James Wettstaed

This was a good show.

This is a fun experience and does not need a major time commitment.

This video made me not just smile, but grin ear to ear 😁

🦋 Remember to always be like Dolly— and take care of yourselves out there!

This is unlike any other shutdown and it’s hard not to worry about what it means.

Awww you guys made me ink!

Sending up the archaeology bat signal

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have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

/3 ….among the leadership, the elite. It requires someone to push back against populist scorn for civilization.

When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.

The Unseen Danger of Restoring Confederate Statues and Names The move to restore Confederate names to memorials and military bases implicitly honors a perilous style of governance.

"Trump’s embrace of Confederate symbols is not only a petulant effort to 'own the libs' and demonize 'wokeism.' It is symbolic of a rule or ruin brand of politics, with a long, bloody history, that we underestimate at our own peril."--Elizabeth Varon time.com/7314031/trum...

Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid • Stateline Wildland firefighters were stunned when federal immigration authorities last week raided an active wildfire response in Washington state, arresting two firefighters and sidelining crews for hours.

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Descendants of Georgia enslaved people wrestle with legacies of surviving plantations Georgia’s surviving plantations are places of memory and reckoning for Black families tracing their roots and reclaiming their history.

In Thomasville, GA, the privately owned Pebble Hill Plantation thrives with historical tours and event spaces. Nearby, Black residents sift through a livelihood where the estate doesn’t just loom in the background, but acts as a forefront attraction in the community. www.uatl.com/news/2025/08...

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

I’m a nobody and four of my articles show up.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Well, LOFR is my favorite menomic.

You should be a PIO

‘America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout “Papers please!” on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany or the KGB in Soviet Russia, where masked men abduct people without due process into unmarked vehicles’

Workers who have cancer from building nuclear weapons struggle to make medical claims Unless the Trump administration chooses to renew the compensation program former nuclear weapons employees who are hoping to receive assistance with their medical payments will no longer have the oppo...

25 years ago, Congress authorized payment of medical benefits to the people who became ill from building our nuclear stockpile—including this guy, Steve Hicks, 70, who worked with HEU for 34 years.

In January, Trump and DOGE suspended indefinitely the expert medical board that reviews all claims.

OMG

Been in fire since 1988 as militia, first in operations and the last 7 years as PIO. I had a heart attack on the line in 2016 at age 51 and never considered if fire was contributing but after reading this I can’t help but wonder. I have no doubt the FS chose cost savings over worker safety.

Trump Demands the Smithsonian Deliver Shiny, Happy History His fascistic insistence that it eliminate “divisive or partisan narratives” reveals what he doesn’t understand about history and about America.

"They sure do want 'collaboration'—like Anton Mussert, or Philippe Pétain, or Vidkun Quisling. Because this is fascism."

"Community-based archaeology is a methodological and theoretical tool for knowledge coproduction that necessitates an openness to transformation, institutional reorganization, and flexibility of traditional models of archaeological practice." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists.

We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!

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🚨 New paper just published in Advances in Archaeological Practice ( @saa-aap.bsky.social ) by lab Co-Director Jake ( @archaeojake.bsky.social )!! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast” #archaeology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

h/t @charleswatkinson.bsky.social:
Big Ten Open Books, a collaboration between university presses and libraries, has launched their second collection of 100 open-access scholarly books, this one on Indigenous North America. (The collection released in 2023 was on gender and sexuality studies.) 🗃️

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

Two hotshots, two memoirs - High Country News A Q+A with outliers in fire.

A discussion between High Country News wildfire correspondent Kylie Mohr and authors River Selby and Kelly Ramsey, who both release memoirs this summer, dives into their experiences on the male-dominated fire line.

Q&A: Discarded ancient 'trash' now protecting Georgia barrier islands | Penn State University Penn State Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jacob Holland-Lulewicz and colleagues recently published research on how oyster shells discarded over thousands of years by Indigenous people have helped...

A great write-up of a recent paper led by lab Co- Director Jake Holland-Lulewicz (@archaeojake.bsky.social) published in @commsearth.nature.com on the legacies of past Indigenous land use on modern coastal ecosystems of the American southeast! #archaeology #ecology www.psu.edu/news/liberal...