Amy Tanner Thiriot

The graveside service today was beautiful.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to those who reached out, shared, donated, sent well wishes, and more.

Sending best wishes

Today Was The Day Donald Trump Finally Became President | Know Your Meme Today Was The Day Donald Trump Finally Became President is a copypasta usually ironically posted on Twitter when former President Donald Trump makes a cont

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Welcome home, Pvt. Donald Roger Lichty. Honored to have researched your family. #hero #WWII

“splurging on rotisserie chickens”? They’re — what — five or six dollars from Costco? It’s some of the most cost-effective food you can buy, especially if you use the bones to make broth.

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

TLDR: Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are fighting to protect our elections from the Trump Administration’s overreaches with new legislation that keeps our voters safe.
@pahousedems.com @reptarikkhan.bsky.social

I'm a huge fan of Claudio Saunt's project on land claims and treaties and cessions that is so revelatory in its scope-- pic 1 is 1776, pic 2 is 1876. Blue is Indian homelands, gray is unceded territory, red is reservations. usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it.

The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT.

Let's talk about it.

For Liam.

Shapiro Joins Lawsuit Over Removal of Slavery Exhibit “Donald Trump will take any opportunity to rewrite and whitewash our history — but he picked the wrong city and the wrong Commonwealth,”

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro filed an amicus brief in support of the City of Philadelphia's lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s decision to remove a historical exhibit on slavery from the President’s House Site at Independence National Historical Park. www.politicspa.com/shapiro-join...

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to give us hell and have us pay for it.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

How do Ich turn off the cursed AI summaryes yn gmail? How do Ich have them nevir appear agayne? How do Ich sende them back to the hell dimensioun yn which thei took form?

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West [Mueller, Max Perry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West

Hey, folks. Wakara's America is on sale. Happy to join for book chats/talks. www.amazon.com/Wakaras-Amer...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:

“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.

“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”

Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

Shapiro Launches Reelection Campaign For Governor It's official. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro launched his campaign for reelection on Thursday morning in a video touting his first-term accomplishments.

It's official. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro launched his campaign for reelection on Thursday morning in a video touting his first-term accomplishments. #PoliticsPA www.politicspa.com/shapiro-laun...

Hakeem Jeffries with a message this afternoon to calm an angry and distressed nation

Birthright citizenship and the attack on democracy: 'If you know the history, you know what they're trying to do' Prof. Anna O. Law spoke to The Redoubt about her upcoming book and why the 14th Amendment made America great.

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This has been fascinating to watch

2026 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History - AAIHS The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the ninth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history. Named after...

Very excited to see @ahmadgreene.com’s Underworld Work among the finalists
For the Pauli Murray Book Prize!

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

My teenager concluded a couple of years ago (with who knows what data) that no one under 70 watches television news. His Gen X parents certainly don't.

Casting my vote in honor of my great grandfather Hal Morgan who was a headline writer back in the 1920s and 1930s