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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE is Seizing the Best of Us : The View from Across the Atlantic On a drizzly September afternoon in Lynn Massachusetts dozens of people gathered inside the Lynn Arts Gallery in support of Emmanuel “Manny” Kenga, a member of our North Shore community seized by I…

ICE is Seizing the Best of Us : The View from Across the Atlantic theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/06/i...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
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The old schoolhouse in Meigle in Perthshire. The image shows the interior of a large, white-painted room that extends up to a brown wooden roof with roof beams and skylights. There are a dozen or so grey carved stones on display, some on stone plinths and others on green bases above the green floor. In the centre of the room is a large carved standing stone covered in pictures of people and animals.

One of the largest collections of Pictish carved stones in Scotland is in the old schoolhouse in Meigle in Perthshire. The tallest is 2.5m high and might depict Daniel and the lions: or the execution of Queen Guinevere. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Meigle #Perthshire

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

The commander-in-chief is not ok.
read @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

The first blue in what is now Europe? In @antiquity.ac.uk this morning, there is a new, open access article on "The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe," which looks at the evidence for azurite "on a concave stone artefact from the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany"

The Migvie Stone - a Class II Pictish Stone located in St. Final’s Kirkyard, two miles north of Logie Coldstone, in Aberdeenshire. Class II stones date from the 8th and 9th centuries. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #Aberdeenshire

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power Digital moguls and strongman leaders are far more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

Together, political predators and digital conquistadors have decided to wipe out the old elites and their rules. If they succeed, it will not only be the parties of lawyers and technocrats that will be swept away, but also liberal democracy as we have known it until today ↘️ on.ft.com/4nVwSII

Cycle of Talks - "Sortir de l’ombre au siècle des Lumières : art, savoir et sociabilité au féminin" | gissociabilite In parallel with the exhibition at Musée Cognacq-Jay: "Agnès Thurnauer. Correspondances" (2 octobre 2025 au 8 février 2026). 3 talks : October 15 ; December 11 & Jan. 22.

🎓 Cycle de conférences 2025-2026 du GIS Sociabilités, "Sortir de l’ombre au siècle des Lumières : art, savoir et sociabilité au féminin", organisé en parallèle de l'exposition "Agnès Thurnauer. Correspondances" au Musée Cognacq-Jay.

🔎 Plus d'informations ➡️ gis-sociabilites.org/cycle-talks-...

The Adventures of Alexander the Great, Medieval-Style Alexander battles giants and unicorns in this new addition to Getty’s manuscripts collection

📖 Learn more about Getty's newest addition to our manuscript collection: gty.art/461G9Yn.

The full artwork, a page from Romance of Alexander. Two men in a sailboat lower Alexander the Great in a massive bubble down into the ocean, where he encounters aquatic creatures of all kinds. His medieval submarine consists of a transparent barrel, helpfully lit by torches. And of course, he wouldn’t go anywhere without his gold crown!

Feel like you've been swimming upstream? 🐟
Take yourself on an adventure to the Getty Center this Fall! 💙

🗺️ Alexander Adventuring Underwater is on view in Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages now through November 30, 2025.

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1 Of all published articles, the following were the most read.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE

A report by a United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Nav Pillay is chair of the commission and outlines the reports findings here (note Pillay served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwandan genocide)

Galleries in Scotland could close after years of 'systematic underfunding' The head of the National Galleries of Scotland has told MSPs she “honestly” cannot rule out closing galleries after years of “systemic…

www.thenational.scot/news/2546006...

Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Diverse feasting networks at the end of the Bronze Age in Britain (c. 900-500 BCE) evidenced by multi-isotope analysis Isotope chemistry; Social sciences; Archeology

Paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice | Antiquity | Cambridge Core The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice

The Chinese identity of St Mark’s bronze ‘Lion’ and its place in the history of medieval Venice

Venice’s Lion of St Mark’s Square was at least part made in China, study suggests Isotope analysis finds copper ore came from Yangtze River basin while statue could be a repurposed Tang Dynasty tomb guardian

What research! What a story! It seems the statue of the winged lion in Venice may have been a tomb guardian brought from China by Niccolò & Maffeo Polo - &, once in Venice, it was modified to resemble the Republic’s emblem – the winged lion of St Mark ...
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"These seeds … were living libraries of Palestinian agricultural knowledge, carrying genetic traits for drought resistance, soil adaptation, and nutritional density.
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The destruction of seed banks eliminates not just current agricultural capacity, but future possibilities for food sovereignty ..."

The Antonine Wall Trail Follow the Line of the Wall Across Central Scotland

This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall...
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#WallsOnWednesday

Let this sink in for a moment:

Because it's so much more than just a map. It's years of research of various colleagues & disciplines. The lines in this map have been modified, re-drawn, and adapted with continuous research - to present, in this single image, an essential process in human history.

Famine à Gaza : les chiffres pour mesurer l’ampleur de la catastrophe humanitaire

Famine à Gaza : les chiffres pour mesurer l’ampleur de la catastrophe humanitaire

Fuel Shortages Hit Russia’s Far East as Ukrainian Strikes Take Refineries Offline - The Moscow Times Russia’s Far East is facing growing gasoline shortages after a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out a significant share of the country’s oil refining capacity, leaving drivers waiting in long l...

Two regions in the Far East along with annexed Crimea have introduced ration cards for purchasing gasoline.

Look at this brilliant clip from the National Library of Scotland showing an Orkney Library Book Box being filled to go to the island of North Ronaldsay in 1957.

The Family Box service started in 1954 and continues to this day, serving customers in North Ronaldsay, Papa Westray and Graemesay. ❤️

An etching depicting a woman's head and shoulders in profile at the center, with a row of trees behind her, all in shades of brown on tan-colored paper.

Now open at @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Art Museum -

Front Lines: Women Etchers at the Fore, 1880 to Today
www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/e...

Pictured: Paula Modersohn-Becker, "Portrait of a Peasant Woman," 1900-1902, etching on cream wove paper.

JHNA Vol. 17.1 published - Historians of Netherlandish Art Volume 17.1 (2025) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org) is published. In this issue, three articles provide

Volume 17.1 (2025) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org) is published. In this issue, three articles provide new insights into visual culture and ideas of place.

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Bill Clinton proves Marco Rubio is lying, right here, clear as day: WE forced Ukraine to give up their nukes, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers: WE promised to protect Ukraine from Russia; WE made Ukraine vulnerable. So yeah, THIS IS OUR WAR.

Every American needs to remember that Russia is only able to invade and terrorize Ukraine because, in 1994, the US and UK convinced them to give up their nuclear weapons.

They voiced specific concerns about a Russian invasion.

We promised to protect them.

Trump wants to break our promise.