Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)

Journalist @newsfromscience, @archaeologymag, @natgeomag contributor. Find me at

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture. #LongReads @NewsfromScience https://t.co/RtH6tA0QAK

[Bhel Ramen Chat Jee Pea Tee @flawsaphor]

"A headless mystery: Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture" by @spoke32

https://t.co/bbx4dIBxz2

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[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

DNA results from Pompeii are forcing archaeologists to re-evaluate many of their long-held assumptions about the cataclysm. https://t.co/1FbDL7GKlH

[Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) @spoke32]

Scholars used to think people killed at Pompeii died in the arms of close family. The story told by DNA recovered from some victims' bones by researchers @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @pompeii_sites and elsewhere is, in some ways, even more compelling. https://t.co/z7yAaimvvo

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Pulitzer Prize for camera work.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

As you watch, imagine filling out a Bingo card filled with Germany 1933/USA 2024 parallels: big rallies, rage-filled and hateful rhetoric, simple answers promising quick and easy solutions to complicated problems, empty promises of a great-again future, scapegoating outsiders, and political enemies silenced on day one. And notice the caring wisdom and concern from my German friends as they share these lessons from their dark history.

It’s hard to understand how Trump could, on the eve of a tight election, paint a picture of Liz Cheney before a firing squad by actually saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.” You can’t get into the mind of a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power — but you can recognize the playbook they all seem to follow.

Just watch this clip. It’s excerpted from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

When I produced this in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us. Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high...and this is very real.

[Rania Abouzeid @Raniaab]

“As he moved from corpse to corpse, the arms of strangers, some of them children, reached out to steady him. It was as he knelt down by Mahmoud’s bloodied body that he let out his first cry, then uttered a phrase that would reverberate around the Arab world: “They took revenge on us through our children.”” @NesrineMalik’s masterful haunting profile of Gaza’s ‘Mountain,’ @WaelDahdouh, and the immense sacrifice and courage of Palestinian journalists he embodies

[Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) @spoke32]

"A candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches ... who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea-that won’t solve our problems."

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Janelle Dumalaon @janelledumalaon]

“Are people too afraid to see that he is too weak and unstable?” Harris slams Trump for not wanting to debate her a second time and refusing to do an interview with CBS, as presidential candidates traditionally do.

[Carlos Lozada @CarlosNYT]

Not sending their best…
Shithole countries…
Go back…
Poisoning the blood…

I wrote about what I hear when I hear Trump’s attacks on immigrants, in light of my own immigrant experience:

https://t.co/VVztIgTWPc

[Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) @spoke32]

https://t.co/q4QjFThirz

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵

[Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) @spoke32]

As @dieworkwear pointed out in an excellent thread recently, Americans already have the opportunity to buy things made in America, but they don't, because things made in China are cheaper. Tariffs will make things more expensive for Americans. Don't vote for #Trump.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Is the average US citizen actually this dumb? God help us

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

I lived in #Paris in the 90s. A city totally dominated by cars.

Hard to walk in, a nightmare to ride a bike in.

Look at it now: a city where cars, rather than people, have trouble moving.

Which, in the overheated, hurricane-plagued 2020s, is how a city *should* look.

[Beth Shapiro @bonesandbugs]

This is eugenics. As President of the American Genetics Association and a human, I reject this. We are better than this. https://t.co/Xe8E3BAu0n

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

60 Minutes: The Trump campaign complained that we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

“It’s the oldest cheese DNA in the world.” https://t.co/7rWeXs4AO0

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

A pioneering paper promises a way to detect the chemical signature of smoking, among other behaviors and diets, in people who died long ago—and shows English women also enjoyed their pipes. https://t.co/AMCiw5L1Nk

[Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) @spoke32]

Tobacco arrived in England in the 1500s, after the first colonies were established in the Americas. By 1700, merchants were bringing in 17+ million kilos of the stuff. A pioneering new study offers a way to spot smokers by chemical changes in their bones: https://t.co/rnAyrJemgR