Emily Randall Paz
Genealogy & family history (mostly England, Ireland, Germany, Pomerania, U.S.), psychology, travel, food, dance, music. Chicago dweller.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazGrace. Respect. Love.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- "Trying too hard with this international stuff" 🤣
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazI'm with the 34% of #Wordlers in this @techradar.com article who reckon the #NYT repeating #Wordle answers from next week will ruin the game. And I disagree with the author. IMHO, Wordle will become less deduction and more of a lucky guess word game! ☹️ #WQuers www.techradar.com/gaming/we-ha...
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazFor Liam.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazAs Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.
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- Reposted by Emily Randall Paz“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
- I'm sorry, his name was what?! 😲
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazThe City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city's Independence National Historical Park. cnn.it/4jSDTZQ
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazDr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
- Haven't been sleeping well. Is it Trump etc or the extreme cold? It's both. I'm not getting enough steps in due to the cold (my sleep is better when I get my steps).
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazGerman Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
- Reposted by Emily Randall Paz“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
- I could really use some time in nature to help me get off my phone. But look at this forecast 😭🥶 (for my overseas followers 9F=-12.8C)
- Whiskey Friday! I'm doing it. Currently sipping on a Jameson Black Barrel + Diet Coke.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazDemonizing specifically white women who act in solidarity with racial minorities isn’t new. Here’s a southern political cartoon depicting Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1853. Surrounded by devils, she‘s holding a book titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Subtitle: “I Love the Blacks.”
- Reposted by Emily Randall Pazit's the big day
- I give Chicago property managers a grade of D for their (non)treatment of the sidewalks today after the 7AM graupel storm.
- This is another movie that I saw at the Chicago International Film Festival and I thought it was fantastic (4.5 stars?) but there were 2 girls laughing and snickering behind me in the theatre, which was distracting, so I want to watch this again at some point.
- Saw this at the Chicago International Film Festival and I would give it 3.5 stars. It is helpful to have a basic understanding of Japanese culture or at least a curiosity of Japanese culture when watching this film.
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- The Mighty Mississippi!!
- The "United" States. What a year this will be. What a way to celebrate our 250th birthday.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazIf the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
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- We bought a guava-filled rosca this year and it's delicious. (A rosca de reyes is the Mexican version of a King Cake)
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazA reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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- Reposted by Emily Randall PazMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
- #GenHour Happy New Year everyone! 🎉 Any New Year's resolutions related to genealogy or family history? My goal as usual is to write more posts for my blog. I should be able to focus on that this year as I have completed most of my archive visits. Just have to write up my results.
- If you're going to write an obituary for your mother or wife, can you please include her maiden name? #genealogy #FamilyHistory
- Planning my next trip to London and I just barely scored tickets to Paddington the Musical (whew!). Already almost sold out for dates in May! It pays to be an obsessive planner 🤓 🎭 Hoping to also see Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Teeth 'n' Smiles in May.
- Listening to Chuck Redd 😎 open.spotify.com/album/1K9kvI...
- Reposted by Emily Randall Pazmy festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazCBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
- Reposted by Emily Randall PazBulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chic…
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- Reposted by Emily Randall PazArmed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
- When I take the time to post a well-thought-out question on a discussion board, looking for human expertise and insight, and someone responds with "This is what AI/ChatGPT said..."
- Is anyone else in Chicago sleeping like 9 hours a night in this weather?
