Tawney
Tawney
@tlma.bsky.social
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November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The fascinating story of the Gemini program - the engineering, poltics, and best of all, the people. Kluger makes it a movie in your head.

#GeminiBook @stmartinspress.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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What privacy? Why would the Chinese want my data? and other unsettling stuff...

#HenryHolt #NetGalley
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
Kate Evans
Verso Books

Kate Evans has produced. a charming and lively portrayal of Jane Austen and her world. The style of the illustrations is perfectly in tune with the story.
#Patchwork #NetGalley
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan
October 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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ICE GOONS apprehended local organizer Leo Martinez in Oxnard, colliding with his truck while he was patrolling the area.
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
📚💡💙 #TheGeniusBat #StMartinsPress #YossiYovel

Learn many amazing ways of bats - and the who's and hows that have given us this knowledge. And it's all highly readable thanks to Yossi Yovel's writing.
October 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
💡📚 #SoYouWanttoOwnGreenland #NetGalley #MelvilleHouse

Trump is far from the first. Geopolitics made clear.
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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They can’t stop lying about Charlie Kirk…
September 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
August 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚
August 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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August 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew claims he’s spoken to “large numbers” of dead people who had mail ballots sent to them
August 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Entertaining and informative survey of the uses and evolution of rope through the ages.

#booksky #nonfiction #Ropebook #@TimQueeney #StMartinsPress
August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Jeffrey Epstein procure and sexually abuse young women, was transferred to a cushy minimum-security prison in Texas in the midst of Trump needing her support with the Epstein files.

We all know what's happening but shouldn't lose focus. www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...
Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors
They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Accurate data is neither blue nor red.
August 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM