#Thomas Massie’s Wife

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Thomas Massie (rep.)

Thomas Massie

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Thomas Massie (Born. 1971) is a farmer, engineer, researcher, and current 4th Congressman from the Kentucky District in the United States of America. Further, he stepped into politics in November 2012 through the right-wing, conservative approach ideology Party (Republican Party) since he is the representative of the Kentucky District. Prior to serving as a Lewis County Judge Executive before 2012,. Anyway, Mr. Thomas and his Party line are to not change the traditional things: like do not abort the Child, should not allow s*x before marriage, be religious, Completely ban LGBTQIA+ rights or moments and so on. On the other hand, the opposition Party (Democratic Party) is totally against the regressive mindset. And encourage this constringing's by making LGBTQIA+ community senator or Congressperson. Apart from these social differences, the Republicans call themselves far more nationalist, America First. And support the other nationalist or religious parties around the Globe. For instances, Israeli Netanyahu Government, Indian Modi Government, the Russian fascist government and so on. Read also: Catherine Engelbrecht | Age, True the Vote, Net Worth, Arrest, Jail Release, Father, Gregg Philips, Boyfriend, Husband, Children How many terms has Thomas Massie served? When it came to knowing, "How many terms has he served?". Then, after around 3 terms (2012-16-20) since November 2012, he resigned from the post of Lewis County Judge Executive. However, it would be interesting to see if he saved his designation of Representative of Kentucky or not. As anti-incumbencies dominate, following two or three terms. As people begin to find alternatives,. But his party (the Republican Party) looks like it will form the government of America in 2024 under former President Donald Trump. Because current President Joe Biden (Democratic Party) didn't fulfill, deliver of promises of he done in 2020 Presidential Election. Moreover, failed in foreign policy like Banning the India (While purchasing the Oil from Russia), Israel-Hamas-Iran War etc. Therefore maybe Americans find Best Governance in Former President Donald Trump again in November 2024 Presidential Election. Maybe it could be one of the reason Democrats making conspiracy against Trump by involving him in a False cases of alleged molestation with known Porn Star Stormy Daniels or his business related transactional scam. It is not a interesting thing that someone (Stormy) making allegation of molesting on Trump following a decade ago. Firstly, she would have enjoyed the moment or would have make millions of USD Dollars (if you see the cases from distance). And now making allegation on Trump of being Molested maybe of some greed of millions of Dollars or property offered by the Democrats. It is just a political backup to the Pornstar by Democrats to make down the images of Presidential Candidate in Public level so that he wouldn't have contest the upcoming presidential election. Thomas Massie Net Worth Well, when it comes to knowing the Annual Income to the most heard working representative from the Kentucky District Congressman Mr. Thomas. As he served as a Lewis County Judge Executive before and is currently serving to the Kentucky for 3 terms. Apart from that he is involved in different fields also like Farming, Invention, Research or Engineering kind of thing. However, if you analyze the Net Worth to the Representative on the basis of jobs he has done publicly. Then you can say $10 to $12 million USD Dollars. Including other sources of Income like Investment in Stocks or Real States etc. Read the full article

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Thomas Massie’s wife was not available for comment.

[progressivepower]

Rep. Thomas Massie Mourns The Death Of His Wife, Rhonda Massie http://dlvr.it/T8vz70

[yourreddancer]

Today in Politics, Bulletin 39. 1/3/25

Today in Politics, Bulletin 39. 1/3/25 Ron Filipkowski Jan 4 ∙ … Mike Johnson was elected Speaker today on a party-line vote of 218-215, with Thomas Massie voting for Tom Emmer. Johnson failed to get to the needed 218 when the first votes were cast. Then he went outside and huddled with two of the holdouts - Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX) for about 45 minutes, then came back in and Norman and Self switched their votes to Johnson.

… After Norman voted against Johnson, Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who used to hold the Norman’s seat in Congress before him, threatened to help defeat him in the next Republican primary. Republican consultant Wesley Donehue posted: “I have a team of 90 political operatives I’m ready to put to work to take out Norman. I know every inch of the district like the back of my hand. He doesn’t support MAGA and he’s an embarrassment to SC.”

… Fox is reporting that Nancy Mace brought Norman and Self together in a side room outside the Chamber and Trump was put on speaker phone. According to Bret Baier, Trump told them: “It would be disrespectful to Americans who voted in a historic presidential election to have this Speaker’s vote go to a 2nd or 3rd ballot, and it would be disrespectful to me.”

… Keith Self told CNN that he and Trump had a “lively discussion.”

… Meanwhile, Marge Greene plopped down next to Massie and was on her phone speaking with someone and relaying the conversation to him. We were able to get a screenshot of it when she turned away and it said that the person on the call was Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

… When Massie was asked why he wouldn’t budge regardless of all the pressure that was put on him, he reportedly referenced his wife who recently died: “If they thought I had fucks to give before, I have no fucks to give now. I’m a single man now. I lost my wife and she was probably the nicest part of me. What do I have to lose?”

… Massie posted from the floor: “433 members of Congress are being sworn in today, and I’m being sworn at.”

… Matt Gaetz responded: “I know the feeling.”

… Chip Roy backed down earlier in the day after a call from Trump. He reportedly wanted Johnson to appoint him Chair of the Rules Committee to change his vote, but Johnson told him if he did that he would lose 200 Republicans who hate Roy. Rep. Don Bacon confirmed that to NOTUS: “Putting Chip Roy in charge of the Rules Committee is like putting Stalin in charge of amnesty and diplomacy.”

… So after Johnson said he would make no promises or threats, it seems that promises and threats were made to get him over the top.

… The lesson Republicans should learn from this is that they should try to work with Democrats to get things done given their tiny majority, but they will not. So they will have to remain near unanimous on every bill. They have never been able to do that before over the past two years on anything, so good luck to them.

… Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) stood up after the initial vote to make a protest that the representatives for US territories and DC who represent a combined 4 million Americans with the highest per-capita population of military veterans do not get to vote for Speaker. She received a loud standing ovation from Democrats.

… Matt Gaetz’s resignation was officially entered into the record today, but an odd twist is that he was on Charlie Kirk’s show at the same time and said this: “If this had been a close one, I would have been there. I had a certificate of election. But I spoke to Mike Johnson last night and he exhibited great confidence that after Trump spoke with our colleagues that today would have been ceremonial. If my vote was needed I would have been there. I had a flight booked and everything.”

… So Gaetz was planning to vote for Johnson and then resign if his vote was needed.

… Kirk then responded: “But we have about 3,000 emails that have come in over the last 30 minutes and it’s 99% against Speaker Johnson. They can’t stand him. They call him a gutless wonder. They say he’s a liar, he’s deceived us, he’s misled us.”

… When the Clerk announced on the floor that the Gaetz resignation was officially entered into the record, the House erupted in loud cheers.

… Gaetz also posted this today: “South Korea’s president instituted Marshall Law for a day and they’re trying to arrest him. Fauci basically instituted Marshall Law for months.” He is now a very edgy TV man with hot takes.

… And it’s “martial” law. Not Marshall.

… Meanwhile, over in the Senate, Republicans officially took over as the majority and Chuck Grassley was sworn in as President pro tempore of the Senate, making the 91-year old 3rd in line to the presidency.

… New Senate Majority Leader John Thune pledged that he will keep the filibuster intact, saying that it “has the greatest impact in preserving the Founders’ vision of the Senate,” and how it is supposed to work as a deliberative body that arrives at consensus rather than straight majority rule like the House.

… Inner City Press reported from the courtroom that Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt of court today after he testified in front of a New York judge. He was found to have violated the court’s order by refusing to turn over his grandfather’s watch and his signed NY Yankees Joe Dimaggio jersey to the attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

… The hearing was then continued to tomorrow for proceedings on the remaining parts of the contempt motion dealing with his refusal to participate in discovery.

… Judge Merchan issued an order today where he signaled that he intends to grant Trump a “conditional discharge” on his criminal case where he was found guilty by a jury. That essentially means he will face no jail time or probation and the case will be closed. He will still be sentenced on January 10, but he can appear virtually and that will be the result.

… But Trump’s Communications Director Steven Cheung still isn’t happy with that: “This lawless case should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed. There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead.”

… Susan Collins, who is up for reelection in Maine next year, appeared on NewsCenter Maine and was asked her thoughts about Trump’s nominees. Collins said, “I always give great deference to presidents to build their own teams.”

… Except that she voted against 85 Biden nominees. And she is in a Democratic state, which she has been able to win for many years by painting herself as a moderate. But if she votes for the Trump agenda, that won’t be moderate, and certainly won’t reflect the values of the majority of voters in Maine.

… Trump released an incredibly bizarre statement that he was appointing Morgan Ortagus as his Dep. Special Envoy to the Middle East. This is what he said: “Morgan fought me for 3 years, but hopefully has learned her lesson. These things usually don’t work out, but she has strong Republican support. Let’s see what happens. I expect great results, and soon!”

… He’s just a despicable man, and you have to have no pride or self-respect to accept this appointment after that. She obviously groveled to get it and now he’s just shaming her for it. Ortagus could take a highly principled stand and reject the appointment after that demeaning announcement. But she won’t. That is how it is now in Trump’s Republican Party.

… He got even more despicable with another post today where he complained about the American flag being at “half mast during my inauguration” because of the death of Jimmy Carter (they are flown half staff for 30 days after the death of a president). Trump: “Because of the death of Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out.”

… And it’s “half staff” not “half mast.” Dipshit.

… MAGA conspiracies about the man who killed himself in the Cybertruck outside Trump’s hotel in Vegas seem to be fizzling out pretty quickly with every new fact we learn. In addition to his family telling media outlets that he “loved Trump” and was a registered Republican, they are now reporting that he was distraught because his wife told him she wanted a divorce two days before the incident, and he was suffering from PTSD from his military service. Not sounding like ISIS or Antifa.

… Law enforcement released his suicide message to the public this afternoon, where he said: “This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives. Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I’ve took.”

… Charlie Kirk still isn’t buying it though. He is certain the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks were coordinated terrorism: “Everyone is acting alone except for the fact the two suspects attacked on the same day, rented their cars from the same company, and served on the same military base. Got it.” Turo is a App that is used by millions of people to rent cars and millions of people were stationed at that base over the years. Not sure why that is so fantastical to QAnon Charlie.

[thestormposts]

We need more like Massie!

[deblala]

Did MOSSAD just assassinate Rep. Thomas Massie’s wife because….. | SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis & Commentary

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A papier-mâché security - La Stampa

“Merry Christmas. Post scriptum: Santa Claus, please bring us the ammunition”: we were stopped at the tweet of the Republican congressman from Kentucky, Thomas Massie, who had himself photographed together with his large family, tall, beautiful and smiling wife and children, all together under the Christmas tree with a rifle in his arms (and you will excuse me if I write rifle, without being able…

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@library-bandit

My favorite nonfiction reads from this year are:

Religious (which always feels like a separate category): St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton. I feel like we always hear about Aquinas' philosophy, but never about the man. Chesterton portrays him in a way that makes him seem lovable and layered, but most of all, real.

Other nonfiction: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, about the 1936 Olympic gold-medal rowing team. I was deeply invested in these boys. I've still only read the Young Reader's edition (since it was the one I could get without a library waiting list), and even in abridged form I love it. (It's now easier to get the full version, but I can't bring myself to read it when I know the whole story and read it so recently).

Overall, some of my favorites include:

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie: A biography of Czar Nicholas II and his wife that reads likes a novel. The people and their world are so vivid and I think about it constantly.

These Beautiful Bones and The Catholic Table by Emily Stimpson Chapman: The first introduced me to Theology of the Body in a beautiful way. The second is almost a comfort read--part an explanation of a Catholic understanding of food, part memoir about her struggle with an eating disorder, part recipe book, but overall a celebration of the goodness of food and community.

The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux: The autobiography of a saint who I find intensely relatable that also has enough theological insight to make her a Doctor of the Church. A lot of beauty here.

The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone: A history of the FDA employee who traveled the world in the early 1900s finding crops to introduce to American agriculture. The story intersects with so many major historical events and figures, so even beyond the food it's a fascinating look at the time period.

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff: More of a story than an informational text, but still nonfiction! It's a collection of letters between a New York writer and the London bookshop she orders books from across several decades, starting just after WWII. It's hilarious and heartwarming and full of the love of books.

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: Made me obsessed with Lincoln's Cabinet. The love of history as the story of real, relatable people comes through on every page. (I've only read the abridged version, but can't bring myself to read the full version thanks to Seward's language. It still had too much of an impact on me to leave it off this list).

Bringing It to the Table by Wendell Berry: A collection of essays exploring the state of modern agriculture and man's relationship to his environment. I found it riveting and fascinating.

The most niche nonfiction book I've ever read was probably:

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson: The story of a guy who stole hundreds of bird specimens from a natural history museum to get feathers for his hobby of making historically-accurate Victorian fishing ties. As you can imagine, it's a wild ride through niche topics, while also touching upon lots of broader historical issues like the history of fashion and conservation.

I'm not looking to add to my reading list, but I love people talking about books, and I love hearing about the wide variety of nonfiction books on subjects I'd never even considered, so let's start a chat.

Tell me about your favorite nonfiction book you've read lately (or in general), and/or tell me about the nonfiction book you've read that has the weirdest/most niche subject.

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Long Post....Oops. LOL. "Fatuous claptrap" for the win! Thanks, Hiltzik.

(Hiltzik in the LA Times)

Elon Musk hosted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Twitter for DeSantis’ announcement of his presidential candidacy.

It went about as well as the April 20 launch of a rocket by Musk’s SpaceX, which ended in an explosion that destroyed the spacecraft.(Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

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I was taking my customary siesta Wednesday afternoon when I was jolted awake by the sound of a truck straining to go uphill. Come to discover that I had my computer tuned to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was struggling to get out the official announcement of his candidacy for president.

The noise turned out to be Musk trying to get the thing to work in real time, amid feedback, weird musical interludes and long stretches of silence. Scheduled to start at 3 p.m. Pacific time, it finally got going on Twitter Spaces, an audio-only application on the platform, about 18 minutes late. I listened, so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.

As he struggled to resolve repeated glitches in Twitter Spaces, Musk and the moderator, a Musk acolyte named David Sacks, kept trying to assert that the technical screw-up was, in fact, a triumph brought about by the large audience. (Sacks claimed that more than 300,000 users had logged in.) “We are melting the servers, which is a good sign,” Sacks said early on. 

You can’t have a free society unless we have the freedom to debate the most important issues that are affecting our civilization.

— Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has been trying to punish Walt Disney Co. for speaking out against his education law

This reminded many listeners of the claim by SpaceX, another Musk venture, that its April 20 launch of a prototype rocket, which ended with the vehicle exploding in flight four minutes after lift-off, was a success. Never mind that the launch destroyed the launchpad, showered a neighboring community with debris and prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to mount a major investigation.

Once it got underway, the Twitter event unfolded as a love fest between DeSantis and Musk. The general theme was what my mother used to describe as “I like me, who do you like?” 

Musk and DeSantis praised each other for their dedication to free speech, and Sacks brought on several right-wing sophists to add their voices. They included Jay Bhattacharya, one of the drafters of the Great Barrington Declaration, which, as I reported this week, advocated letting the COVID virus run rampant through the population in quest of the elusive goal of “herd immunity” — at the cost of hundreds of thousands of American lives. 

Another was Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), whose claim to fame on a national scale was issuing a Christmas tweet in 2021 showing himself, his wife and their five kids brandishing assault weapons. “Santa, pls bring ammo,” the tweet read. (In December 2021, there were 39 mass shootings in the U.S., taking 36 lives and wounding 160.)

DeSantis said Florida was safer than blue-state cities, where “you got kids more likely to get shot than to receive a first-class education.” A reminder: One of the worst school shootings in American history took place in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018, when 17 people were killed and 17 injured. In April, DeSantis signed a law allowing Floridians to carry guns without a permit.

It would be wrong to say there weren’t some lighthearted moments during the Twitter event. Unfortunately for DeSantis, the best joke came from President Biden: While Musk was struggling to get the event launched, Biden posted a tweet that read, “This link works,” pointing to a fund-raising site for the Biden-Harris campaign.

If you were looking for policy prescriptions from the freshly minted candidate, you didn’t hear anything new. Put it this way: If you were at a party where you had to down a shot of whiskey every time DeSantis uttered the word “woke,” you were reduced to insensibility within ten or twenty minutes. If the drinking game included a shot when DeSantis took a shot at “the legacy media,” you may have needed to get your stomach pumped.

Other than that, it was a festival of cynical lies and rank hypocrisies uttered by DeSantis. 

He spoke up for free speech and open debate, for instance. “People should be exposed to different viewpoints,” he said. “You can’t have a free society unless we have the freedom to debate the most important issues that are affecting our civilization.” 

This is the guy who has waged a ferocious battle with Walt Disney Co. because Disney had spoken out against his “Don’t Say Gay” law, which stifles the teaching of gender issues in the schools.

When Sacks primed him with a question about the fight with Disney, DeSantis replied, “We believe jamming gender ideology in elementary school is wrong; Disney obviously supported injecting gender ideology in elementary school.” He added that Disney’s “corporate culture had really been outed as trying to inject matters of sex into the programming for the youth.” One doesn’t have to be a fan of Disney to see that as fatuous claptrap.

DeSantis also dismissed accusations that Florida is a hotbed of book-banning as “a hoax.” All his administration has done, he said, has been “to empower parents with the ability to review the curriculum, to know what books are being used in school.” That’s one way of looking at it. 

The right way is to observe that he’s empowered a tiny cadre of reactionary activists to force books they don’t like off the shelves of Florida schools. As the Washington Post reported Wednesday, a majority of the complaints about schoolbooks nationwide have come from just 11 complainants. Florida ranks second among the states in the number of schoolbook challenges, after Texas.

By the way, one of the Republican toadies DeSantis appointed to the board created to oversee Disney’s development district (as part of his retaliation against the company) is Bridget Ziegler, co-founder of the right-wing censorship-happy organization Moms for Liberty.

When Bhattacharya came online, DeSantis took the opportunity to boast about his success against the COVID pandemic. The truth is that Florida’s record is one of abject, lethal failure. Florida’s COVID death rate of 411 per 100,000 population is the 10th worst in the nation. DeSantis has appointed Bhattacharya to a state panel investigating federal COVID policy.

DeSantis claimed to have based his COVID policies on his determination to “look at the data.... There was a concerted effort to try to stifle dissent.” This can only be interpreted as some kind of gag. DeSantis installed a COVID crackpot, Joseph Ladapo, as Florida’s surgeon general. 

Ladapo has promoted useless anti-COVID nostrums such as ivermectin, and counseled against the COVID vaccines. “Looking at the data”? As the Tampa Bay Times has reported, based on official state documents, Ladapo deliberately removed data from an official state report on the vaccines that contradicted his claim that the vaccines were unsafe for young men; in fact, studies show that the vaccines are far safer for them than being infected by the virus.

The event ended with a paean by Musk and DeSantis to cryptocurrency, which is tantamount to enticing innocent small investors into immolating their nest eggs in a scam. 

“We should do it again,” DeSantis said in closing the feed. “We’ll make sure that we come back and do it again. This is a great platform.”

We shall see. The next DeSantis appearance on Twitter could be just as buggy, or worse. All that we can be sure of is that whatever happens, Elon Musk will deem it a great success.

[nellygwyn]

BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot 

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

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Another folk song / old-time music problem.

Because the typical mode of sharing songs was oral, songs several hundred years old not only have significant as FUCK lyrical variations, but they have variations in the chord structures and the melody lines and everything else. Parts of one song might appear in the lyrics of another. Those Frankensteined, mashed-up, contorted lyrics might appear together in part in a “third” song. One set of lyrics might be put to three melodies and three sets of lyrics might be used for one melody. We’ll update names and locations and create new verses when the song migrates from Ulster to West Virginia. And you start to wonder what the fuck two “different” melodies are defined as when you hear gradient versions of the two blending into one another across the variations.

And that’s not getting into broadsides! Broadsides, poems about current events written to well-known tunes! Let’s stack tons and tons and tons more lyrics on top of the same tunes!

It gets to the point it’s like, why not just say, “I love this culture’s folk music” instead of “I love X song” because fucking X song has intermarried with song A and song A had a three-way affair with B and Q, and Q has had twenty partners and God knows how many children, and we’re all one weird contorted family now, aren’t we?

Anyway the ballad Matty Groves is also known as Adinah, The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, The Big Musgrave, Down Came a Lady, Hark Ye Hear the Lassies Cry, A Lamentable Ballad of Little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet, The Lamentable Ditty of the Little Mousgrave and the Lady Barnet, Like a Lamb to the Slaughter, Little Massgrove, Little Massie Grove, Little Massy Groves, Little Matha Grove, Little Mathagrove, Little Mathiegrew, Little Mathie Grove, Little Mathey Groves, Little Matthew Grew, Little Matthew Grove, Little Matthew Groves, Little Matthey Grove, Little Matthy Groves, Little Mattie Groves, Little Mattly Groves, Little Montgrove and Lady Barclay, Little Moscrow, Little Mosie Grove and Lord Burnett’s Wife, Little Moth Grone, Little Mousgrove and the Lady Barnet, Little Mushiegrove, Little Musgrave, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnet, Little Musgrove and Lady Barnet, Little Sir Grove, Lord Aaron, Lord Arlen, Lord Arnold, Lord Arnold’s Wife, Lord Banner, Lord Banner’s Wife, Lord Barclay, Lord Barlibas, Lord Barnabas, Lord Barnaby, Lord Barnard, Lord Barney, Lord Barnett, Lord Barnett and Little Munsgrove, Lord Bengwill, Lord Danaver and Little Musgrave, Lord Daniel, Lord Daniels, Lord Daniel’s Horn, Lord Daniel’s Wife, Lord Darlen, Lord Darnell, Lord Darnold, Lord Donald, Lord Donald’s Wife, Lord Musgrove, Lord Orland’s Wife, Lord Thomas, Lord Valley, Lord Vanifer’s Wife, Lord Vanners, Lord Vanner’s Wife, Lord Vanner’s Wife and Magrove, Lord Vanover, Lord Varner’s Wife, The Lyttle Musgrave, Paddy Magrue, Massey Grove, Mathie Grove, Mathie Groves, Mathy Grove, Mattie Groves, Matthy Grew, Matthy Groves, Matty Groves Lord Arland, Moncey Grey, Mossgrove, Moss Groves, There Was a Ball in the Far Scotland, Walter Groves, Wee Messgrove, Wee Mess Grove, Young Arnold’s Wife, Young Little Mathy Groves, Young Musgrave...

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Facts About Dark Regions Press and Publisher Chris Morey

Hey guys, I thought it would be fun to share some facts about Dark Regions Press and its history. Thank you for reading!

Facts About Dark Regions Press and Publisher Chris Morey

Dark Regions Press was created in 1985 by my father, Joe Morey, and it started as a magazine.

Issue #1 of Dark Regions was released in Summer 1986 and is extremely hard to find with less than 250 copies ever being printed.

Dark Regions & Horror Magazine became one of the top distributed horror magazines in the United States by the year 2000.  

In the early years Dark Regions Press also published chapbooks of selected poetry and stories as well as standalone books, most of these chapbooks had print runs of 250 copies or less and are very hard to find. We are currently trying to build a full back catalog collection of every Dark Regions Press publication in existence but have 20+ more publications to acquire. If you own any Dark Regions Press publications which were published prior to the year 2000 please get in touch with us.

Since its inception in 1985 Dark Regions Press has created over 200 different publications including books, chapbooks and magazine issues. We even paid artists like Frank Walls to create sculptures based on some Dark Regions Press titles and those sculptures were usually included with deluxe editions. Examples are Wolf Hunt by Jeff Strand deluxe edition and The Fall of Hades by Jeffrey Thomas deluxe edition.

Until around 2005 Joe Morey was printing and binding most Dark Regions Press publications himself. Many times as a child I walked into the shop to speak with my dad while he worked.

In 2006 Joe invited me his son Chris to help redesign the Dark Regions Press website and from there I became increasingly involved with the business including marketing and customer service.

In 2012 my dad handed over the reigns of Dark Regions Press to yours truly and helped the business along the way until 2014.

Since 2014 I've been running Dark Regions Press myself and my dad stepped back from the business entirely to work on his own imprints. During my tenure running Dark Regions Press we have paid over $350,000 to authors and artists in the forms of royalty payments, advances, story/art payments, writing contests and fundraisers. As a small press I'm proud of the amount of support we've been able to provide for the writing and art communities. We've always paid and communicated well with our authors and artists during my tenure and will continue to do so.

I wanted to pursue projects with my literary heroes like Jack Ketchum, Clive Barker, Joyce Carol Oates and others and successfully struck deals with almost all of them. If Jack Ketchum were here today he would tell you that we had a blast working on his special edition books with Dark Regions Press and we even hung out a couple times at different events. Dallas and I had a good working relationship, and many authors who have been with us for years from Jeff Strand to Joe R. Lansdale to Elizabeth Massie to Ramsey Campbell will tell you that while I'm not perfect, I'm honest, polite and always work with good intentions. For example: when it was revealed that Tom Piccirilli was sick we started a fundraiser for him that raised over $1,000 for his medical bills. We also paid his wife royalties multiple times after Tom sadly passed away in 2015. You can read about that on my blog here.  

The Dark Regions Press mission is to continue to publish new creative projects in collaboration with talented writers and artists and expand the industry as a whole. We have exciting plans and ideas for future years and are happy to have many of you join us for the ride.

Thanks for reading guys. I thought it would be fun to provide some interesting factoids about the press. Of course there is a lot more that happened throughout the years from winning awards to publishing smash hits like Bird Box Special Edition by Josh Malerman. Dark Regions Press will continue to work to build up the writing and art communities and I thank everyone who has shown support to us over the years. Best wishes to all of you. Be safe!

Sincerely,

Chris Morey

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Rhonda Howard Bio, Age, Wiki, Thomas Massie’s Wife, Height, Children, Twitter

Rhonda Howard Bio – Wiki

Rhonda Howard is married to Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican who represents Kentucky’s 4th congressional district. They were high school sweethearts and have four children together.

Rep. Massie was in the headlines as lawmakers worked to approve a $2 trillion stimulus package to assist families and businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Senate unanimously approved…

[reportwire]

Days After the Michigan School Shooting, a GOP Lawmaker Posted a Gun-Filled Family Photo – Mother Jones

Days After the Michigan School Shooting, a GOP Lawmaker Posted a Gun-Filled Family Photo – Mother Jones

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) waves around a tiny handgun at a 2020 pro-gun rally.Bryan Woolston/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. On Saturday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted a holiday-themed family photo to his Twitter account. The image featured a decorated Christmas tree, Massie’s smiling wife and kids,…

[raleigh-in-the-garden]

Apparently there weren’t enough guns in the news this week for Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who gleefully posted a family Christmas photo to Twitter on Saturday afternoon. In it, the congressman and six family members are each carrying a military-style weapon inside the house, where they are gathered in front of a beribboned Christmas tree.

Massie’s wife, Rhonda, also appears to be pointing her weapon toward the left side of a man grinning in the background. 

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Wife Beater’s Family Lived in Wretchedness,” Toronto Star. April 25, 1930. Page 01. ---- Wife and Children Sleeping on Floor Under Old Bags ---- Special to The Star Dunnville, Appril 25. - Indescribable squalor and filth met the eyes of the provincial police here on Monday when they arrested Thomas Mckee on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm to his wife and ten-months-old baby. Children were found sleeping on the floor with old sacks over them. Mrs. McKee was badly bruised. The baby was actually black and blue from its head to its chin on both sides.

The arrest was made Monday and McKee on Thursday was sentenced by Magistrate Massie to three months determinate in the Ontario Reformatory, three months indeterminate and ten strokes of the strap to be administered one months after his admittance.

The local board of health have taken the matter in hand.