Glenda Gilmore
@glendagilmore.bsky.social
Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination.
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Totally predictable, and yet still incomprehensible. I suppose Trump gets something out of whipping up his supporters and lying about what happens... but I really can't stress how absolutely bizarre it is to see a party jump at the chance to publicly blast the judge's clerk.
Definitely no way of predicting this www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/n...
Trump’s Circle Immediately Attacks Clerk After Gag Order Is Paused
Allison Greenfield has become a lightning rod for the former president and his allies, who say a civil fraud case against him is political persecution.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2023 at 12:44 AM
Totally predictable, and yet still incomprehensible. I suppose Trump gets something out of whipping up his supporters and lying about what happens... but I really can't stress how absolutely bizarre it is to see a party jump at the chance to publicly blast the judge's clerk.
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I go back to the BBS days, and I've never seen anything like Twitter in 2023. It's not even "awful comment section on local newspaper." Twitter's algorithm actively thwarts you from finding reliable information on the timeline, in replies, and when you search for keywords / accounts.
Have elements of these things always been there, yes. Have I, as a scholar who wrote a book about Twitter and studies the public sphere, ever seen such terrible search results on a breaking news item on social? No, except maybe in FB groups that specifically focus on spreading conspiracy and hate.
October 26, 2023 at 1:33 PM
I go back to the BBS days, and I've never seen anything like Twitter in 2023. It's not even "awful comment section on local newspaper." Twitter's algorithm actively thwarts you from finding reliable information on the timeline, in replies, and when you search for keywords / accounts.
If you've never watched Aussie Rules Football, you've never watched real football. Dear Old Collingwood forever...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXt...
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October 2, 2023 at 12:27 AM
If you've never watched Aussie Rules Football, you've never watched real football. Dear Old Collingwood forever...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXt...
"In a ‘City Too Busy to Hate,’ New Attention to an Overlooked Race Massacre"...I'm sick of NYT's running stories on things that historians have focused on for the past 30 years and calling them overlooked. Not just insulting to historians, it's insulting to readers.
October 2, 2023 at 12:23 AM
"In a ‘City Too Busy to Hate,’ New Attention to an Overlooked Race Massacre"...I'm sick of NYT's running stories on things that historians have focused on for the past 30 years and calling them overlooked. Not just insulting to historians, it's insulting to readers.
I have a feeling that we'll have a lot of company at Bluesky soon!
September 19, 2023 at 1:27 PM
I have a feeling that we'll have a lot of company at Bluesky soon!
My first Buffett concert, a half century ago.
September 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM
My first Buffett concert, a half century ago.
Trump's deranged followers think that he is the all powerful Wizard of Oz & nothing can stop him. But Fani Willis just threw a bucket of water on him. He cancelled his press conference.
August 18, 2023 at 6:40 AM
Trump's deranged followers think that he is the all powerful Wizard of Oz & nothing can stop him. But Fani Willis just threw a bucket of water on him. He cancelled his press conference.
Coming back from Ireland to the US next month, but we haven't told Loki that they don't allow dogs in pubs in the states.
August 15, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Coming back from Ireland to the US next month, but we haven't told Loki that they don't allow dogs in pubs in the states.
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He’s heaving, because he got midnight arraigned in Georgia.
August 15, 2023 at 3:58 PM
He’s heaving, because he got midnight arraigned in Georgia.
Kenneth Chesebro advocated the false elector scheme, saying he based it on Larry Tribe's scholarship. Tribe devastates his argument here: https://www.justsecurity.org/87498/kenneth-chesebros-misrepresentation-of-laurence-tribe-scholarship-in-his-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-presidential-election/
August 9, 2023 at 6:57 AM
Kenneth Chesebro advocated the false elector scheme, saying he based it on Larry Tribe's scholarship. Tribe devastates his argument here: https://www.justsecurity.org/87498/kenneth-chesebros-misrepresentation-of-laurence-tribe-scholarship-in-his-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-presidential-election/
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New on UNC Press Presents Podcast via New Books Network: Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey discusses CROSS-BORDER COSMOPOLITANS: The Making of a Pan-African North America. Stream/subscribe, or listen via Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Stitcher https://ow.ly/a4X050PsWBA
August 4, 2023 at 4:02 PM
New on UNC Press Presents Podcast via New Books Network: Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey discusses CROSS-BORDER COSMOPOLITANS: The Making of a Pan-African North America. Stream/subscribe, or listen via Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Stitcher https://ow.ly/a4X050PsWBA
Climate change in Ireland is turning us into a rain forest. It was the hottest June ever recorded and the wettest July every recorded.
August 3, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Climate change in Ireland is turning us into a rain forest. It was the hottest June ever recorded and the wettest July every recorded.
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Would you have marched in the streets if Trump had blocked certification of Biden's win?
If so, Jeff Clark's plan was to have the US Army shoot you.
If so, Jeff Clark's plan was to have the US Army shoot you.
The indictment makes clear that Donald Trump and his accomplices planned to seize power by force and then maintain that power through the mass murder of American citizens by their own military
August 2, 2023 at 3:22 AM
Would you have marched in the streets if Trump had blocked certification of Biden's win?
If so, Jeff Clark's plan was to have the US Army shoot you.
If so, Jeff Clark's plan was to have the US Army shoot you.
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Because all those pesky forms and laws have derailed children from working in US mines and industry for far too long, Arkansas is now letting children work without permits! Sigh...Progressive Era 1916 Keating-Owen Act, then Congressional action in 1924, finally Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938...
August 1, 2023 at 10:27 PM
Because all those pesky forms and laws have derailed children from working in US mines and industry for far too long, Arkansas is now letting children work without permits! Sigh...Progressive Era 1916 Keating-Owen Act, then Congressional action in 1924, finally Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938...
Need a good cry? Watch/listen to Patrick Dexter's tribute to Sinead O'Connor-Nothing Compares to You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViCgmLKteY&ab_channel=PatrickDexterCello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViCgmLKteY&ab_channel=PatrickDexterCello
July 28, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Need a good cry? Watch/listen to Patrick Dexter's tribute to Sinead O'Connor-Nothing Compares to You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViCgmLKteY&ab_channel=PatrickDexterCello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViCgmLKteY&ab_channel=PatrickDexterCello
Why can't I have oysters in August in Ireland, like I usually do? Ocean water in Kerry is 4F higher than usual, because the Gulf Stream runs off the coast. Palm trees in the yard. But the heat is moving the Gulf Stream, & eventually it will get colder. Ireland could be Iceland. Climate connects us.
"The surface ocean temperature around the Florida Keys soared to 101.19F (38.43C) this week, in what could be a global record as ocean heat around the state reaches unprecedented extremes."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather
Florida ocean records ‘unprecedented’ temperatures similar to a hot tub
The 90-100F readings add to previous warnings over warming water putting marine life and ecosystems in peril
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2023 at 5:50 AM
Why can't I have oysters in August in Ireland, like I usually do? Ocean water in Kerry is 4F higher than usual, because the Gulf Stream runs off the coast. Palm trees in the yard. But the heat is moving the Gulf Stream, & eventually it will get colder. Ireland could be Iceland. Climate connects us.
In my 20s, I stole Black lawn jockeys, broke them up on the street in front of peoples' houses, and ran. If they wouldn't break, took them home, and put them under my house. Never got caught.
My big thing in high school, which I've never confessed before, was stealing food, condoms, and pregnancy tests which I would then redistribute to my friends in need of such things. I kept it up until I got caught
Young people are losing a valuable rite of passage with the increase in digital media and online shopping and the loss of brick & mortar stores: shoplifting. My buddy stole a whole ass PlayStation from Babbages in 6th grade by shoving it down his JNCOs and cemented his status as a legend.
July 25, 2023 at 5:22 PM
In my 20s, I stole Black lawn jockeys, broke them up on the street in front of peoples' houses, and ran. If they wouldn't break, took them home, and put them under my house. Never got caught.
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Waiting for Conor Friedersdorf to weigh in on the professor who was investigated for criticizing a Republican politician
July 25, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Waiting for Conor Friedersdorf to weigh in on the professor who was investigated for criticizing a Republican politician
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Texas A&M suspended a professor after a student accused her of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Pat…
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularl�...
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July 25, 2023 at 1:28 PM
Texas A&M suspended a professor after a student accused her of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture
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Republicans are like “it’s called the Transatlantic Slave Trade” because of the important trades people learned, also, we don’t like the word Trans being in there
Florida approved Black history standards in K-12 schools that will include language stating “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Instruction will also include mention of “violence perpetrated against and by African Americans"
Instruction will also include mention of “violence perpetrated against and by African Americans"
Florida Approves Controversial Set Of Black History Standards
The standards state that students will learn about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
www.huffpost.com
July 20, 2023 at 2:09 AM
Republicans are like “it’s called the Transatlantic Slave Trade” because of the important trades people learned, also, we don’t like the word Trans being in there
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New mood
I am capricious
I am capricious
A zombie cricket. Actually, a Carolina leafroller attacked by the endoparasitoid fungus Cordyceps. The fungus keeps the host alive as long as possible & directs the cricket to climb to a prominent exposed perch where spores are released
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July 16, 2023 at 1:40 AM
New mood
I am capricious
I am capricious
And how long can they be?
July 15, 2023 at 5:43 AM
And how long can they be?