Brandy Schillace

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Author+Historian (sci/med), Mystery Novelist, Host of PeculiarBC, Editor of Medical Humanities BMJ. Mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. Next nonfiction: #trans rights against Nazis. @SciAm @WSJ @wired. #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her

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Also a great reminder that as well as “run against Trump” worked in 2020, “run against the far right” can potentially work even better in 2024. The reason is SCOTUS. They proved the danger doesn’t stop at Trump.

there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

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SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

“They are not reporting that he is a loser; they are making him one.” … “But the shocking supreme court decisions this summer and the looming threat of authoritarianism have gotten little ink and air, compared to the hue and cry about Biden’s competence.” #Biden

This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵

@seamas.bsky.social happy birthday to the greatest most relatable ketamine in work story of all time :)

Wow www.instagram.com/reel/C61ObDy...

Follow for Dance Posts! ♡ on Instagram: "@cdkcompany ✨"www.instagram.com 702K likes, 10K comments - these_dancers_have_talent on May 11, 2024: "@cdkcompany ✨".

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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If you like to learn about the universe in ~5 minute videos, check out my new series!

The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

Something is coming—peculiar, she said—‘for I have been busy with needle and thread.’ www.instagram.com/reel/C9F_MYd...

Dr. Brandy Schillace on Instagram: "I have been busy. Something unusual is coming. #author #mystery"www.instagram.com 1 likes, 0 comments - b_schillace on July 6, 2024: "I have been busy. Something unusual is coming. #author #mystery".

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For all us Yanks looking on. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform UK campaigners caught making racist slurswww.bbc.com Party leader Nigel Farage said where people made comments that are "genuinely offensive" he would deal with them.

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@bschillace.brandyschillace.com I was listening to this the other day, and it was bugging the hell out of me trying to remember how I knew her name. Then it came to me! 📙 www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens - Stuff You Missed in History Class | iHeartwww.iheart.com <p>Gertrude Jekyll was born into a 19th-century English family of means, but her life took an unconventional path for a woman in her circumstances, and she became an iconic and legendary horticulturis...

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Well worth the reading time. So charming. And a remarkably illustrative bit of anthropology. 🙂

Look, I’m guessing you need this as much as I did—the tumblr heritage post about native fauna of hardware stores has been updated for craft stores: “Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing” #crafters #homedepot 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.tumblr.com/brandyschill...

Brandy Schillacewww.tumblr.com *releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

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My take is that it sure does take a lot for Pope Francis to excommunicate someone. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/w...

Vatican Excommunicates Its Former Ambassador to the U.S.www.nytimes.com Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was informed of his excommunication on Friday, has long been a vocal critic of Pope Francis.

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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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excellent choice.

All change at Downing Street, except Larry the Catwww.reuters.com On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat.

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Got some new bookcases so I can finally stop stacking everything in my spare room closet. I like how you can look at each shelf like a sedimentary rock record to see where my pop-history tastes were at any given time. 🗃️ Next up: assembling the buddy cabinet for fiction.

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TGIF, everyone For just one more week "Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment" is at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A remarkable exhibition, it celebrates the (difficult) birth of French Impressionism 150 years ago. If you're nowhere near Paris, this feature article gives you a taste: #ArtHistory 🗃️

Gustave Caillebotte saves Impressionismtheshymuseumgoer.com Lawyer-turned-artist Caillebotte moved heaven and earth to mount the group's third exhibition. By any measure, this show was the game-changer.

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Hey. If you have ever been somewhere near David Tennant and are semi-randomly approached to see if you have any anecdotes about David Tennant, assume it's enemy action. Sorry for vagueness.

Brandy Schillacewww.tumblr.com *releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

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I hope the door actually does hit every single Tory who lost their seat on the way out, all 250 of them. Buh-bye. But, I am not okay w/Starmer/Labour's pandering to anti-trans & anti-migrant bigotry in order to win votes. If you live in the UK, please sign. actions.stonewall.org.uk/a/stonewall-...

To Keir Starmer: Will you stand hand in hand with the LGBTQ+ community?actions.stonewall.org.uk To Keir Starmer: Will you stand hand in hand with the LGBTQ+ community?

HI I AM #AUTISTIC AND I CANNOT WITH THE BANG POW CAN WE STOP OMG (me every July 4th)

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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We need to have a serious conversation about if Biden's too old to run, then Boomers are too old to vote. There are age limits for young people voting, why not just set the limit at 65 at the other end?

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I had a postal vote but I stroked a dog outside Lidl this morning, if that counts

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Conservative party activists reflect on their campaign experiences

I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Againwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Obscurest Vinyl - Topic

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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Anyway, billionaires spend a lot of money on depriving their opponents of the right or will to vote, and they aren't opening their wallet out of the kindness of their hearts. It's because it does, when all is said and done, matter quite a lot

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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.

The Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness: Justice Gorsuch's horrifying opinion in the Grants Pass case recalls an earlier heartless dissent. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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Bonus Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch