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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

Was just clued into the fact that José Abonce, one of the bylines on this terrific @southsideweekly.bsky.social piece, was @nagbw.bsky.social's 2023 Diversity in Beer Writing grant winner. Hell yeah, José!

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 1d

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

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Paul Davies @beersommelierkew.bsky.social · 1d

Baked beer? Lars has the story
www.beerandbrewing.com/style-school...

Meet Keptinis, the Baked Beer of the Baltics

There are many kinds of dark beer around the world, but there’s one that stands out as profoundly different from the others—and it features a deep, caramelized flavor that can only come from a nice, h...

www.beerandbrewing.com

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 1d

Would muting certain words allow you to follow beer folk you like while filtering out some of their (our 🥴) political posting? I am not adept at muting so I truly don’t know. I would miss your posts on bsky if you left but also understand. 🍻

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

And read this amazing article: www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2018/11...

Missing Ingredients — The (Incomplete) Story of Thomas Jefferson’s Unsung Brewer — Good Beer Hunting

“No. They didn’t.” I’ve said this with the confidence of someone who was there sweltering in the Virginia sun two centuries ago, feeling hard-packed Virginia clay under the soles of my bare feet gone...

www.goodbeerhunting.com

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

It does all right! I teach it as an honors seminar or (this semester) an upper level grad/undergrad seminar. Beer is a pretty amazing way to learn about a whole lot of other things. This week we visited the amazing American Geographic Society Library to look at beer maps,

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Over time, new technologies developed. The projectile loom was faster and made wider fabric, allowing the mill to cut cost. Sanforization minimized shrinkage; calendaring produced a smoother, more lustrous surface; and pre-washing softened the material to win over consumers.

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

documenting the process of brewing a cider with her dad). But others do board games, scrapbooks, trivia, and a lot of StoryMaps.

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

I do unessays in beer class and some students choose to do videos, so I wonder if offering a documentary (with some guidelines) as one of several options might work well? Students who are really comfortable with video formats have done great work (one hunting for a vanished brewery, another

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 2d

this is truly good news. what a relief!

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title.

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Trump Team's plans to exploit public lands follow the blueprint of Reagan's Interior secretary

James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.

www.motherjones.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 2d

Paso Robles! Or Waukesha (home state vs state I have lived in for 25 years).

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 2d

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

dlvr.it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 3d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 3d

Chinese cotton textile production & consumption changed during the early 20th century with growing demand for finer yarns & direct purchasing of long staple cotton by Japanese companies, according to Masataka Setobayashi in the Asia-Pacific EcHR
📉📈🗃 #history #HistIR #AcademicSky #polisky #sociology

Globalisation and the development of Chinese cotton industry in early 20th century

Following the establishment of the Treaty Port system, trade in imported cotton products—including manufactured cloth, finer yarn, and long-staple cotton—between the west and China began, though it e...

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 3d

Also for some reason I was thinking the 40 pages was on research alone, so I retract my extra question marks. :)

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 3d

Got it! Thanks, always interesting to see variations in that kind of thing. I don’t even think we have a word limit, but each new person tends to model after previous cases and so we usually have 4-5 page research statements, and slightly shorter statements on service and teaching.

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 3d

📢NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
📌Applications due Nov 15

The NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship aids dissertation research in British Studies using the collection of the library.

More info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 3d

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

benfranklinsworld.com

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