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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dear @mcsweeneys.net - ah, your socials seem a little out of sync. Over on the 'stack, "you" keep posting earnest, NPR-voice links to a literary magazine. An example:

Screenshot of McSweeney's account linking to Believer Magazine, with an excerpt of a review that mentions Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You people/people-adjacent life-forms need a picture of a cat. Luckily -

A tabby cat sits primly with front two paws propped on Human, looking thoughtfully into the middle distance with her beautiful light green eyes as she feels cuddly but not clingy.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't know why I get fundraising texts, I block them every dang time, but this recent example raised my eyebrow.

Fundraising text from president opens with [*READ AND THEN DELETE IMMEDIATELY*] followed by "A message from Trump's Oval Office just hit YOUR phone. Do NOT forward. Do NOT screenshot" followed by a donation link, reminiscent of Ralphie's decoder ring that spells out "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" in "A Christmas Story"

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who established a definitive link between unpasteurized raw milk and brucellosis infection, around 1920ish? (Dr Alice Evans, she was accused of just promoting Big Pasteurization. Wasn't believed at first. She just waited. Within a few years they believed her.)

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who tracked down Typhoid Mary, chased her when she did a runner, and sat on her til help arrived, and also improved milk safety, saving lives and reducing preventable illness? (Dr S Josephine Baker)

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wanna know who improved refrigerated transport for food?

Mary Engle Pennington on top of a railroad car, early 1900s

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This ~1907-08 postcard somehow addresses both the English women's suffrage movement and the early 1900s smallpox vaccination hesitancy, as the disease waned because...so many people had been immunized. London Museum.

Early 1900s English suffrage postcard via London Museum. Illustration depicts mother explaining her infant is too sickly for vaccination. A man tells her he needs her husband to come report it. She explains he's at sea. He replies it has to be her husband because mothers don't count as parents.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Remarkably, not the only "cowgirl evangelist" of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Houston Chronicle, Feb 15, 1947

Black and white vintage newspaper clipping of a woman on a white rearing horse. Woman is wearing western wear and holding a cowboy hat. Title above says "Evangelist on Horseback." Caption identifies her as Miss Bessie Bruffett, cowgirl evangelist. Clipping from Houston Chronicle, Feb 15, 1947. Miss Bruffett preached all over the U.S.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And who went down into mines and advocated for safety and now a bunch of that was rolled back? Dr. Harriet Hardy, who worked with Dr. Alice Hamilton.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Cat from US says hello and hope tomorrow is a gentle, soft landing

Tabby cat curled up sleeping on pale green blanket

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ahhh, there we go. [alt text]

Headline from The Atlantic that's been altered from "How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart" to "How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Tore Apart and Floated to the Surfacw," along with a photo of the reflecting pool drained of almost all water, just enough remaining to reflect the ostensibly consternated Washington Monument, which has Seen A Lot In Its Day. Reflecting Pool drama during the US 250th anniversary year feels like your uncle inviting a bunch of people over for a cookout and pool party and then his brother in law screws up the new pool lining and no one can swim and your uncle keeps blaming a teenager from down the block for vandalism rather than admit his brother in law messed it up, and your aunt is rolling her eyes and laughing extra shrilly and says we need a girls day soon and your uncle says the kids can have a water gun fight instead of the pool and your aunt starts banging things extra loudly in the kitchen and then your grandma almost falls in the emptied pool dodging getting sprayed by a water gun while your older cousin has to be told now's not the time for horizontal bottle rockets.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Found her as a stray kitten mewling in the downtown twilight so loudly I scanned the rooftops thinking a hawk was screeching. When I saw her across the street I blurted "well hello there!" in surprise at the source of the sound, and she started to trot over to me. She's a fearsome guard cat.

Cat curled like a croissant giving side-eye.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I have something to share, but you're not prepared.

Nieman Marcus digital ad for Givenchy women's fringed black heels. Unfortunately the fringe falls in a rounded cascade from just below the front of the ankle to the floor, while the open-backed heel protrudes ever so slightly above and behind. Hooves. The shoes look like uncanny hooves.

Another Nieman Marcus digital ad for Givenchy shoes that look like hooves. They're over $2,000.

Nieman Marcus product description for Givenchy hoof shoes: "Crafted from leather, these fringed sandals from Givenchy are sure to make a statement."

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

did they fall in the reflecting pool

White guys in a metro station wearing soaked, dark long sleeved shirts, partially soaked tan baseball caps, and/or partially soaked khaki pants, either protesting John Hancock by hiding their identities or masking against viral spread by wearing white gaiters pulled up over the lower half of their faces. The floofy microphone of a video camera suggests they're documenting their outing. No one appears to have brought deodorant wipes. They appear at significant risk of dehydration, or just lost a team-building water balloon fight, or did a no-no in the reflecting pool. Each has a patch and American flag ironed on to their sleeve but the flags vary and one is upside-down, but it's impossible to tell if it's on purpose. Commenters note the drenched men appear to belong to a group called the "Patriot Front." Immediate electrolytes/IV fluid recommended; deodorant wipes recommended for all.

Close-up of Soggy Bottom of one of the following:
White guys in a metro station wearing soaked, dark long sleeved shirts, partially soaked tan baseball caps, and/or partially soaked khaki pants, either hiding their identities or masking against viral spread by wearing white gaiters pulled up over the lower half of their faces. The floofy microphone of a video camera suggests they're documenting their outing. No one appears to have brought deodorant wipes. They appear at significant risk of dehydration, or just lost a team-building water balloon fight, or did a no-no in the reflecting pool. Each has a patch and American flag ironed on to their sleeve but the flags vary and one is upside-down, but it's impossible to tell if it's on purpose. Commenters note the drenched men appear to belong to a group called the "Patriot Front." Immediate electrolytes/IV fluid recommended; deodorant wipes recommended for all.

Close up of different Soggy Bottom of the following:

White guys in a metro station wearing soaked, dark long sleeved shirts, partially soaked tan baseball caps, and/or partially soaked khaki pants, either hiding their identities or masking against viral spread by wearing white gaiters pulled up over the lower half of their faces. The floofy microphone of a video camera suggests they're documenting their outing. No one appears to have brought deodorant wipes. They appear at significant risk of dehydration, or just lost a team-building water balloon fight, or did a no-no in the reflecting pool. Each has a patch and American flag ironed on to their sleeve but the flags vary and one is upside-down, but it's impossible to tell if it's on purpose. Commenters note the drenched men appear to belong to a group called the "Patriot Front." Immediate electrolytes/IV fluid recommended; deodorant wipes recommended for all.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also FWIW: 3 decades earlier in 1660, Quaker woman preacher Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston. Before that, she'd been accused of birthing a monster, after she had a stillbirth w/severe deformity. Maybe later, Salem had contaminated food, etc- still, note hat in this print of Quaker woman preaching!

Print of Quaker woman preaching, wearing tall black pointy hat.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So, some screenshots that provide context to all the "manly tariffs" and "feminine diplomacy" and "masculine energy" - from Dr Doris Bergen (from open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... )

Quote from Doris Bergen's "Twisted Cross" on obsession with "manliness" in 1930s Germany

More on German nationalist Christians in 1930s obsessing over making faith super manly.

More from Bergen on 1930s German nationalist Christians fretting over how to amp Jesus Christ from image of humility to essentially roid rage

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I wrote about "A Wrecking Ball to the Work of Women in America" about 13 months ago. It...has not lost relevance.

Photo of Alice C. Evans in lab circa 1910s. Caption text explains that in 1918 she published findings linking transmission of brucellosis with raw milk and human consumption. She was met with skepticism but knew her work was sound. Sure enough other researchers confirmed her findings several years later, and when pasteurization became common around 1930, brucellosis infections plummeted. In spring 2025, the FDA halted quality testing of milk.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Well if I ever need to cast 17thC university student, polymath, theologian, defender of women's education, house church founder, artist, Reformed turned Pietist and possible-now-mummy Anna Maria van Schurman, I'm paging Kristen Schaal. Magnificent side-eye in this self-portrait.

Anna Maria van Schurman self-portrait engraving, 1633, she looks like actress Kristen Schaal giving side eye.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

worked on a bipartisan bill to increase refugee children numbers. Bill didn't even get out of committee. Perkins tried everything to increase refugee numbers. She's why we have "The Sound of Music." This is the kind of Charles Coughlin stuff that circulated:

1935 antisemitic conspiracy pamphlet courtesy Columbia University archives, with editorial digital markup.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

oh look women's rights and people working together, like at the 1934 Cairo women's suffrage conference, or a 1922 newspaper graphic of women's voting, or the 1935 Istanbul International Woman Suffrage Association conference.

1934 Cairo women's suffrage conference, photo courtesy LSE.

Burlington Daily News 1922 suffrage map of Europe

1935 International Woman Suffrage Association international convention held in Istanbul. Photo courtesy LSE. Some women in hats, saris, or head coverings, yet quelle surprise! no fisticuffs erupt.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Dr S Josephine Baker (in car) worked w/ immigrants and lowered mortality rates in tenements so well, her work scaled into 1920s Sheppard-Towner Act (that was opposed by the AMA & by women anti-suffragists, who tended to be nationalists). Hey look! People working together.

Dr S Josephine Baker heading to work circa 1910-1912, courtesy Harvard Square Library

1909 Library of Congress public domain photo - demonstration against child labor, with multilingual banners.

1937 racially integrated ILGWU union basketball rec league game, photo courtesy Kheel Center at Cornell.

The New York Age, Oct 18, 1917, on suffragists donating to YMCA unit for facilities for Black troops.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Women weren't deployed as military medics but women surgeons, doctors, & nurses (some volunteers) were busy on both sides of the conflict (German nurses in trenches below). In France, women physicians from US, Canada, & UK were shelled at times. A fact a woman doctor had to bring up...

German nurses in gas masks in the trenches of World War I. Photo public domain, courtesy NIH.

"British women carpenters near the Front" during WWI, photo courtesy Library of Congress

Dr. Charlotte Fairbanks, chief surgeon of American Women's Hospital #1 in France, 1919

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

women preachers commonly known as Salvation Lasses or Doughnut Lassies. There are people alive today because young Salvation Army women preachers hauled someone out of the way of live shelling 108 years ago. (Re: women under fire in #WWI: a Russian all-woman "death battalion" had its own chaplain)

The all-woman Russian "Battalion of Death" in WWI had their own chaplain - Mother Maria Michailovna, who went with them to the front "under fire on several occasions." Other archival newspaper reports mention the regiment sustained heavy casualties. Montgomery Times, Sept 27, 1917

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

but their presence in France at the end of the war permanently shifted public opinion in the US (inc Teddy Roosevelt's son). They became the subject of popular songs, parades were held for them, Evangeline Booth accepted a medal for their efforts, and a cargo ship was named for...

San Francisco Call Bulletin, May 1919: "Ship to Be Named 'Salvation Lass' - the text mentions Adjutant Beatrice Hammond, "who spent eighteen months overseas with the American expeditionary forces...will be the sponsor."

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

...some of that, there was already an instinctive culture of dodging projectiles baked into the Salvation Army before bullets whizzed as they fried doughnuts outside. So Salvation Army street preachers who navigated angry mobs and jail proved pretty adaptable to the Front (a few got injured)...

The Daily Star Mirror of Moscow, Idaho (yes, that Moscow, Idaho) ran a support appeal ad in 1919 that pretty accurately described part of what women preachers were doing in France at the end of WWI. (Highlighting these kinds of activities was easier reading than sharing some of the more grim anecdotes.)

Lincoln Star, Jan 25, 1919 - sometimes married Salvation Army couples were referred to by husband's rank and the wife was "Mrs" but couples were the same rank, so properly speaking Captain Mrs. Holbrook and her husband Captain A.M. Holbrook returned after Captain Mrs. Holbrook, who I'm sure had a first name, was wounded by shelling. No matter what activities Salvation Army "officers" undertook then or now, all are, by training, preachers. So an American woman preacher in a combat zone in France in WWI was injured by shelling.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

sometimes jailed. On principle, they often refused to pay the fine and refused to allow supporters to pay the fine, spending the time in jail instead in #protest. This was BEFORE the #suffragists /suffragettes/ Occaquan. So while some of the women at the Front in WWI were too young to remember..

The Hampshire Advertiser, Oct 12, 1889, England: members of the Skeleton Army sentenced for assaulting Salvation Army preachers, including a woman.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

rotten eggs, rocks, old vegetables, or sometimes unfortunately not ducking them (there were some fatalities). The violent "Skeleton Army" sprang up in opposition in England, responsible for a lot of unrest there. In the UK and US, many Salvation Army women preachers found themselves arrested...

Hartford Courant 1884 newspaper clipping about the Salvation Army "jail birds" banquet held as a celebratory fundraiser when four women preachers finished their term in the Bridgeport jail.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

actually kind of well-suited for that. Women and men in the #SalvationArmy in the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s were almost universally loathed (see "bonnet strings" above). They quickly had to learn "stand-up comedian being heckled"-level improvisational and crowd-reading skills, frequently ducking...

St Louis Post Dispatch, 1897, about Salvation Army women preachers in Colwich, Kansas, having rotten eggs thrown at them.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Activity scope shows absence of basic logistical support in WWI. The women in active combat zones & absolute butchery of #WWI were providing medical care, dietary supplementation, and spontaneous evac assistance for wounded. Interestingly, the Salvation Army street preaching culture was...

Book cover for volume about the Salvation Army officer McAllister sisters with vintage photo of two very young women at makeshift cooking station outdoors, wearing aprons. Title: The Doughnut Sweethearts: The Diary of Alice McAllister during World War I.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Though international headquarters were in London, so WWI was not an easy time [understatement]. (An international #suffragist organization managed to keep its international newsletter going across warring borders during WWI. Epic.) Salvation Army women were busy everywhere:

1915 - The German Salvation Army in Berlin feeding children during World War I; photo courtesy Library of Congress.

Chicaago Daily News postcard featuring Salvation Army women preachers making doughnuts in improvised circumstances in France during WWI.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In the 1910s/20s,Evangeline was US Commander of The Salvation Army. She twisted arms to get the US military to allow Salvationists at the front: on paper, those women preachers technically had to be listed as privates to be allowed in combat zones. But the Salvation Army was active in Germany too-

Post-WWI: Salvation Army officer in Tubingen, Germany, in 1925. Music was a big part of Salvation Army culture from the beginning - a way to draw a crowd in public.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Evangeline met several US presidents and received a medal for the Salvation Army's support work at the end of WWI (women preachers were on the front lines in France), met Emperor Hirohito in 1929, and stood in her nightgown arguing with Nazis on a train in 1935...

Montreal Star, Nov 12, 1929 newspaper clipping on Salvation Army US Commander Evangeline Booth visiting Japan and meeting with Emperor Hirohito.

The Examiner (Tasmania), July 5, 1935. In the 1930s, several women evangelists and preachers were well-known around the world: California Pentecostal pastor Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of The Foursquare Church denomination; Anglican lay preacher and theologian Dr. A. Maude Royden; and Salvation Army US Commander, then world General Evangeline Booth. All three were regularly heard on the radio, and all three traveled extensively around the world in the 1920s and 30s. Many other women pastors, preachers, and evangelists traveled internationally in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s (like Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph, Rev. Kubushiro Ochimi, and others) but many were not as well-known - though sometimes "firsts" made it into newspapers in other countries (Scottish Rev. Vera Kenmure was in Australian newspapers, and Rev. Kubushiro Ochimi occasionally was mentioned in newspapers, sometimes in part because of her aunt).

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you include The Salvation Army under the general Wesleyan Methodist/holiness denomination category, the number of Wesleyan Methodist women preachers worldwide since the 1860s absolutely skyrockets (Indonesian preacher below). Including internationally famous eventual-General Evangeline Booth.

An Indonesian woman Salvation Army woman preacher, pre-1925. Photo part of a National Geographic essay on people around the world and The Salvation Army. So far, I haven't yet been able to identify the woman in the photo, though recently I sent a long-shot email to the Salvation Army in Indonesia inquiring if their archives might provide additional information, so fingers crossed we get lucky and positively identify a name. Some parsing of the visual may be helpful: on the one hand, yes, The Salvation Army name, ranking, and so on explicitly borrows from military imagery. Not all indigenous Salvation Army uniforms looked pseudo-military, though some, like this one, did. In the context of colonization, yes, that is loaded. The simultaneous dynamic is that the Salvation Army always affirmed the equality of women, including indigenous women, to preach and lead. In contrast to the frequent anonymity of indigenous so-called "Bible women" who were basically lay evangelists and cultural interpreters alongside missionaries, and who rarely were photographed or named, an indigenous woman wearing the same thing as the Salvation Army preachers who first went to Indonesia signaled visual equality with western men and women. The flip side of this Indonesian woman wearing this outfit is that some English Salvation Army preachers who went to India, including some Booths, rarely or never went back to fully western-style clothing; some went barefoot for the entirety of their time in India, which for some was decades or most of their adult lives; that was several decades before India's independence.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Including "The Marechale" Katie Booth Clibborn, who snipped her bonnet strings and pinned them in place so they'd break away the next time Parisian gangs tried to stop her street preaching by strangling her with her bonnet strings. Her street preaching later got her expelled from Switzerland...

Salvation Army preacher/one of the daughters of William and Catherine Booth, Katie Booth Clibborn, and her infamous bonnet ribbons. Clibborn, like her siblings, had strong ideas and opinions and later had a falling out with her famous family. Booth Clibborn's biographer wrote, "Blood and fire - that is what she was at the beginning and that is what she will be to the end."

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

(Often, many.) Strictly speaking, The Salvation Army isn't explicitly a Wesleyan Methodist denomination, though co-founder William Booth had been a Methodist preacher previously, co-founder Catherine Booth wrote a pamphlet on women preaching, and Salvationists had women preachers from the outset-

Salvation Army co-founder, activist, writer, and preacher Englishwoman Catherine Booth. She also managed to wrangle a household of very opinionated offspring and all their pets, which at one point included a mischievous monkey. Catherine Booth and other women in the Booth family worked with Josephine Butler to repeal the horrific Contagious Diseases Acts in Victorian England - before women could exercise the right to vote. The Booths and the Salvation Army tackled Victorian-era poverty, exploitation, unfair labor, hunger, and animal abuse; they were vegetarians. Browsing their history and their photos, one comes away with the impression that this was an energetic and not altogether neurotypical family.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

They should've just listened to Illinois layman S.A. Stock. Though Rev. Mary A. Will was likely the first Wesleyan Methodist woman ordained, she was far from the first #Methodist woman preacher- from John Wesley (1700s) til now, there have been Wesleyan Methodist women preachers in every decade.

Bristol Journal (UK) newspaper clipping from 1844, on Black American Methodist lay preacher Zilpha Elaw preaching at City Chapel on Milton Street in London. Bristol Journal, Oct 19, 1844.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

(The Seneca Falls women's rights convention had been held in a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and Wesleyan Methodist Connection founder Luther Lee had already ordained Congregationalist Antoinette Brown Blackwell.) Sadly, Rev. Will's 1861 ordination was revoked in 1864, then reinstated in 1875...

Photo of Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell in the Springfield Daily Republican, Nov 8th 1914.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thread: from 1861 to WWII & back- In 1861, Wesleyan Methodist Rev. Mary Will was listed "joint pastor" with her husband. So CHAMPION LAYMAN S.A. Stock clarified: "We do not wish it to go out that sister Will does not have charge of the Nora Circuit. We are glad to say our church never has been...

This isn't Rev. Mary A. Will's rural Illinois Wesleyan Methodist congregation, it's the reconstructed Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first U.S. convention for women's rights was held in the 1840s. This is the abolitionist denomination to which Rev. Mary A. Will belonged. Photo courtesy Kenneth Zirkel.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

THEY INJURED SENATOR ANDY KIM. This Andy Kim:

Famous photo of then-Rep. Andy Kim loving his country well as he stayed late helping clean up garbage from the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. One of the iconic 21st century photos of leadership in action. He is the best of us.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Some of the pets of a few women pastors from the 1890s-1960s. #history

Image showing Baptist Pastor Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, PhD, with her dog Bud, 1942.

Image showing newspaper clippings about 1910s and 1920s Methodist pastor Rev. Kate M. Cooper, alongside a sketch of a cat, with Cooper's photo in one clipping. Rev. Cooper had an Angora cat named Peter Pan while pastoring Nantucket's historic Methodist church in the 1920s.

Image showing 1890 newspaper sketch of Universalist minister Rev. Phebe Hanaford, alongside a 1900 newspaper clipping about Hanaford's swearing parrot Goo-Goo flying away and Hanaford's offer of a reward for Goo-Goo's return.

Image showing 1950s and 1960s newspaper clippings about American evangelists Beatrice Spies and Nora Jordan and their canaries Dicky and Sunshine, whose birdsong opened each spiritual radio broadcast the evangelists recorded for shut-ins. The radio program aired five mornings a week.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

They do not care. They just refused to negotiate with their unionized journalists, gave journalists choice of payout or layoff, and have pivoted to a significant degree to AI and prediction markets. It's a sad implosion of a legacy service to the free press and a huge loss.

AP headline from early April 2026: AP Says It Will Offer Buyouts As Part Of A Pivot Away From Newspaper-Focused History, with photo of AP office

Text from AP article describing changes to income streams and pivot to AI, along with unsurprising but headache inducing quote from exec editor Julie Pace.

Text from Apr 2026 AP article on storied outlet dumping journalista. Union statement clarifies AP refused to train journalists in new media formata and ignored request to bargain about AI.

Apr 2026 AP aeticle text describing how "AP was among the first news outlets to make a deal with an AI company..." and that AP has a contract with Google as well "to deliver news through the Gemini chatbot."

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Alright you lot, I'm glad I seem trustworthy but no one has asked to see my source or her name. Make me cite my sources! (clears throat, turns on overhead projector) Mary Engle Pennington: read more about her here, where you can find this superb photo: www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

Black and white archival photo taken from top of train car. A woman in oldfashioned shirtwaist and skirt kneels on top of car as someone protruding from opening in the top of the railway car reaches over toward something she's holding. Caption text reads "Mary Engle Pennington getting poultry samples from a refrigerated railcar for testing, ca. 1910. University of Pennsylvania Archives."

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Reminder that correspondence format varies in the files. It can be easy to miss little things only some formats include. Compare these two versions of a Melania email, only one of which includes a tiny WJC (Clinton); that one also show's Maxwell's reply calling the first lady "sweet pea."

Emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and Melania Trump. The format is unclear but seems to show that this is not the entirety of an email chain or correspondence, part of which is shown at the bottom to include "To: WJC"

Email showing same text from Melania but with sender and recipient redacted and without Maxwell's reply or the WJC visible.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New series on Ken Starr's interactions with Epstein during/after Starr's tenure at Baylor during the assault allegation scandal:

Interior photo of Baylor football locker room with "Be the Standard" motto on the wall, in dark green filter, with semi-transparent black and white images of Jeffrey Epstein and Ken Starr in the foreground and gold-colored letters spelling the series title "Be the Standard" with the last letters of standard tumbling and trailing downward.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Quick note: -Starr was one of Epstein's attorneys in late 2000s; he helped secure famously light plea deal in Florida. (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021... ) -There are numerous mentions of Starr in files -But that file number (EFTA02621906) shows email between JE & Terry Kafka re: Starr's son

Image of email from Epstein files sent Sept 14 2017 from Dallas businessman Terry Kafka to Jeffrey Epstein. Text reads "I have been meeting with Randy Starr, son of =en (sic). Very nice young guy. He's in commercial real =state (sic) in Dallas." ("sic" means a quote is exact, retaining errors rather than changing the text to fix them; the equal signs are simply document transcription errors and should be displayed as the letter "e" - so text should read "Ken" and "real estate".) From the publicly viewable Epstein library at the DOJ website, EFTA02621906.

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