a black cat is sitting on top of a cauldron with a wooden stick in it . Alt: a black cat is sitting on top of a cauldron stirring the potion with a wooden spoon and doing an evil laughter

Okay, this is weird but I was SURE that your newsletter was called STIRring in a Maze. I guess have been reading so many news lately that my eyesight is blurry 😂

Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.

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#JusticeForNoah

Reuters, Variety fall for hoax $43 billion "bid" for Paramount The bid submitted on Wednesday would include an infusion of $10 billion in capital to Paramount, plus a $400 million break-up fee paid to Skydance Media.

Good digging from @matthewkeys.net on how many publications - from the NYPost to Variety - flipped a fake press release into a story about a company's supposed $43 billion bid on Paramount.

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NBC: Interest in Paris Olympics advertising outpaces Rio, Tokyo games More than $500 million has been generated from new sponsors who have committed advertising spend against the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Olympics boycott is going so well that...

*checks notes*

NBC is about to earn the highest Olympics and Paralympics advertising revenue in the company's history, with $500 million+ in new sponsorship commitments for the Paris games alone.
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All three of my new posts here start with OMG. Time to ponder whether I’m too excitable.

OMG overwhelmed at the selection! Recs are welcome!

#BookSky💙📚 #history #books #OccultSky

History is Happening! Welcome to "History Matters (…and so does coffee!) with Dr. Joanne Freeman," presented by the National Council for History Education (NCHE). This series, fea...

Hey folks.

Some thoughts on the REMARKABLE change in the election this past week brought by Harris's candidacy, who she is, and what she represents.

As a political historian -- it's been quite something to see.

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On a serious note, THIS was for once a decent, albeit horrifying, piece of journalistic work from one of the national media who lost themselves in a critique of Biden! 👏 NOW we are talking! People have to know.

These guys called these SOBs weird before it was done en masse! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

OMG, @ifbookspod.bsky.social just did an episode on Richard Hanania’s “The Origins of Woke”!

I cackled at their description of the book: “One man attempts to trace the lineage of modern "wokeness" and imagine a world without it. He is hampered severely by the fact that he is not normal.”

Iowa’s Abortion Ban Strikes Another Blow to Access: ‘All Hands on Deck’ - Jezebel Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I know we're all focused on the election but, as of 8am Monday, Iowa became the 18th state to ban all or most abortions—a relative haven in the Midwest, decimated. Here’s why local groups like Iowa Abortion Access Fund need your support:

How boot camps are helping to address the historic gap in internet access on US tribal lands A boot camp on a California ranch could help improve internet access on U.S. tribal lands. Tribal Broadband Bootcamps have brought together 72 tribal nations from across the U.S. to learn more about h...

one of the organizations I now work for (The Institute For Local Self Reliance) got some love from the Associated Press for their efforts to help tribal communities build their own broadband networks

If you have attempted to fit whatever mold and failed to do so, you are probably lucky. You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

One and only Ally Henny. I hope she joins the Bluesky soon.

It gives one HOPE. It says yes things are bad and have been bad in one or another way since the founding, but look at all those people who believed they could, who sacrificed, so that we could be here. You can too! Thank you both for your hard work and for continuing to fight the good fight ❤️ /3

I say that learning the True history makes one, on the contrary, a more responsible citizen of this country. It shows that USA has so much potential and incredible, brave and resilient people who contributed to the progress in all of its forms. /3

You made American history so interesting to learn! They say that learning the Truth about American history would make one stop being a patriot, would make children hate their own country and promote division. /2

*Screams in excited*

OMG my personal hero and a celebrity after my own heart saw my mention of her!

Let me use this opportunity to say huge thank you, @jbf1755.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for your wonderful, informative and fun podcast “Now & Then”. /1

Omg and @hcrichardson.bsky.social too! So excited you both are on BlueSky now!

@jbf1755.bsky.social you will have so much fun with this one! 😂