Amy Earhart
@aearhart.bsky.social
Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
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Well now, Micheál Martin rightly supportive of RTÉ boycotting Eurovision 2026 due to apartheid Israel's participation, recognising its solidarity with Palestinian journalists in Gaza, but still refusing to do even the bare minimum and pass the Occupied Territories Bill. #BDS
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Well now, Micheál Martin rightly supportive of RTÉ boycotting Eurovision 2026 due to apartheid Israel's participation, recognising its solidarity with Palestinian journalists in Gaza, but still refusing to do even the bare minimum and pass the Occupied Territories Bill. #BDS
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THE NARCISSISTIC MF
THE AUDACITY
National Parks NO LONGER FREE on MLK' Birthday or on Juneteeth but on his birthday
THE AUDACITY
National Parks NO LONGER FREE on MLK' Birthday or on Juneteeth but on his birthday
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
THE NARCISSISTIC MF
THE AUDACITY
National Parks NO LONGER FREE on MLK' Birthday or on Juneteeth but on his birthday
THE AUDACITY
National Parks NO LONGER FREE on MLK' Birthday or on Juneteeth but on his birthday
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Despite their pig-like look, they're more closely related to camels and hippos.
What Texans need to know about javelinas suddenly appearing in cities
Despite their pig-like look, they're more closely related to camels and hippos.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Despite their pig-like look, they're more closely related to camels and hippos.
This is really funny because our red Texas town had a Mexico/brazil soccer match last spring in our 102,000 plus football stadium- and it was hugely popular bc Texas is largely Latino. So red doesn’t mean the white land that some suppose…
This would make a great comedy. World Cup matches are moved from New York and Los Angeles to small-town Texas and the foreign visitors and MAGA locals have all sorts of awkward interactions as they learn to enjoy the games amid madcap hijinks.
Monica Crowley claims Trump is "talking to FIFA" about potentially moving the World Cup out of "blue cities," but no decisions have been made
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is really funny because our red Texas town had a Mexico/brazil soccer match last spring in our 102,000 plus football stadium- and it was hugely popular bc Texas is largely Latino. So red doesn’t mean the white land that some suppose…
Seems like a nice evening to put out a happy picture of our grandcat mars. His owner died, and my daughter adopted him a year ago. He is now the most pampered cat.
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Seems like a nice evening to put out a happy picture of our grandcat mars. His owner died, and my daughter adopted him a year ago. He is now the most pampered cat.
And making claims for data breaches and ai stolen books. What a weird end of the semester.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
And making claims for data breaches and ai stolen books. What a weird end of the semester.
Some folks have indicated students are having a better semester for the first time since 2020. I think overall that is true, but some are still really struggling. I keep thinking about how I would want a prof to treat my daughter- then I do that. It’s so much easier to help them than to punish them
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Some folks have indicated students are having a better semester for the first time since 2020. I think overall that is true, but some are still really struggling. I keep thinking about how I would want a prof to treat my daughter- then I do that. It’s so much easier to help them than to punish them
I had my students make memes of the lit that they read this semester- and they are so good. Some show a very deep understanding of the text. Several told me it was a fun assignment so bonus goodness.i will definitely do this again!
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I had my students make memes of the lit that they read this semester- and they are so good. Some show a very deep understanding of the text. Several told me it was a fun assignment so bonus goodness.i will definitely do this again!
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1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
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An exciting thing is that the MLA now has a bi-annual competition for short form work by contingent and independent scholars (and I got honorable mention) forms.mla.org/proxy/file.p...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An exciting thing is that the MLA now has a bi-annual competition for short form work by contingent and independent scholars (and I got honorable mention) forms.mla.org/proxy/file.p...
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‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.
www.phillytrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
I cannot imagine complaining about a student asking for accommodations. Yes rich kids are gaming the system- how is this new? But we know that students that need accommodations don’t get them. I can always count more than a handful in my classes. Let’s not stigmatize this and make it harder!
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I cannot imagine complaining about a student asking for accommodations. Yes rich kids are gaming the system- how is this new? But we know that students that need accommodations don’t get them. I can always count more than a handful in my classes. Let’s not stigmatize this and make it harder!
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US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
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this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...
NEH Award Search
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...
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It's December 1, which means that I am exhausted and have no idea how I'll make it to the end of the semester, but also that it's time to indulge my abiding and sincere love for Fairytale of New York, the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN...
Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987]
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
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December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's December 1, which means that I am exhausted and have no idea how I'll make it to the end of the semester, but also that it's time to indulge my abiding and sincere love for Fairytale of New York, the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN...
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Within just a few hours of getting this feedback, the student *emailed the fucking governor*. Her mom is all over Xitter posting like mad. I mean, are you new here? This coordinated RW attack is a pattern, and if you aren't paying attention to this context, I can't take you seriously. Do better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Within just a few hours of getting this feedback, the student *emailed the fucking governor*. Her mom is all over Xitter posting like mad. I mean, are you new here? This coordinated RW attack is a pattern, and if you aren't paying attention to this context, I can't take you seriously. Do better.
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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
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December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
Bruiser McBruiser-former stray- is off his rabies watch & living in our bathroom until he gets acclimated. So far he is not impressed with the dog who he can hear through the door. I’m hopeful he and the dog can get along. The other cats might not so he can have downstairs, & they can have upstairs.
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bruiser McBruiser-former stray- is off his rabies watch & living in our bathroom until he gets acclimated. So far he is not impressed with the dog who he can hear through the door. I’m hopeful he and the dog can get along. The other cats might not so he can have downstairs, & they can have upstairs.
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Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt
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Hazel V. Carby · Remembering the Future
I am reminded of the first maps I saw as a child, hanging on the walls of British classrooms. Of course, the colour that...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.