Meredith Hindley

Meredith Hindley

@mhindley.bsky.social

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Rogue history Ph.D. World War II, hockey, lipstick, and classic movies. Colorado and Wyoming bred. DC dweller. Author of DESTINATION CASABLANCA (PublicAffairs). Opinions my own.

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Vichy tears are the best tears.

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

This is how you do it!

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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The last paragraph is delicious enough to spread on toast.

I love it when everyone's been up so long you start getting this kind of punch-drunk reporting.

This kind of message makes my blood boil. For the last 8 years of my mom’s life, she needed to use a walker because of balance issues. She didn’t want to, because it made her “old”—and look old. Instead of staying mobile with the help of a walker, she became a couch potato and had multiple falls.

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

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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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

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One thing that's been very clear this past week is that most of those writing & pontificating about Biden's future as the party's nominee have a little to no experience in state and local Democratic Party activities. A brief 🧵:

Boil alert has been lifted. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

DC folks, there is a boil water advisory for the whole city! Plus the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

UPDATE: DC Water Lifts Boil Water Advisory for All Affected Customers – Effective 7:30 AM July 4, 2024 | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

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The descriptions of Trump’s sexual abuse of minors are horrific and quotidian. (It sounds like a regular, unremarkable occurrence for him.) It is enraging that this story is buried under an avalanche of wish-casting discourse.

This story hits a little harder now that the jury documents for Epstein's case have been released (and Trump's name is ALLLLLL over those documents). Again, mainstream media is burying this story for Trump. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jeffrey Epstein introduced me to Trump at 14, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser sayswww.nbcnews.com Testifying at Maxwell’s trial in New York City, the woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane, said she met the former president in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

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Arlington County, Virginia is also under a boil water advisory as of the evening of July 3.

Boil Water Advisory Issued for Arlington Countywww.arlingtonva.us As a precaution, Arlington has issued a Boil Water Advisory for customers across the County due to water clarity issues found at the Washington Aqueduct, the County’s source for drinking water.

DC folks, there is a boil water advisory for the whole city! Plus the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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A thing I wrote is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1093/jahi... It is a short review essay of how historians and archivists have been using the web since the '90s (US perspective), to collect personal histories & eye witness accounts following current events & reflecting on the past

“Share Your Story”: Legacies of Online Collectingdoi.org In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we as historians knew that we had witnessed a major set of events and that we would not be able to fully ass

HISTORIANS! @romancingthevote.bsky.social is raising money for voting rights. (Info: www.romancingthevote.com/presskit.html) If you want to donate signed copies of your book, they would love to have you join the auction. Info about how to participate below. 🗃️

The one thing we could use more of is signed book Buy it Nows. US citizen/permanent resident authors, if you have 5-10 books that you can ship out, and don’t mind donating to the cause, fill this out: docs.google.com/form...

Romancing the Vote Buy It Nowsdocs.google.com *PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM ONE TIME FOR EACH ITEM YOU'D LIKE TO OFFER*

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New on the Chatter podcast: The wonderful Kathy Peiss joined me to talk about the nexus between America's early intelligence efforts and librarians, which spurred extraordinary efforts to gather materials in Europe during the Second World War. open.spotify.com/episode/27sg...

The Librarians Who Saved Books in World War II, with Kathy Peissopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Chatter on Spotify. As the Second World War started, an unsung cadre of US librarians and other information management professionals was making its way to Europe to acquire...

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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.

RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW

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Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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As Justice Sotomayor explains, today's Supreme Court decision on Trump immunity transforms America from a land of "no more Kings" to one of "no, more Kings."

* screams into the void *

BREAKING NEWS: The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

Supreme Court says Trump has absolute immunity for official acts onlywww.npr.org The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

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Welp. I think we’ll hear about presidential immunity from SCOTUS today. The fact that this is an open question is stunningly wrong-headed. You certainly can’t claim the founders wanted it. Or rather, you can. But you’d be wrong. Here’s a brief explaining why. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

<p>Historians' Amicus Brief in <em>Trump v. United States</em></p>www.brennancenter.org A group of 15 founding era historians represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP have filed a brief challenging Trump's claim of immunity.

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Jacob Lawrence, "The Libraries Are Appreciated," from Lawrence's 1943 Harlem series, an image that depicts the Harlem Branch of the NY Public Library

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

Past me: I will get so much writing done on this train trip! Current me: Watches landscape go by while I contemplate my life’s choices and the future of democracy.

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Huge misjudgment by Macron. Why would you voluntarily undertake the Hindenburg speedrun

Breaking: Le Pen’s far-right party is projected to come first in French vote Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

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The people with lots of money aren’t worried about fascism.

Watching this debate over replacing Joe happen and I can’t help but wonder how much of this fueled by not wanting Kamala to be president if something happens to him. Convention shenanigans around replacing VP 1000% guaranteed. (P.S. this will be a bare knuckle brawl.)

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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy

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In the midst of this political dumpster fire, I talked with Olivia Waxman at TIME about the new Kevin Costner western that just dropped. It's set in the Civil War West - but you wouldn't really know it. #shocker #skystorians #AmWest 🗃️ time.com/6992699/the-...

The Real Civil War History Behind Kevin Costner's Horizontime.com Horizon is set in the Civil War era. A historian explains what was going on in the Western U.S. during that time.

We’ve reached the stage in the election where I’m watching MIDSOMER MURDERS. Sigh.