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#ScholarSunday Meta-thread (Ahead of Thread 250) – Black and White and Read All Over Tomorrow I drop my 250th #ScholarSunday thread! That’s a whole lot of sharing of public scholarly goodness, so today I wanted to offer just a few reflections & requests when it comes to this weekly wo...

Tomorrow I drop my 250th #ScholarSunday thread! That’s a whole lot of sharing of public scholarly goodness, so today I wanted to offer just a few reflections & requests when it comes to this weekly work I’ve been doing for the last five & a half years. 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

One of the least remembered and most important stories from the 80s…

Ghosts in the Balcony: A Cross-Country Trip to 58 Theaters Fighting to Survive In the worst October for moviegoing since the ’90s, I crossed 20 states to hear the primal screen from people keeping film alive — even when Hollywood won’t

theankler.com/p/ghosts-in-...

Europe Is Regulating AI Hiring. Why Isn’t America? In 2018, Amazon unveiled a groundbreaking AI hiring tool. But what began as a promise to revolutionize how the company identified talent devolved into an algorithm that “did not like women.” The model...

portside.org/2025-11-14/e...

Revisiting one from the archives: the story of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones—who turned loss into activism and became a relentless advocate for American workers.
Read it here: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/09/02/from-the-archives-the-mother-jones-monument/ 🗃️

Having served with Raul Grijalva and worked with him on environmental matters, it is a particularly joyful to see his daughter Adelita take up his mantle in Congress. I am happy for Raul and the nation. Finally.

www.whatshernamepodcast.com

Have you seen this petition yet? Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”

c.org/dHDy2rkLmN

Dean, this opens up the fetish on young girls that exist in our society.the way that powerful men discard their first wives and marry girls who were children when they were in their their first marriage… the Bill Belichick scandal shows that it is still in full force. young women as a status symbol.

What about The Jungle?

Appreciate you!

Excerpts or Whole Books? In a post last week, Timothy Shanahan has some worthwhile points to make about literacy, reading, and excerpts versus whole works.

open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

www.change.org/p/save-the-w...

When America First Swung Its Big Stick

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

Gillian Tindall, 87, Dies; Author Who Probed the Layers of Places

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

The So-Called Science of Reading’s New Focus on Babies - Nancy Bailey's Education Website At the Thomas B. Fordham Wonk-a-Thon, where they ask what should happen next, Elliot Regenstein, a lawyer, states that The science of reading doesn’t start with kindergarten—it starts at birth. Fordha...

nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...

In California, a tug-of-war over blood-thinning rat poisons California’s wild animals are still poisoned by rodenticide despite restrictions on the substance. Now, the state is weighing weakening those restrictions further.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

In California, a tug-of-war over blood-thinning rat poisons California’s wild animals are still poisoned by rodenticide despite restrictions on the substance. Now, the state is weighing weakening those restrictions further.

In California, a tug-of-war over blood-thinning rat poisons www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Alison Kiehl Friedman, feminist activist and Obama anti-trafficking official, dies at 46 Alison Kiehl Friedman attended Burlingame High and Stanford University on her way to a life of feminist activism and public service, and co-founded a tequila brand celebrating women’s power.

Alison Kiehl Friedman, feminist activist and Obama anti-trafficking official, dies at 46 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.

A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.

He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.

🧵They say Virginia Giuffre's book is a memoir.

It isn't.

It is a reckoning.

Horrific evidence stitched with memory, the kind that burns when spoken aloud.

OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.

Loud, shouty people on digital forums give the impression that climate is a minor, even fringe concern, despite the overwhelming evidence of harm.

But vast majorities in every country are smarter than that

leahy.substack.com/p/the-89-cli...

The Axios boys are giddy about the Ds offer, interpreting it as a big climb down. I'm not sure that interpretation is right. But this is an important moment to make clear to @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social et al, that anything less than this offer needs to be rejected out of hand.

The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers: A Tale of 2 Workplace Models American households have become dependent on Amazon. The numbers say it all: In 2024, 83% of U.S. households received deliveries from Amazon, representing over 1 million packages delivered each day an...

portside.org/2025-11-07/u...

The squares for Curium and Meitnerium from periodictable.com, featuring portraits of their respective namesakes, are presented above a caption "Only two women have chemical elements named after them. Both were born on November 7th." (I'm aware that there was some ambiguity surrounding Lise Meitner's birthday, but Ruth Lewin Sime's biography notes that Meitner celebrated the occasion on November 7.)

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

A small tin box with a domed lid, painted with a border of leaves and flowers on top, with a basket of fruit on the front, and with starbursts on the sides.

#Museum30 This small box was painted by Ann Butler (1813-1887), a Greene County artist who decorated the tin items her father produced before her marriage. 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2119...

This is such a grift, we can figure out food, housing, or water but they have the audacity to ask for MORE MONEY for the plagiarism machine that sometimes becomes evil.

bsky.app/profile/unus...

Napa Valley Farming Napans tend more than grapevines. The area's diverse soil and mild climate make possible a generous yield of agricultural products. This book traces the cultivation of these products through a chronol...

www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/nap...

We know Clara Barton. But have you heard of Laura Birkhead?
During World War I, she ran ambulance services, hospitals, and organized relief for French war orphans—she earned the French Medal of Honor. 
Her story is a reminder that history is full of quiet heroes.
https://tinyurl.com/4t6464jd 🗃️