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Hilary Anthony

@hilaryanthony.bsky.social
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I know about slavery, Quakers, and early Virginia. If some graduate student were to happen upon my essays about colonial Virginian Quakers and build on my work, this hobbyist would be so happy. medium.com/@hilaryanthony

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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Execution is morally wrong. Televising it is monstrous.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Elon is living on valuations inflated by stock prices, not underlying value.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
how? a ponzi scheme? who has is behind the originating demand? TSLA was overpriced long before SpaceX went public
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
who is propping up TSLA stock price?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ok then. wait for the streaming….
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m going for glass. not sure if it can be dated. but it is colorful. .
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Princess Bride.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hmmm I would have taken Miranda for a one-drop-rule type.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
yes
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New essay. In the weeds about some 18th century marriages between Pleasntses and Woodsons. medium.com/@hilaryantho...
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Which 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You are classy!
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
looks like a summer camp craft project gone wrong.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’s creating targets
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
no 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
will read. his book The Internal Enemy was a revelation for me
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alan Taylor is astonishingly prolific for a historian. His new book looks like it might be another classic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/b...
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Piercing 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is a sweet deal for folks who inherit stock and have no othet income.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
to get 125kin qualified dividends, you’d need a stock portfolio of $4 million generating 3% in dividends on the total
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
wow
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
you can take a do- over and try again
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Let them eat bread”!!! that was Jesus, right?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Following 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...
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A Place Once Called Pickanocky: A Homeland Nearly Forgotten
Colonial Quakers built hopes for prosperity where Chickahominy Indians had before them and enslaved Black people would following them.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
well done. ambitious first project!
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
oh dear
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I wish this were just satire
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
about to unfollow. not loving these.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
great!
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
is this satire? I’m exhausted.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A 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.”
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Pope Leo in shades and hat
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“accidently”
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
have the D’s noticed the plane?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
what 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?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
LOTR romantic comedy, Second Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
hulks?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
chillingly specific
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
no prisoners
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
She 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m in —but can we adjust the volume knob?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
historically accurate.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
and from the workers not being provided toilets and handwashing stands
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
when were you a kid? from the 70s I remember hearing about fecal contamination of lettuce from dirty water and toxic chemicals on grapes.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
taking measurements?
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
He doesn’t joke.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
She 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.
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Hilary Anthony @hilaryanthony.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
so, they wanted to choose how they would lose it?
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