Are any other primary sources available besides John Adams? #HATM

Might need to log off of this here website until all the business about that Vanity Fair journalist blows over. I've never grasped something so quickly, and so quickly become tired of the wall-to-wall commentary. Or maybe I need new follows.

MOSES KIRKLAND gets a shout out!!!!!!

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

Nov. 19, 1775: The South Carolina Provincial Congress issues a declaration to the people of the interior reminding them that it was necessary to maintain the friendship of the Cherokees with gifts of gunpowder and that the Cherokees would use the powder to hunt animals.

My idea has always been that this was a funny pilgrim guy and he wrote it the same way we might write “Goofus Glorkins” and then historians have had to spend 500 years trying to decipher his good bit

DRAGGING CANOE!!!!!

Hey, would you look at that... Sullivan's Island gets its due! (lol ignore my earlier post)

Nov. 18, 1775: A force of about 600 patriots led by Andrew Williamson receives word that a larger Tory army is headed to Ninety-Six, the main settlement on the South Carolina frontier. Williamson marches his men there to defend the town. The opposing sides had been observing a truce that broke down.

Oh, no Dwight… Junior…

This is a good thread on the challenges and choices in creating big narratives. I'm doing this right now on a smaller scale and certainly sympathize with their decision-making, even if I'm ambivalent about the big narrative they put together. Still looking forward to the next episode.

I will, of course, be eager to see how this handles the southern colonies.

It was great to see Bill on stage with Howl Owl Howl and @millsish.bsky.social at the Georgia Theatre Friday night. Thanks to @karenryanphoto.bsky.social for the photos!

The fate of our republic depends on it, for some reason that I don't understand

Oh no

Um, y'all....

Nov. 14, 1775: The South Carolina Provincial Congress appoints a Committee of Intelligence to correspond with residents of the interior. It also hires messengers to protect public security until a Council of Safety can be formed to examine all persons suspected of treason.

Call for Papers: Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue on *Religion* to be published in 2026. They want to shed light on diverse religious traditions, not simply Protestantism. Deadline: Dec 15. www.southerncultures.org/cfp-religion...

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

just butt dialed my senator since his number is high on my recents lists and, well, gave it to him again.

Repost with an iconic fictional(ish) band.

so edmund fitzgerald is to songs what master and commander is for movies for a certain type? (i am that type)

Hang on, when did reading become so performative?

just saw a pic of my disastrous football team's owner giving a jersey to the president because he showed up yesterday, the day my senator caved and the day my team embarrassed itself, again, on national television, is just a perfect nightmare streams-crossing scenario. Need to touch grass today fr

ok @kaine.senate.gov

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

I did, and invoked my gggggrandfather, a Patriot killed at the Battle of Oriskany, because what he died for was not nearly as bad as what's going on right now.

Good lord my football team sucks. This is embarrassing.

In relation to today's discourse, this is my current earworm.

I spent a solid 10 minutes today wondering if naming the stadium after Trump would be more embarrassing than changing the team name back to the racial slur and my conclusion is that im an idiot to be a fan of this team

This initiates the Snow Campaign, an attempt to stifle loyalist activity in the SC backcountry. It generally worked for a while, but the loyalists didn't stay stifled. Also, the politics of trade and alliance with the Cherokee are tied up in this. That's going to boil over in a bit, too.

The Supreme Court just delivered another huge blow to trans rights, and didn’t even bother to put their names on it.

oh man talk about kicking a team while they're/we're down.

Lincoln: Fourscore and six-seven years ago... [Kids at Gettysburg go wild]

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

This is a very good listen on its own but John and David touch on three things I’ve worked with at my day job THIS WEEK: Huntington circle, Samson Occam, and the patriot rhetoric of slavery & liberty. My brain is crackling on my morning walk!

but I voted for Democratic overreach. That's specifically what I want.

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

Fellow bitter southerners, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

"It may be common or even understandable to feel this way, but it’s shameful to act on it. It’s shameful not to try to get past it and to be better." I know there's a big argument that it's better to talk about guilt rather than shame, but boy if it doesn't feel right in this piece.

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@abigailspanberger.com hasn’t said a thing about the authoritarian threat this whole campaign but has time to take a swipe at the future of her party. Gonna be the least enthusiastic vote I’ve ever cast

Wait... this fine actor is the son of Timothy West and I'm just now learning this??? Where would my after-dinner television watching be without this family?

I’m worried about being relevant to young people so can we just update and simplify this to 6 7?

Oct. 31, 1775: Loyalist troops in the South Carolina backcountry seize 1,000 pounds of gunpowder that the Provincial Congress had sent on its way to Cherokee to try to guarantee their friendship. The raid near frontier settlement Ninety-Six is led by Patrick Cunningham and Jacob Bowman.

This is the guy who can't distinguish between an obvious nazi symbol and a Grateful Dead steal-your-face skull so probably no wonder that he prefers it over on X where the nazis can glaze him for running cover for them.

This is a HUGE deal for trans kids: the FTC has been subpoenaing patients’ medical records from clinics that provide care for trans kids. They claim they’re “investigating fraud.” A judge in Washington state said that’s a transparent lie. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...