Rosemary Joyce
Rosemary Joyce
@rajoyce.bsky.social
Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
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BREAKING: Judge Reyes issues a preliminary injunction in the East Potomac Golf Course case, blocking more tree removal and requiring 10-day notice "before making any irreparable modification to any forms or features" of the park. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/golf-argum...
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This guy is a Kennedy? An ignorant racist. By the way, Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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5/ In any case, the incentives are there and yet there seems to be very little awareness of this or effort to guard against it. Perhaps I’m naive and the idea is well this is one point of view it doesn’t matter if the person is a professional GOP operative or Trump aligned lobbyist.
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4/ going to be lots of professional Republicans, GOP think tankers, lobbyists etc presenting themselves as average Joes to be profiled in the Times. My point here is simply that there’s like a 100 times more incentive to do this with the Times than with any other publication. It’s not exaggeration.
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3/ average person Fred or Lorraine in the New York Times and spouting a Republican message is golden because it’s the New York Times. And especially today, even more than 30 years ago - because the Times is paradoxically more influential now - it’s even more golden. So basically there are …
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Since I’ve engaged in a few exchanges about this. Let me say a few things about this. First of all this genuinely happens a lot. And it goes back decades. Another commenter reminded of a case back in 2004. I think there’s a key dynamic involved.
I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.
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A federal judge on Monday night indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from removing even a single tree from a public golf course in D.C. that President Donald Trump intends to immediately transform into a championship-style course. READ MORE: www.ms.now/news/judge-b...
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sometimes we’re all the eagle who’s bad at being an eagle youtube.com/shorts/kiQHm...
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Is it because of Trump's visceral loathing of Ilhan Omar and willingness to just let his racism fly? AES? The Iran war? I know it's always been simmering under the surface but what's brought on this latest paroxysm of Islamophobia?
I remember when anti-Arab racism was the only kind of racism that could be publicly expressed without people looking at you with shock. I hated it then, and I hate it now.
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In essence, this is no different than running risky Gain-of-Function research on a dangerous pathogen... Uncontrolled H5N1 outbreaks on mink farms are a global risk, as Mink have α2,6 receptors similar to humans. The virus could evolve that infection route in Mink www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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And then he stiffed them!
When Donald Trump launched his campaign, he was caught hiring paid actors to pad the audience. (I also happened to be the one that busted him doing so). www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
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So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.
18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below
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I have genuinely lost count of the number of rape and sexual assault allegations that have been made against the president. people.com/former-miss-...
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NEW: Appeals court rejects DOJ’s request for quick action in California voting case. On a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit held that it had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal now. Instead, a previously set TRO hearing at the district court should proceed on Tuesday. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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„Arabic traditional literature is probably the largest body of literature in the world." from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_...
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Nagib Mahfuz in 1988. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagib_M...
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There are multiple winners of the Nobel Prize in different categories from Arab countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Iranians have won the Fields Medal twice: stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_... People from Arab countries have won the Wolf Prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Pr...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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so that’s why they call it getting dunked on
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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did you guys think this would make him seem less cool somehow or what
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Increasing sexual disinhibition is a symptom of some forms of dementia
Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
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"The Committee presented at least one new allegation against Trump: a former Miss Switzerland who says she was raped by him at the Plaza Hotel in New York during a beauty pageant in 1993, leaving her bleeding and bruised." www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...