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Scaremy Neely

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Dad, citizen, historian, cranky Missourian. Publications: A Union Tested, The Border between Them. The views expressed here are my own.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · Nov 18

There it is: my new book, A Union Tested, is out in the world. I hadn’t expected it for a few more weeks, but now that it’s arrived, here’s a quick intro and plug for anyone who’s teaching about loyalty, gender, marriage, illness, and the border West during the Civil War. #booksky #skystorians

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A book, A Union Tested, sits on a green and gold afghan.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 16h

Happy birthday! I hope you’re feeling better soon!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

If it’s what you say, I love it

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

Fire Butker.

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Luck, Marcus Mariota, Trevor Lawrence, Jared Goff—the Chefs are powerless to stop quarterbacks from scoring in the silliest ways.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3d

The ideal moment for George III revisionism. Just what we need. Really nailed it

The Myth of Mad King George
He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

By Rick Atkinson

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 3d

That shirt, too!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

Play all night, what the hell

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve seen my team win and get crushed in Super Bowls, but neither experience came close to the emotional whipsaw of following my team across a month of playoff baseball.

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 4d

Make time for the new John Candy documentary. Very well done.

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 5d

Say what you will, at least it isn’t a Qatari surveillance balloon floating over sovereign American soil, because that would be a damn outrage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 5d

I mean…. (bUt WhY dO tHe KiDs aLL mOvE aWaY aFtEr GrAdUaTiOn?)

Another damn text from my ISP saying that the internet will be out yet again

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 5d

Paying too much for shitty internet to own the libs.

KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 5d

A 91-year-old learns to check health portals; a 7-year-old finally can do homework. They were among rural residents helped by a digital navigator, until President Trump abruptly canceled the Digital Equity Act’s dollars.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

kffhealthnews.org

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 6d

“Trump seemed to be very proud to have ‘Blacks for Trump’ at all of his rallies and behind the podium, but not behind him in the cabinet meetings.” An attempt to resegregate the federal workforce unlike anything since Woodrow Wilson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 6d

The meritocracy stays undefeated

Scaremy Neely @jeremyneely.bsky.social · 6d

One of you nerds better get that reference

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