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Taulby Edmondson

@taulby.bsky.social

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US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · May 16

It's worth noting that a lot of the "historic homes" you see in southern locales are not antebellum at all. Many were built around the turn of the century in neoclassical antebellum style to demarcate wealthy white neighborhoods from segregated Black communities. I wrote about it here:

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 6h

That is also why you see so many universities hiring only contract, adjunct, or lecturer positions, all positions that have zero protection for faculty who might get threatened for their research, and the uni can fire them at will. To be clear, Dr. Bray is NOT fired, he left for his/family's safety.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 6h

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 20h

Good point. I remember reading that Trent Reznor, for a long time, resented the Cash version's success because a lot of people thought the same thing. It is actually really impressive tho: one song, two different all-timers.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 21h

A cursed title.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 21h

Send my regards to the WSJ editorial team, and go ahead and look up the meaning behind the picture.

Johnny Cash flipping the bird while performing at San Quentin. He told the photographer it was for the warden.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 21h

Johnny Cash recorded a NIN cover at 70 years old and it's a standalone certified fuckin' banger.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 22h

I can only imagine that the WSJ means that an anti-war country musician who supported the poor and the incarcerated is uncool by current conservative standards. Johnny Cash is easily one of the coolest musicians to ever live and die.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

They're white supremacists and white nationalists. That's exactly what they think.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Always being a victim is a feature of their hierarchical worldview.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Students successful in TPUSA (via recruitment and harassing people) are in line for cushy positions in the right-wing think tank industry or Republican politics upon graduation. That is what the most outspoken ones work for, and ruining lives is a plus.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

There actually is a pretty good chance that these people are drowning themselves in social media AI videos. Completely unhinged.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Douthat is in his primary role as a laundry mat for, in this case, a neo-Confederate slavery apologist & theocrat. It also reflects the type of views that the conservative movement claims are silenced in schools, yet it's inaccurate to negate the role Christianity played in maintaining slavery.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

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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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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

I hope so.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Other states should follow suit.

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Appalachia is a big one overall but one of my favorites from within is Fries (pronounced Freeze).

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

It should be read that way. Feds killed a guy in Portland in 2020, during Trump 1.0, for allegedly murdering a far-right activist. Whether he was guilty or not, it was extrajudicial.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · Dec 6

CON AIR and FACE/OFF were released 3 weeks apart in June of 1997.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that these people "deserved" this strikes me as vapid political Calvinism. It's a real policy failure, with real victims, that we are paying the price for.

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