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If you've been waiting in the wings to launch an artisan chicory coffee revival, congrats, I guess.

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The last time I felt like this was when Leticia Van de Putte asked her epic question — what does a woman have to do to be heard over the men in the room — during Wendy Davis' filibuster of the 2013 TX omnibus anti-abortion bill and the crowd in the building hollered until the clock hit midnight.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL WHO SUPPORT HIGHER ED: Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack! bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

"We all live inside this brutal, loud, limitlessly stupid soap opera now, where each and every institution you might have valued, with whatever misgiving, can be seen sliding toward a ruined and more or less unviable version of itself."

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to have the digital version of the 2024 Journal of Texas Music History now online, featuring articles on San Antonio's Acosta family of luthiers and on the Texas dimensions of the Vietnam War Songs Project by @justinbrummer.bsky.social www.txst.edu/ctmh/publica...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

We are looking for journalists and writers to cover the Mississippi Delta and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Like every semester teaching US history, started with Reconstruction in the first week, about to get to Wong Kim Ark in the second. "The past is never dead. It's not even past" and all that.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking to join more of your fellow Verdes and #AustinFC fans, here is a starter pack: go.bsky.app/5z2Qf4Y

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

It's in small doses, but in my most ambitious moments I figure our KUTX/Texas Standard/Texas State team can eventually cover the Lone Star State's whole dang musical past via This Week in Texas Music History. This week, Katie Webster!

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Spoke with Rose McMackin about the legacy of the Chicks. Honored to be cited alongside Marissa Moss and Jada Watson and for the chance to engage with the Barbed Wire, a great new pub on Texas culture and goings-on. thebarbedwire.com/2025/01/06/t...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

No matter how often I listen to Roky Erickson's "Bloody Hammer"-a song I love-the arrival of the baby ghost in the lyric somehow spooks and surprises me every time.

submitted 557 days ago • 1 comment

Compiling stats for an evaluation at work. Probably par for the course at public universities, but still humbling to learn over 5,000 students have taken courses with me in the past ten years at Texas State.

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