Tom Zoellner

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

And she doesn’t split her infinitives!

I done got throwed off that site.

How Slavery Ended Tom Zoellner on the messy, inspiring story of the ground-level revolt that brought about emancipation.

Honored to have been a guest on the most thoughtful history podcast in digital-land, Richard Kreitner's Think Back. www.thinkbackpod.com/p/how-slaver...

It is a well-known rule of journalism that the subject of a profile is granted absolute power over the content.

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

$1.5T military budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$500M sending National Guard into cities
$250M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ on Trump's golf outings
$75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

Priorities.

Thst is a sub-Constitutional office

Badly written, too. Full of bromides and generalizations.

Perfect

Trump's dictatorship coup is now fully in the open. Wake up America.

That misses the point of serving as a landmark.

This is not the first time you’ve made that reference

Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…

Your spirit Muppet here seems to be one of those cranky old codgers up in the opera box.

Kermit wears a raincoat when he covers the news.

Antagonists like to slam @radiofreetom.bsky.social for decrying the fascist characteristics of Trump while refusing to call it such. But they should point out a worse hypocrisy: labeling 1970s music "a horrid stew of disco and wimp-rock hits" in The Atlantic while rocking out to #AT40 in private.

Good reporting by The D, though.

The cruelty is big business

What the Trump Admin is telling you.

-Don't record ICE
-Don't carry a gun around ICE
-Don't ask ICE for a warrant.

So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

ChapmanU Professor Tom Zoellner (English) published his new book, The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War.

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@tomzoellner.bsky.social

Alan Watts discussing why poets are so often at their best when speaking of change.

Iconic black-and-white photograph of Mary Oliver, renowned American poet celebrated for her lyrical observations of nature and deep bond with dogs. Seated cross-legged on a plush couch near a bright window, she holds an open hardcover book in her lap, wearing round glasses and a simple dark turtleneck. Her expression is gentle and absorbed as she looks sideways at her fluffy white standard poodle, Percy, who stands poised on a square ottoman or cushion right beside her, ears perked and eyes fixed intently on Oliver in a moment of quiet connection and mutual regard.

#OTD in 2019, we lost beloved #poet Mary Oliver.

Her work celebrated the natural world with simple, profound language & a sense of wonder. Perhaps America's best-selling poet, she won the #Pulitzer Prize (1984 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦) & National Book Award (1992 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴). #booksky #poetry

@rickperlstein.bsky.social has the scoop on this.

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🔥NYT: “Trump is the Jan. 6th president… It was a turning point toward an even more lawless version of Trump… people who violently attacked Congress & beat officers escaped w/o lasting consequence… Tragically, 🇺🇸 is still living in that political era…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

I hope you told him that just about all of his songs are heavily sentimental nonsense.

My beloved Salt Lake Tribune was an early victim. They are poison.

Here, far more than majority of working journalists, are some of the villains people could focus on when they just say “the media.” Fact that so few know about outfits like this is a measure of their awful success.