 500 activists and is carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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killgrove.bsky.social
Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91
Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.
www.livescience.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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turkeyrecap.bsky.social
"Creativity amid crisis in Istanbul" by @jenhattam.bsky.social. [5/5]
Creativity amid crisis in Istanbul
Roiled by economic and political turmoil but buoyed by a recast biennial, the Turkish art world is eager to demonstrate its resilience to the world
www.artbasel.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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gwillow.me
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
marmel.bsky.social Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · Sep 29
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM