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John Hoopes

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Anthropologist. Archaeologist. https://hoopes.academia.edu/ I’m not here to try and change your mind. I’m here to let other people who think as I do know they’re not alone. Be kind. Love one another.

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Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday according to an announcement sent to Congress today, marking the seventh detained death of 2026 and nearly the 40th since Trump took…

BREAKING: Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year

austinkocher.substack.com/p/seventh-im...

18.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 284    🔁 182    💬 8    📌 24
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EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Indicates Jeffrey Epstein Was Key to 2016 Pro-Trump Election Meddling So much attention has been paid to Epstein's serial sex crimes that we've spent too little time asking whether Trump owes his political career to a dead pedophilic rapist he can’t stop lying about.

(🚨) This is just the beginning. But it is one hell of a beginning. You will never see the Epstein Scandal the same way again.

And Part II is on the way.

You can read this for free by clicking the red button at the link. Or subscribe for free and use this as your free article.

17.02.2026 01:18 — 👍 1588    🔁 752    💬 39    📌 34
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Ludovic Slimak on Neanderthals: ‘It was suicide. Humans disappear when they no longer want to live because their values ​​have collapsed’ The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ‘It’s possible that other, completely unknown human populations existed’

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

17.02.2026 09:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump promises billions in aid to Gaza as Israeli airstrikes reportedly kill 12 Palestinians Trump's Board of Peace does not mention Gaza in its charter, instead hinting at a way to swerve accountability to the United Nations.

The astonishing amount of fraud, deception, and graft that will be associated with the so-called Board of Peace is going to BLOW YOUR HAIR BACK.

I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.

15.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 919    🔁 393    💬 76    📌 20
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If Epstein was murdered—as 65% believe, per polls—two foreign nationals are leading suspects.

Both appear repeatedly in the Epstein Files, so they *should* appear on the 300-person DOJ list just published that included Elvis, Bono, and Cher.

They don't.

PROOF will have more soon.

15.02.2026 23:42 — 👍 739    🔁 243    💬 41    📌 3

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I am not suicidal; I don't drink or do drugs; my blood pressure and cholesterol are normal; I don't engage in high-risk activities; my vehicles are well kept and newly serviced.

If anything happens to me, please assume foul play and only let state agents—not federal—access my data and drafts.

16.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 3415    🔁 921    💬 142    📌 67
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Proof | Seth Abramson | Substack Know Better. Click to read Proof, by Seth Abramson, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

UPDATE: What I'm working on with respect to Epstein is so encompassing and sourced that it's far too long to release all at once. I'll publish the first part at PROOF Monday night and you'll see exactly what I mean. This is a story no other outlet has covered. sethabramson.substack.com

16.02.2026 02:52 — 👍 719    🔁 239    💬 20    📌 5
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Stacy Liberatore, US Science and Technology Editor at the Daily Mail, has become one of the world’s leading purveyors of #pseudoarchaeology.

29.01.2026 15:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump: "Everything has come down. Do you notice that don't notice affordability anymore? That's like an old fashioned word."

27.01.2026 21:28 — 👍 578    🔁 128    💬 250    📌 85
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Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

26.01.2026 14:29 — 👍 14680    🔁 7330    💬 1032    📌 643

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

25.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 47545    🔁 14323    💬 523    📌 600

So important ⬇️

25.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 232    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 1
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

24.01.2026 12:19 — 👍 360    🔁 209    💬 4    📌 33
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480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a million years ago.

480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

24.01.2026 15:02 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Worst Of The Worst Domestic Terrorists Stalinesque Propaganda A Sweaty Grifter

Briefing: Domestic Terrorists, Stalinesque Propaganda, & A Sweaty Grifter www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

23.01.2026 22:03 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
White mug with “Ama los libros, Odia el fascismo” written around red and black books

White mug with “Ama los libros, Odia el fascismo” written around red and black books

New mug from @traficantes.bsky.social
#NoPasarán

17.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 132    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 3
Where Are the Denisovans? The Answer is in our DNA
YouTube video by New Scientist Where Are the Denisovans? The Answer is in our DNA

CARTA member and Palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer guides us through the Denisovan story, revealing what’s known and what mysteries remain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zq...

15.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

The last word on Erich von Däniken should be from the great science communicator, Carl Sagan who wrote,

"That writing as careless as Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times."

11.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 46    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 3
Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia

Please don’t let BlueSky become polluted with bullshit #pseudoarchaeology the way Twitter has.

We don’t need no Ancient Aliens.

We don’t need no Graham Hancock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoa...

21.03.2025 00:24 — 👍 55    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 2
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Media Matters Says It’s Ending Its Presence on X The liberal watchdog says changes to the terms of service make it impossible for them to keep posting on the platform.

www.thebulwark.com/p/media-matt...

15.01.2026 02:40 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Police attack antifascists confronting the fascist group Núcleo Nacional in Catalunya. #NoPassaran

10.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 96    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 2
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From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance Three decades after its modest beginnings on Channel 4, the TV juggernaut now has its own channel and global subscribers

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social How popular Time Team has been. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

04.01.2026 01:28 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ancient bone arrow points reveal organized craft production in prehistoric Argentina For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 cal BP) people of the Sierras de Córdoba were scarce. However, Dr. Matías Med...

New questions, new perspectives, new answers #archaeology 🧪🏺
Technological analysis of bone tool collections in Cordoba- Argentina that successfully fills a major gap in understanding how these ancient communities organized their craft production and daily life
phys.org/news/2025-12...

30.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Who among us will ever forget where we were and what we were doing when we learned that undocumented migrants to the United States were taking all the atom-splitting jobs

28.12.2025 18:50 — 👍 713    🔁 172    💬 157    📌 33
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This anodyne BS is how the NYT summarizes the most corrupt presidency in US history.

Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.

He said he would get prices down; he lied.

He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.

He started wars and attacked his own people.

27.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 1600    🔁 509    💬 88    📌 29

Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.

23.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 188    🔁 72    💬 0    📌 1
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2,300-year-old Celtic gold coins found in Swiss bog Two rare Celtic gold coins were discovered in a Swiss bog, and they may have been left there as an offering to the gods.

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

24.12.2025 05:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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27.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solidarity.

27.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 257    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 1
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The Bedroomer

I would love it if you listened to some of this music!
open.spotify.com/artist/40nN0...

26.12.2025 23:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0