Nancy Middleton
@nancymidd.bsky.social
East Coaster turned West Coaster
Reader 🤓 Writer ✍️
Reader 🤓 Writer ✍️
There aren’t many books you want to start reading again as soon as you finish. This is one of those books. 📚 #mustreads
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There aren’t many books you want to start reading again as soon as you finish. This is one of those books. 📚 #mustreads
Monterey's No Kings Protest had everything:
* amusing signage
* a dancing T-Rex
* bubbles
* a bagpiper
* Bob Marley music
* a conga line
But, most importantly, 6,000+ patriotic citizens who showed up and used their voices to celebrate and defend democracy. 🇺🇸
* amusing signage
* a dancing T-Rex
* bubbles
* a bagpiper
* Bob Marley music
* a conga line
But, most importantly, 6,000+ patriotic citizens who showed up and used their voices to celebrate and defend democracy. 🇺🇸
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Monterey's No Kings Protest had everything:
* amusing signage
* a dancing T-Rex
* bubbles
* a bagpiper
* Bob Marley music
* a conga line
But, most importantly, 6,000+ patriotic citizens who showed up and used their voices to celebrate and defend democracy. 🇺🇸
* amusing signage
* a dancing T-Rex
* bubbles
* a bagpiper
* Bob Marley music
* a conga line
But, most importantly, 6,000+ patriotic citizens who showed up and used their voices to celebrate and defend democracy. 🇺🇸
The Trump administration is trying to colonize Bluesky. Here’s a list of accounts to block:
Yes!
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The Trump administration is trying to colonize Bluesky. Here’s a list of accounts to block:
Pretty sure my mom ghostwrote this cartoon for The New Yorker! 🍂🍁😁 #fallvibes #missingfall #californiaproblems
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pretty sure my mom ghostwrote this cartoon for The New Yorker! 🍂🍁😁 #fallvibes #missingfall #californiaproblems
The freedom to read is the freedom to think.
Ban ignorance, not books. 📖 #bannedbooksweek
Ban ignorance, not books. 📖 #bannedbooksweek
October 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The freedom to read is the freedom to think.
Ban ignorance, not books. 📖 #bannedbooksweek
Ban ignorance, not books. 📖 #bannedbooksweek
Two excellent writers to follow for insights on the unfolding crisis of #democracy in this country (both have a substack or newsletter). #truth #freespeech
Rebecca Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Robert Hubbell: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/be-the-anc...
Rebecca Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Robert Hubbell: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/be-the-anc...
Be the anchor in the storm
September 29, 2025
roberthubbell.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Two excellent writers to follow for insights on the unfolding crisis of #democracy in this country (both have a substack or newsletter). #truth #freespeech
Rebecca Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Robert Hubbell: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/be-the-anc...
Rebecca Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Robert Hubbell: roberthubbell.substack.com/p/be-the-anc...
I’ve always loved the intro to Jane Smiley’s “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel” 😄 #happybirthdaytome #writingcommunity
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’ve always loved the intro to Jane Smiley’s “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel” 😄 #happybirthdaytome #writingcommunity
Six pages in and I’m already rereading sentences for their #truth and #beauty #amreading #richardpowers
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Six pages in and I’m already rereading sentences for their #truth and #beauty #amreading #richardpowers
September 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
Sept. 18, 1850: Fugitive Slave Act Passed
The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#tdih 1837 African American abolitionist and businessperson William Whipper outlined & published his commitment to non-violent activism.
Hotly debated at time, this was 12 years before Henry D. Thoreau’s now more famous civil disobedience treatise.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wi...
Hotly debated at time, this was 12 years before Henry D. Thoreau’s now more famous civil disobedience treatise.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wi...
Sept. 16, 1837: Abolitionist William Whipper Advocated Non-Violence
William Whipper published “An Address on Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression.”
www.zinnedproject.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#tdih 1858, 18-yr-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Group of local residents (Black & white) stormed hotel, found Price, & took him to freedom in Canada.
Abolitionists were arrested. Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ob...
Group of local residents (Black & white) stormed hotel, found Price, & took him to freedom in Canada.
Abolitionists were arrested. Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ob...
Sept. 13, 1858: Oberlin Wellington Rescue
Eighteen-year-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"They do not understand people and this may be their downfall..." #defenddemocracy #resist www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-not-w...
We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency
Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They do not understand people and this may be their downfall..." #defenddemocracy #resist www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-not-w...
Took a private tour of the Western Flyer that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took to the Sea of Cortez. #steinbeckcountry #westernflyer #litcommunity
September 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Took a private tour of the Western Flyer that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took to the Sea of Cortez. #steinbeckcountry #westernflyer #litcommunity
Fell down the Tudor rabbit hole #fridayreads📚 #historicalfiction
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Fell down the Tudor rabbit hole #fridayreads📚 #historicalfiction
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Help fight against book bans by signing the petition at www.bookbanpetition.us
August 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Help fight against book bans by signing the petition at www.bookbanpetition.us
Reposted by Nancy Middleton
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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This administration aims to suppress truth about slavery.
The curriculum should include MORE, not less, about central role of slavery, resistance, & its legacy in U.S.
Join us on Monday for a class with Clint Smith on the new YA edition of his book. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/how-the...
The curriculum should include MORE, not less, about central role of slavery, resistance, & its legacy in U.S.
Join us on Monday for a class with Clint Smith on the new YA edition of his book. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/how-the...
How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
Author and educator Clint Smith will discuss the new young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How it Shaped America. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’...
www.zinnedproject.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This administration aims to suppress truth about slavery.
The curriculum should include MORE, not less, about central role of slavery, resistance, & its legacy in U.S.
Join us on Monday for a class with Clint Smith on the new YA edition of his book. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/how-the...
The curriculum should include MORE, not less, about central role of slavery, resistance, & its legacy in U.S.
Join us on Monday for a class with Clint Smith on the new YA edition of his book. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/how-the...
Reposted by Nancy Middleton
"you can spend your whole life in search of assured success....or you can find a source of purpose to return to again and again...." #writingcommunity #amwriting #historicalfiction
July 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"you can spend your whole life in search of assured success....or you can find a source of purpose to return to again and again...." #writingcommunity #amwriting #historicalfiction
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July 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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And here’s another favorite #historicalfiction
July 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And here’s another favorite #historicalfiction