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Mark Simpson-Vos

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Professional humanist and book editing person

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This. More of this. #BeautifulThings.

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Strong work.

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I want to read and repost a bunch of stuff about people creating beautiful things and doing beautiful things for others. Help me out people.

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Good morning! We are hiring an editorial assistant. This is a great job to learn the fundamentals of editorial acquisitions at a UP. It’s also a great job for you if you simply cannot get enough of my stupid jokes, because boy howdy do I make a ton of them in meetings. jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

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I think this every day at least a dozen times.

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Today's Supreme Court has built its enormous power, in part, on the idea that it is more independent & impartial than the political branches because it does not answer to public opinion. But that view would have shocked 19th c Americans (most of whom already feared such a strong judiciary). 5/

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When a vacancy occurred on the Court, it was filled by a resident of the corresponding circuit. Westerners especially clamored for more representation & Congress adjusted the circuits out of such concerns. Reform calls were framed as necessary to correct injustices by an unrepresentative Court. 3/

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In the 19th century, justices "rode circuit"--they were not only members of the SCOTUS but also served as judges on intermediary courts (there were no separate circuit judges!). There they were *representatives* of the circuit in question. Justices were selected FROM & based on their circuit. 2/

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Rachel Shelden's avatar Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

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Holly Brewer's avatar Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

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A couple of moments of complete personal brilliance after terrific team play by Spain. I am pulling for France in the match but just …. Wow. #Euro2024 #ESPvFRA

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Immigrants have been so essential to disaster recovery that a statue in New Orleans honors the Latinos who helped rebuild after Katrina. “In some areas of the country, such as the Southwest, all work crews are immigrants.” These are the workers he wants to deport: americasvoice.org/blog/baltimo...

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Successful writers do their work in community.

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Current heat index: 112. Ouch.

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Jamie👏🏼Lee👏🏼Curtis

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Y’all didn’t warn me about the “Ice Chips” episode of The Bear. 😭❤️

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The one thing I pulled from Barnicle’s piece was the cost associated with viewing the curated museum narrative vs the things many visitors do because they are free like wander the gift shops in town. We need to make it easier to access the history.

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Kevin says far better than I could what I was thinking after reading that Times op-ed on Gettysburg.

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Chris Petkus's avatar Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Hey it’s terrible out there, but well done Mark Cavendish on 35 stage wins - great story in sport! #tourdefrance

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We are most certainly not ready.

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

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Lots of reasons to drag the NY Times these days, but this piece on the burgeoning new gen of scholars redefining rural studies is pretty great. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/b...

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It’s hard to overstate the extent to which David Barton’s conglomerate has indoctrinated so many white evangelicals into his revisionist history about the founding.

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Seems like a good day to remind people that Thomas Jefferson and others typically called "Founding Fathers" were readers of the Qu'ran and versed in other world religions, seeing their free exercise as essential to the American experiment.
www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/020...

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I happen to think that a well designed religious studies curriculum would be a worthy addition to k-12 teaching in humanities and social studies. Familiarity with religious texts as documents of global significance could have major benefit. But this is not the way.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/u...

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The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, located in Washington DC, is one of 7 new sites added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network 🗃️

www.nps.gov/reer/learn/n...

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Looking forward to reading this more closely but the distinction is a very valuable one!

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“Current affairs” is a bookstore category, not a scholarly discipline. Go to your local B&N and you’ll find a Current Affairs shelf full of books about (oversimplifying a bit, but not a lot, here) Things That Are Going Wrong

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You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.

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Forty years ago today, Prince & the Revolution released "Purple Rain", one of the artistic and commercial peaks of the 1980s. The title ballad was an unusual and unlikely track to have become Prince's signature song, and this is the story of how it came to be. www.anildash.com/2014/07/25/i...

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Thinking of young English midfielders ... could Emile Smith-Rowe have been any worse than Trent Alexander-Arnold?

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My hope, too - not only Native American and Indigenous history but also Native American and Indigenous law.

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Automatic repost from me any time I see a new book on the craft of writing, especially when it's tailored for academic and professional writers and the fine art of describing and disseminating scholarship for its publics.

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Please pay attention to what is happening in Kenya.

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Thanks for drawing attention to this important set of distinctions!

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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I should add many scholars who are Native history specialists would not call themselves US immigration historians, nor should they.

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In 1619 when European migrants arrived in the English colonies, Native people already lived there. What happened to Natives w/ the migration & slave importations? US immigration history is slowly including Native people. This is a well reported story on how migration affects Native nations today. 1/

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