Jacqueline Antonovich

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Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita,
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Love a little bit of good news

Britain's Labour Party is projected to win a historic landslide victory — knocking the Conservatives out after 14 years of power in a brutal wipeout

Labour Party To Win U.K. General Election, Exit Polls Showwww.huffpost.com The center-right Conservative Party has governed Britain for the past 14 years.

It could be a wonderful moment to have a nuanced convo about ability, if the media would, I don’t know, be responsible? Read a book? We only have a couple of images of FDR in a wheelchair because he had an agreement with the media that they wouldn’t print any! Because there was a fear that…

And although the image is supposed to refer to Biden’s mental capabilities, a walker is a mobility aid and uh, FDR ran the country just fine* with his wheelchair. *im not letting him off the hook for internment, though.

Oh, you thought this country was going to have a deeply nuanced conversation about age and ability? Bless your heart.

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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th

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WE WANT TRAINS

More trains please.

Oh, you thought this country was going to have a deeply nuanced conversation about age and ability? Bless your heart.

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Hey guys, I found the one, we can stop looking now

Good sign for Christine, bad sign for the country.

In a 4th of July Eve miracle, the street cat that we named Spiro Agnew has returned to our back porch after months away

Perfection

Roses are red Violets are bloomin

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Instead of "Reading Room Rules" I love how Smith College's Special Collections uses "Community Agreements" which establishes a partnership from the start rather than a "Don't you dare." I really recommend reading through this! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Community agreements for researching with Smith College Special Collectionsdocs.google.com Smith College Special Community Agreements Collections These community agreements seek to make the ways in which we are all interdependent on and accountable to each other more visible. We exp...

This is it.

I think what makes this difficult to discuss with any kind of rigor is that Biden staying in is bad and Biden dropping out is also bad! There are no good options available so we’re all flailing to figure out which bad thing is gonna be like 15% better than the worse thing

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Happy 4th, y'all.

What the founders wanted.

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Assistant Professor of Public Policyaprecruit.ucr.edu University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

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You want your MTV? ⬇️

Thanks to @archive.org, who has assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published on MTV's website, you can search the MTV News archive via the Wayback Machine. variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedownvariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

I actually do not have a dog in this race, but I do think a lot of this "assassination" talk is weird misogynoir paternalism disguised as genuine concern.

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I see the discourse has reached the "how likely is a presidential assassination, really?" stage. Happy almost birthday, America!

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the difference been pundits who have spent too much time huffing gasoline and journalists who are actually thinking through this with seriousness is whether they think having a contentious, brokered convention is less problematic than just going with biden's elected successor.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I just finished Chapter 5 of my book. Please clap. In the meantime, it's some well-earned R&R time this week, and then off to Scotland next week for vacation.

Sometimes, it's okay not to have a hot take on what should happen next. I'm keeping the main goal in mind and watching things play out.

I don't know what the right answer is, other than to commit ourselves to defeating Trump one way or another. My feelings on who our nom should be are starting to change, but it's above my pay grade. What I do know is that amid the Court's assault on democracy, the media are dangerously failing us.

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BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

Anti-settlement group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure in 3 decadesapnews.com An anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

Listen...

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. " - Abigail Adam's, 1776

This. And please don't get me started on how unrealistically they portray Claire's job as a physician.

'The Bear' Writers, Please Stop Trying To Make Carmy And Claire Happenwww.huffpost.com As I said in this piece about how, stop trying to make Carmy and Claire happen! That is all. Nothing against Molly Gordon, who I like in a lot of things....

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every time we get news abt clarence thomas being deeply unserious i think about him lying for years about his sister being a welfare queen who was indoctrinating her children into welfare dependency and the entire time she was working two jobs and her kids were either employed or still in school

Los Angeles agreed to pay a start-up company, AllHere, up to $6 million to develop Ed . . . But just two months [later] AllHere’s chief executive left her role, and the company furloughed most of its staff. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

This country has not come to terms with its misogyny, let alone its misogynoir.

Also this is why I don’t have any faith that things would be better with Harris or Big Gretch. I have no faith that this country will ever vote for a woman for president.

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Genuinely hilarious that they threw down the "Presidents Are Kings" ruling 3 days before Independence Day.

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In lighter news

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.