Sandy Petrulionis
@sandyharbert.bsky.social
retired English professor, author, gardener, hiker, camper, canoer, and recent transplant to NY's north country
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"US would take charge of $100 billion in frozen Russian assets and receive '50% of the profits from this venture.'
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"US would take charge of $100 billion in frozen Russian assets and receive '50% of the profits from this venture.'
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
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I honestly can't get enough of these
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
August 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I honestly can't get enough of these
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"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole."
—Herman Melville, born today in 1819
—Herman Melville, born today in 1819
August 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole."
—Herman Melville, born today in 1819
—Herman Melville, born today in 1819
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This is the history that we stand to lose if the Trump administration is allowed to continue to dismantle and gut the National Park Service. Thanks to Ashley Whitehead Luskey for writing this brutally honest and deeply personal op-ed. #NationalParks www.historians.org/perspectives...
The Future of Our Nation’s Past – AHA
Eight years as an interpretive park ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park put Ashley Whitehead Luskey on the frontlines of public history.
www.historians.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is the history that we stand to lose if the Trump administration is allowed to continue to dismantle and gut the National Park Service. Thanks to Ashley Whitehead Luskey for writing this brutally honest and deeply personal op-ed. #NationalParks www.historians.org/perspectives...
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Scholarly Editing celebrates the ways new insights, voices, and experiences can be amplified through textual scholarship. Read more today->https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/42 #OpenAccessScholarship #RecoveryEditing #VoicesFromtheMargins #TeachingwithEditions #GLaDos #CivilWarStories
June 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Scholarly Editing celebrates the ways new insights, voices, and experiences can be amplified through textual scholarship. Read more today->https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/42 #OpenAccessScholarship #RecoveryEditing #VoicesFromtheMargins #TeachingwithEditions #GLaDos #CivilWarStories
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On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
May 27, 1892 | White Mob Destroys Office of Ida B. Wells's Memphis Newspaper
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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May 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
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Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
www.theatlantic.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
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charismatic macrofauna is totally our jam
Today's Poetry Daily is a batch of seven poems from Herman Melville featured in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2007
Civil war epics, charismatic macrofauna, and Christmas cheer await you at @ProjectMUSE, free for all through 30 April
muse.jhu.edu/article...
Civil war epics, charismatic macrofauna, and Christmas cheer await you at @ProjectMUSE, free for all through 30 April
muse.jhu.edu/article...
![Hopkins Press Poetry Daily
Herman Melville Poems
The Stone Fleet
Donelson
The House-Top
Bridegroom Dick
The Blue-Bird
The Chipmunk
Stockings in the Farm-house Chimney
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Read free through 30 April
(Illustrated with the Leviathan masthead and a portrait of Herman Melville [Joseph Oriel Eaton - Houghton Library - Harvard University - Modern Books and Manuscripts, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75721837])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kthssrrtsfdlc4prcfd35fnf/bafkreihkggpgiycdxahm6w74h3twrg2u6slxgwxds7noqnykct2rny4qa4@jpeg)
April 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
charismatic macrofauna is totally our jam
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250th Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
250th Anniversary Lantern Service | The Old North Church
The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea” signal from the church’s steeple on the eve ...
www.oldnorth.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
250th Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
Live Stream 7pm @hcrichardson.bsky.social gives the keynote address
www.oldnorth.com/lanternservi...
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For the record, I don't give a flying wazoo about Blue Origin's fancy flight. A totally tone-deaf stunt. (But at least those 6 women got to come back.)
April 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For the record, I don't give a flying wazoo about Blue Origin's fancy flight. A totally tone-deaf stunt. (But at least those 6 women got to come back.)
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Got to say thanks to a childhood hero today.
“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends… every man in this court would have deemed it worthy of reward rather than punishment.”
— John Brown
“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends… every man in this court would have deemed it worthy of reward rather than punishment.”
— John Brown
March 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Got to say thanks to a childhood hero today.
“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends… every man in this court would have deemed it worthy of reward rather than punishment.”
— John Brown
“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends… every man in this court would have deemed it worthy of reward rather than punishment.”
— John Brown
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.
Rhiannon Giddens is the latest artist to cancel Kennedy Center gig
Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Explore our new report, Unreliable Verdicts: Racial Bias and Wrongful Convictions, which documents how the absence of diversity in juries can increase the chance of a wrongful conviction, especially in death penalty cases.
Unreliable Verdicts
EJI's report documents how racial bias in jury selection undermines reliability.
eji.org
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Explore our new report, Unreliable Verdicts: Racial Bias and Wrongful Convictions, which documents how the absence of diversity in juries can increase the chance of a wrongful conviction, especially in death penalty cases.
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"Musk fellowship ‘debases’ Royal Society, warns climate scientist" (full article):
February 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Musk fellowship ‘debases’ Royal Society, warns climate scientist" (full article):
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Ukraine should not have believed in security guarantees in Budapest.
A terrible price:
- that Biden helped the Russians not to lose,
- that the Senate blocked aid to Ukraine,
- that the United States preserved Russian military aircraft.
A terrible price!
#UkrainianView #EU #US
Ukraine should not have believed in security guarantees in Budapest.
A terrible price:
- that Biden helped the Russians not to lose,
- that the Senate blocked aid to Ukraine,
- that the United States preserved Russian military aircraft.
A terrible price!
#UkrainianView #EU #US
💬 Polish PM Tusk: "Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest. This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose."
February 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Ukraine should not have believed in security guarantees in Budapest.
A terrible price:
- that Biden helped the Russians not to lose,
- that the Senate blocked aid to Ukraine,
- that the United States preserved Russian military aircraft.
A terrible price!
#UkrainianView #EU #US
Ukraine should not have believed in security guarantees in Budapest.
A terrible price:
- that Biden helped the Russians not to lose,
- that the Senate blocked aid to Ukraine,
- that the United States preserved Russian military aircraft.
A terrible price!
#UkrainianView #EU #US
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Needed a minute to ground myself before heading back to DCA this evening, but this conference pulled together by @thesituationist.bsky.social (aka the wonderful Jon Hanson) with all of these amazing people = totally worth it!
Hope to see you all there!
Hope to see you all there!
January 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Needed a minute to ground myself before heading back to DCA this evening, but this conference pulled together by @thesituationist.bsky.social (aka the wonderful Jon Hanson) with all of these amazing people = totally worth it!
Hope to see you all there!
Hope to see you all there!
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It is no joke to say that Putin could get to Warsaw before western Europe would feel the existential threat necessary to trigger a bold enough reaction. The EU is in danger of becoming an existential threat to itself.
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January 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Tensions are still high at Melville Society HQ about the fancast. Swing by our Insta stories to help us resolve our disputes. www.instagram.com/themelvilles...
January 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tensions are still high at Melville Society HQ about the fancast. Swing by our Insta stories to help us resolve our disputes. www.instagram.com/themelvilles...