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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Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is:
The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is:
The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
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A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half.
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
19thnews.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:46 PM
A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half.
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.
Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
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The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
Look at the photos. The thing I heard often working on the USAID Gaza response from our partners in Gaza was the field of dead bodies - men, women, children - that fanned out around IDF checkpoints in the Netzarim corridor. Shot by IDF soldiers for no reason (unless "for fun" counts as a reason).
U.S. Envoys Refused to Report "Apocalyptic" Conditions in Gaza. Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
www.dropsitenews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
Hard to understate how much contempt these people have for the rural working classes.
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Hard to understate how much contempt these people have for the rural working classes.
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not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed
Reconstruction II: Nuremberg Trials Redux
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Reconstruction II: Nuremberg Trials Redux
Nolan should make the swan black.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Nolan should make the swan black.
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At this juncture it is completely unacceptable to even think that a serial pedophile and rapist's constructions get to remain on our memory landscape. Whatever he builds comes down.
February 2, 2026 at 4:50 AM
At this juncture it is completely unacceptable to even think that a serial pedophile and rapist's constructions get to remain on our memory landscape. Whatever he builds comes down.
The British Museum is at it again.
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 2, 2026 at 6:46 AM
The British Museum is at it again.
At this juncture it is completely unacceptable to even think that a serial pedophile and rapist's constructions get to remain on our memory landscape. Whatever he builds comes down.
February 2, 2026 at 4:50 AM
At this juncture it is completely unacceptable to even think that a serial pedophile and rapist's constructions get to remain on our memory landscape. Whatever he builds comes down.
They built "Alligator Alcatraz" in eight days. Desantis fast-tracked the construction.
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 4:41 AM
They built "Alligator Alcatraz" in eight days. Desantis fast-tracked the construction.
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“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Not enough voter suppression.
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Not enough voter suppression.
Trump as metaphor has never failed; Republicans are outright destructive to the arts and humanities.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Trump as metaphor has never failed; Republicans are outright destructive to the arts and humanities.
Important to remember that this reality doesn't negate your analysis. It means that the politics of the area are distinct and, I'd guess, heavily propagandized. Anyways, greetings from coal country.
lotta people about to learn about the fucked up dynamics in the Rio Grande Valley, where CBP has long been one of the biggest employers and the place where you are most likely to find people with brown skin and Mexican surnames casually dropping the most vile anti immigrant slurs non-stop
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
February 1, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Important to remember that this reality doesn't negate your analysis. It means that the politics of the area are distinct and, I'd guess, heavily propagandized. Anyways, greetings from coal country.
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Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them
As much as it likes to masquerade as purely market driven, neoliberalism became entrenched with considerable help from segregationists who wanted to privatize everything after integration. The white nationalism was baked in from the jump.
It’s going to be really tough for people to understand that much of the Neoliberal “intellectual” think tank circuit has always just been a cover for the most disgusting fascists and sexual deviants in history to take and hold power.
February 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
As much as it likes to masquerade as purely market driven, neoliberalism became entrenched with considerable help from segregationists who wanted to privatize everything after integration. The white nationalism was baked in from the jump.
I'm introducing coal songs and protest music in class tomorrow and am definitely making use of this.
Yall will want to read this superb local reporting from MN. So much good here.
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the city's ICE resistance
MinnPost contributor Jim Walsh compiles a playlist by songwriters who are tapping into their talent, anger, artistry and empathy to support Minnesota.
www.minnpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I'm introducing coal songs and protest music in class tomorrow and am definitely making use of this.
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It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:21 PM
It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march
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From: Jeffrey Epstein
To: Cain From The Bible
Date: March 7th, 3000BC
Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀
go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
To: Cain From The Bible
Date: March 7th, 3000BC
Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀
go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
From: Jeffrey Epstein
To: Cain From The Bible
Date: March 7th, 3000BC
Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀
go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
To: Cain From The Bible
Date: March 7th, 3000BC
Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀
go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
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It's so very appropriate that Zapiro, the South African political cartoonist who was a thorn in the side of the apartheid government, is now skewering the Trump regime.
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
It's so very appropriate that Zapiro, the South African political cartoonist who was a thorn in the side of the apartheid government, is now skewering the Trump regime.
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Fmr. Biden WH Assistant to the Pres. & Nat'l Sec. Advisor to VP Harris, Phil Gordon, admits the U.S. violated U.S. law in order to continue funding Israel’s war effort.
Gordon was a principal-level WH official, widely described as part of a small inner circle of 5 senior nat'l sec. officials who...
Gordon was a principal-level WH official, widely described as part of a small inner circle of 5 senior nat'l sec. officials who...
February 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Fmr. Biden WH Assistant to the Pres. & Nat'l Sec. Advisor to VP Harris, Phil Gordon, admits the U.S. violated U.S. law in order to continue funding Israel’s war effort.
Gordon was a principal-level WH official, widely described as part of a small inner circle of 5 senior nat'l sec. officials who...
Gordon was a principal-level WH official, widely described as part of a small inner circle of 5 senior nat'l sec. officials who...
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Happy St Brigid’s Day! St Brigid helped spread Christianity in Ireland, becoming the abbess of a powerful convent. When a nun came to her, pregnant and scared, St Brigid laid hands on her belly, prayed, and induced a miraculous abortion.
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Happy St Brigid’s Day! St Brigid helped spread Christianity in Ireland, becoming the abbess of a powerful convent. When a nun came to her, pregnant and scared, St Brigid laid hands on her belly, prayed, and induced a miraculous abortion.
Make sure there's plenty of boots to lick at the hospitality table.
February 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Make sure there's plenty of boots to lick at the hospitality table.