@ellebailee.bsky.social
currently full-time parenting three littles in Austin, TX; in my former life, a PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center focusing on 18th-19th c. British literature, the Gothic, theory of the novel, history of economics & other cool things
i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
Layers of information in an archival document:
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
"...when we read a primary source we aren’t just trying to accurately decode individual words on a page. We’re looking for subtle details and connections... We’re listening for the silences of who’s left out and what’s left unsaid. ...We’re situating a source within the broader context of its time."
#MILKSHAKE
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Honestly, I feel like the best thing to do right now is to remind yourself that you're not alone and be amongst people who have actual moral integrity.
Feeling like I’m currently living in a surrealist suspension of time and place with roots in both personal and political trauma. Will BlueSky help this? Idk! But I’m happy to join in the conversations :)
tfw you wander into the wrong class 😂