James
@stroudwater.bsky.social
Historical archaeologist, historic preservation, South Carolina
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Cayce Historic Foundation Winter Concert Friday December 5 6-9. Free outdoor concert at the Cayce Historical Museum
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
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There's a Republican woman who just announced her candidacy for that cult's primary for US House SC-01. I won't even say her name because I hope she's drowned out by Democrats.
She says she wants to "preserve our way of life".
Y'all, I've lived in the South 30+ years. That's a racial dog whistle.
She says she wants to "preserve our way of life".
Y'all, I've lived in the South 30+ years. That's a racial dog whistle.
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There's a Republican woman who just announced her candidacy for that cult's primary for US House SC-01. I won't even say her name because I hope she's drowned out by Democrats.
She says she wants to "preserve our way of life".
Y'all, I've lived in the South 30+ years. That's a racial dog whistle.
She says she wants to "preserve our way of life".
Y'all, I've lived in the South 30+ years. That's a racial dog whistle.
Cayce Historic Foundation Winter Concert Friday December 5 6-9. Free outdoor concert at the Cayce Historical Museum
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Cayce Historic Foundation Winter Concert Friday December 5 6-9. Free outdoor concert at the Cayce Historical Museum
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
#caycesc #southcarolina #bonniestewart #grittyflyright #columbia #lexingtonsc #carolinaclay #music #holidsy
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The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
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There are so many heartbreaking videos like this. Do not look away! Talk about it with your neighbors...call your reps...call your local leaders and let them know this isn't OK anywhere in our country!
ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔
This is so heartbreaking 💔
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
There are so many heartbreaking videos like this. Do not look away! Talk about it with your neighbors...call your reps...call your local leaders and let them know this isn't OK anywhere in our country!
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Agreed. And more may come from the upcoming hearing on Section 106 by the Senate National Committee on Energy and National Resources- www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/202... KY has no direct representation here, but to prevent further destruction or historic resources we need your influence, Morgan!
Full Committee Hearing to Examine the Section 106 Consultation Process Under the National Historic Preservation Act
www.energy.senate.gov
October 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Agreed. And more may come from the upcoming hearing on Section 106 by the Senate National Committee on Energy and National Resources- www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/202... KY has no direct representation here, but to prevent further destruction or historic resources we need your influence, Morgan!
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Think actions like the destruction of the East Wing shouldn't happen? We have ONE cultural resource law to keep fed gov in check, & there's a hearing in the senate Wednesday. Call members on the natural resources committee & voice your support for Section 106! preservationaction.org/106-hearing-...
preservationaction.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Think actions like the destruction of the East Wing shouldn't happen? We have ONE cultural resource law to keep fed gov in check, & there's a hearing in the senate Wednesday. Call members on the natural resources committee & voice your support for Section 106! preservationaction.org/106-hearing-...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS SOUTH CAROLINA (All South Carolina Indivisible Chapters + 50501SC + Others)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS SOUTH CAROLINA (All South Carolina Indivisible Chapters + 50501SC + Others) · No Kings
It is time to join together and show SC how many of us there are! We need EVERYONE who is able to be in ONE PLACE at ONE TIME as we raise ONE VOICE to say NO to the regime!
Join us for a statewide ra...
www.mobilize.us
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS SOUTH CAROLINA (All South Carolina Indivisible Chapters + 50501SC + Others)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Can the folks running the mayoral debate do the national debates? They’re great!
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Can the folks running the mayoral debate do the national debates? They’re great!
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really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
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It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
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Article Alert: Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election-Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895 by Greg Downs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... If I can ILL, *yoooouuuuu* can ILL.
Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Again Election‐Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895
This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Article Alert: Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election-Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895 by Greg Downs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... If I can ILL, *yoooouuuuu* can ILL.
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Urban archaeology in action from @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and the team
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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters | Skateboarding | The Guardian share.google/xEpWiZy3HaHW...
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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters | Skateboarding | The Guardian share.google/xEpWiZy3HaHW...
Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades
share.google
August 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Urban archaeology in action from @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and the team
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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters | Skateboarding | The Guardian share.google/xEpWiZy3HaHW...
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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters | Skateboarding | The Guardian share.google/xEpWiZy3HaHW...
I would like to see the assessment of effects for the ballroom on the National Historic Landmark. Any of the required notifications in the Federal Register?
Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House
Press secretary says 90,000 sq ft ballroom will hold up to 650 seats as US president proposes ‘a lot of improvements’
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I would like to see the assessment of effects for the ballroom on the National Historic Landmark. Any of the required notifications in the Federal Register?
Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump to build ‘beautiful’ $200m ballroom at White House www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Proofreading is basically gaslighting yourself over typos.
July 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Proofreading is basically gaslighting yourself over typos.
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Breonna Taylor should still be here today. Her life mattered.
Trump’s DOJ has asked that an officer charged in her murder spend just one day in jail. One day. This is atrocious—it is what injustice and systemic racism looks like.
Trump’s DOJ has asked that an officer charged in her murder spend just one day in jail. One day. This is atrocious—it is what injustice and systemic racism looks like.
DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Breonna Taylor should still be here today. Her life mattered.
Trump’s DOJ has asked that an officer charged in her murder spend just one day in jail. One day. This is atrocious—it is what injustice and systemic racism looks like.
Trump’s DOJ has asked that an officer charged in her murder spend just one day in jail. One day. This is atrocious—it is what injustice and systemic racism looks like.
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"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine!
Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth.
Pub date: April 21, 2026!
Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth.
Pub date: April 21, 2026!
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine!
Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth.
Pub date: April 21, 2026!
Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth.
Pub date: April 21, 2026!
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Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies
Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...
cp.copernicus.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊
June 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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#protestart takes many forms!!! Love to see it. Use your talents and welcome others to join with joy. BEAUTIFUL quilt.
#protest #handsoff
#handsoffiran
#indivisible
#nokings
#protest #handsoff
#handsoffiran
#indivisible
#nokings
June 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#protestart takes many forms!!! Love to see it. Use your talents and welcome others to join with joy. BEAUTIFUL quilt.
#protest #handsoff
#handsoffiran
#indivisible
#nokings
#protest #handsoff
#handsoffiran
#indivisible
#nokings