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Carolyn E Holmes

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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.

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OMG OMG OMG OMG. Thank you!

I have a Baby Lock sewing machine.

(This is all EPP, but I love my Jubilant, and use it *constantly*)

06.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Real Lord Farquhar Energy here.

06.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like I probably should have known this, but the majority of US diplomatic missions have no confirmed ambassador.

Of the 190 permanent missions we have, 78 have confirmed ambassadors. 112 do not.

We have no ambassador in 58.9% of our embassies around the world.

05.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I actually managed to co-plan my children’s elaborate spirit week outfits BEFORE they went to bed.

Calling it, y’all. Biggest win of the week.

05.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill would require public TN universities to build a Charlie Kirk Plaza In an effort to honor the late conservative activist, two TN bills are looking to change free speech norms on campuses & require Charlie Kirk plazas.

"Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill that would require every public university in the state to build a memorial plaza honoring conservative commentator Charlie Kirk β€” a proposal that could cost taxpayers more than $18 million in its first year."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/2...

04.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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04.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, absolutely no shade. The song is quite is quite good. The lyrics don’t pull punches.

I’m just…questioning.

04.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a Kermit the frog impersonating influencer on TikTok who is going viral with a rap music video talking about the injustice of the war.

What stage of politics is this?

04.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much! That’s very kind.

03.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

02.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

02.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate your support!

02.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I fear this sewing project is becoming 75% of my personality.

02.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Your shirt is EVERYTHING

02.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All I want is to be left alone for 5-7 business days to bake, sew, sleep, and binge TV, and not marinate in the horrors this government is perpetrating.

01.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

…cultivating TWO new nemeses…

01.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Peer review is a fundamentally broken system that relied on the kind of "social trust" that was only ever about how Old Boys treated each other in Old Boys Clubs.

27.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm proud to announce that I am cultivating a new nemesis.

27.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hillary Destroys the Republicans They’d soon regret sending her a subpoena.

Hillary Destroys the Republicans
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

27.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starbucks notifying me that it's "National Protein Day" is the nutritional equivalent of "white history month."

Just. Stop.

27.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In my humble and admittedly deeply uncool opinion:

It's literally just the attitude. It has next to nothing to do with the garments themselves.

27.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From a 1935 book, about the ways that quilting is interfering with both bridge AND the matinee?

It is certainly β€œan ill depression that blows no good.”

Y’all. They’ve been telling women that we are wasting our time…forever…and about everything.

26.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

That mug! It’s a whole lifestyle! I love it.

26.02.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yea! Picked that up at the Hat shop in Maseru! The one to the right of it is a gift from a friend from Burkina Faso. I also got another style of straw hat from another friend (from Lesotho).

It’s a hat-a-palooza!

25.02.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My decor style and sense of color can be summed up by saying:

It all goes together because I like each bit on its own.

25.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I keep seeing stories of some Republican congressman not wanting to resign over 'an affair' with very few of them saying he doesn't want to resign over 'sexually harassing a staffer to the point she went to his office and immolated herself' which feels a little different?

25.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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It's the same picture dot gif.

24.02.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dubai chocolate is just gussied up Reese’s peanut butter cups.

23.02.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two stacks of books: one about quilting and quilt history and the other about apartheid and white conservatism in the US

Two stacks of books: one about quilting and quilt history and the other about apartheid and white conservatism in the US

I’m not really in danger of getting my ISA papers mixed up…

23.02.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0