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Professor of Anthropology. Folklorist, mythologist, posthumanist…. And in the summers, commercial fisherman.

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That moron who MAGA claims is playing some kind of 8-D chess started a war in the middle of the planet's oil supply without topping off the Strategic Reserve??

How dense does someone have to be to skip such a basic prep move??

07.03.2026 01:09 👍 216 🔁 36 💬 15 📌 2

Pretty wild that the Republican Party apparently now hates Ronald Reagan — and everything he stood for — and is actively trying to destroy his actual legacy.

25.10.2025 04:24 👍 5593 🔁 1303 💬 539 📌 87

They were the British Isles (barratanic in Greek) a thousand years before the arrival of the Anglo-saxons.

22.09.2025 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democratic Senators who backed Noem:

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan

12.06.2025 20:15 👍 1168 🔁 568 💬 140 📌 69

But those 5 bullet points are due or else...🙄

08.05.2025 16:25 👍 116 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 1

Scrooge McTrump

03.05.2025 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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03.05.2025 20:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.

But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

23.04.2025 00:02 👍 16111 🔁 4185 💬 1290 📌 220

It's not just Bede as a source, btw: we also have contemporaneous to that Charlemagne agreeing to the Saxons (in Saxony) that they could keep their month title of "Eosturmonath" for April. So "Easter Month" seems to have been in both Saxony, and Saxon parts of England.

04.04.2025 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

only one correction to my article: votive hares were found in areas where "Eostre" seems to have been worshiped in England-- but not definitively connected to her (that was the editor's edit, my original was more precise).

04.04.2025 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Steve and I have had many spirited discussions on this: for a slightly different take, here's my Conversation article:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

04.04.2025 04:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have called on AFS to hold future conferences in Canada untiil this madness passes.

04.04.2025 04:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, they lied. Obviously.

26.03.2025 13:36 👍 69399 🔁 10391 💬 1994 📌 531

Yeah the darn kids keep nibbling her house away! She’ll freeze this winter unless she stops them… but how? Their father is a powerful landlord, and she just an old, poor witch hiding in the forest…..

23.03.2025 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So Trump is now saying he didn't sign the Alien Enemies Act after originally saying he signed the Alien Enemies Act 🤔

21.03.2025 22:54 👍 7922 🔁 2167 💬 878 📌 214

Next news item will be: Trump defunds national archives….

18.03.2025 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

I missed this (Feb 6). Trump DOJ shut down “Taskforce Kleptocapture” that seized Russian oligarch super yachts.

<surprised pikachu face>

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

01.03.2025 12:59 👍 1988 🔁 854 💬 159 📌 77
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Donald Trump 'recruited by KGB in 80s and even has codename' Alnur Mussayev, 72, who headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleges Donald Trump was recruited when he was a 40-year-old New York real estate developer

An interesting (if unconfirmed) story that has been disappearing rapidly from US news sites. Still widely available elsewhere, though. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

21.02.2025 23:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

2. Even if Trump's "I'm king" tweet *is* characterizable as a joke, you're never "just joking." Nobody is ever "just joking." Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always).

20.02.2025 00:09 👍 1750 🔁 239 💬 10 📌 19
Post from 'Egg Price Sufferer' user @agraybee says, "Weird how everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome turned out to be completely correct within one month."

Post from 'Egg Price Sufferer' user @agraybee says, "Weird how everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome turned out to be completely correct within one month."

Turns out we “deranged” people simply saw the truth clearly.

20.02.2025 21:30 👍 6915 🔁 861 💬 115 📌 31

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

18.02.2025 02:45 👍 21541 🔁 3978 💬 483 📌 138
Trump says: "he who saves his country does not violate any law" and is cheered on by Elon Musk, who posts 14 American flags

Trump says: "he who saves his country does not violate any law" and is cheered on by Elon Musk, who posts 14 American flags

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

16.02.2025 05:39 👍 2656 🔁 821 💬 85 📌 39

#2ndAmendment

14.02.2025 05:02 👍 104 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1

"Utqiagvik" (formerly known as Barrow)

08.02.2025 03:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd love to be involved. As a folklorist, I'd say that all histories are creative histories.....

29.01.2025 18:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'll have something in print on these pseudo-scientific attempts very soon.....

28.01.2025 18:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Will do you have something published I could cite? Working on a critique of such approaches now, thanks!

28.01.2025 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trump pardons traitors.

21.01.2025 01:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Biden frees Leonard Peltier!!

20.01.2025 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances pro...

'm very happy to announce an upcoming labor of love! Should be available globally in June: www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

16.01.2025 18:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0