Bonnie Taylor-Blake

Former neuroscience researcher. Sometimes word sleuth. Modern-folklore enthusiast. No clue how that happened. #BlackLivesMatter #TarHeel

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

Something new-ish by me about antebellum uses of “tar heel” and how the epithet may have become linked to North Carolinians by ca. 1860.

In short, "tar heel" was used for the marginalized poor across the South before the Civil War.

https://t.co/yyDISRuDmH #TarHeels #GDTBATH

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@MittRomney

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

That’s my Senator!

[Roy Cooper @RoyCooperNC]

June or not, North Carolinians should be proud of who they are.

Our neighbors — no matter who they love — deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Happy Pride!

[Barry Popik @barrypopik]

If anyone is in Austin, Texas and would like to do me a favor, go to the Texas State Library and read Henry Clay Gray's THE MEDDLER newspaper (1916-1918; about 100 pages). I believe that he either coined #Juneteenth, or knows who did. 1/
https://t.co/4jUXDYm66w

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@GeoffBrown82 @rufuspolk sHe wOUlD Be tOo eMOtiOnAL

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@JonvanBilsen Not so. The idiom was in use in small-town America by at least 1907 and was used in a folksy way. Nothing to do with WW2 or bullets.

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@BlueDevilQuaker @NathanIndiana1 @GoHeels 🩵🐏🩵 🤝 💙😈💙

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@JonLemire

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@AndrewSolender @daveweigel @AdImpact_Pol And look at how Lindsey turned out!

[Barry Popik @barrypopik]

“Be kind to people. Not because they’re nice, but because you are” (@chaaaarmaineder, 2012). Credited to Stephen Colbert this week, but it's not his. A thread. #quotes #misquotes 1/
https://t.co/RKP3Bpn7Xm

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@4seasonsphilly @BrianKarem Oof, Dad.

[Anne Oatley @AnneOatley]

#CrashBlossom

[Danielle Battaglia @dani__battaglia]

House Ethics released its first public statement on the situation in Rep. Chuck Edwards office. #ncpol #nc11

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

go back to the drawing board | phrase | to start over

This phrase comes from this March 1941 "New Yorker" cartoon by Peter Arno.

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[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: NAACP adds a *federal* civil lawsuit to its challenge of new Tennessee redistricting

Group seeks court injunction to halt new map, arguing new district lines are "enacted w/ an impermissible discriminatory purpose on the basis of race in violation of the 14th Amendment"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@SFDukie (Besides, I’m not sure if he’s ever planning on leaving.)

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

Ok Trump has gone too far now

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake]

@PatrickWelter @murphsturph Ugh, I’m so tired of this behavior.

[Bill Ellson @BillEllson]

How to troll a tyrant.

[Barry Popik @barrypopik]

@GAofNYC I have told the GANYC president and others about the new research on the term "86," and that it definitely DOES NOT come from Chumley's. Many GANYC guides have this wrong. Your Education Committee blocked me as spam! 1/
https://t.co/My6vuTGOoh