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D enthusiastic embrace of early vote is making 2022 very different from 2018. Using updated TargetEarly data, at this point in 18 Rs had 250k vote lead in the early vote. Right now Ds have a 2.2m vote lead, growing leads in key battlegrounds. x.com/SimonWDC/statu…

One for the early birds: This middle timber in the roof of Beverley Minster was dendro-dated to the year 921. It’s been holding up roofs since the reign of King Æthelstan.

JOB ALERT 🚨 Duke is looking for a TT environmental historian: period and region open, but ideally relating to "historical questions of environmental justice, broadly defined" academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23439

We are delighted to announce the resumption of our Visiting Fellowships & Travel Grants Program after a 1-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Applications for 2023-24 will be accepted beginning Nov. 7; application deadline is Mon. Jan. 9, 2023 Yale University Library bit.ly/3h0CKmA

Know some folks are wondering why Tom Bonier and I have talking so much about the early vote. Simply, the goal of an election is to get more votes than the other side. So far, that's what Democrats are doing. And that's good. 1/ x.com/SimonWDC/statu…

Three tips for migrating to Mastodon h/t jaztrophysicist. Lesson #1: Choice of server or “instance” is important in that each has different moderation policies, but does not balkanize the content. (1/3)

ok, it's things like this that make me stay on Twitter

Democratic voters are surging at exactly the right moment. Vote like your freedom depended on it.

I'm trying out Mastodon - find me at [email protected] (for now? I think?). It seems easy to manage as long as you don't actually do anything! x.com/MikeStucka/sta…

Have you seen The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? Alum. Tahneer Oksman (@TahneerO), Associate Professor Marymount Manhattan College, recently published "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Fantasy of Becoming" in the latest issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature (PSU Press)! Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/868209

Lucille Clifton: “if you had heard her / chanting as she ironed / you would understand form and line / and discipline and order and / america.”

But everything changed for women this summer. Everything. Why would you possibly care about gas prices when you understood a fight had begun to take away your your right to live your life as you see fit? To make you "less than" the other 50% of the population can? 26/

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller @ecmille1 is awarded the Stansky Prize for her work Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… #nacbs2022

Polish painter Anna Bilinska, Self-portrait with apron and brushes, 1887 #WomensArt

In case you weren't glued to twitter last night, I opened a bottle of wine and started tweeting about newspaper props in period dramas again.

Tom Nichols The war on Christmas will end when Christmas respects the sovereign territory of the autumn holidays and retreats behind the Thanksgiving armistice line.

Leave Twitter just because its entire infrastructure is crumbling, its revenue sources have been slashed recently, and it's now run by business bros with zero understanding of humanity or the common good? Babe I'm already in academia.