James Wettstaed
@jwettstaed.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historic preservation, Southern Appalachians and Georgia Piedmont, wild land fire fighter, nurse husband, dance dad
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Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US.
Find full details on our blog post.
Find full details on our blog post.
Microgrants Temporarily Paused
Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US. This status was required for maintaining our US PayPal Business account, which we use to accept, hold and disburse funds. Without it, we’re unable to manage the account or process any payments. We’re currently exploring how to get our non-profit status reinstated, but until that happens, we’re unable to accept new applications.
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US.
Find full details on our blog post.
Find full details on our blog post.
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The Human Rights Campaign evaluates over 500 US cities every year on the LGBTQ+ inclusiveness of their laws, policies and services.
This year, thanks to the ACC Police Department, the local government scored an "A" for the first time.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/acc-gov-scor...
This year, thanks to the ACC Police Department, the local government scored an "A" for the first time.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/acc-gov-scor...
ACC Gov scores "A" grade for LGBTQ+ equality for the first time | Athens Politics Nerd
The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government has scored over 90% on the Human Rights Campaign’s municipal equality index for the first time, showing continued
athenspoliticsnerd.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Human Rights Campaign evaluates over 500 US cities every year on the LGBTQ+ inclusiveness of their laws, policies and services.
This year, thanks to the ACC Police Department, the local government scored an "A" for the first time.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/acc-gov-scor...
This year, thanks to the ACC Police Department, the local government scored an "A" for the first time.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/acc-gov-scor...
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I can't (yes I can) believe I am sending out another email to archaeologists asking them to do a few more Skype a Scientist sessions for LEGO league. But here we are. Putting our scientific network to the test. Really learning the limits here this semester, whew.
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I can't (yes I can) believe I am sending out another email to archaeologists asking them to do a few more Skype a Scientist sessions for LEGO league. But here we are. Putting our scientific network to the test. Really learning the limits here this semester, whew.
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Just in case you'd rather listen to the American Revolution then scramble to find the login for your PBS app, may I offer you something that will leave your Worlds Turned Upside Down?
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
Worlds Turned Upside Down
History Podcast · Monthly Series · Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it....
podcasts.apple.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Just in case you'd rather listen to the American Revolution then scramble to find the login for your PBS app, may I offer you something that will leave your Worlds Turned Upside Down?
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5OfU87p...
Website: www.r2studios.org
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
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Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
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@rickbell.bsky.social wrote this kickass new book about the American Revolution from a global perspective and it might be my favorite book of 2025. I sat down to talk with him about it.
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
November 11, 2025
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@rickbell.bsky.social wrote this kickass new book about the American Revolution from a global perspective and it might be my favorite book of 2025. I sat down to talk with him about it.
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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Oregon coast and black lab mixes
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Oregon coast and black lab mixes
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
This is a fun experience and does not need a major time commitment.
Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.
We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.
www.skypeascientist.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is a fun experience and does not need a major time commitment.
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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!
🦋 Remember to always be like Dolly— and take care of yourselves out there!
BREAKING
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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!
🦋 Remember to always be like Dolly— and take care of yourselves out there!
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Awww you guys made me ink!
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Awww you guys made me ink!
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Sending up the archaeology bat signal
Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.
This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!
Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!
Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
media.tenor.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sending up the archaeology bat signal
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BTC Microgrants Are Open Again!
We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to…
We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to…
BTC Microgrants Are Open Again!
We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to the 10th of each month, this month will be an exception. Because we want to reopen as soon as possible, …
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
BTC Microgrants Are Open Again!
We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to…
We’re happy to announce that the BTC Microgrants program is now accepting applications again. After a brief pause while we resolved account access issues, we’re ready to continue supporting archaeology students. While applications are usually open from the 1st to…
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have to say that i liked this one quite a bit
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
have to say that i liked this one quite a bit
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/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.
When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
/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.
When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.
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"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...
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.
time.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"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...
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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...
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.
www.uatl.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
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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.
August 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
All authors: please take a few minutes to do this. A quick check will show you if your work has been stolen (it probably has been), and a few more minutes will pass your details to the class action lawyers. You may achieve nothing. Or you may add to the pressure on AI companies to behave better.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’m a nobody and four of my articles show up.
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
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‘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’
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
‘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’