Maybe if we could convince the news buyers to buy sports teams instead?
22.05.2025 12:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@pbhoney.bsky.social
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Maybe if we could convince the news buyers to buy sports teams instead?
22.05.2025 12:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History! Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black
Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
3D book shot of COMBEE by Edda Field-Black
Experience the magic of Edda Field-Black's @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social-winning history, COMBEE!
Dive into an excerpt that tells the story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers of the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers to rescue more than 700 former slaves: https://oxford.ly/4d42Eip
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
βοΈ: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
All I could think about as he droned on was him forcing himself on Halle Berry when it was her moment. What a creep.
03.03.2025 12:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gay men. Straight women. Now is the appointed hour.
They are distracted. They are slightly drunk. They are feeling nostalgic about (checks notes) mayonnaise for some reason.
Go to the place agreed. Enact the ritual. Wrest the control they have so clumsily squandered. Abracadabra amoroonana.
My friend Carol gave a great lightning talk at the Charleston Conference this year talking about the role that private university libraries should play in funding open access publishing of DEI flavored books to ensure they are available to public universities facing restrictions.
23.01.2025 13:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fabulous activity this Thanksgiving. Interview an older person for Story Corps and it will be archives in The Library of Congress. storycorps.org/discover/the...
22.11.2024 11:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0People with Autobot decals on their cars: I see you and I appreciate you.
20.11.2024 14:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0White mug with two orange pumpkins on a vine and the script words "Hi Pumpkin". Mug is on a coffee table on a screened in porch with trees with green and other colored leaves in the background.
Pumpkin mug season. Still warm enough to drink coffee on the porch.
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