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Taulby Edmondson

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US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.

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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

13.11.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1540    πŸ” 581    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 17
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When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

13.11.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3241    πŸ” 1028    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 25

She did the post!

13.11.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared

13.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 597    πŸ” 424    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 34

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

13.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2151    πŸ” 629    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that it took only about four months after Trump was inaugurated in 2017 for the @nytimes.com to announce the firing of its public editor.

13.11.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not the biggest part of the story but man do we have a clear window into Michael Wolff’s reporting process now and boy is it not pretty

12.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!

13.11.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3830    πŸ” 739    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 31

"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!

13.11.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3289    πŸ” 497    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 31

Trump held his Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago in 2017 btw: www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/p...

13.11.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families β€” with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce

πŸ”₯ The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed."

I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."

12.11.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3061    πŸ” 1080    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 117

It's a funny thing to say because everyone who has ever taken ibuprofen knows it works.

12.11.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The NYT didn't publish on incriminating information about a presidential candidate, straight from Epstein himself, and still didn't after the pizzagate conspiracies took off. But don't worry Hillary's emails were daily frontpage news.

12.11.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to believe that the NYT's "but her emails" scandal that helped elect Trump could get any worse but here we are.

12.11.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Goes without saying that actively demoralizing your support base and sapping its will to fight isn't helpful.

12.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Texas, quadrupling last year's numbers Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year.

Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year, the state’s health department said β€” as vaccination rates drop.

12.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

😎πŸͺ΄πŸŒ΅ Tylenol causes autism they say, meanwhile the current Amerikan president’s EPA is about to approve Epyrifenacil, a forever chemical tied to cancer and birth defects, to be sprayed on our corn and wheat… all bc his EPA chemical-safety office is run by a former pesticide lobbyist

11.11.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

11.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4460    πŸ” 2157    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 114
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this

12.11.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3906    πŸ” 703    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 151

Stuff like this is significant. It's part of a larger project.

12.11.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

12.11.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1871    πŸ” 739    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 22

Potatoes are useful for soaking up two things: salt and skunk spray. I can attest to both.

12.11.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These people are taking a remedy for being sprayed by a skunk and applying it to whatever.

12.11.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WVU recently closed its graduate math programs and it's not alone.

12.11.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"We began the war for the Union alone; but we had not gone far into its darkness before a new element was added to the conflict, which filled the army and the nation with cheerful but intense religious enthusiasm. In lessons that could not be misunderstood, the Nation was taught that God had linked to our own, the destiny of an enslaved race- that their liberty and our Union were indeed "one and inseparable." It was this that made the soul of John Brown the marching companion of our soldiers, and made them sing as they went down to battle-

In the beauty of the lilies Chris was born, across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom which transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on."

"We began the war for the Union alone; but we had not gone far into its darkness before a new element was added to the conflict, which filled the army and the nation with cheerful but intense religious enthusiasm. In lessons that could not be misunderstood, the Nation was taught that God had linked to our own, the destiny of an enslaved race- that their liberty and our Union were indeed "one and inseparable." It was this that made the soul of John Brown the marching companion of our soldiers, and made them sing as they went down to battle- In the beauty of the lilies Chris was born, across the sea, With a glory in his bosom which transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free; While God is marching on."

12.11.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

James Garfield has entered the zeitgeist. Here's his speech at the first Decoration Day (later Memorial Day), in Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1868:

"But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer!"

12.11.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The fight against multiracial democracy has taken two but intertwined shapes since Reconstruction: 1. Violence (this time federalized). 2. turning the political process into such a shitshow that opponents lose motivation or turn to their prejudices to explain the problems white supremacists cause.

11.11.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My two cents is still that our fight is against something akin to Jim Crow 2, not a Hitler-like takeover. Unfortunately, stopping it depends on political will, and any capitulation, appeasement, or compromising principles with bad/activist legal maneuvering gets them closer. It's happened before.

11.11.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Bari Weiss wants to take down β€˜too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

Bari Weiss' first weeks at CBS News marked by all-out warfare against professional ethics standards in the newsroom, part of an effort to convert it from journalism into rank political propaganda.

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A hit dog has never hollered louder.

11.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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