Dr. Christopher L. Leadingham

You can include me, too!

Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged. Industry profits topped $400 billion from 2020 to 2023, which is believed to be more than the industry had previously made in total since containerization started in 1957, according to analyst John McCown. “Since Covid, they’re making billions and billions of dollars,” ILA President Harold Daggett told CNN. “But they don’t want to share it. They’d rather see a fully automated terminal right here on the East Coast so they can make more money.”

This stat is so jarring to me that I thought I was misreading it at first: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

19th century advertisement for household poison featuring racist trope of Chinese man eating a rat.

Chinese eat rats!!! Trump, JD Vance, and the Republican Party are just engaging in the deeply racist American trope of "immigrants need to be hated, expelled, or killed" because they eat pets, bugs, or rats. No truth to it back then; no truth to it now. Just hate.

I definitely feel that!

good luck, John!

good luck!!

Social media now feels like that year in high school where half of your friends ended up in different classes from you, and now you know they’re somewhere on the internet but you just don’t see them anymore

That is great! 🎉🎉

People do this shit with Florida all the time. Fuck you if you feel this way. I didn't vote for these assholes and a lot of Texans didn't either. We're probably fighting these assholes more than you are with your "fuck Florida" or "fuck Texas" tweets. A lot of us can't just up and move either.

More people need to understand that "research" isn't the same thing as "looking up crazy sh*t on the internet."

That is wonderful!

Jose Chung's December Issue Since it premiered on September 10, 1993, The X-Files has challenged its viewers to think about truth, memory, power, perspective, and technology. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the show, we are...

Fun fact: one way that the collapse of Twitter has made things harder for small pubs is that it's now really difficult to get stuff like this in front of the people who might have a pitch.

RT to help a small history mag out. 🗃️ contingentmagazine.org/x-files/

Oh wow! That is fantastic. I bet they have some great stories!

That sounds pretty cool!

Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform.

Spread the word. 🗞

I haven’t watched the last one yet, but am definitely gonna miss it!

Thank you so much, Victor!

I graduated in May and became a dad in June. I’m happy and exhausted at four months into this new life.

Thank you!

would you mind to add me to that list, too?

That’s great! I couldn’t let this pass without saying something.

I cited your book in my dissertation to talk about KY slave traders trying to collect money from MS planters during the war!

Thank you!

would you mind to add me, too?

I’m really liking this place.

*kicks tires* This looks pretty good.