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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

"The skull-cup, fashioned from a sawn-off and polished braincase adorned with a silver rim and stand, was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College, Oxford, until 2015, according to Prof Dan Hicks, the curator of world archaeology at the university’s Pitt Rivers Museum."

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Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts Civil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”

Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week.”

Brian Eno on the police raiding a Quaker Meeting House.

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

‘Welsh Landscape’ - #RSThomas
(An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities.

They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa Police say motive for killing of Hendricks, who ran a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims near Cape Town, is unknown Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world’s “first openly gay imam”, has been shot dead near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police have…

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa

JD Vance’s Munich speech laid bare the collapse of the transatlantic alliance The US vice-president was hypocritical and insensitive, but bracingly clear in his resetting of relationships • Europe live – latest updates Since 1963, the Munich Security Conference has seen many consequential speeches, notably Vladimir Putin…

JD Vance’s Munich speech laid bare the collapse of the transatlantic alliance

The funniest part is watching white Republican women discover they are also a DEI hire…

Don't move to FL.

Trump changes his mind. Say it'll now be named the Gulf of X.

Straight up mobster sh*t

Word on the street is Vance won't meet with the German Chancellor, Scholz, this week. Understandable. If I were Scholz I wouldn't hang out with a Nazi either.

Vance took the MAGA circus to Europe and spewed fascist lies at our oldest and surest allies

I’m sure that’s how you build American influence

Why is the Welsh Government at war with arts, culture, and heritage? Precious sectors of Wales are being left to sink or swim. The Scottish government values arts, culture, and heritage: why doesn’t ours?

Why is the Welsh Government at war with arts, culture, and heritage?
Why was defunding done so ‘quietly’?
Why is it Scotland chooses to increase funding when Wales lets invaluable sectors sink or swim?

#CulturalAusterity

✍️ Former Librarian, National Library of Wales

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No women will lead House committees for first time in 2 decades The 17 standing committees will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.

No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress. No people of color were selected, either.

In a harbinger of illiberalism, Trump fired the Archivist of the United States without telling her or Congress why Good afternoon from Washington, where my daughter and I made blueberry pancakes and took the dogs for a walk before the rains rolled in. I hope you and yours are well this morning. It’s good to see m...

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Text of poem - Luminary. My luminary, my morning and evening star. My light at noon when there is no sun and the sky lowers. My balance of joy in a world that has gone off joy's standard. Yours the face that young I recognised as though I had known you of old. Come, my eyes said, out into the morning of a world whose dew waits for your footprint. Before a green altar with the thrush for priest I took those gossamer vows that neither the Church could stale nor the Machine tarnish, that with the years have grown hard as flint, lighter than platinum on our ringless fingers.

Ar gyfer Dydd San Ffolant…
For St Valentine’s Day…
‘Luminary’ - #RSThomas
(Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks)
#Ffolant #Valentine

Diolch, Michael! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🤗

Royal Society urged to expel Elon Musk as fellows sign open letter More than 1,700 academics complain about X owner’s behaviour, citing his ‘assault on scientific research’

“This isn’t an HR complaint about harassment or bullying or anything like that. This is a matter of behaviour that is entirely public..."

Fire chiefs warn UK is not prepared for climate crisis impacts National Fire Chiefs Council says ability of firefighters to respond is at risk as it calls for urgent preventive action The UK is not prepared for the impact of climate breakdown, fire chiefs have warned, as they called on the government to take urgent…

Fire chiefs warn UK is not prepared for climate crisis impacts

"I know it is not popular to stand with immigrants right now, and Democrats are hemorrhaging on this issue." ~ AOC

There is a small book, costs less than a McDonald's burger, that is the most condensed explanation of whiteness in America.

Read it online here.

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