Kelly Therese
@feministkelly.bsky.social
Univ admin by day. Knitter & Podcaster by night. Feminist mom in Chicago always. Lover of mystery novels, espresso, sauv blanc & kittens. She/her.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
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LISTEN: Author Jordan B. Smith discusses his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which offers a history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, on the Unsung History podcast with @feministkelly.bsky.social!
The History of Rum
Global rum sales are expected to reach nearly $28 billion USD by the year 2033, making it one of the ten most popular alcoholic beverages in the world. In this epis…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
LISTEN: Author Jordan B. Smith discusses his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which offers a history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, on the Unsung History podcast with @feministkelly.bsky.social!
Is there anything more annoying than going to the eye doctor, ordering new glasses, and then having to wait 7-10 business days to get said glasses, the whole time wondering if you made a decent choice in selecting frames, a difficult task with your already terrible vision made worse with dilation?
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Is there anything more annoying than going to the eye doctor, ordering new glasses, and then having to wait 7-10 business days to get said glasses, the whole time wondering if you made a decent choice in selecting frames, a difficult task with your already terrible vision made worse with dilation?
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Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
At least the MRIs I've had, the whole body doesn't even go in the machine, so it's pretty obvious what they're looking at. When I get brain MRIs it's only my head and shoulders that go in. When I got an ankle MRI, it was just my feet.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At least the MRIs I've had, the whole body doesn't even go in the machine, so it's pretty obvious what they're looking at. When I get brain MRIs it's only my head and shoulders that go in. When I got an ankle MRI, it was just my feet.
The next episode of Unsung History is on the history of rum, and I thought, hey I should sip some rum while preparing the episode. So you don't make the same mistake I did, please know that Trader Joe's Rum of the Gods is one of the most vile things I've ever tasted.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The next episode of Unsung History is on the history of rum, and I thought, hey I should sip some rum while preparing the episode. So you don't make the same mistake I did, please know that Trader Joe's Rum of the Gods is one of the most vile things I've ever tasted.
I'm always up to host 1-12 more podcasts.
Clearly we need millions of podcasts about the womanophere and why it wants to get the fuck out
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I'm always up to host 1-12 more podcasts.
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
When your eyes have been dilated every streetlight looks like the Aurora Borealis.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
When your eyes have been dilated every streetlight looks like the Aurora Borealis.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
I'm going to need @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's take on these picks.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm going to need @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's take on these picks.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
Also, how is Blues Brothers not on this list? You can't be the Chicago Pope and not cheer on the Mission from God.
My kid is playing some kind of world domination video game, and he told me he was building a pointillist empire. I said I didn't think Daniel Immerwahr's book was meant to be an instruction manual, to which he replied: "Then he shouldn't have called it HOW TO Hide an Empire." Touché.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
My kid is playing some kind of world domination video game, and he told me he was building a pointillist empire. I said I didn't think Daniel Immerwahr's book was meant to be an instruction manual, to which he replied: "Then he shouldn't have called it HOW TO Hide an Empire." Touché.
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I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
I don't even drive, and I know this is a lie.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I don't even drive, and I know this is a lie.
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
Ruin for whom, exactly?
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ruin for whom, exactly?
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈
The way forward for Democrats? Lead with values (belief in human rights/healthcare for all, government should help improve lives & get out of the way, power is with the people), fight out policy details in the primaries, then respect the primary voters.
Feel free to pay me millions as a consultant.
Feel free to pay me millions as a consultant.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The way forward for Democrats? Lead with values (belief in human rights/healthcare for all, government should help improve lives & get out of the way, power is with the people), fight out policy details in the primaries, then respect the primary voters.
Feel free to pay me millions as a consultant.
Feel free to pay me millions as a consultant.
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again
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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.
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It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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