Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
My views are my own.
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
My views are my own.
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✨ Book Deal Announcement ✨
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Briley Pkwy, Nashville.
Truly amazing to see how hard Tennesseans will work to have a shot at beating the gerrymandered District 7. @aftynbehn.bsky.social's opponent is scared. No Republican has ever had to fight like this for the Volunteer State.
Truly amazing to see how hard Tennesseans will work to have a shot at beating the gerrymandered District 7. @aftynbehn.bsky.social's opponent is scared. No Republican has ever had to fight like this for the Volunteer State.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Briley Pkwy, Nashville.
Truly amazing to see how hard Tennesseans will work to have a shot at beating the gerrymandered District 7. @aftynbehn.bsky.social's opponent is scared. No Republican has ever had to fight like this for the Volunteer State.
Truly amazing to see how hard Tennesseans will work to have a shot at beating the gerrymandered District 7. @aftynbehn.bsky.social's opponent is scared. No Republican has ever had to fight like this for the Volunteer State.
Greetings from Norfolk!
I'm with the USS Comfort- the ship that docked in NYC to help during the part of the pandemic when everyone was on ventilators and in morgue trucks.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I'm with the USS Comfort- the ship that docked in NYC to help during the part of the pandemic when everyone was on ventilators and in morgue trucks.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Greetings from Norfolk!
I'm with the USS Comfort- the ship that docked in NYC to help during the part of the pandemic when everyone was on ventilators and in morgue trucks.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I'm with the USS Comfort- the ship that docked in NYC to help during the part of the pandemic when everyone was on ventilators and in morgue trucks.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Good morning, why isn't every single media outlet talking about an ENTIRE major world capital city having to be moved and evacuated because of climate crisis? Feels like we're taking crazy pills.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Good morning, why isn't every single media outlet talking about an ENTIRE major world capital city having to be moved and evacuated because of climate crisis? Feels like we're taking crazy pills.
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#Tennessee #TN07 #Nashville
🔥🔥🔥
Turnout beats gerrymandering!!
Nashville, you will all have to come out and vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
Turnout beats gerrymandering!!
Nashville, you will all have to come out and vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#Tennessee #TN07 #Nashville
🔥🔥🔥
Turnout beats gerrymandering!!
Nashville, you will all have to come out and vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
Turnout beats gerrymandering!!
Nashville, you will all have to come out and vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Listen up Tennessee's 7th district (Nashville and westward),
a VOTE for Aftyn Behn is a vote to fight for the people
otherwise you get this:
a VOTE for Aftyn Behn is a vote to fight for the people
otherwise you get this:
VAN EPPS: “I fully support ICE”
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Listen up Tennessee's 7th district (Nashville and westward),
a VOTE for Aftyn Behn is a vote to fight for the people
otherwise you get this:
a VOTE for Aftyn Behn is a vote to fight for the people
otherwise you get this:
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
We’re told Saturday Nov. 29 is the day - people coming to #TN07 from all over the state to canvass for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
Not sure we’ve ever seen a groundswell like this. Let’s get after it y’all! SHE CAN WIN THIS.
SIGN UP: AftynForCongress.com
Not sure we’ve ever seen a groundswell like this. Let’s get after it y’all! SHE CAN WIN THIS.
SIGN UP: AftynForCongress.com
So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We’re told Saturday Nov. 29 is the day - people coming to #TN07 from all over the state to canvass for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
Not sure we’ve ever seen a groundswell like this. Let’s get after it y’all! SHE CAN WIN THIS.
SIGN UP: AftynForCongress.com
Not sure we’ve ever seen a groundswell like this. Let’s get after it y’all! SHE CAN WIN THIS.
SIGN UP: AftynForCongress.com
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
TN 07 can do this! We can help them!!!
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
TN 07 can do this! We can help them!!!
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
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.
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
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.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
So when offices get so leaky that RECORDINGS are handed to the press, it's a sign that the party is going Knives Out on its leadership soon.
Take it from a historian.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Take it from a historian.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
McMahon Says ED Agreements Are Temporary
In a recording obtained by Inside Higher Ed, the secretary explained why she’s moving several grant programs to other federal agencies and how it could benefit students.
www.insidehighered.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
So when offices get so leaky that RECORDINGS are handed to the press, it's a sign that the party is going Knives Out on its leadership soon.
Take it from a historian.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Take it from a historian.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Imagine that work environment
This is fucking horrifying.
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Imagine that work environment
This would mean that students, mostly women, from underprivileged backgrounds will no longer be eligible for loans for these programs. Just one more instance of class warfare and attacks on higher ed.
The Department of Education is proposing a definition that could strip nurse practitioners and CRNAs of “professional degree” status.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This would mean that students, mostly women, from underprivileged backgrounds will no longer be eligible for loans for these programs. Just one more instance of class warfare and attacks on higher ed.
Newspapers of the past had it so easy.
"Around Town: Henry Holland, col., the seven foot Georgia dwarf, has returned to our city."
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I have read this sentence so many times and it makes less sense each time. It feels like trying to read in a dream.
"Around Town: Henry Holland, col., the seven foot Georgia dwarf, has returned to our city."
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I have read this sentence so many times and it makes less sense each time. It feels like trying to read in a dream.
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Newspapers of the past had it so easy.
"Around Town: Henry Holland, col., the seven foot Georgia dwarf, has returned to our city."
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I have read this sentence so many times and it makes less sense each time. It feels like trying to read in a dream.
"Around Town: Henry Holland, col., the seven foot Georgia dwarf, has returned to our city."
BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I have read this sentence so many times and it makes less sense each time. It feels like trying to read in a dream.
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
Historian here a great piece by Jenny Schuessler on the gutting of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Historian here a great piece by Jenny Schuessler on the gutting of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
The same people who agree that we lost our mission are the ones who created the circumstances that kept us from the mission. It's so disingenuous to use this as the reason to engage with the dismantling of higher ed.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The same people who agree that we lost our mission are the ones who created the circumstances that kept us from the mission. It's so disingenuous to use this as the reason to engage with the dismantling of higher ed.
14 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships for International Postdocs who can no longer work in the US: the Early Career Rescue Fellowship in SW Germany is now accepting applicants.
Our loss is their gain.
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
Our loss is their gain.
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
14 Postdoctoral Fellowships (2 years) - Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme - Academic Positions
Two-year fellowships for early career researchers unable to work in the USA due to political pressure; open to all disciplines and nationalities.
academicpositions.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
14 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships for International Postdocs who can no longer work in the US: the Early Career Rescue Fellowship in SW Germany is now accepting applicants.
Our loss is their gain.
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
Our loss is their gain.
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
It's amazing that people from Louisville and Boston care so much about democracy they're willing to take the time to handwrite postcards urging us here in TN District 7 to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
WAY ahead of y'all.
I'm an early voter always, and I'm asking for Aftyn!
WAY ahead of y'all.
I'm an early voter always, and I'm asking for Aftyn!
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's amazing that people from Louisville and Boston care so much about democracy they're willing to take the time to handwrite postcards urging us here in TN District 7 to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
WAY ahead of y'all.
I'm an early voter always, and I'm asking for Aftyn!
WAY ahead of y'all.
I'm an early voter always, and I'm asking for Aftyn!
This is a congressional sidestep. Only Congress has the power to eliminate the Department of Education, so instead McMahon is breaking it into pieces in ways that make everything more difficult for the average American.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is a congressional sidestep. Only Congress has the power to eliminate the Department of Education, so instead McMahon is breaking it into pieces in ways that make everything more difficult for the average American.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
So much bravery in the face of federal cowardice. They make him look so small.
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
So much bravery in the face of federal cowardice. They make him look so small.
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1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
"...an alarming example of political & ideological interference in university governance."
Faculty senates are going to be all over these receipts.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Faculty senates are going to be all over these receipts.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Jim Ryan Breaks Silence on UVA Resignation
The former University of Virginia president who resigned abruptly in June accused the board of being dishonest about the circumstances of his exit and complicit in his ouster.
www.insidehighered.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"...an alarming example of political & ideological interference in university governance."
Faculty senates are going to be all over these receipts.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Faculty senates are going to be all over these receipts.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...