Shannon Lee Dawdy

A Peace Prize for the Rest of Us The archaeology of peace, an occasional series: part 2

New short essay on the history of peace movements and symbols (an archaeology of our times). Free subscribers welcome. #anthropology/archaeology @academicblue.bsky.social

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

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Go Left, Young Writers! A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of America’s proletarian literary movement. Our society’s need for working-class wr...

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Do you know the source of the original post (or was it you?). It looks like a Substack template.

Meanwhile, still no word on the SBE GRFP programs (eg, archaeology) that disappeared without warning, as I reported back in November. 🫠🏺

Launched! Free subscribers welcome. shannonleedawdy.substack.com

Seasonally appropriate intro post about the archaeology of Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras. @academicblue.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #history

A very brief search though the Epstein files has some interesting insights about his interest in archaeology. It’ll take a bit to untangle his personal connections and funding initiatives but it is clear Epstein had strong interests in archaeologies of cultural evolution and environment adaption 1/2

The Shatter Zone in My Kitchen Freudian slips of national consciousness

Maybe in yours, too... #academicsky #archaeology #Minneapolis

The Shatter Zone in My Kitchen
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I was really excited to share this image of a particularly superb owl, given that today is #superbowl Sunday, but unfortunately, it soared away with its bedtime snack before I could get the photo...

Haiti's Hand-Painted Winter Olympics Uniforms Are a 'Story of Resistance' | Artnet News Haiti’s hand-painted Winter Olympics uniforms turn censorship into an act of creative defiance and national pride.

The revolution will be haute.

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Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

“Within months, more than 1.4 million Black Louisianans could lose meaningful representation in Congress and at every level of government — not because they stopped voting, but because the U.S. Supreme Court may soon make it legal to erase their power.”

The Big Coin Job the archaeology of peace, an occasional series: part 1

In case a hawt dark history tour is what you need right now.
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#AcademicSky #HistSky

The Doomsday Clock 2026 Don’t set your alarm

I wrote a thing (soft launch). Free! #anthropology #endtimes

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#anthropology #endtimes

Lol, is this what they mean by dark academy? [verified] @academicblue.bsky.social

Reminder that of all the people complicit in Epstein's crimes, the only person actually held accountable and sentenced was a woman. No men involved have yet to face consequences.

Roman archaeologist here. These arches were emperors’ propaganda in the Empire, and they’re Orange Julius Caesar’s propaganda now.

A pastor's search for missing congregant amid ICE activity in Maine Evaristo Kalonji, an asylum seeker from Angola, vanished from South Portland. He turned up in one detention center, then another.

ICE isn't retreating, it's just moving fronts. Keep yelling at cowards in Congress. If Schumer is true to form, he'll find a 'compromise' after the temporary block of DHS funding. There is no justifiable compromise with state terrorism.

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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record YouTube video by No Kings

Last night I attended the online training for potential ICE observers coordinated by the No Kings coalition and run by the ACLU. Nearly 70,000 attended. I teared up out of a weird mix of horror and hope.

Video of the session is linked below -- share widely.

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2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.

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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

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I'm so sorry. I heard from another friend with family there describing the swarm -- they are everywhere, entering suburban Targets, stormtrooping cafes, dragging out any person of color they find. It is an unreal repeat of Nazi Germany. And yet real.

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.

people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

NOW is it OK to punch a Nazi? Asking for a friend.