Eleanor Courtemanche
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Eleanor Courtemanche
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Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore

Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
I watched a lot of this kind of thing during Covid, desperately jealous of all the people taking trains without a care in the world 😞
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 AM
This thread reminds me of the long winter train journey on Norway’s Slow TV
[9:56 Hours] Train Journey to the Norwegian Arctic Circle, WINTER [1080HD] SlowTV
YouTube video by SlowTV Relax&Background
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Grateful 🙏 for the warning
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I feast on every new minute 🌅
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Maybe?? I think he’s just a horrible Gothic revenant from 1640s Scotland
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This 2005 book was very inspiring during the endless, endless GWB presidency 😮‍💨: it stresses how great moral transformations can sometimes be traced to very small focused political groups
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery [ADAM HOCHSCHILD] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
www.amazon.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:53 PM
It’s a great lesson in the ironies of history: how abolition was fueled by a bunch of narrow and judgmental evangelicals in Clapham 😂😂 They were right!
January 26, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Eleanor Courtemanche
This state violence was facilitated by rhetoric that dehumanized the (mostly) white middle class protesters at Kent State. The day before students were killed, their Governor described them as "worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes."
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Eleanor Courtemanche
all the dramatic recreations in movies are going to be set to a really cool era-defining song that won't get written for 3-4 more years
January 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Hannah More’s writing is an acquired taste 😅
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Haha madness! 😅 Thx
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 AM
😬
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 AM
This was my source 😊 bsky.app/profile/clar...
This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Thanks! I guess you can’t re-post a gift link, like the one I read
January 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Illinois!
January 26, 2026 at 12:30 AM