Reposted by Hilary AnthonyThe Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Execution is morally wrong. Televising it is monstrous. 181
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Elon is living on valuations inflated by stock prices, not underlying value. 000
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026how? a ponzi scheme? who has is behind the originating demand? TSLA was overpriced long before SpaceX went public 200
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m going for glass. not sure if it can be dated. but it is colorful. . 2150
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026hmmm I would have taken Miranda for a one-drop-rule type. 0220
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New essay. In the weeds about some 18th century marriages between Pleasntses and Woodsons. medium.com/@hilaryantho...medium.comWhich Pleasants Married Which Woodson: Sorting Joseph and John Pleasants’ Eighteenth Century…Marriages of members of the Pleasants and Woodson families of Colonial Henrico Co Virginia are sorted by using Quaker records. 000
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 20/09/2026looks like a summer camp craft project gone wrong. 1280
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 19/09/2026no explanation overrides the need for an apology and taking responsibility. Imagery is the water graphic ad people live in. they must be literate; world wide brands need wide literacy. 130
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 14/09/2026will read. his book The Internal Enemy was a revelation for me 051
Reposted by Hilary AnthonyI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Alan Taylor is astonishingly prolific for a historian. His new book looks like it might be another classic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/b...nytimes.comPiercing the Delusions of a ‘Humane’ Plantation (Gift Article)In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants. 1210030
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this is a sweet deal for folks who inherit stock and have no othet income. 120
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026to get 125kin qualified dividends, you’d need a stock portfolio of $4 million generating 3% in dividends on the total 101
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ll be nitpicky. MFJ has 0% tax in qualified div & ltcg Taxable income up to about 100k. add back the standard deduction, about 125K total income. small potatoes for billionaires—but way more than what most “ retirees” need. 111
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Let them eat bread”!!! that was Jesus, right? 080
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Following up on my last essay about colonial Quakers in Virginia, I ventured down a rabbit hole about a place once called Pickanocky. This is what I found. medium.com/@hilaryantho...medium.comA Place Once Called Pickanocky: A Homeland Nearly ForgottenColonial Quakers built hopes for prosperity where Chickahominy Indians had before them and enslaved Black people would following them. 010
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I believe you can do it. I bought one when I was 16. It was a handful. Air cooled engine and small oil tank were not great for Florida, then when I got out west, those 4 little cylinders chugged slowly up to the mountain passes. Mustangs turn my head for nostalgia. 000
Reposted by Hilary AnthonyChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A Michigan Catholic deacon stands up for Muslims in Dearborn after a Christian nationalist rally called for their removal from the country: “To the men and women protesting in the name of Jesus, hurling hate at our Muslim brothers and sisters — not in his name, and certainly not on my watch.” 722166
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/08/2026what forum can we use to make those plans? The party is limping along. What meetings, conventions, think tanks, organizations can formulate and disseminate ideas for the basis of a plan? Are we just waiting for charismatic leaders? for the stars to align? can we plan to plan? 100
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 08/08/2026LOTR romantic comedy, Second Breakfast at Tiffany’s 020
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 28/07/2026She found more explicit and poetic ways than I did to say, "that soundtrack was too loud." I suspect we could have had a richer movie had Nolan studied goddesses and the cultural/historic setting of the poem in Wilson's class. We got an epic; we could have had a revelation. 010
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 15/07/2026and from the workers not being provided toilets and handwashing stands 130
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 15/07/2026when were you a kid? from the 70s I remember hearing about fecal contamination of lettuce from dirty water and toxic chemicals on grapes. 000
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 29/06/2026She risked her well being on Mansfield Park—it was that important to her to bring attention to the rot at the root of Georgian era English wealth, slavery. 081
Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 25/06/2026so, they wanted to choose how they would lose it? 000