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My article "Black Heritage Sites & the NRHP" dropped today. I crunched the numbers to see if we had improved the number of listings since 2020 & evaluate claims of structural issues in the National Register. Spoiler, its not the #NRHP. 🏺#archaeology #preservation www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GRBHV...

@cassidyaster.bsky.social I hope we can meet irl someday

a glimmer of opposition! #BAAJA

Good Morning. We have 13 days until the vote on BAAJA. Call your elected officials early and often. Follow @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social and check out my blog with information. Just updated it with articles challenging permitting reform. thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/23/r...

Great article about what is already happening to Montana without #BAAJA to grease the skids even further for data centers nodirtydatacenterdeal.com

Concerned about the permitting reform bill & threats to historic preservation? This is your resource kit. Including: text of the problematic legislation, detailed analysis by lawyers, success stories, how the process works & how consultation improves projects. #FightBack #106Strong #SaveSec106 1/5

Why not friend if friend-shaped? For something so dangerous, polar bears are ridiculously cute. #mammals 🌿

Always fun to see a reevaluation of legacy data

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Back in 2016~ish I spent many hours of my professional life and tax payer money in meetings with other state agencies who were telling us we were going to have Hyperloop by 2018. Ground was being broken out by the airport & we could all get tours *soon*

Spent some time tonight turning off all the settings on my LG TV so it couldn't spy on me. I learned I don't have an LG TV, I have a Sony TV. I also learned my husband had turned off all those settings when we first bought it.

On Historic Preservation Law’s 60th Anniversary, 1,000 Organizations Launch Campaign to Defend America’s Heritage www.106strong.com/60th-anniver...

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This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

With odds being tilted so far in favor of above average precipitation this winter, I thought Id capture the 1997 Flood Monument and marker on the Superintendent’s Bridge for future reference. Just down stream peak flows were 24k+ cfs in January 1997.

I detest that Obama's comment gets more media attention than the strip club the president turned the oval office into.

This article is an important corrective to the claim that Federal environmental laws are holding back clean-energy development. Their empirical finding: "environmental reviews and permitting rarely delay or block utility-scale renewable energy projects." Link in next tweet.

Save East Po! Stop #BAAJA

dunno why folks are surprised @heinrich.senate.gov & @whitehouse.senate.gov are unnecessarily backing #BAAJA's destruction of our natural and cultural heritage; they unnecessarily voted for Doug Burgum to take over Interior and NPS

This is so very wrong. The fact that Trump has issued an executive order on siting data centers is precisely the problem. Because BAAJA erodes bedrock environmental protections and will make it far, far easier for Trump to leverage his executive order to site AI data centers on public lands.

Destroyed for a Date centre To make billionaires richer So you can chat to a chatbot So AI can take your job Hack your bank account Create a surveillance state 250,000 trees of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

The YIMBY reaction to this story is wild. Tenants have to watch their homes be demolished, move, some twice, to new units that haven't been built yet owned by private developers with a track record of bad management. But sure, it's the tenants who are wrong.

stop burning fossil fuels

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

The next turn will likely sound like Malcolm X with an AI battery in his back. Something something about determining our own economic destiny. You should also ignore that. It’s nonsense.

Thousands mourn victims of deadly Jordan church attack https://aje.news/uelru8

Frank Macchiarola, before working at American Clean Power, was, per his LinkedIn, a fossil fuel hack, including at the American Petroleum Institute. Two main players driving the Senate's permitting deal are American Clean Power and the American Petroleum Institute. Connect the dots, people.

"The path forward is obvious. We let Sauron retain full power for another two years. Let the people experience a little more darkness while we clean house. Get our own ranks in order. Get rid of all those unity-chasing wackos that are tearing our Fellowship apart." buff.ly/9WluK1y

@heinrich.senate.gov please change your position and support and protect Section 106. Respect Tribal sovereignty and the input of local communities. As a NM Democrat, I am so disappointed in you. Section 106 is so important to protecting the Cultural Heritage of our state.

@DavidSirota.com examines the bipartisan class solidarity driving campaigns in California and Colorado: www.levernews.com/the-blue-sta...

Stop #BAAJA. nodirtydatacenterdeal.com