Only MA could field an army of 20k in 24 hours, which Gage knew, and that’s why he was concerned with them getting artillery - then he’d have to deal with a field army. MA was an anomaly - one that other colonies couldn’t replicate, even when they tried

Peter Coyote: blah blah "Join or Die" Me, a very serious historian from the Boston area: JOIN OR DIE BITCHES! My husband: Shakes his head

The other day, someone donated a "Make your own Monopoly" game to us and it had a 3.75 disc in it. And I discovered this is the way to find out who is old/young. I have had to explain the origins of this icon twice to the youth in my office lol And by youth, I mean like, 30 year olds???

Men not going to therapy while also believing Shelby Foote was a serious historian explains about 78% of American politics.

I've been having nightmares about failing one of my classes...I have until Wed to drop without penalty other than losing my money and the time I spent on it. Not entirely sure if I can salvage my final project enough, but I'm hoping that my prof will get me my grade back before Wed so I can decide.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

ICE vs the clergy

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

I don't have much to say about all this except that I never thought of Larry Summers as a Democrat... Just an asshole

NEW: Following Pope Leo XIV's lead, the U.S. bishops release a video condemning the Trump-Vance White House’s “inhumane” deportation raids.

On this day in 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals. A white mob protested her arrival, screaming slurs.

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

Plan for today: * Email Holy Cross and shame them for having ICE at a recruitment event ✔️ * Dentist appointment ✔️ by myself and I didn't even faint! * 2.5 pages ✔️ * Hand in papers ✔️ * Collapse✔️ I was going to make fancy dinner. Now its just chicken and rice * Hopefully sleep without stress walking

I'm 9 years older than this dude. What the hell happens to you when you join this weird cult??

This super nice guy seems to have deleted all his social media already. I hope his future employer rescinds the offer.

I'm pretty sure this one teacher is going to hate me including a chart in my paper, but I really like pie charts and adding color into my papers. She already thinks I'm too casual in tone, but this paper already has an extension and I am hitting my wall head first and repeatedly.

Plan for today: * Email Holy Cross and shame them for having ICE at a recruitment event ✔️ * Dentist appointment ✔️ by myself and I didn't even faint! ✔️✔️ * 2.5 pages * Hand in papers * Collapse * Hopefully sleep without stress walking

The 250th is finally getting fully weird: which potato chip flavors best exemplify freedom, liberty, and unity? The BBQ flavors are "LIBERTY," the cheesy flavors are "FREEDOM," and the spicy flavors are "UNITY." What screams FREEDOM more than "cheesy crab dip?" www.phillyvoice.com/herrs-chip-c...

Plan for today: * Email Holy Cross and shame them for having ICE at a recruitment event ✔️ * Dentist appointment * 2.5 pages * Hand in papers * Collapse * Hopefully sleep without stress walking

Mad libs is getting crazier and crazier every year

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

The last known survivor of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire has died at 101 years old. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/12/m...

UPDATE (11/11/2025): All ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula products have now been recalled. This includes all unexpired lots of formula cans and single-serve “anywhere” sticks. www.cambridgepublichealth.org/infant-formu... @cambridgeday.com @universalhub.com #recall

Cards Against Humanity made a rather large donation to support libraries 📚 That is so punk rock

Tuesday night northern lights. A severe G4 geomagnetic storm impacted earth and lit up the skies all around the country. -- November 11, 2025 Sandown, New Hampshire -- 2026 Wall Calendars are available! Link in the post below.

I do believe that my house is in the worst location for sunsets and northern lights and that makes me really sad. These are amazing.

🇺🇸 This #Veterans Day, honor our vets by sharing the facts. For many veterans, service doesn’t end when they come home. Veterans make up nearly 1 in 4 federal employees, and 15% of the National Park Service. The federal government is the largest employer of veterans in the country. #VeteransDay #NPS

Just noticed that it is snowing while also very sunny out. Weather is weird

This is a good article, but it is also important to remember that pensions were not the standard, even if you were wounded or killed. It took until 1818 for the first pensions to be offered to AmRev soldiers and they were very difficult to get and many had passed away in between.

Boss asked me today what I was going to do w/my History Masters once I finished the program & I paused for a min & said...get another one? Honestly have no idea. My greatest dream would be a research company that needs someone w/a MLIS (archives), MA (history), genealogy skillz and a love of candy.

Reading an oral interview with Ruth Batson (One of the founders and largest advocate for METCO) and she is throwing absolute shade on Louise Day Hicks and I adore it.

No health care, no deal.

Did Romo just really make up a new definition to DTF?

This video is a trip. To compare what the islands used to look like to today is mind boggling @universalhub.com vimeo.com/174398217

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

This was my favorite place in Eastie

I was once told, in an evaluation, to be more aggressively friendly. Never mind that it goes against my introverted nature, it also is not in our regional culture. Plus, it just sounds creepy.

Well I don't have COVID so far but I'm feeling pretty cruddy so off to bed I go a full two hours earlier than usual. Just hope I can get at least two pages of each paper preview written tomorrow. Or at least outline one and two full pages in the other. Ugh

#Massachusetts to resume full #SNAP payments today even as regime declares it would rather starve children than stop terrorizing American cities www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-...

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Today I learned that the Bunker Hill Monument has more steps than the Boston gas tanks do...but that their workers definitely have climbed those stairs more than I had to go up the Monument lol

Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back? 19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...

Through the office grapevine, I found out that an office coworker was sick with COVID while in the office. And while sick with COVID, she came into our office to cough so she wouldn't do it around the public. Total bullshit and might also explain why I've been under the weather this last week. Ugh

⚠️ ALERT: Your November SNAP Payments may be delayed due to the federal government shutdown. Need food? The City of Boston is here to help. Visit boston.gov/SNAP for updates on local resources for you and your family. #ebt #snap #snapbenefits #Boston

Does anyone have an example of a short paper (15-25 pages) featuring an inquiry into overlooked women in the modern civil rights movement? I just want to see what their structure is to make sure I'm doing an understandable style

The pride of my hometown lol

I don’t even have words for this. One of the 2 guys responsible for this mass death wants a peace prize and the other wants $1trillion to be a bad CEO.