19th c. scholar without portfolio. Writing my way out of the academic basement.
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Langston Hughes
ALT "I am so tired of waiting, / Aren't you, / For the world to become good / And beautiful and kind?"
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Historically accurate (assuming we’re speaking of Reagan’s second term).
As a historian, I have no notes.
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If Wisconsin were a country, it would be the fourth-largest cheese-producing nation in the world.
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OED #WordOfTheDay: witches' knickers, n. colloquial (chiefly Irish English). Discarded plastic bags or shreds of plastic bags that have become snagged in trees, hedges, etc.
View the full entry, here: oxford.ly/44cSZln
ALT A plastic bag in a tree.
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"RICH LADY’S HUSBAND: I’m just popping in to make a blanket statement about race, so I can learn a lesson later in this episode. See you at dinner!"
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In 1923, Dorothy L. Sayers published her first novel, “Whose Body”, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories.
#bookfact #TheStrand
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Mein Kampf was published by Hitler in 1925. In 1848, Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Marx was born in Trier, but lived most of his adult life elsewhere. Nazism is ethnonationalist fascism that allies itself with capitalism. Marxism is anti-capitalist. – at Pearl River, NY
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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
-Ursula K. Le Guin (@ursulaleguin)
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The word “blind” appears 73 times in the 237-page opinion, in today's Supreme Court decision. It's the justices who can't see. slate.trib.al/C7ms3XT
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Not the odds, but the stakes.
That's my shorthand for what we most need from election coverage in 2024. Not who has what chances of winning, or their performance in the race so far, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
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"This Is Just to Say"
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
It is
so much
easier
for me
to tell you this
in a note
rather than
in person
#NationalPoetryMonth
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History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
#GFA25