Tad Callin
@tadmaster.bsky.social
Half a century of trying to figure out a good description; genealogy/family history stuff: https://mightieracorns.wordpress.com/
Assoc. Editor: @pseudopod.org
Assoc. Editor: @pseudopod.org
Pinned
Lives and Fortunes: Three Revolutionary War Americans
This story is part of the celebration of America's 250th birthday at Projectkin - Stories250. Look for more at
mightieracorns.com
This story is part of the Projectkin Stories250 timeline, celebrating America's 250th birthday.
We are often left with tenuous scraps and hints about the people in our family trees. Speculation can only take us a little way, but it can often be worth exploring.
Two Girls Called Sabra Ann
We are often left with tenuous scraps and hints about the people in our family trees. Speculation can only take us a little way, but it can often be worth exploring.
mightieracorns.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are often left with tenuous scraps and hints about the people in our family trees. Speculation can only take us a little way, but it can often be worth exploring.
Spoiler: I am talking up @escapeartists.net @archive.org @wikipedia.org and @pbs.org for your consideration.
I think they've earned the money we thoughtlessly feed to the tech industry
I think they've earned the money we thoughtlessly feed to the tech industry
Everybody needs a little more help this year - here are some things to think about as you consider where you want to put your money.
The Giving Season
Everybody needs a little more help this year - here are some things to think about as you consider where you want to put your money.
mightieracorns.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Spoiler: I am talking up @escapeartists.net @archive.org @wikipedia.org and @pbs.org for your consideration.
I think they've earned the money we thoughtlessly feed to the tech industry
I think they've earned the money we thoughtlessly feed to the tech industry
Everybody needs a little more help this year - here are some things to think about as you consider where you want to put your money.
The Giving Season
Everybody needs a little more help this year - here are some things to think about as you consider where you want to put your money.
mightieracorns.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Everybody needs a little more help this year - here are some things to think about as you consider where you want to put your money.
Reposted by Tad Callin
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
Me (in 2017): What do we do if we are given an unlawful order?
OGC: What unlawful orders? We can't deal in hypothetical situations!
Me (2025): How about that one?
Hypothetical OGC: .....
#profilesincowardice
OGC: What unlawful orders? We can't deal in hypothetical situations!
Me (2025): How about that one?
Hypothetical OGC: .....
#profilesincowardice
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Me (in 2017): What do we do if we are given an unlawful order?
OGC: What unlawful orders? We can't deal in hypothetical situations!
Me (2025): How about that one?
Hypothetical OGC: .....
#profilesincowardice
OGC: What unlawful orders? We can't deal in hypothetical situations!
Me (2025): How about that one?
Hypothetical OGC: .....
#profilesincowardice
Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by how much more there is to learn every time we run into an obstacle. These are some examples, and a few tips for maintaining your patience!
A Slight (or Sligt, or Sleight) Diversion
Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by how much more there is to learn every time we run into an obstacle. These are some examples, and a few tips for maintaining your patience!
mightieracorns.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by how much more there is to learn every time we run into an obstacle. These are some examples, and a few tips for maintaining your patience!
This is what Senator Cornyn calls "crushing the cartels" in his campaign materials.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is what Senator Cornyn calls "crushing the cartels" in his campaign materials.
My senators are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
Both are cowards with the moral compass of Christopher Columbus, but at least Cornyn is on the ballot this year.
Both are cowards with the moral compass of Christopher Columbus, but at least Cornyn is on the ballot this year.
President Trump's ongoing attempts to use the military for law enforcement endangers public safety and our rights.
Tell your Senator to co-sponsor a bill that will limit domestic military deployments and enhance oversight.
Tell your Senator to co-sponsor a bill that will limit domestic military deployments and enhance oversight.
Congress: U.S. Troops are Not the President's Personal Police Force
Military troops do not belong on our streets and should never be used to police civilians. The Senate must protect our freedoms and pass the Military in Law Enforcement Accountability Act now.
action.aclu.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My senators are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
Both are cowards with the moral compass of Christopher Columbus, but at least Cornyn is on the ballot this year.
Both are cowards with the moral compass of Christopher Columbus, but at least Cornyn is on the ballot this year.
All of those old local histories and genealogies out there are interesting, but what do you do with them once you find them?
The Publication Puzzle
All of those old local histories and genealogies out there are interesting, but what do you do with them once you find them?
mightieracorns.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
All of those old local histories and genealogies out there are interesting, but what do you do with them once you find them?
Like you, I'm heading into a busy holiday season and thinking "What next?"
I'm pretending this post is advice for you, but it's really just me, talking myself into a sort of plan. I hope you get some benefit from that!
I'm pretending this post is advice for you, but it's really just me, talking myself into a sort of plan. I hope you get some benefit from that!
Re-Finding Focus
Like you, I'm heading into a busy holiday season and thinking "What next?" I'm pretending this post is advice for you, but it's really just me, talking myself into a sort of plan. I hope you get some benefit from that!
mightieracorns.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Like you, I'm heading into a busy holiday season and thinking "What next?"
I'm pretending this post is advice for you, but it's really just me, talking myself into a sort of plan. I hope you get some benefit from that!
I'm pretending this post is advice for you, but it's really just me, talking myself into a sort of plan. I hope you get some benefit from that!
Andrew Johnson was impeached for making speeches “with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues” intended to smear and debase Congress. Which sure seems like a precedent.
@nberlat.bsky.social
Just sayin'
@nberlat.bsky.social
Just sayin'
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Andrew Johnson was impeached for making speeches “with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues” intended to smear and debase Congress. Which sure seems like a precedent.
@nberlat.bsky.social
Just sayin'
@nberlat.bsky.social
Just sayin'
The tools we have for tracking what we know (or think we know) about our ancestors can be great - but when we don't have information that can be fully supported with evidence, adding a new hypothetical relationship can be tricky.
Like this lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family...
Like this lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family...
A Sister for Abraham Witter
The tools we have for tracking what we know (or think we know) about our ancestors can be great - but when we don't have information that can be fully supported with evidence, adding a new hypothetical relationship can be tricky. I may have a lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family, but I hope that talking about the lead doesn't trick people into thinking this connection is "proven" yet.
mightieracorns.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The tools we have for tracking what we know (or think we know) about our ancestors can be great - but when we don't have information that can be fully supported with evidence, adding a new hypothetical relationship can be tricky.
Like this lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family...
Like this lead on a newly identified sister for my Witter family...
Reposted by Tad Callin
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
I can't stress this enough: we are still fighting this same battle. And I, for one, am on Douglass's side.
Remembering and Forgetting in Gettysburg
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Remembering and Forgetting in Gettysburg
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Remembering and Forgetting in Gettysburg
Frederick Douglass was unambiguous about the moral stakes of the American Civil War.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I can't stress this enough: we are still fighting this same battle. And I, for one, am on Douglass's side.
Remembering and Forgetting in Gettysburg
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Remembering and Forgetting in Gettysburg
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Americans celebrate 4 Jul 1776 as if we won Independence that day, but it really began an 8-year war that divided families and neighbors. Our "more perfect Union" began on June 21, 1788. Meanwhile...
The Coffin Family Through Line in the American Revolutionary War
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
The Coffin Family Through Line in the American Revolutionary War
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
The Coffin Family Through Line in the American Revolutionary War
In the Revolutionary War, many members of the Society of Friends would be recognized as war veterans. My Coffin ancestors played their role as pacifists as the brutal war came to them.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Americans celebrate 4 Jul 1776 as if we won Independence that day, but it really began an 8-year war that divided families and neighbors. Our "more perfect Union" began on June 21, 1788. Meanwhile...
The Coffin Family Through Line in the American Revolutionary War
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
The Coffin Family Through Line in the American Revolutionary War
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
A major addition to the Callin Family History project stemmed from the thinnest of clues. Thanks to random strangers on the Internet, I was able to build those clues into a tree with hundreds more cousins.
The Scott Family: Milton Township Diaspora
A major addition to the Callin Family History project stemmed from the thinnest of clues. Thanks to random strangers on the Internet, I was able to build those clues into a tree with hundreds more cousins.
mightieracorns.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A major addition to the Callin Family History project stemmed from the thinnest of clues. Thanks to random strangers on the Internet, I was able to build those clues into a tree with hundreds more cousins.
This story is part of the Projectkin Stories250 timeline, celebrating America's 250th birthday.
Lives and Fortunes: Three Revolutionary War Americans
This story is part of the celebration of America's 250th birthday at Projectkin - Stories250. Look for more at
mightieracorns.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This story is part of the Projectkin Stories250 timeline, celebrating America's 250th birthday.
Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here's a taste of it!
Grandma Bert’s Travelogue
Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here's a taste of it!
mightieracorns.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here's a taste of it!
A simple system upgrade leads to a meditation on technological disruption, and consideration of ancestors who farmed, invented, and "improved" their way to our modern world.
On Technological Disruptions
A simple system upgrade leads to a meditation on technological disruption, and consideration of ancestors who farmed, invented, and "improved" their way to our modern world.
mightieracorns.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A simple system upgrade leads to a meditation on technological disruption, and consideration of ancestors who farmed, invented, and "improved" their way to our modern world.
Reposted by Tad Callin
🎃👻 PseudoPod 1001: A Coven of Cats Under the Light of the Moon & The Halloween Parade
"On this night, we escaped from our homes"
Authors: M. Halstead & Alasdair Stuart
Narrators: Laura Pearlman & Alasdair Stuart
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
These pieces are PseudoPod originals
"On this night, we escaped from our homes"
Authors: M. Halstead & Alasdair Stuart
Narrators: Laura Pearlman & Alasdair Stuart
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
These pieces are PseudoPod originals
PseudoPod 1001: A Coven of Cats Under the Light of the Moon and The Halloween Parade
On this night, we escaped from our homes—we darted through the open doors, we leaped over the privacy fences, we fled under-bush to converge on this place. Some of us have traveled many miles…
pseudopod.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🎃👻 PseudoPod 1001: A Coven of Cats Under the Light of the Moon & The Halloween Parade
"On this night, we escaped from our homes"
Authors: M. Halstead & Alasdair Stuart
Narrators: Laura Pearlman & Alasdair Stuart
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
These pieces are PseudoPod originals
"On this night, we escaped from our homes"
Authors: M. Halstead & Alasdair Stuart
Narrators: Laura Pearlman & Alasdair Stuart
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
These pieces are PseudoPod originals
Learning about the beliefs of previous generations is never as easy as we want to think it is - and sometimes your ancestors' beliefs are critical to understanding them.
When Faith Divides
Learning about the beliefs of previous generations is never as easy as we want to think it is - and sometimes your ancestors' beliefs are critical to understanding them.
mightieracorns.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Learning about the beliefs of previous generations is never as easy as we want to think it is - and sometimes your ancestors' beliefs are critical to understanding them.
My friend Emlyn has a new album up - I am going to listen to it today.
You can, too:
emlynellisaddison.bandcamp.com/album/sunwar...
You can, too:
emlynellisaddison.bandcamp.com/album/sunwar...
Sunward Clear, by Emlyn Ellis Addison
11 track album
emlynellisaddison.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My friend Emlyn has a new album up - I am going to listen to it today.
You can, too:
emlynellisaddison.bandcamp.com/album/sunwar...
You can, too:
emlynellisaddison.bandcamp.com/album/sunwar...
Reposted by Tad Callin
There are good people amongst us.
If you are a furloughed government worker
In the Baltimore area
This popular restaurant
EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D.
Thank you
We're all in this together
If you are a furloughed government worker
In the Baltimore area
This popular restaurant
EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D.
Thank you
We're all in this together
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There are good people amongst us.
If you are a furloughed government worker
In the Baltimore area
This popular restaurant
EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D.
Thank you
We're all in this together
If you are a furloughed government worker
In the Baltimore area
This popular restaurant
EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D.
Thank you
We're all in this together
Reposted by Tad Callin
Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom
The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.
www.forbes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
Another case of chasing the records for a family that turns out not to be who I was looking for. But this time, I am left with a tiny sliver of progress, too!
Alexander Callin Buys Some Land
Another case of chasing the records for a family that turns out not to be who I was looking for. But this time, I am left with a tiny sliver of progress, too!
mightieracorns.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Another case of chasing the records for a family that turns out not to be who I was looking for. But this time, I am left with a tiny sliver of progress, too!