Mark Walker

For the archaeologists, especially the ones into pre-marxist socialist utopian communes.

#humboldtdsa

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Who is Pro-Israel California Rep. Jared Huffman—Really? Protestors probe his political psyche and we follow the money Northern California congressperson Jared Huffman, 60, held his annual “Hootenanny” campaign

Glad to see some sort of spotlight on Huffman. I've always thought of him as, at best, a rather mousy nonentity. But, as with any machine Dem, his ineffectiveness is paid for.

Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge

Immigration authorities are being told “incitement” and “fighting words” are not protected by the First Amendment, per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...

These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

A small conflict here between the Right's purported admiration of the ancient Greeks and the Classics, and what the ancient Greeks and the Classics actually say.

For most people I know this is nothing new, but as politics seems to be increasingly about the (re)creation of pure ethno-states that only ever existed in propaganda, I wonder if it has been taught enough.

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g... - I appreciated this essay

The US educational system.

I hope I never get trolled by Somali immigrants 😆

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As an archaeologist, I wish I'd known there was a philosophical literature on the ontology of holes.

🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

"Widespread child sacrifice". And why brothels? These people are so goddam strange.

A union banner in the local labor temple. "Bartenders' League of America"

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Shades of the Ahnenerbe.

"Officials from the Israel Antiquities Authority have followed Israeli troops into occupied zones in search of artefacts."

'In these conditions, Chomsky’s injunction to choose dissent, to “speak the truth and to expose lies,” feels incomplete...Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished.'

Good article, but we shouldn't be too comfortable with the idea that scientific racism is confined to the Right. Some of the most influential proponents of scientific racism are self-professed liberals.

Just causally dropping this here

E. P. Thompson’s Romantic Marxism E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.

E. P. Thompson died on this day in 1993. He brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.

'We are the problem': California is trying to undo decades of liberal policies "I said, 'Guys, this is it.'"

His Trump-speak posts may be funny, but he's still Gavin Newsom. Trump's destruction of environmental protection will simply be the new normal, for both Republicans and Dems.

There are probably so many archaeological ones.

A Wyoming town massacred its Chinese immigrant workers 140 years ago. This summer, descendants return to dig for the Chinatown ‘burn layer’ Rock Springs was once one of the most diverse towns in the West. Now, its relationship with immigrants is embattled for other reasons.

An archaeology of the massacre of Chinese workers at Rock Springs, WY.

The future is here!