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Rosemary Joyce

Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ .. more

Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 12h

Tesla's latest gambit: become a rental car company. As cars pile up in showrooms and storage lots, Elon is trying to rent his way out of a crisis. Good luck, bud. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/11/10/t...

Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now

Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.

quilterjude.bsky.social @quilterjude.bsky.social · 12h

I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat.

It’s a ruse.

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quilterjude.bsky.social @quilterjude.bsky.social · 12h

I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat.

It’s a ruse.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

Caucusing is how we get candidates on the ballot to challenge the feckless among us.

It takes VERY FEW people to shift the caucus.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 13h

This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.

"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"

Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 13h

Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜

A very beautiful white woman with impossibly long legs, kicking one of them high above her head. It’s not an athletic feat; it’s a gesture of elegance and joy.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13h

Happy Claude Rains's birthday!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

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Althea May 🦇🚌🚏 @alymay.bsky.social · 13h

Our ancestors did not invent language by storytelling around fires for someone to gatekeep what it means to read a book in the year of our lord 2025

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":

".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’

Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14h

The Supreme Court will review an objectively insane 5th Circuit decision that prohibited states from counting ballots that were mailed before Election Day but arrive shortly after. (More than half the states have such laws.)
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

CERTIORARI GRANTED
24-1260 WATSON, MS SEC. OF STATE V. REPUBLICAN NAT. COMM., ET AL.
The petition for a writ of certiorari i

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14h

Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

You're a business journalist and you didn't think to ask Sinclair Broadcasting any questions about whether its sagging revenues had anything to do with a historically clumsy attempt to censor a comedian on behalf of our dim president?

From Variety: "Sinclair’s earnings report came after its ABC-affiliated stations had briefly preempted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in September over the TV host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s killer. It’s not clear the extent to which the Kimmel boycott affected Sinclair’s financial results for the quarter; the company did not provide any discussion of the blackout in its earnings press release and the topic did not come up on the call with analysts."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason.

It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is now claiming "affordability" issue that caused epic GOP losses is a "con." Repubs aren't allowed to contradict the despot, so that's become GOP gospel. Meanwhile MAGA coalition is fracturing.

On the pod, Bulwark's Joe Perticone is so good in explaining this:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses

As Trump seethes at journalists amid the release of striking new analyses of the election, a reporter who covers Congress details how Republicans are barred from acknowledging Trump’s unpopularity—a d...

newrepublic.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15h

SNAP update: the First Circuit has declined to stay the district court ruling and Justice Jackson has now set out this briefing schedule at SCOTUS. In the meantime her administrative stay remains in place so government currently doesn't have to make the full payments.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 16h

Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"