L Thoresen
@thoresenl.bsky.social
Archaeometry at the intersection of cultural geography and classical literature, art and archaeology. (Yes, it's really a thing.) Fast forward a couple of millennia to the present, preservation of natural resources/landscapes, esp. Calif deserts
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L Thoresen
@thoresenl.bsky.social
· Jul 5
“Government should only wage war against foreign enemies, not misperceived domestic enemies. The people are not the enemy of the government. Rather, the government that regards the people as its enemy is itself the enemy of the people.”
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Gift link!
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war.
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Gift link!
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war.
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war.
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"Longest of long shots" is what you call public servants who put the public interest before entrenched business interests or their own financial gain.
I'll take it. Heck, I'll own it. LOL
Let's prove them wrong
#SOMD #MD #politics #Chuck4MD #flip29
#longshot
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
I'll take it. Heck, I'll own it. LOL
Let's prove them wrong
#SOMD #MD #politics #Chuck4MD #flip29
#longshot
www.marketwatch.com/story/social...
Social Security’s ‘DOGE’ whistleblower is running for public office as the ‘longest of long shots’
Former data chief Charles Borges said reporting risk at Social Security was more stressful than combat
www.marketwatch.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
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It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
www.alternet.org
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
twp.ai
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
Mmm, nice.
Hi!
I’m not an illustrator but a graphic designer typography lover, and this is a M for meow:
I’m not an illustrator but a graphic designer typography lover, and this is a M for meow:
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Mmm, nice.
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Trump is a threat but so are the Ellisons taking over media and SCOTUS gutting the VRA. Those have a much more tangible effect of entrenching a permanent minority rule by Republicans that will outlast Trump. There's really no organized and concerted effort to counter this.
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trump is a threat but so are the Ellisons taking over media and SCOTUS gutting the VRA. Those have a much more tangible effect of entrenching a permanent minority rule by Republicans that will outlast Trump. There's really no organized and concerted effort to counter this.
See Churchill’s take on appeasers feeding a crocodile
I keep pointing out that by lowering the bar for prosecuting former FBI Directors, Kash signed his own arrest warrant, but under Trump, not AOC or whoever.
This revenge working group apparently targets mainly members of Trump's own prior administration. Trump once shared a podium with Anthony Fauci and boasted about his ratings; now Fauci is an enemy. The current working group members probably are its future targets.
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
See Churchill’s take on appeasers feeding a crocodile
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They’ve worked 20 days in 16 weeks and still pocket a full taxpayer-funded salary.
The same people preaching “hard work” and “fiscal responsibility” can’t even clock in.
Government by grifters, paid for by you.
Keep protesting! We are the majority.
The same people preaching “hard work” and “fiscal responsibility” can’t even clock in.
Government by grifters, paid for by you.
Keep protesting! We are the majority.
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
They’ve worked 20 days in 16 weeks and still pocket a full taxpayer-funded salary.
The same people preaching “hard work” and “fiscal responsibility” can’t even clock in.
Government by grifters, paid for by you.
Keep protesting! We are the majority.
The same people preaching “hard work” and “fiscal responsibility” can’t even clock in.
Government by grifters, paid for by you.
Keep protesting! We are the majority.
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“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Remember, the people who did Nixon’s bidding DID go to jail.
justinthenickofcrime
A judge in Chicago just flipped the script completely.
If ICE agents are caught trying to arrest someone at or around a courthouse, they can now be arrested themselves.
Cook County’s top judge made it illegal for ICE to detain anyone inside or even near a courthouse.
A judge in Chicago just flipped the script completely.
If ICE agents are caught trying to arrest someone at or around a courthouse, they can now be arrested themselves.
Cook County’s top judge made it illegal for ICE to detain anyone inside or even near a courthouse.
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remember, the people who did Nixon’s bidding DID go to jail.
Really? His own wife is a cancer survivor. She’s on record advocating for preventive care.
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
Gov. Ron DeSantis, now 47, says people his age, those younger, & a little bit older can get by without much preventive care. Tell him why he’s wrong: flgov.com/eog/leadersh...
#DCFL
Gov. Ron DeSantis, now 47, says people his age, those younger, & a little bit older can get by without much preventive care. Tell him why he’s wrong: flgov.com/eog/leadersh...
#DCFL
Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance
'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.
floridapolitics.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Really? His own wife is a cancer survivor. She’s on record advocating for preventive care.
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It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.
We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.
Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies
October 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.
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"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...
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This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"Let me look right into the camera and lie to your face."
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
October 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Let me look right into the camera and lie to your face."
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A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”
October 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”
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This is because Hegseth does not understand that there is a real world out there beyond his obsessions with American enemies within. His only idea is to use our armed forces against us.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
Top military officials have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is because Hegseth does not understand that there is a real world out there beyond his obsessions with American enemies within. His only idea is to use our armed forces against us.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
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