NancyColetto
@nancycoletto.bsky.social
Sister, wife, mom, friend, Midwesterner, reader, traveler
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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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“Rip Van Winkle” isn’t just a folktale about a very long nap. It’s a story about the making of America, John Swansburg writes:
America’s Most Famous Nap
How “Rip Van Winkle” became our founding folktale
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October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Rip Van Winkle” isn’t just a folktale about a very long nap. It’s a story about the making of America, John Swansburg writes:
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Only 24 years of Eliza Schuyler’s life were spent with Alexander Hamilton, Jane Kamensky writes. What would it mean to write her into the history of America’s founding?
The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler
She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Only 24 years of Eliza Schuyler’s life were spent with Alexander Hamilton, Jane Kamensky writes. What would it mean to write her into the history of America’s founding?
Love this so much! We all need neighbors like this.
Winnipeg, MB, and the ups/downs of complaint-driven by-law enforcement. Merry Christmas, McAdam Ave.
h/t @intheprairie.bsky.social.
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Winnipeg Santa confronted with red tape over colourful Christmas display | CBC News
Brad and Roxanne Wallace's annual Christmas display is illuminated by more than 7,000 colourful lights and numerous displays, but this year, it also came with a lot of red tape.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Love this so much! We all need neighbors like this.
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The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s the moral foundation of America, Elaine Pagels writes—and it’s worth preserving.
The Moral Foundation of America
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s the moral foundation of America, Elaine Pagels writes—and it’s worth preserving.
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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"Yet as the tide of fiascoes rose around him, Benedict Arnold was becoming—I will say this as clinically and dispassionately as possible—ravishing." @caity.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Yet as the tide of fiascoes rose around him, Benedict Arnold was becoming—I will say this as clinically and dispassionately as possible—ravishing." @caity.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
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What the hell
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What the hell
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At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:
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Great Tom Nichols atomic film piece in the latest Atlantic.
August 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Great Tom Nichols atomic film piece in the latest Atlantic.
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Absolutely fantastic article on Heaney from Caitlyn Flanagan at @theatlantic.com. ""When Seamus stood up and read the poem, “Baptism: for Ellen and Kate Flanagan,” I accepted everything—all of it, all at once: poetry, God, and myself." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
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December 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Absolutely fantastic article on Heaney from Caitlyn Flanagan at @theatlantic.com. ""When Seamus stood up and read the poem, “Baptism: for Ellen and Kate Flanagan,” I accepted everything—all of it, all at once: poetry, God, and myself." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Augusta Britt is one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of Cormac McCarthy’s characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films.
For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her story—until now.
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For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her story—until now.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Augusta Britt is one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of Cormac McCarthy’s characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films.
For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her story—until now.
🔗: vanityfair.visitlink.me/HmC3ka
For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her story—until now.
🔗: vanityfair.visitlink.me/HmC3ka
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@emilynussbaum.bsky.social profiles the director Marielle Heller ahead of the release of her new film, “Nightbitch,” a darkly funny fable about how motherhood changes women by forcing them to tap into a feral physicality.
Marielle Heller Explores the Feral Side of Motherhood
With “Nightbitch”—in which Amy Adams turns into a dog—the director portrays parenting as a visceral transformation.
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November 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social profiles the director Marielle Heller ahead of the release of her new film, “Nightbitch,” a darkly funny fable about how motherhood changes women by forcing them to tap into a feral physicality.
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Have crowds actually changed—or is it simply that the words we use to describe them have altered over time? @adamgopnik.bsky.social writes about how crowds persist as historical agents and have become a field of study.
What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Have crowds actually changed—or is it simply that the words we use to describe them have altered over time? @adamgopnik.bsky.social writes about how crowds persist as historical agents and have become a field of study.
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In setting, subject matter, and theme, “Say Nothing,” stands “refreshingly apart from most other American programming, and its longitudinal account of political disillusionment makes it one of the year’s finest shows.” @inkookang.bsky.social reviews the FX drama.
“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment
The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its perpetrators.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
In setting, subject matter, and theme, “Say Nothing,” stands “refreshingly apart from most other American programming, and its longitudinal account of political disillusionment makes it one of the year’s finest shows.” @inkookang.bsky.social reviews the FX drama.
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Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, two champions of birth control in the early 20th century, would probably remain rivals if they were alive today. “But they would both be appalled to learn how many of their battles are still being fought,” Margaret Talbot writes.
The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.
Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their ensuing rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.
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November 26, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, two champions of birth control in the early 20th century, would probably remain rivals if they were alive today. “But they would both be appalled to learn how many of their battles are still being fought,” Margaret Talbot writes.
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For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
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How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles…
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November 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM
For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
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During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. What’s going on?
The End of the English Major
Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
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November 28, 2024 at 10:21 PM
During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. What’s going on?
A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again
November 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM
A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again
Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease
November 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease
How America Embraced Gender War
November 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
How America Embraced Gender War