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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Read this thread. It’s honestly devastating that someone who has written important works on antisemitism—numerous of which are cited in my own work—has descended into vile Islamophobia.
Fear and nationalism and an inability to consider how one might become a perpetrator.
Fear and nationalism and an inability to consider how one might become a perpetrator.
It should inspire serious reflection among liberals and institutionally liberal institutions in the US that this woman was (is still?) considered a standard-bearer on the issue of what constitutes bigotry.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Read this thread. It’s honestly devastating that someone who has written important works on antisemitism—numerous of which are cited in my own work—has descended into vile Islamophobia.
Fear and nationalism and an inability to consider how one might become a perpetrator.
Fear and nationalism and an inability to consider how one might become a perpetrator.
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Dem leaders who want to play footsie with billionaires will fail the country and their own prospects.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
It's the Billionaires, Stupid
The faultline for Dems in the run to 2028 will be attitudes toward elites
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Dem leaders who want to play footsie with billionaires will fail the country and their own prospects.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Arguably the most fateful decision Mitch McConnell made was to not reconvene the Senate Jan. 13, 2021 to hold the impeachment trial of Trump while he was still in office.
McConnell later voted it was unconstitutional to try Trump after he left office when he had blocked the trial before he left.
McConnell later voted it was unconstitutional to try Trump after he left office when he had blocked the trial before he left.
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Arguably the most fateful decision Mitch McConnell made was to not reconvene the Senate Jan. 13, 2021 to hold the impeachment trial of Trump while he was still in office.
McConnell later voted it was unconstitutional to try Trump after he left office when he had blocked the trial before he left.
McConnell later voted it was unconstitutional to try Trump after he left office when he had blocked the trial before he left.
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This is a fascinating story. ICE tried to buy a warehouse in VA from a Canadian company, to turn into a detention center. One of the company’s advertising partners basically told them that if they sold, they could kiss their ads goodbye.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
This is a fascinating story. ICE tried to buy a warehouse in VA from a Canadian company, to turn into a detention center. One of the company’s advertising partners basically told them that if they sold, they could kiss their ads goodbye.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
Once again, the real Baileys are the people getting shot and kidnapped off of American streets.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Once again, the real Baileys are the people getting shot and kidnapped off of American streets.
Mitch is gonna check out in time to miss the full-extent of the mess he made.
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Mitch is gonna check out in time to miss the full-extent of the mess he made.
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How many men mentioned in the Epstein files have vowed to “fix” U.S. education?
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
How many men mentioned in the Epstein files have vowed to “fix” U.S. education?
The primary use will be recording, identifying, and prosecuting protestors.
ICE wearing body cameras simply means we'll see video of somebody getting shot from extra angles
February 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The primary use will be recording, identifying, and prosecuting protestors.
What is actually amusing is that a white Irish guy from Boston is cast as Odysseus and all these guys are like, "yeah that totally tracks."
Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
What is actually amusing is that a white Irish guy from Boston is cast as Odysseus and all these guys are like, "yeah that totally tracks."
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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"Who owns the founding?" or "who owns American patriotism" are among the most important fields of cultural contestation in politics, and have been since the beginning. We should not cede this field. That doesn't mean whitewashing. It means having a compelling vision that draws meaning from history.
“Amar’s America is one utterly obsessed with decoding and depicting the founders, hailing their character and accomplishments and downplaying their faults.” www.liberalcurrents.com/who-owns-the...
Who Owns the Founding? Akhil Reed Amar’s "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution"
Amar's book is a useful history that nevertheless smooths over some of the real complexity of the eras it touches on.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
"Who owns the founding?" or "who owns American patriotism" are among the most important fields of cultural contestation in politics, and have been since the beginning. We should not cede this field. That doesn't mean whitewashing. It means having a compelling vision that draws meaning from history.
Law and order is declaring the 4th Amendment a nonstarter.
Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Law and order is declaring the 4th Amendment a nonstarter.
Better things are possible.
Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Better things are possible.
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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.