Olletta with red pigment (hematite) and small cups with pigments (ochre, haematite, lapis lazuli, Egyptian blue and graphite). Archaeological Park of Pompeii. © Amedeo Benestante

Ariadne Marketou and Alexandra Rodler have a new article on “Ochres as earth pigments in Hellenistic and Roman polychromy: State of the art and future directions on material origins and trade” in the JAS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I do love a pigment trade article. 🎨 🖌️

Apathy is no way to run a country #vote

If you have to stack the deck to win, you’re not winning.
Demand an end to gerrymandering.

Good question, Junior!

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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An Unsustainable Equilibrium - Hussman Funds The S&P 500 stands at the most extreme level of valuations in history. This record aligns precisely with the happiest and most satisfying moment of a speculative bubble: the point where wildly misalig...

"much of the wealth isn’t a reflection of labor or even invention—it’s a gain based on the negative externalities and private monetization of an unrecognized public good—the network effect—with no associated compensation to the public." @hussmanjp.bsky.social www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc25...

This comes from Brian Allen, who states this is a leaked CPAC press memo reveals the “Third Term Project” is hosting a February 20 event titled “The Case for Presidential Tenure Reform.”

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

$40 billion for Argentina, while millions in the U.S. will face hunger next week when SNAP benefits run out amid the MAGA shutdown.

#FDT #50501Movement #PeoplesMovement

Maybe we should call it No Czars.

Congress may as well not exist at this point under this Spineless Speaker.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Who i believe admitted to his crimes....🤔

Priorities.

Alaska: $25 million
Argentina: $40 billion

#MorningVibe

I’ve posted clips of Julia Sugarbaker, played by the great Dixie Carter, many times over the years. An incredible character from Designing Women. Kudos to the producers, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason & Harry Thomason, for their depiction of strong women.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.

Graphic with the following text and images: Header: [GOP logo] MATH Left side: CAN AFFORD -$40B bailout for Argentina -Trump’s golden ballroom -Qatar jet upgrades -National Guard takeover Right side: CAN’T AFFORD -Health care for Americans -Children’s cancer research -SNAP/WIC benefits -Special education programs

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Section 107, let’s talk about it.

The above process has always been the process taken, and here’s why.

Section 107 of the National Historic Preservation Act exempts the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Supreme Court

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

Old #DiarrheaDon shits on America every day.

Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.

After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

THE ERECTION WAS STOLEN!

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Yay Alabama 🙄🤬