Evan
@ektidwell.bsky.social
PhD student studying American visual rhetoric, suburban gardener, ephemera collector, nighttime crafter, dreamer
Currently reading #ShadowsAtDawn #AmericanStudies
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Currently reading #ShadowsAtDawn #AmericanStudies
Another day, another book 📖
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another day, another book 📖
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A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
Finally watching Disney’s new Snow White. Time to see if all the hate is warranted.
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Finally watching Disney’s new Snow White. Time to see if all the hate is warranted.
Is there anything friendlier than a newly bloomed pansy?
March 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is there anything friendlier than a newly bloomed pansy?
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The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.
March 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.
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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
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The term Gulf of Mexico verifiably began appearing on navigational charts and official written records in 1550. As a regional geographic feature, it predates the entire existence of the United States by over two centuries.
February 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The term Gulf of Mexico verifiably began appearing on navigational charts and official written records in 1550. As a regional geographic feature, it predates the entire existence of the United States by over two centuries.
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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
wrd.cm
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
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That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth
February 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth
Things were, in fact, not good in the neighborhood.
February 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Things were, in fact, not good in the neighborhood.
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Thank you, Canada!
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Thank you, Canada!
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BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.
CONGRATS!
CONGRATS!
February 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.
CONGRATS!
CONGRATS!
Rewatching *The Sound of Music* and laughing at Maria’s fellow sisters reading her for absolute filth in the second scene 🎼🏔️🎻🦌☀️🧵🪡🎶🫖🍞 #SoundOfMusic #JulieAndrews
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Rewatching *The Sound of Music* and laughing at Maria’s fellow sisters reading her for absolute filth in the second scene 🎼🏔️🎻🦌☀️🧵🪡🎶🫖🍞 #SoundOfMusic #JulieAndrews
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Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
reut.rs
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs
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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...
www.wired.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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A lovely thing about this era of gravestones from the Lamson family shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts is the occasional mix of carving depths. This stone (John Tufts, d.1728, Malden) is mostly carved in the usual deep style, but also has a lightly incised medallion that reminds me of embroidery.
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A lovely thing about this era of gravestones from the Lamson family shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts is the occasional mix of carving depths. This stone (John Tufts, d.1728, Malden) is mostly carved in the usual deep style, but also has a lightly incised medallion that reminds me of embroidery.
Just finished reading Gwendolyn Wright's 'Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America.' Definitely recommend. #Architecture #History #MaterialCulture #MaterialRhetoric
January 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Just finished reading Gwendolyn Wright's 'Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America.' Definitely recommend. #Architecture #History #MaterialCulture #MaterialRhetoric