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JRienke@mastodon.social 🇪🇺🇳🇱<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> wil onbeperkte macht in de VS. Dat gaan wij ook merken</p><p>OPINIE<br>Verenigde Staten Hoog op Trumps binnenlandse agenda staat de vernietiging van de scheiding der machten, ziet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a>-JanMeeus. Het stelt Brussel én Den Haag voor duivelse dilemma’s.</p><p><a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/05/trump-wil-onbeperkte-macht-in-de-vs-dat-gaan-wij-ook-merken-a4885284" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/05/trump</span><span class="invisible">-wil-onbeperkte-macht-in-de-vs-dat-gaan-wij-ook-merken-a4885284</span></a></p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Coke, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Irion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irion</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Runnels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Runnels</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Sterling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sterling</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> Green, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:15 PM CST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS San Angelo TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Coke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coke</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Irion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irion</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Run" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Run</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Unexpected Tuesday Afternoon Jungle!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa9KlfFsabw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Wa9KlfFsabw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jungle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jungle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a>&Jerry</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Donald Trump’s "border czar" has admitted that authorities have found it “hard” to find undocumented immigrants with criminal records. <br>In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a> said that whole teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are having to raid neighborhoods to carry out the administration’s deportation plans. <br>“It is hard because rather than one man arresting one bad guy in a jail, we’ve got to send a whole team to the field to find someone that doesn’t want to be found,” he said in an interview Sunday.<br><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/border-czar-whines-its-been-hard-to-find-undocumented-immigrants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/border-czar-</span><span class="invisible">whines-its-been-hard-to-find-undocumented-immigrants/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a>, Trump’s "border czar", <br>after he suggested that she could be “in trouble” for advice she is giving to immigrants if they are targeted in one of Homan’s raids. </p><p>“Believe it or not, in America EVERYONE has rights,” she wrote on X. <br>“Citizen or not, we all should know our rights to protect ourselves and others from illegal search & seizure.” </p><p>She included graphics reminding people that they don’t have to allow authorities into their home without a warrant, and that they have a right to remain silent when questioned</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-tom-homan-immigration_n_67aebe26e4b035ea23a4d50a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/alexandra-o</span><span class="invisible">casio-cortez-tom-homan-immigration_n_67aebe26e4b035ea23a4d50a</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>On Thursday, 25-year-old <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> staff member <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marko</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elez</span></a> resigned after being linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics. </p><p>Elez resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.</p><p>💥“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July. <br>“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September. </p><p>💥“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.</p><p>Elez’s resignation came a day after the Department of Justice agreed to limit the number of DOGE employees who have access to federal payment systems. </p><p>The DOJ said access would be limited to two people, Elez and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krause</span></a>, the CEO of a company called Cloud Software Group.</p><p>➡️Earlier Friday, Musk said he planned to rehire Elez after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance reportedly endorsed the idea. </p><p>Speaking at The White House today, Trump said he wasn’t concerned about the security of personal information and other data accessed by DOGE, adding that he was “very proud of the job that this group of young people” are doing.</p><p>A White House official told Reuters on Wednesday that Musk and his engineers have appropriate security clearances and are operating in “full compliance with federal law, appropriate security clearances, and as employees of the relevant agencies, not as outside advisors or entities.”</p><p>NPR reports Trump added that his administration’s cost-cutting efforts would soon turn to the Education Department and the Pentagon, “where he suggested without evidence that there could be ‘trillions’ of dollars in wasted spending within the $6.75 trillion the federal government spent in fiscal year 2024.”</p><p>GOP leaders in the Republican-controlled House and Senate have largely shrugged about Musk’s ongoing efforts to seize control over federal databases, dismantle agencies mandated by Congress, freeze federal spending on a range of already-appropriated government programs, and threaten workers with layoffs.</p><p>Meanwhile, multiple parties have sued to stop DOGE’s activities. ABC News says a federal judge was to rule today on whether DOGE should be blocked from accessing Department of Labor records, following a lawsuit alleging Musk’s team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical information, from the federal government.</p><p>At least 13 state attorneys general say they plan to file a lawsuit to stop DOGE from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ sensitive personal information, reports The Associated Press.</p><p>Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. Treasury Department had agreed not to give Musk’s team access to its payment systems while a judge is hearing arguments in a lawsuit by employee unions and retirees alleging Musk illegally searched those records.</p><p>Ars Technica writes that The Department of Education (DoE) was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an “immediate stop” to DOGE’s “unlawfully” digging through student loan data to potentially dismantle the DoE.<br><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/te</span><span class="invisible">en-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/</span></a></p>
fuzzle @ cccfr<p>mood today : <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tom</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/touche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>touche</span></a> von Februar 2005 ... aus der <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tazgetroete</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/h%C3%B6lle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hölle</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/teufel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teufel</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/noAfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noAfD</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/taz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taz</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Two prominent Republican senators have split with President Trump over his decisionto sever government security for former officials who are in Iran’s crosshairs.<br>Last week, Trump, 78, cut off funding for security for former Secretary of State Mike <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pompeo</span></a>, ex-National Security Adviser John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bolton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bolton</span></a> and others.<br>Sens. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lindsey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lindsey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Graham</span></a> of South Carolina and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cotton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cotton</span></a> of Arkansas, both outspoken GOP backers of Trump, are now encouraging the president to reevaluate that move.</p><p>“If people are going to work for the president now on Iran or China or North Korea or the Mexican drug cartels, <br>they might hesitate to do so” <br>because of the security withdrawal, Cotton warned<br><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/26/us-news/tom-cotton-and-lindsey-graham-break-with-trump-on-nixing-security-for-john-bolton-mike-pompeo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nypost.com/2025/01/26/us-news/</span><span class="invisible">tom-cotton-and-lindsey-graham-break-with-trump-on-nixing-security-for-john-bolton-mike-pompeo/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a>, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming <a href="https://c.im/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/czar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>czar</span></a>, has threatened to put the mayor of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Denver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denver</span></a> in jail <br>after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.</p><p>The threat was issued against <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnston</span></a>, a Democrat, who said he was not afraid of being jailed and encouraged people to protest against mass round-ups of immigrants in their cities and communities.</p><p>Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Aurora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aurora</span></a>, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.</p><p>Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing; <br>he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”</p><p>Johnston had originally been asked by a local Denver television station to respond to Homan’s previous vows to arrest local leaders and politicians who stood in the way of deportation efforts.<br>He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.</p><p>“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In February 2022, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a> went to the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, and took a seat among a group of young <a href="https://c.im/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/supremacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supremacists</span></a>. </p><p>Homan — who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant regime as acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement<br> and who under former President Barack Obama was responsible for record-high levels of deportations as the head of ICE’s deportation branch <br>— had been invited to speak at the "American First Political Action Conference". </p><p>As HuffPost first reported at the time, Homan claimed he was unaware of what the <a href="https://c.im/tags/AFPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AFPAC</span></a> was all about<br> — his assistant had booked him at the event, he said, and had likely confused America First, the event’s organizer, with another right-wing group. </p><p>Sitting at the table, waiting for the event to begin, Homan got out his phone and looked up Nick Fuentes, the leader of America First, and came across a bunch of articles labeling him a “white nationalist.” </p><p>💥This didn’t prompt Homan to get up and leave. He was skeptical of the label “white nationalist.” </p><p>After all, he knew what it was like to be unfairly labeled a bigot and a racist during his time overseeing ICE. Maybe Fuentes had suffered the same injustice. </p><p>But then he read that Fuentes had praised Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Homan got up from the table, leaving the conference before it began.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-homan-white-supremacist-event-border-czar-trump_n_67326794e4b07ebab74212ff" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/tom-homan-w</span><span class="invisible">hite-supremacist-event-border-czar-trump_n_67326794e4b07ebab74212ff</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Black state lawmakers in Michigan have called on the state’s attorney general and a county prosecutor to investigate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barrett</span></a>, <br>a GOP candidate for the US House, over a newspaper advertisement in a Black-owned newspaper that listed the wrong date for Election Day.</p><p>The complaint from the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus alleges that <br>the Barrett campaign potentially violated state law with the printing of an ad in the Michigan Bulletin, a Black-owned publication serving Lansing, <br>that tells voters to vote on November 6, when Election Day is on November 5</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/michigan-tom-barrett-election-ad/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/mi</span><span class="invisible">chigan-tom-barrett-election-ad/index.html</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>How an ultra-right majority in California’s far north picked a novice to run its elections</p><p>Shasta county has made its name as a hotbed of the election-denial movement <br>– and the snubbing of a well-respected election clerk has caused alarm</p><p>When <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shasta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shasta</span></a> county had to search for a new official to oversee its elections earlier this year, there was an obvious candidate.</p><p>-- Her name was <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joanna</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Francescut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Francescut</span></a>, and she had been the assistant elections clerk and registrar of voters in this remote region in California’s far north. </p><p>❇️Francescut had worked in elections for more than 16 years, oversaw the office of the county clerk and registrar of voters for months after her boss went on leave, and was endorsed by elections officials and prominent area Republicans alike.</p><p>🆘Instead, the ultra-conservative majority on Shasta county’s board of supervisors in June selected <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Toller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toller</span></a>, a former prosecutor who had never worked in elections <br>and vowed to change the office culture, improve public confidence, and “clean up” voter rolls.</p><p>Were it any other California county, the decision would have been shocking. </p><p>But Shasta county in recent years has made a name for itself as a center for far-right politics and the election-denial movement, <br>which maintains that Donald Trump, and not Joe Biden, won the 2020 presidential election. </p><p>In the past year, the majority on the board of supervisors, the county’s governing body, has cast doubt on the integrity of the local elections office and sought to rid the county of voting machines</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/shasha-county-elections-office-california?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/07/shasha-county-elections-office-california?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas</p><p>It took a mountain of data to shake off the skeptics and rewrite the history of human migrations, <br>but archaeologist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dillehay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dillehay</span></a> was always interested in so much more than an argument.</p><p>Back when some of the first humans showed up in the Americas, far down in southern Chile near the coast, a small group of 20 or 30 built themselves a camp. </p><p>It was in a warm and rich rainforest, in a valley along a little creek, a landscape in which the people already knew how to live: <br>how to build shelters of maqui wood which flexes with the wind, for instance, <br>and how to know which seafood, seaweed, and wild potatoes to eat. </p><p>They stayed for at least a year, moved on, and never came back. </p><p>Over the next millennia, the little creek shifted course and the old streambed filled up with peat, eventually covering evidence of the campsite with a peat bog that preserved it.</p><p>Then in 1976, a 27-year-old American anthropological archaeologist named Tom Dillehay uncovered the campsite, now called Monte Verde, and found that the small group had made it nearly to the bottom of South America 14,500 years ago. This was 1,500 years too early: established archaeologists thought people didn’t even arrive in North America, up in Alaska, until around 13,000 years ago. The discrepancy seriously undermined the leading theory, and moreover came from a young Dillehay who hadn’t yet finished his doctorate. What followed was decades of academic warfare, sometimes nasty, which made Dillehay famous and in which he turned out to be right.</p><p>Dillehay is still known mostly for Monte Verde and the war over the peopling of the Americas. But he has long since lost interest in both, and has continued working on what he’s loved about archaeology from the beginning: how foraging groups of people eventually changed into settled and increasingly complex societies. The changes were long and slow, and Dillehay wanted to find all possible evidence for them, and then to understand what people did to undertake them.</p><p>Dillehay’s archaeological and ethnographic evidence showed that the foraging society at Monte Verde had the necessary and intimate knowledge of the landscape through which they moved and on which they counted for survival. The transition from foragers to settlers Dillehay found at Huaca Prieta, a site over 5,000 kilometers northwest of Monte Verde, in northern Peru. People had lived there at about the same time Monte Verde was occupied, but over thousands of years, had stayed on to set up farms and collect into towns, developing the culture that allowed them to get along with each other. And in the present day, back in Chile around the Monte Verde site, Dillehay met a people called the Mapuche, who may be descendants of the original Monte Verdeans that perhaps left the campsite but not the area. Today, the Mapuche maintain an unusual cohesion by using the networks and ceremonies they’ve had since the 16th century.</p><p><a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/features/encounters-with-the-maverick-archaeologist-of-the-americas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hakaimagazine.com/features/enc</span><span class="invisible">ounters-with-the-maverick-archaeologist-of-the-americas/</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@easwatch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>easwatch</span></a></span> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> for <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Coke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coke</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Irion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irion</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> Green, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: A FLASH <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/FLOOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOOD</span></a> WARNING is in effect for this area until 6:00 AM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS San Angelo TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> for Coke, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Irion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irion</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> Green, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: A FLASH <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/FLOOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOOD</span></a> WARNING is in effect for this area until 6:00 AM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS San Angelo TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
BakersRelay<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@easwatch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>easwatch</span></a></span> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TXwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TXwx</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> for <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Irion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irion</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Sterling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sterling</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> Green, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING in effect for this area until 2:15 AM CDT for DESTRUCTIVE 80 mph winds. Take shelter in a sturdy building, away from windows. Flying debris may be deadly to those caught without shelter. Source: NWS San Angelo TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> for Irion, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Sterling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sterling</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> Green, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING in effect for this area until 2:15 AM CDT for DESTRUCTIVE 80 mph winds. Take shelter in a sturdy building, away from windows. Flying debris may be deadly to those caught without shelter. Source: NWS San Angelo TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>If one is investigating how the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Claremont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Claremont</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Institute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Institute</span></a>, the California-based think tank, came to be such a hotbed of Trumpists and Trumpism<br>—think about such notorious Claremont fellows as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anton</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eastman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eastman</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Victor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Victor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Davis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Davis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanson</span></a> , on whom Claremont bestowed its annual statesmanship award<br>—following the money is a useful strategy.</p><p>One major source of Claremont’s money is <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Klingenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klingenstein</span></a>, chairman of the institute’s board of directors and its biggest individual funder. <br>Klingenstein is a partner in the Wall Street investment firm Cohen Klingenstein, which manages a portfolio worth around $2.5 billion, according to its most recent Security and Exchange Commission filing. <br>IRS figures compiled by the Guardian show that Klingenstein has donated more than $19 million to the Claremont Institute since 2005, with a $2.97 million donation in 2021, his most generous contribution to date.</p><p>Klingenstein is also one of the Claremont Institute’s intellectual impresarios, having put out a multipart presentation in 2021 about America’s 🔸“cold civil war” 🔸and 🔹“the existential threat of the woke regime.” 🔹</p><p>It is just as reasonable, measured, and temperate as you’d imagine.</p><p>Then, in 2022, Klingenstein delivered an encomium titled ♦️Trump’s Virtues.♦️</p><p>He was arguing—two years before the presidential primaries, mind you—that the best candidate whom the Republican party could put forward would be Donald Trump.</p><p>Trump, Klingenstein said,<br>"was born for the current crisis: the life and death struggle against the totalitarian enemy I call “woke communism.” </p><p>The “woke comms” clench the Democratic party by the scruff of its neck. They tell us lies and silence those who challenge the lies. <br>Like most totalitarian regimes, they have a scape goat [sic] (white males).</p><p>Trump, he continued, “is a manly man.” <br>(I swear I am not making this up.) </p><p>“In present times, when manhood is being stripped of its masculinity, traditional manhood, even when flawed, has much appeal.” </p><p>And so on and so forth, in a gusher of praise, some of it veering into the homoerotic, some into the sadistic: <br>Trump, that pillar of manliness, “smoked rats out of their hiding places” and “ripped apart people he thought were weak.” (What the hell?)<br><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-virtues-and-other-fairy-tales" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulwark.com/p/trumps-virtue</span><span class="invisible">s-and-other-fairy-tales</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist's show </p><p>"God created government. And the fact that we have let it go into the possession of others, it's heartbreaking for those of us who understand. And we know it is for Him," Alabama Chief Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Parker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parker</span></a> said on a recent podcast hosted by Christian activist Johnny <a href="https://c.im/tags/Enlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlow</span></a>. </p><p>"And that's why He is calling and equipping people to step back into these mountains right now."</p><p>Parker's remarks on the podcast were released the same day that the Alabama Supreme Court issued its ruling on IVF embryos. </p><p>His appearance on the show was first reported by Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog organization.</p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/alabama-supreme-court-chief-justice-spreads-christian-nationalist-rhetoric" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mediamatters.org/qanon-conspir</span><span class="invisible">acy-theory/alabama-supreme-court-chief-justice-spreads-christian-nationalist-rhetoric</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/extrauterine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extrauterine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nationalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Parker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parker</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Seven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seven</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mountains</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAR</span></a></p>
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