examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

“The more songs I listened to, the more wine appeared” @emhilly.bsky.social follows a trail of wine-soaked country songs to uncover a history of class, gender, nostalgia, and the changing face of country music. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/C3t62

“For the Patriots, the ultimate horizon was always interracial solidarity within the working class. But they felt that the way to get there was to develop a political analysis that spoke to people’s lived reality” Great interview with @muttgomery.bsky.social on his @uncpress.bsky.social book

Album of the summer (in the Northern Hemi) recommendation!

FIFA sucks obviously but wow I love the World Cup

If you’ve ever wondered why Merle Haggard or George Jones or Porter Wagoner have so many sad songs about wine, I wrote this piece for you 🍷🤠

Attn: Chicago pals & folks in early for Labor Notes!

This is a tough one, and I'm going to have to divide this up: 1. Appalachian Studies, @emhilly.bsky.social "Making Our Future," easily one of the most inspiring texts I've read in a long time. It deals with cultural matters, so a more nitty-gritty choice would be Ronald D. Eller's "Uneven Ground."

Equal parts Nick Drake & Sibylle Baier on this one ✨

Wow very cool— can’t wait to see Sun O))) lay one down after our local women’s pro soccer game

Two fantastic UNC Press authors in conversation with one another in this podcast 👇🎧

Alice is a force & a total delight! We talked her collab w/ Hazel, Libba Cotten's chicken & dumplings, integrated tours in the South "chasing after a better world," women old-time musicians she knew, and how she taught her dog to bring her a beer from the fridge (and recycle the can afterwards)

“So many punk bands in this town” Great opening line

In front of a live crowd at the Celebration of Women in Old-Time Music event at the East TN History Center, we discuss Hazel's life and her powerful songs that narrate the Appalachian migrant experience, advocate for working people, and outline an intersectional working class feminism.

Everyone @emhilly.bsky.social has done it again. What a total delight, beautifully researched and, yes, there’s a playlist at the end. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

I'm very much for the Hilliardian research method of taking casual curiosity and observation and building on it. Honky Tonk men and wine. @emhilly.bsky.social oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Alice is indeed a total legend! Honored to have her collection at the SFC. Full of great stuff. Really one of our foundational collections here, and still growing. finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/catalog/20006

Had the great honor last month of interviewing Alice Gerrard about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book. She told wonderful stories about Baltimore house parties, the many musicians she played with, and how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge. Legend! archive.org/details/hist...

This @emhilly.bsky.social piece on the historical relationship between wine and country music is absolutely delightful and eye opening. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

💜🍷 @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

Love this album so much and am excited for you to hear it! Watch the video (feat. giant puppets and Jodorowsky references!) for the first single "Mothersong" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aaj...

For @oxfordamerican.bsky.social's new spring food issue, I set out to answer a question that has puzzled me for a long time: Why are there so many heartbroken men drinking wine (at the honky tonk, no less) in classic country songs?? oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Very special backyard show in Berea today 🌸

Time to take action now. Lawmakers need to hear our outrage. @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Trump Wants $200 billion more for war on Iran. Tell Congress NO!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Frank Hurricane's new record (his best yet?!), Southern Shrymp (in the Big City), is out today and I was honored to write the one-sheet for it. A spiritual pleasure! 🦐❤️🦐❤️https://frankhurricane.com/2026/03/24/holy-write-up-by-emily-hilliard/

West Virginia prisoners allege that Aramark serves inedible food, such as “ultra-processed patties made from an indiscernible meat, to drive them to the company's food-for-purchase programs. In fiscal year 2025, Aramark brought in $18.5 billion dollars in revenue. theappeal.org/aramark-west...

The Spring 2026 Food Issue is now available for pre-order! 🔗: shorturl.at/uGSCR

Excited to chat with Alice Gerrard & talk Hazel Dickens with @jessiew.bsky.social during a live taping of @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social in Knoxville this weekend!

I had forgotten about this Olin-Wright essay: jacobin.com/2015/12/erik... and his discussion of real utopias.

Then we ponder the concept of "the singer songwriter" and go off the rails a little as we grapple w/ the role and efficacy of protest songs in our current political hellscape. In the mix: Tiktok-ification, mass movements, hopelessness and hope, the violence of the state, and the songs of the people.

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

from someone who has covered movements for a ~decade, studied them longer: it's not that what's happening right now is "new" (we can find precedent for present tactics in treatment of Black organizers in the 2010s onward, organizing on Palestine and ATL's Cop City, others). it's still really bad!

❗️Bob: “Hey, there’s a female Bob Dylan out there, apparently”❗️ Read @jonbern.bsky.social’s recent interview with @lucindawilliams.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com

I have watched the video of the execution that occurred in Minneapolis in the last hour. Here is a text description for those who, quite rightly, don't want to watch it, but feel they need to know.

Saw the Ann Lee movie (well, half of it). The Shakers deserve better

Jennifer Kelly (@aquariumdrunkard.com, Dusted) needs our help. Underground music heads, please join me in chipping in.

Please say he’ll be playing Alan Partridge 🙏

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Pre-order It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (5/26) NOW and get 30% off. On sale @UNC_Press til the end of the month. Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more! Link below⤵️

Dreamt I was attending some type of conference all about the cassette tape. The name tags were old tape labels. If a gathering like this doesn't exist like this already, maybe it should??

!!! I love Boots Riley and I love this play x.com/DiscussingFi...

We have a long road ahead of us but our team is built for this moment. Thanks for the support! 🌾

RIP Bobby Weir! 🌹 youtu.be/-_UCpLbx7yU?...

For the past 10 months I've been researching the history of knitting in Appalachia via archives, museums, and with sheep farmers, wool producers & practitioners here and in Ireland. I'll be presenting on my work to date at this year's Knitting History Forum knittinghistory.co.uk/meet-the-spe...

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

"Soothing and transportive from start to finish, this is a record to sink yourself into and get to know intimately well." Thank you @recordcratesunited.bsky.social! recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/29/w...

Finally facing facts that no non-dairy egg nog is as good as the real stuff :(

As a close friend of Dory's, a performer of her music, and one of the carriers of her legacy (and her microphone !), Julia shares stories of Dory's painting and needlepointing in her Berkshires farmhouse, Frank Sinatra's deaf cat, and plans for the Dory Previn archive.

Just spent $40 on bumper stickers for my Jewett-head friends. Had to www.workingloose.com/products/i-r...