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![Miriam Zogby Balutis was born on August 22, 1945 in Utica, NY, and died on August 22, 2023 at her home in Arlington, VA, enveloped in the warmth, love and care of her family, and secure in the knowledge that the former president’s next arraignment was imminent.
[ https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/01/obituary-miriam-zogby-balutis-1945-2023/?mc_cid=fc02751db8&mc_eid=4fc01b28aa ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v67ylue6b72aed7esdnxmpao/bafkreicmpzvtynzuem5ni7z57z7pyggspq6wqppax2ssz2zxk5vyk7o57a@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Did you know the & is actually the letters "Et," for the Latin word "et," which means "and?"
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Did you know the & is actually the letters "Et," for the Latin word "et," which means "and?"
I feel like Junie and Phoebe could be identical cousins! My mom also calls her "the grey ghost," since she can be standing 6 feet away from you outside and you won't know she's there.
September 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I feel like Junie and Phoebe could be identical cousins! My mom also calls her "the grey ghost," since she can be standing 6 feet away from you outside and you won't know she's there.
This is my parents' dog Phoebe! Phoebe is not allowed to have real bones anymore, because she splinters them with her teeth. She has to settle for peanut butter in a chew toy these days, but I think she has adjusted to the change, mostly.
September 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is my parents' dog Phoebe! Phoebe is not allowed to have real bones anymore, because she splinters them with her teeth. She has to settle for peanut butter in a chew toy these days, but I think she has adjusted to the change, mostly.
"pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier"
But how did these white US pioneers get to Missouri in the first place? Whom did they bring with them?
Dred Scott was born in Virginia, but he and over 100,000 other enslaved Black Missourians weren't Americans, I guess.
But how did these white US pioneers get to Missouri in the first place? Whom did they bring with them?
Dred Scott was born in Virginia, but he and over 100,000 other enslaved Black Missourians weren't Americans, I guess.
![When Louisiana was purchased in 1803, 2,000–3,000 slaves were within the limits of what is now Missouri, of which only the eastern and southern portions were then settled. By 1860 the Black population comprised 9.7% of the state's total including 3,572 free negroes and 114,931 who were enslaved.[3] By the beginning of the American Civil War, 32% of counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more enslaved individuals. Males cost up to $1,300.[4] In the State Auditor's 1860 report, the total value of all enslaved people in Missouri was estimated at US$44,181,912 (~$1.22 billion in 2023).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Missouri](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v67ylue6b72aed7esdnxmpao/bafkreiam5d7cxfx26ecwj32rzpknpc7ycjztfvfngouqfjz7noie5loyeq@jpeg)
![Little Dixie is a historic 13- to 17-county region along the Missouri River in central Missouri, United States. Its early Anglo-American settlers were largely migrants from the hemp and tobacco districts of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. They brought enslaved African Americans with them or purchased them as workers in the region. Because Southerners settled there first, the pre-Civil War culture of the region was similar to that of the Upper South. The area was also known as Boonslick country.[1]
A 1948 article in the Missouri Historical Review defined the antebellum "Little Dixie" region as a 13-county area between the Mississippi River north of St. Louis to Missouri River counties in the central part of the state (Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Howard, Lincoln, Pike, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Randolph, Saline, and Shelby counties).[2]
When the Southerners migrated to Missouri, they brought their cultural, social, agricultural, architectural, political and economic practices, including slavery. Overall, Missouri's slave population represented 10 percent of the state's population in the 1860 U.S. Census. But in Little Dixie, county and township slave populations ranged from 20 to 50 percent by 1860, with the highest percentages for the counties developed for large plantations along the Missouri river. New Madrid County, along the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, also had a high percentage of enslaved Africans, but was not considered part of the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dixie_(Missouri)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v67ylue6b72aed7esdnxmpao/bafkreia24ljx7bluappjzmvnfllvuzsxcmprapw2yvzz7kjlwolu7t7si4@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier"
But how did these white US pioneers get to Missouri in the first place? Whom did they bring with them?
Dred Scott was born in Virginia, but he and over 100,000 other enslaved Black Missourians weren't Americans, I guess.
But how did these white US pioneers get to Missouri in the first place? Whom did they bring with them?
Dred Scott was born in Virginia, but he and over 100,000 other enslaved Black Missourians weren't Americans, I guess.
I'm a big fan of the 15 quart, 32 qt, and 27 qt Sterilite Clear View storage tubs. They can be stacked and reconfigured, so they are basically as functional as plastic drawers, but I can leave the stuff in them when moving, rather than having to repack everything. Also great for books!
August 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I'm a big fan of the 15 quart, 32 qt, and 27 qt Sterilite Clear View storage tubs. They can be stacked and reconfigured, so they are basically as functional as plastic drawers, but I can leave the stuff in them when moving, rather than having to repack everything. Also great for books!
Every time I see him, the only thing I can think of is Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face in The Dark Knight.
July 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Every time I see him, the only thing I can think of is Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face in The Dark Knight.
Also, uh, is the "anonymous" pen name used by the eugenicist itself a reference to a French colonial law that incited conflict between Muslim & Jewish Algerians, eventually leading to violence & mass migration?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A...
![https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9mieux_Decree
The Crémieux Decree (French: Décret Crémieux; IPA: [kʁemjø]) was a law that granted French citizenship to the majority of the Jewish population in French Algeria (around 35,000), signed by the Government of National Defense on 24 October 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. It was named after French-Jewish lawyer and Minister of Justice Adolphe Crémieux.[1]
The decree automatically made the native Algerian Jews French citizens, while their Muslim Arab and Berber neighbors were excluded and remained under the second-class indigenous status outlined in the code de l'Indigénat. As a result, the decree did not grant citizenship to the Berber Mozabite Jews, who were only granted "common law civil status" and French citizenship in 1961, over ninety years later.[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v67ylue6b72aed7esdnxmpao/bafkreicqebyod4zllf7i3xnew4nnog443aixapyn42ksor4wizlmyosdnu@jpeg)
![https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9mieux_Decree
Muslim Algerians could apply individually for French citizenship on paper, but this required that they formally renounce Islam and its laws[3] and their requests were additionally very seldom accepted. That set the scene for deteriorating relations between the Muslim and Jewish communities, with tensions increased by the colonial administration's discrimination between natives and citizens. Seeing a fellow Algerian become a first-class citizen while being left as a second-class citizen made them suspect of collaboration with the colonial authorities as harkis and strongly divided locals.[4]
This eventually proved fateful in the 1954–1962 Algerian War, where suspects of French collaboration were seen as enemies of the revolution and traitors of the people and the nation, after which the vast majority of the Jews of Algeria emigrated to France.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v67ylue6b72aed7esdnxmpao/bafkreiaymmajhh6hy3ihcribh5w4624v5meaf6nzku7wgr32bnhp3fd45e@jpeg)
July 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Also, uh, is the "anonymous" pen name used by the eugenicist itself a reference to a French colonial law that incited conflict between Muslim & Jewish Algerians, eventually leading to violence & mass migration?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A...
@blackjew.bsky.social This is actually a photo of the March for Our Lives taken on March 24, 2018 on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
June 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@blackjew.bsky.social This is actually a photo of the March for Our Lives taken on March 24, 2018 on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
I had to buy a new jar opener just for a jar of Talenti, because my other one wasn't big enough, nor terrifyingly industrial enough! The metal teeth on the tool sometimes crack the plastic lids, but there is no other way.
June 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I had to buy a new jar opener just for a jar of Talenti, because my other one wasn't big enough, nor terrifyingly industrial enough! The metal teeth on the tool sometimes crack the plastic lids, but there is no other way.
Probably not even in the top two!
April 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Probably not even in the top two!
Did Logan give you a promise ring?
Also, does anyone remember the IllumaRooms? The toyline for 10 year olds that was just groovy mod dollhouse furniture dioramas with no dolls and no houses? (and also I bought that blue dollhouse bed on eBay)
Also, does anyone remember the IllumaRooms? The toyline for 10 year olds that was just groovy mod dollhouse furniture dioramas with no dolls and no houses? (and also I bought that blue dollhouse bed on eBay)
April 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Did Logan give you a promise ring?
Also, does anyone remember the IllumaRooms? The toyline for 10 year olds that was just groovy mod dollhouse furniture dioramas with no dolls and no houses? (and also I bought that blue dollhouse bed on eBay)
Also, does anyone remember the IllumaRooms? The toyline for 10 year olds that was just groovy mod dollhouse furniture dioramas with no dolls and no houses? (and also I bought that blue dollhouse bed on eBay)
They have less direct control over the Smithsonian than they do over the National Park Service, so the order focuses more on withholding federal funding from OMB to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution.
March 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
They have less direct control over the Smithsonian than they do over the National Park Service, so the order focuses more on withholding federal funding from OMB to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution.
I didn't mean to imply that it isn't intended to affect the Smithsonian. I meant, in addition, the order takes time to give directives to the Secretary of the Interior to change every park, monument, and memorial on federally owned land, which means everything managed by the National Park Service.
March 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I didn't mean to imply that it isn't intended to affect the Smithsonian. I meant, in addition, the order takes time to give directives to the Secretary of the Interior to change every park, monument, and memorial on federally owned land, which means everything managed by the National Park Service.
Some people are long past the point of no return. These are two tweets that may seem innocuous at first, but they were posted on the day of the Uvalde shooting, for attention? I guess?
www.readtpa.com/p/why-is-mat...
www.readtpa.com/p/why-is-mat...
January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Some people are long past the point of no return. These are two tweets that may seem innocuous at first, but they were posted on the day of the Uvalde shooting, for attention? I guess?
www.readtpa.com/p/why-is-mat...
www.readtpa.com/p/why-is-mat...
If you're curious, my mom also does promotion for you!
January 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you're curious, my mom also does promotion for you!
Well... no... but have you ever seen the movie (musical) Sarafina? Did you know they indefinitely detained high school kids for months for protesting legally mandated changes to curriculum? Would you like Whoopi Goldberg to explain it to you in song?
January 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Well... no... but have you ever seen the movie (musical) Sarafina? Did you know they indefinitely detained high school kids for months for protesting legally mandated changes to curriculum? Would you like Whoopi Goldberg to explain it to you in song?
I think that kinda is the vibe of the original 1931 version!
January 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think that kinda is the vibe of the original 1931 version!
I guess this is my fault for looking for a holiday themed shower curtain in the first place.
December 8, 2024 at 7:34 AM
I guess this is my fault for looking for a holiday themed shower curtain in the first place.
I don't know if you can see in the photo, but for some reason this house (which may actually be a real estate company?) put out a field-ful of gourds and there were 4-5 visible squirrels outright frolicking when I walked by.
November 8, 2024 at 11:37 PM
I don't know if you can see in the photo, but for some reason this house (which may actually be a real estate company?) put out a field-ful of gourds and there were 4-5 visible squirrels outright frolicking when I walked by.
Of course she's 51, how else would she have been married to the guy from Stranger Things in Revolutionary Road 16 years ago? And am I the only one who remembers her on Crossing Jordan, the medical examiner show for the new millennium?!
September 21, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Of course she's 51, how else would she have been married to the guy from Stranger Things in Revolutionary Road 16 years ago? And am I the only one who remembers her on Crossing Jordan, the medical examiner show for the new millennium?!