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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 1h

I hope so.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1h

Good. Other states should follow suit.

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 2h

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

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

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

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 5h

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 4h

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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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 4h

I had a post on Twitter a couple of years ago to the effect that if you had your wealth tied up in crypto, you saw Weimar-level hyperinflation in ways completely inperceptible to one's neighbors.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 8h

More Democrats need to say this out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 8h

It has enough plausible deniability built in that Americans can turn a blind eye. It's not in our faces and many had never thought about it. And maybe there's some truth to that, but the mass death is almost certainly the intention being done in our name.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 13h

Look up Friends of Coal and "coal culture" for one of the clearest examples of this.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h

I have not actually read the new climate obstruction book yet but my mate sent me this really excellent extract

www.routledge.com/Climate-Obst...

Corporate Ventriloquism

Corporate ventriloquism is a rhetorical process by which companies transmit messages through other entities, usually of their own creation, to construct and animate an alternative ethos, voice, or identity that advances their interests.

Some companies have used corporate ventriloquism to advance their agendas through support for community organizations.

Ventriloquism Companies may create front groups and information campaigns, but also leverage corporate social responsibility strategies that invest in community development. Such strategies have been used for decades as a means for industry actors to underscore their legitimacy and to shore up the perception that they are positive social contributors to the environments in which they operate.

Research has shown how extractive industries such as coal have invested heavily in local communities to sow solidarity and support for the industry.

Material investments such as parks, community centers, sponsored events (concerts, car shows, etc.), and museums are not only a means of winning support through material investment in communities (a form of philanthropy or bribery), but also of symbolically “branding” the community and of making it more difficult for the community to oppose industry goals.

Similarly, investor-owned utilities sponsor sports stadiums and museums—branding efforts that double as philanthropy—in their efforts to effectively blur the line between public and private interests.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 14h

1. Trump Culture War quote.
2. Johnson CW quote.
3. *Imagined* Schumer CW quote.
4. “These culture wars get sillier by the day.”

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 23h

Mothman

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

"The same was true of interwar fascists. They disagreed about a great deal, including the ideological centrality of economic corporatism and racism (fascism appealed to audiences outside of the "white world, including, famously, some Indian opponents of British imperial rule)."

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

"The diversity of interwar fascists has mostly disappeared from public memory. In retrospect, fascism seems much flatter, with Nazi Germany (or, occasionally, Mussolini's Italy) presented as its archetypal case."

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of successful institutionalist types think this way, specifically about demarcating between identity and taxes or anything economical & financial. It's just not reality tho; there is no clear line. Never has been in this country and there sure as shit isn't now.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather had childhood memories of the Titanic sinking.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Biden said without Israel, Jewish people wouldn't be safe.
Israeli officials just dragged an American Jewish man to his knees, made him take a photo op with the Israeli flag, and yelled in his face and called him a terrorist

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was born to live in Chicago.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 1d

It's surreal that we're watching the Attorney General, the head of the FBI, and the Speaker of the House running a cover-up in plain view but at this point I don't know how else you interpret things like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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