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🛑NEW RULE -- Anyone posting antivax anything in my mentions is getting blocked. If you post Covid misinformation you're getting reported. I'm done. Myself & others who've lost loved ones shouldn't have to deal with your bullshit. Period. #COVID19

Native Americans defending immigrants

It's hard to retain employees at a workplace that expects to get dismantled. Scientists are already leaving NCAR, the federal weather lab in Boulder. @spencersoicher reports for @nexton9news:

Earlier today, a Magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck near Weston, Colorado. A 33-inch snowstorm yesterday and an earthquake today—Colorado is really experiencing every force of nature this week! 🏔️📉 #COwx

🌅 Happy first 8pm or later sunset of 2026, Denver! We’ll have 8p or later sunsets all the way through August 11th. #COwx

Beneath a quiet West Virginia mound, archaeologists found eleven people laid around one central burial, a pattern so deliberate it still unsettles the imagination. What makes Criel Mound linger in the mind is not simply its age, but the care buried inside it. Deep beneath the earth, eleven people were found together at the base, arranged around one central burial in a layout that looked intentional, ceremonial, and impossible to dismiss as random. That arrangement is the detail people remember, because it suggests a community making a statement in earth and ritual. Ten individuals surrounded the central figure, and the finds around that middle burial made excavators believe this person held unusual importance. Today the mound stands in South Charleston, but long before streets and businesses surrounded it, this was part of a much larger ceremonial landscape in the Kanawha Valley. The mound was once among extensive earthworks that stretched for miles on both sides of the river, evidence that this was not an isolated monument but part of a broader sacred geography. Archaeologists generally connect the mound to the Adena world, with the West Virginia Encyclopedia placing such builders in the Ohio and Kanawha drainages between roughly 1000 and 200 B.C. The commonly repeated estimate for Criel Mound itself is around 250 to 150 B.C., though some older nomination language also noted a mingling of Adena and Hopewell traits in the material recovered there. Even in altered form, the mound still conveys scale. Sources describe it as about 33 feet high after historic damage, making it one of the largest surviving burial mounds in West Virginia and second only to Grave Creek Mound in the state. But Criel Mound was not left untouched by the modern world. Before the Smithsonian excavations, its summit had already been leveled for a bandstand or judges’ stand, tied to a racetrack that once circled the mound, so by the time investigators arrived part of the original form had already been lost. That loss matters, because every change to a mound like this erases context that can never be fully restored. What survives is precious not because it is complete, but because it endured despite being treated for years as scenery, usable land, and public space rather than as an irreplaceable archive of Native history. In late 1883, Smithsonian investigators began cutting a shaft from the top down toward the original ground surface. Near the upper levels they found burials at shallow depths, and the associated artifacts led later interpreters to believe those upper interments were intrusive and from a later period rather than part of the mound’s first use. Then came a long stretch of earth with no major discovery. Only when excavators neared the base, roughly 31 feet down, did the original burial deposit appear and reveal the moment for which the mound had first been raised. The dead at the bottom were found on a prepared setting of bark and ash, then covered with another layer of bark. Postmolds and structural traces suggested some form of tomb or vault, which helps explain why this was understood as a formal, deliberate burial event rather than a casual accumulation of graves. The central burial drew the most attention, and not only because of position. Copper near the head, shell beads, and weapon points were associated with that individual, while some of the surrounding burials had fewer or no objects, creating a pattern of difference that likely reflected status, role, or ceremony. Older retellings often fixate on the size of the person in the center. Some sources and later retellings describe a skeleton around 6 feet or even 6 feet 8 3/4 inches long, but the West Virginia Encyclopedia stresses that Norris reported the individuals as adults of medium size, and the National Register form itself warns that the extreme height may have been exaggerated by pressure from the earth. #archaeohistories

Butch Wars is running for Governor of California? Hell ya!

The folks celebrating Democrats gerrymandering Virginia at the same time CA Democrats used their supermajority to kill single-payer healthcare don’t get it: Giving Democrats power does not translate into wins for the people because their party serves the capitalist oligarchy too.

Health insurance is not healthcare. It’s what stands between people and the care they need. This man’s tragic death was a profit opportunity for his insurance company. Demand Medicare for All.

The Israeli Air Force has attacked Iran's "largest petrochemical facility" a short while ago, with it being put out of commission, Israel's Defence Minister says The facility accounts for about 85% of Iran's petrochemical exports

@legamunt It appears it's down. Pretty bad when we have to come to this shit hole to find out lol

Did bluesky die I don't wanna be on this fuckass site

The local chief of the Mandan tribes, Arkara and Hidatsa in North Dakota, weeps, forced to sign a treaty transferring the fertile lands on the Missouri River plain, the homeland of these tribes, under threat of the destruction of his entire people. United States, 1948.

I have built a network of paramedics, nurses, PAs, and doctor friends who are always up for texting me advice + visiting ppl who need treatment on the streets (sometimes after grueling 12+ hr shifts @ the hospital). They shouldn't have to but we live in a country where they do.

Says the insider trader political royalty who used her office for decades to pocket more than $100 million.

Soooooo what did we get?

@RepFine @NerdeenKiswani Awww Randy thinks it's cute when he shows everyone how immature he is. How adorable.

Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life that was "about to" take place, and that agents had conducted an operation in Hoboken related to this plot. For months, Zionist organizations like Betar and politicians like Randy Fine have encouraged violence against my family and me. I will have more to say as additional details come to light. I will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine. Thank you for your support. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/nyr…

This is horrifying! I’m glad Nerdeen is safe. The Zionist who planned to bomb Nerdeen’s home is Alexander Heifler. According to reports Heifler had an escape plan to leave the country. Who wants to guess what country he would flee to?

Look at the countries that REFUSED to condemn the transatlantic slave trade. Look at the countries that did condemn it. Does everyone get it now?

President Trump showed off a classified map on a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and held onto a record from his first term that was so sensitive only six people would have had access to it, according to a letter released Wednesday by a top House Democrat. to.pbs.org/3O1dhdG

After 9/11, Sikhs were targeted in America, mistaken for being Muslims. They collectively decided not to clarify “I am not a Muslim” because that would imply targeting Muslims is fine. That is courage

@JustJenRX I really wish she had told the full story. It has to do with mandatory prison sentences. That's why those 4 Democrats voted against it because mandatory prison sentences are Biden Crime Bill bullshit & judges should be the ones to sentence people. It's literally their job.

HOW CAN ANYONE VOTE DEMOCRAT AFTER THIS???