Maggie DePond

Santa Fe had ranked choice voting for mayor. Seems like Albuquerque needs to do the same.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I have a very bad feeling about this...

I would just be delighted that someone read my dissertation

As a person who used to write those signs and plaques, I expect it.

Gorgeous! What’s the food like?

pizzacakecomic o "Do you really want your tax dollars going to feed someone else's kids??" Yes! 1000% yes, 1 want my taxes to help feed hungry kids. WTF is wrong with people?

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

This is an absolute first date red flag too

Someone went into a generative AI app and asked for Nazi propaganda but make it American.

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

Fire destroyed the census

Are you coming down for WHA in Albuquerque this week?

Learned a new word today: trepanation.

An outdated procedure of removing a piece of bone from the skull.

Does this mean I can get a prescription to go the seaside and take the waters?

I guess I have to read Pet Sematary. The Shining was excellent and legitimately creeped me out.

Have you thought of maybe shortening the subtitle? Women Physicians and Medicine in the American West?

Except Pueblo

I really enjoyed Kathleen Duval’s Native Nations. Super easy to comb for information.

I would say this to my very Catholic convert of a mom (I’m a cradle Catholic) and she would think it’s hilarious. She also loved the movie Conclave

The really underestimate a historian’s ability to apply for the grant and then write about whatever we want.

Archive days are really the best days

Adding salami will take the finish right off of the car…not that I know from personal experience or anything

I don’t even have that much published material but it’s all in there. Thieves.

Reason 5,437 to hate “AI”

Ambient cafe and library noise on YouTube has been my saving grace lately.

I read this. I just felt sad. Heartbroken for her and our country.

Hope you feel better soon. Love your books. I read Butchering Art while researching my dissertation.

Weird advice: a sock full of rice microwaved for 1 minute. Don’t burn yourself but put it on your chest. The heat breaks up mucus and helps making coughing easier. It also just feels nice.