Dr. KelsaPellett (Franklin Fangirl)
@kelsapellettiere.com
Historian working on Benjamin Franklin, gender, friendship, and early US diplomacy. MARRIED to pompadour @KevinYeaux.com.
I’ve lost count over the years of how often people think Ben was a US president but I have never met someone who didn’t know he was real. 🤣
Fast-Casual Karen@sinisternails1.bsky.social · last wk.This made me think of the time I was around 5th & Arch St for some reason, where Ben Franklins grave is. I’m standing with friends chatting the church behind me and from back there I hear someone just realizing that he actually existed and wasn’t fictional?? 🤣😂🤣😭😭😭
I keep telling you -- the kids are all right.
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 3w agoBlack kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
A part of the final for my first haft US history survey online (term 2) this summer was having students write a reflection essay about what they learned from the course and I am absolutely blown away with their papers! #thekidsareallright
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In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
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However, if one more person says to me “Franklin doesn’t seem like a good guy” or “seems like an asshole” one more time because he wasn’t a great husband I am going to crash out. Jackson was devoted to his wife but committed genocide & Adams came very close to fucking up relations with France ffs.
I forgot to share that my panel went great yesterday! I got a lot of questions and great suggestions for expanding my dissertation into a book!
Hegseth's inability to understand safety in the military stems from his utter lack of experience around Soldiers or in leadership positions where safety is a concern.
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · last mo.Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
🔥 Russia’s “deep rear” logistics just got absolutely smoked by Ukrainian long-range strikes — Moscow & Tambov regions, drone component factories, and an oil facility turned into parking lots. Sea of Azov & Crimea got the mid-range special too. Ukraine’s drone warriors don’t miss. Cry harder, Putin.
4/ But even after hundreds of new private schools and microschools opened in Arkansas, the state remained largely hands-off. Some of its only requirements: conducting fire drills, keeping immunization records and having an American flag and a flagpole.
This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
I need to get back into shitposting about Ben. I've been on sabbatical for too long.
Condensing more than two chapters of my dissertation into a ten page paper has me so stressed.
March for an end to ICE murders and justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guererro, Seattle.
Today the adjudicated-rapist-in-chief finally had to pay the piper! Trump shoved his fingers in a woman’s vagina w/o her consent. A jury unanimously found Trump liable for sexual abuse. A judge called it “rape.” And SCOTUS refused to overturn their decision.
I know no one watches TV anymore, but we are getting closer to Idiocracy by the day.
Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is a must see. She explains what happened w/out being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful. Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice. We know how this goes.
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” - Anne Lamott
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
I have to be vague because I might work with this person one day, but seeing an historian I really respect on a very right wing podcast upsets me a great deal.
And here it is. He is embarrassing his country in the world stage big time. The fix is in. If you are American who spends your days complaining about corruption in your government but is ok with this, then we have nothing to talk about. I will block anyone who tries to justify this.
Jimmy Carter had to gave up his peanut farm to avoid any conflicts of interest while president. The Obamas were forbidden to refinance their home while he was in office. Donald Trump has made over 21,000 stock trades while in office, often using his office to manipulate markets.
