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Genealogist, New Yorker, and Nerd. My professional site & blog is
https://newtowngenealogy.com
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
16 days ago
Oh, one more thing: if you're reading this, and you have archives and family records dating from enslavement that you know Black Americans (and/or Black America as a whole) would benefit from having, you have a moral and ethical obligation to share them... and deep down, you know it.
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RiotGrlErin
18 days ago
why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread
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Like your local historical or genealogical society!
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Michael W. Twitty
27 days ago
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
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Feast your eyes on these 10 cookbooks from 2025
Whether you're craving something sweet, savory, spicy — or all of the above in one flavorful meal — we've got you covered. Here are 10 favorite cookbooks from the past year.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5609216/best-cookbooks-2025
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Jon Danziger
29 days ago
Bluesky New York actors! Do you want to participate in a reading on Monday, between Zohran Mamdani's new office and the Brooklyn Bridge, of scripts by some amazing, talented students? Yeah you do. It's Monday, 12-15, 5 pm. Contact me here, or
[email protected]
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Px...
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The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Pxk67Etsw
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Anna Holmes
about 1 month ago
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
about 1 month ago
Reminder that we aren't shopping today through Dec 5. If you forget, here's a little tune to help you remember.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
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We ain’t buying 💲HIT !!!
TikTok video by Jenifer Lewis
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/
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scott topics™️
about 2 months ago
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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Faine Greenwood
about 2 months ago
this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 2 months ago
Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism:
indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
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Prisonculture
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Joanne Freeman
2 months ago
Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/America-at-250-A-History-Public-Syllabus.pdf
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Yve ➡️ MFF Table J3
2 months ago
Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
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Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
https://youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?si=7YS0GCDBI7RgM4w5
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
This is going to be terrific. Tell any 14-17 year olds you know in NYC about the opportunity. Free and food will be provided.
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Marian Burk Wood
3 months ago
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
The clock is ticking! Thanks to
@reclaimtherecords.org
for posting sample letters to use in appealing the unwarranted denials by US Vet Affairs sent in response to FOIA requests for US military veterans' records. My take:
climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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The Clock Is Ticking: Appeal Denials of FOIA Requests for Veterans' Info
Genealogy research and commentary by Marian Burk Wood, speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past," available from Amazon.com.
https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-clock-is-ticking-appeal-denials-of.html
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Reclaim The Records
3 months ago
✊ Always Appeal! ✊ Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under
#FOIA
for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back! Check out
BIRLS.org/appeals
for the latest!
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Search the BIRLS Database - over 19.5 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
Search the BIRLS Database - over 19.5 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
https://BIRLS.org/appeals
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BleepingComputer
3 months ago
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
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Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/
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3 months ago
Applications for NNI's Fulbright Grant for Dutch PhD students are due on November 1:
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res...
. Please share widely. We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines as long as they relate to the Dutch in New Netherland and Colonial New York.
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Fulbright-NNRC Student Scholar Research Grant :: New Netherland Institute
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/research-grants/nnrc-student-scholars
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David Ryan
3 months ago
Final day to catch this recording for free
#Genealogy
#Webinar
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It me. I am that relative.
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Pavel
4 months ago
Tech bros say "AI is here to stay" but that doesn't mean anything! Bronze spears are here to stay! Asbestos is here to stay! Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.
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Laura Anne Gilman
4 months ago
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Old North
4 months ago
Earlier this year, we received a mysterious package with no return address. Its contents were a brick and this note: "My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick." Read the full story!
www.boston.com/travel/trave...
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A Boston crypt tour now features a stolen 'Cursed Brick,' mailed back after 'a string of bad luck'
A Boston crypt tour at Old North Church now features a stolen 'Cursed Brick,' mailed back after 'a string of bad luck'
https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2025/09/15/this-boston-tour-now-includes-a-stolen-cursed-brick/
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Tom & Lorenzo
4 months ago
The most pervasively destructive and enraging aspect of our modern political media is that it clearly considers informing its audience to be a much lower priority than telling its audience what they're supposed to think
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Karen K. Ho
4 months ago
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/minnesota-melissa-hortman-dog-lying-in-state.html
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Neven Mrgan
4 months ago
RIP graphical user interfaces, 1968–2022. Gone but not forgotten 🙏❤️✝️
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Sometimes I consider getting a YouTube subscription and then I see something like this. Guess AI is saving me money after all?
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Good job!
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America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
https://americabydesign.fail/
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Dex Anderson
4 months ago
PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
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Alex Calzareth
5 months ago
In December, RTR launched
BIRLS.org
along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See
www.birls.org/updates
- RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
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Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
https://BIRLS.org
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c0nc0rdance
4 months ago
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
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Tal Lavin
5 months ago
In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized.
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Ministry of Violence
James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...
https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/ministry-of-violence-8160/
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As a New Yorker, I think he may be confusing "war" with "apartment."
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his)
5 months ago
immensely grateful to
@jasonkirk.fyi
for throwing this piece together on what Dobson's death means for many of us strong-willed children.
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James Dobson Tried To Destroy Us
As a former strong-willed child, I’ve had the notion of James Dobson’s mortality in the back of my mind for the last half-decade or so.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/james-dobson-tried-destroy-us
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Brings back childhood memories. My Houston grandparents survived before AC by sleeping on screened in porches.
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Feral BOO!macker 🦇
5 months ago
A new, HUGE reason nobody who does genealogy should be putting ANYTHING CLOSE to sensitive information into LLMs. Holy liability, Batman.
#genealogy
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Texas Observer
5 months ago
Featured story: We forget what we don’t want to remember. There are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley, or what we like to call the Hill Country.
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The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn
There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.
https://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-hill-country-floods-history-1921-2025/
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Karin Wulf
6 months ago
Our posting is up for the
@jcblibrary.bsky.social
Associate Director -- please share! It's a good place to work, imho. 😀
brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
6 months ago
if you’re an adoptee and submitting a FOIA request you can get help at
[email protected]
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Randall Munroe
6 months ago
Fix This Sign
xkcd.com/3113/
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
6 months ago
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin
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Surrender is Futile
7 months ago
This is a very important article to read about the AI companies, how they harm our current and future living conditions.
bit.ly/441crTC
Thank you,
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Ellis Rosen
6 months ago
My cartoon in this weeks
@newyorker.com
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Do you have a collection related to Texas history that really should be digitized? Then apply for a Rescuing Texas History mini-grant sponsored by the University of North Texas:
library.unt.edu/digital-proj...
. Applications are due August 7, so you still have time!
#texashistory
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Call for Submissions: The Portal to Texas History - University Libraries - UNT
The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas is accepting applications for its Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant program at this time.
https://library.unt.edu/digital-projects-unit/partners/call-submissions-portal-texas-history/
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Jonathan Cohn
7 months ago
*thinking of creative tactics to get NYC to not vote Cuomo* Hey, New York, do you want BOSTON to be able to keep shit-talking you because of how much better our mayor is than yours? BOSTON.
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mattie lubchansky
7 months ago
ok i'd like to see you ungrateful WORMS find somewhere else to buy cold cuts for 25 dollars a pound in the worst-lit room imaginable
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