Taulby Edmondson
@taulby.bsky.social
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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Taulby Edmondson
@taulby.bsky.social
· May 16
It's worth noting that a lot of the "historic homes" you see in southern locales are not antebellum at all. Many were built around the turn of the century in neoclassical antebellum style to demarcate wealthy white neighborhoods from segregated Black communities. I wrote about it here:
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WHAT IS THE BIGGER FIGHT. I AM DYING TO KNOW.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
WHAT IS THE BIGGER FIGHT. I AM DYING TO KNOW.
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On Thursday, a wave of horror stories about ChatGPT hit California courts.
'Artificial evil': 7 new lawsuits blast ChatGPT over suicides, delusions
On Thursday, a wave of horror stories about ChatGPT hit California courts.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
On Thursday, a wave of horror stories about ChatGPT hit California courts.
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
You can measure Durbin's effectiveness by how well his letters to Roberts as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee worked.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
You can measure Durbin's effectiveness by how well his letters to Roberts as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee worked.
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
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I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
Holiday travel, the filibuster, and the policies they want the filibuster to protect from reform appear to be the reasons for the cave, best we can tell.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Holiday travel, the filibuster, and the policies they want the filibuster to protect from reform appear to be the reasons for the cave, best we can tell.
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This might sound crazy, but travel disruptions at Thanksgiving would have been … good? It would have driven home why we need a functional government. Dems could have capitalized. Instead, they worried more about disrupted travel than people getting thrown off their health insurance. Unbelievable.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This might sound crazy, but travel disruptions at Thanksgiving would have been … good? It would have driven home why we need a functional government. Dems could have capitalized. Instead, they worried more about disrupted travel than people getting thrown off their health insurance. Unbelievable.
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This administration has quite clearly violated both US and international law, in conjunction with the El Salvador’s corrupt autocracy.
Will anyone with the power to do anything about these crimes do anything about them?
Will anyone with the power to do anything about these crimes do anything about them?
NYT - Dozens of Venezuelans sent by the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador describe being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/wo...
Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This administration has quite clearly violated both US and international law, in conjunction with the El Salvador’s corrupt autocracy.
Will anyone with the power to do anything about these crimes do anything about them?
Will anyone with the power to do anything about these crimes do anything about them?
What's unreal is that Trump has been blasting Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown for days and Senate Democrats are just going to hand them a win anyway.
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
First, I will say this: never believe an Axios backed story with only a Thune test vote schedule.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
What's unreal is that Trump has been blasting Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown for days and Senate Democrats are just going to hand them a win anyway.
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If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
First, I will say this: never believe an Axios backed story with only a Thune test vote schedule.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
IMO there are two legitimate goals to non-cooperation (which would likely lead to shutdown):
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
What gets me the most about GenAI is that it requires people who understand statistics and probabilities to pretend that they don't. And way too many influential people willingly oblige. It's maddening to me.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What gets me the most about GenAI is that it requires people who understand statistics and probabilities to pretend that they don't. And way too many influential people willingly oblige. It's maddening to me.
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
Enjoy the circuses while this piece of shit steals your bread and healthcare.
NFL RedZone should be a trump-free space. Get that motherfucker off the broadcast.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Enjoy the circuses while this piece of shit steals your bread and healthcare.
NFL RedZone should be a trump-free space. Get that motherfucker off the broadcast.
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
NFL RedZone should be a trump-free space. Get that motherfucker off the broadcast.
With so many of them committed to the filibuster and supermajority rule, our Senate is more countermajoritarian than the framers intended. Similarly, changes to the filibuster have been made over time, but only in the direction of making it easier for the minority to obstruct.
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
With so many of them committed to the filibuster and supermajority rule, our Senate is more countermajoritarian than the framers intended. Similarly, changes to the filibuster have been made over time, but only in the direction of making it easier for the minority to obstruct.
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Trump is punishing people for being poor and hungry and we're gonna just keep letting that go? Who the fuck thinks he's gonna fund SNAP when the government is open again? The fucking courts told him he had to end even THAT wasn't good enough. He's suing to be allowed to starve people
I hope everyone who was insisting two days ago that Schumer was playing 10D chess is having a lovely Sunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump is punishing people for being poor and hungry and we're gonna just keep letting that go? Who the fuck thinks he's gonna fund SNAP when the government is open again? The fucking courts told him he had to end even THAT wasn't good enough. He's suing to be allowed to starve people
Bailing Trump and Republicans out of their own mess is one way to ensure that Democrats take the heat for the shutdown. If Ds agree to this, what was the point?
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Bailing Trump and Republicans out of their own mess is one way to ensure that Democrats take the heat for the shutdown. If Ds agree to this, what was the point?
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$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
If there's anything that Lindsey Graham cares about it's definitely fairness for the plebs and sticking it to corporations. For sure.
At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If there's anything that Lindsey Graham cares about it's definitely fairness for the plebs and sticking it to corporations. For sure.
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He is destroying the research infrastructure that makes mass higher education possible & an engine of economic growth & human progress. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
How Is Trump Changing Colleges and Universities? Tell Us.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
He is destroying the research infrastructure that makes mass higher education possible & an engine of economic growth & human progress. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
The canopy reminds me of Jean Jacket from Nope.
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The canopy reminds me of Jean Jacket from Nope.
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The House GOP caucus, all 36 of them (LOL), is going to be almost all right-wing white guys... bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The House GOP caucus, all 36 of them (LOL), is going to be almost all right-wing white guys... bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...