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Digital scholarly editing, TEI/XML. Histories of women & gender. Opinions my own. My grandparents were children of immigrants—birthright citizens. Against erasure. For human rights, kindness, joy. Protect immigrants. Due process.

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Some things nobody’s mentioned yet: the Mabinogian, Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series, Jack Whyte’s Camulod Chronicles.

04.03.2026 16:09 👍 43 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Omg this is hitting home. I keep wondering how this algorithm leads to my seeing so much porn adjacent furry posting in my discover feed. Wtf

04.03.2026 15:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Class.

04.03.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need a “hate” button for this.

03.03.2026 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love them!

03.03.2026 13:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beautiful!

01.03.2026 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Texas Primary Day is Tuesday, March 3rd.

Low turnout hands the mic to the wrong people. VOTE

25.02.2026 15:30 👍 3734 🔁 1267 💬 244 📌 108

Which Americans? Because I would love to have a small affordable car.

23.02.2026 15:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RIP Malcolm X, assassinated this day 1965.

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

21.02.2026 12:36 👍 225 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 2
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South Carolina Superheroes: Septima Poinsette Clark Civil rights champion Septima Poinsette Clark was a real-life South Carolina Superhero. Read on to learn more about her amazing life.

For #BlackHistoryMonth today my focus is: Septima Poinsette Clark.
You might not know her name, but you’ve felt her impact if you’ve ever heard “education is power” and actually believed it.
scmuseum.org/learn/deeper...

20.02.2026 14:04 👍 690 🔁 231 💬 9 📌 4

One of my faves.

20.02.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some members of my diss committee a million years ago called my footnoting model “German,” by which I think they meant excessive. Sigh.

20.02.2026 13:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so sorry. Had to read it in English 101 a million years ago. Shocked my naive little self.

19.02.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

From the novel by James Dickey.

19.02.2026 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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She's challenging the party's comfort with "electability" narratives.

Hear from jasmineforus.bsky.social on the latest episode of At Our Table.

19.02.2026 13:41 👍 75 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0

@texastribune.org I am seriously grateful to y’all for your good work. Thank you so much!

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Oh happy day!

18.02.2026 22:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech  (1972)
Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972) YouTube video by Nightloop

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

17.02.2026 12:33 👍 2941 🔁 849 💬 14 📌 34

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

16.02.2026 20:36 👍 9930 🔁 3442 💬 105 📌 50
Groups of people at three tables transcribing on their laptops.

Groups of people at three tables transcribing on their laptops.

Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay
(photo posted with permission of participants)

13.02.2026 18:19 👍 150 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
League of Women Voters Denounces House Passage of Anti-Voter SAVE America Act | League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement in response to today’s House vote on the SAVE America Act.

League of Women Voters Denounces House Passage of Anti-Voter SAVE America Act | LWV

www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

12.02.2026 15:15 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Attending but not voting.

07.02.2026 21:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations! Your yarns are beautiful.

07.02.2026 15:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for The Crown’s Silence book even at Politics and Prose tonight

Poster for The Crown’s Silence book even at Politics and Prose tonight

I would love to see you TONIGHT at Politics & Prose in Washington D.C. Connecticut Ave. location at 7pm. I’ll be discussing my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE—& the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 —w/ historian Cassandra Good. Please join us! @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social

04.02.2026 16:55 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine

Just a reminder ... tomorrow at 5.30 pm, Holly Fletcher (@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine' ✨ Sign up at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (In-person, IHR Wolfson Room NB02, all are welcome!)

04.02.2026 16:51 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Absolute Units returns tomorrow!

We continue reflecting on our origin story while looking specifically at our links to British colonial agriculture. Plus, how do we want to be remembered in another 75 years' time?

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

04.02.2026 14:09 👍 227 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 0
February 3, 1984

February 3, 1984

42 Years Ago Today: February 3, 1984 Front Page

03.02.2026 14:00 👍 1262 🔁 155 💬 24 📌 5

Did you record? I was in class….

29.01.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97509 🔁 40894 💬 4302 📌 5366

STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

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