Heather
@heather68.bsky.social
Mom, wife, friend interested in coffee, cats, books, and history
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I’ve written four. The one most meaningful to me is GOAT CASTLE: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER, RACE, AND THE GOTHIC SOUTH. 🗃️
TELL BLUESKY MORE ABOUT YOUR BOOK PLEASE!
Me too. (It doesn't help that my book goes into the 1950s drought and why so few noticed it.)
December 30, 2023 at 5:32 AM
I’ve written four. The one most meaningful to me is GOAT CASTLE: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER, RACE, AND THE GOTHIC SOUTH. 🗃️
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To me, it was extremely bad that I cast my vote in an election for the winning presidential candidate and the crook who lost raised an army of goons to try to prevent that election result from taking effect
Basically it seems like the people flinching away from the Insurrection Clause are the ones who feel like institutionally their own power, status, or influence doesn't depend on living in a working democracy
December 30, 2023 at 1:24 AM
To me, it was extremely bad that I cast my vote in an election for the winning presidential candidate and the crook who lost raised an army of goons to try to prevent that election result from taking effect
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If the constitution can't stop the president from overthrowing the constitution, I'd just as soon have that fact officially entered into the record rather than concede it while letting everyone pretend it isn't true
Really? Cause there's zero reason to think it's going to be effective at stopping Trump. What do you think you're accomplishing with it exactly?
December 30, 2023 at 1:29 AM
If the constitution can't stop the president from overthrowing the constitution, I'd just as soon have that fact officially entered into the record rather than concede it while letting everyone pretend it isn't true
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Basically it seems like the people flinching away from the Insurrection Clause are the ones who feel like institutionally their own power, status, or influence doesn't depend on living in a working democracy
December 30, 2023 at 1:22 AM
Basically it seems like the people flinching away from the Insurrection Clause are the ones who feel like institutionally their own power, status, or influence doesn't depend on living in a working democracy
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Resigned to the fact that this is his life now.
December 28, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Resigned to the fact that this is his life now.
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Hey, buddy, you have a little something...
Nevermind.
Nevermind.
December 28, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Hey, buddy, you have a little something...
Nevermind.
Nevermind.
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GOP candidates must negotiate a thicket of tricky gotcha questions like "what was the cause of the civil war?" but also "who won the 2020 Presidential election" and "do you denounce the teachings of Hitler?"
To be fair, if your party is banning teaching about the history of race in America, maybe the causes of the civil war really is a gotcha question. www.mediaite.com/politics/nik...
Nikki Haley Claims Civil War Questioner at Her Town Hall Was a Secret Democratic ‘Plant’
Nikki Haley went into damage control over her comments about the Civil War, claiming that the question came from a Democrat "plant" who was out to get her.
www.mediaite.com
December 28, 2023 at 4:06 PM
GOP candidates must negotiate a thicket of tricky gotcha questions like "what was the cause of the civil war?" but also "who won the 2020 Presidential election" and "do you denounce the teachings of Hitler?"
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I’m not a 100 percent defund the police guy. but absolutely beyond question that diverting half ish of bloated police budgets would pay massive social dividends
Jobs + cognitive behavioral therapy + social supports fights crime. Reduces shooting and homicide arrests with a benefit-cost ratio between 3.8 and 18.8 to 1.
www.nber.org/papers/w30852
www.nber.org/papers/w30852
December 27, 2023 at 11:47 PM
I’m not a 100 percent defund the police guy. but absolutely beyond question that diverting half ish of bloated police budgets would pay massive social dividends
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the NYPD budget is larger than Chile’s national defense budget
Police department budgets are one of those areas in which, if you tell people facts, they immediately reject them as untrue. Compared to 2022, NYPD spent $151 million more on overtime in the subway this year but barely altered the number of major crimes. Robberies went down a bit, assaults went up.
I’m not a 100 percent defund the police guy. but absolutely beyond question that diverting half ish of bloated police budgets would pay massive social dividends
December 28, 2023 at 12:32 AM
the NYPD budget is larger than Chile’s national defense budget
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Well worth your read (as is Kameron's work generally)
Reflections on the plague years, and being one of those who "just didn't." open.substack.com/pub/kameron/...
"History is Full of Those Who Just... Didn't"
Emerging from the plague years with fresh perspective on what we've achieved.
open.substack.com
December 27, 2023 at 11:13 PM
Well worth your read (as is Kameron's work generally)
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teen casual dining hostesses are the backbone of the midwest. these girls can barely drive but will stare down 300 lb red-faced blue lives matter HOA tyrants and their whole families and tell them their table will be ready when it’s ready. they could have gotten the donner party out in one piece.
December 27, 2023 at 4:43 PM
teen casual dining hostesses are the backbone of the midwest. these girls can barely drive but will stare down 300 lb red-faced blue lives matter HOA tyrants and their whole families and tell them their table will be ready when it’s ready. they could have gotten the donner party out in one piece.
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Wanna see a cow mlem?
December 27, 2023 at 11:45 PM
Wanna see a cow mlem?
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📢 PSA FOR NEWSKIES 📢
i strongly recommend at least uploading a pfp, setting a display name, putting something in your bio, and posting at least one thing (even just “hi”) before you start going on a following spree—blank profiles can be sus and lots of people block on sight.
i strongly recommend at least uploading a pfp, setting a display name, putting something in your bio, and posting at least one thing (even just “hi”) before you start going on a following spree—blank profiles can be sus and lots of people block on sight.
August 18, 2023 at 7:57 PM
📢 PSA FOR NEWSKIES 📢
i strongly recommend at least uploading a pfp, setting a display name, putting something in your bio, and posting at least one thing (even just “hi”) before you start going on a following spree—blank profiles can be sus and lots of people block on sight.
i strongly recommend at least uploading a pfp, setting a display name, putting something in your bio, and posting at least one thing (even just “hi”) before you start going on a following spree—blank profiles can be sus and lots of people block on sight.
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Oh! And general tip for anyone wanting to start sewing, if you want a project to get used to your machine + managing fabric, make a quilt throw blanket. Piece the top however complex you like (curved shapes are practice for garment making!) and use a minky back, no filling. Like the one I made here.
December 27, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Oh! And general tip for anyone wanting to start sewing, if you want a project to get used to your machine + managing fabric, make a quilt throw blanket. Piece the top however complex you like (curved shapes are practice for garment making!) and use a minky back, no filling. Like the one I made here.
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I will say if that you're buying unfamiliar sauces at an Asian grocery store, go for the bottles without dust on them.
December 27, 2023 at 1:46 PM
I will say if that you're buying unfamiliar sauces at an Asian grocery store, go for the bottles without dust on them.
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I would like to pet an average of one new dog a month
December 27, 2023 at 9:55 AM
I would like to pet an average of one new dog a month
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OKAY FUN RESOLUTIONS, GO
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
December 27, 2023 at 9:52 AM
OKAY FUN RESOLUTIONS, GO
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
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Learn to paint like Monet but with gouache
OKAY FUN RESOLUTIONS, GO
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
December 27, 2023 at 11:26 PM
Learn to paint like Monet but with gouache
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0 city hall reporters
0 labor reporters
0 civil rights reporters
0 police reporters
100000 Ivy League reporters
Someone help me my newspaper is dying
0 labor reporters
0 civil rights reporters
0 police reporters
100000 Ivy League reporters
Someone help me my newspaper is dying
December 13, 2023 at 3:26 PM
0 city hall reporters
0 labor reporters
0 civil rights reporters
0 police reporters
100000 Ivy League reporters
Someone help me my newspaper is dying
0 labor reporters
0 civil rights reporters
0 police reporters
100000 Ivy League reporters
Someone help me my newspaper is dying
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My heartfelt wishes for 2024 are that we all live in uninteresting times and experience very precedented events.
Wishing you all an uneventful new year.
Wishing you all an uneventful new year.
December 13, 2023 at 12:46 AM
My heartfelt wishes for 2024 are that we all live in uninteresting times and experience very precedented events.
Wishing you all an uneventful new year.
Wishing you all an uneventful new year.
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Hey just a reminder, criticism of Israel's genocide is not in any way antisemitism, but holding members of Jewish diaspora who are not connected to Israel other than by the tenuous threads of shared religion collectively responsible for Israeli genocide is *SUPER DUPER ANTISEMITIC*
A festival in Virginia canceled a menorah lighting because they were concerned a Chanukah celebration would send the message that the festival was “supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women, and children.”
They offered to reinstate the celebration if a ceasefire banner was hung.
They offered to reinstate the celebration if a ceasefire banner was hung.
Statement on Second Sunday’s Cancellation of Hanukkah Celebration
The Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula is shocked and alarmed at LoveLight Placemaking’s decision to cancel a menorah lighting scheduled for the Second Sundays Art and Music Festival on Dec ...
ujcvp.org
December 4, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Hey just a reminder, criticism of Israel's genocide is not in any way antisemitism, but holding members of Jewish diaspora who are not connected to Israel other than by the tenuous threads of shared religion collectively responsible for Israeli genocide is *SUPER DUPER ANTISEMITIC*
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Calendar
I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.
First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.
Available in two sizes on my store here:
www.etsy.com/listing/1625...
I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.
First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.
Available in two sizes on my store here:
www.etsy.com/listing/1625...
December 2, 2023 at 9:45 PM
Calendar
I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.
First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.
Available in two sizes on my store here:
www.etsy.com/listing/1625...
I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.
First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.
Available in two sizes on my store here:
www.etsy.com/listing/1625...
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#HishidaShunsō (1874-1911)was a #Meiji period painter and is known for his paintings of cats and for developing a new painting genre called #Nihonga.
#japanese #woodblock
#japanese #woodblock
November 30, 2023 at 8:59 PM
#HishidaShunsō (1874-1911)was a #Meiji period painter and is known for his paintings of cats and for developing a new painting genre called #Nihonga.
#japanese #woodblock
#japanese #woodblock