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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

All of this is true, but it should also be remembered that he is just stupid. Since he came on the scene I have been screaming that he is just actually an idiot who can barely read and for a decade the press has treated him as some mystical, political phenomenon.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My summer American Legal History class just analyzed warning newspaper adds from the 19th century warning runaway enslaved people of bounty hunter sightings.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I’m 33, married, 4 kids. Head of a single income household with a mortgage and a little bit of student debt. I’m WELL off compared to most and I just had a mild panic attack this morning thinking about this very thing. This is going to be impossible?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Stephen Miller has been giddy for this. If you think this admin hasn’t been waiting for a chance to gun down people in the streets you’ve been sleeping. Reminder…governors can say “no” to this.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I don’t disagree with Bouie often but I do here. This is precisely what they’ve been calculating for. They’ve desired a “reason” for escalation for a while. But he does raise a good point: can they keep loyalty on the military side? That is not clear.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is insane and in so many ways exactly what the admin wants. They are fascists who want to feel power (hence the full tactical clown suits) but also the admin desperately wants more people to resist like this so they can jack up the violence and feel “justified”.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Has anyone stopped to think that, just like every slop EO and official statement from this WH, a large portion of the report was probably written with AI. We know it makes up citations.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I've been saying this all along...every one of these people are petty tyrants that want to have their own kingdom. They are so drunk with their proximity to power that they violate every function of their actual job description. None of these appointees care about anything other than feeling strong.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

So it’s clear now who Tapper sees himself as, or rather whom he wants the history books to see him as.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Historian here it is the fall of the Republic. The President does not know that he has to uphold the Constitution and the dog killer Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security thinks habeas corpus means the opposite of what it actually does. God save the United States of America!

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I’ve been cutting the Amazon chord completely and this solidifies for me. Ugh…

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I’ve been watching this guy for years…this (higher office) was ALWAYS the goal. There is no considering. He wants higher and always will. And he’ll destroy whatever he has to in order to get there.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

US Constitution - Article I, section 8, clause 3: "Congress shall have...the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations..." There is no "deal" until Congress approves.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s clear too bother much of the garbage coming from the White House is also written by AI.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is not hard. It is exactly what Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro and the rest of the online ilk do to college kids and then they are heralded as debate gods who cannot be beaten. Just ask for follow ups.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

There really needs to be mass protest to this. Disrupt the stupid thing, drown it out. But the admin already knows that will happen that’s why they won’t release any plans.

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Sophia Cai @sophiacai.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚨🚨100 days of DOGE: — 250,000 workers exiting — 11 agencies gutted — 64 lawsuits filed — $160B in claimed savings — 8,500 contracts + 10,000 grants killed Yet government spending is still higher than last year. t.co/spexOMt2rR

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/doge-impact-washington-spending-100days-00316587

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

For an admin that wants to argue unitary executive and the president whose brand is a tough-ass boss man, he sure claims to know nothing about anything MOST of the god-damned time. Can the press please start asking him why he doesn’t know? Isn’t that embarrassing?

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Only because I’m still salty…135B would fund the NEH for the next 540 years.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

154 billion dollars could fund the National Endowment for the Humanities budget for 600 years.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social for speaking to this specifically. I'm getting ready to take some very bright kids to the PA state contest tomorrow. It's shameful that if my kids qualify for nationals, I have to tell them they might not go. They've been working since September.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is really important. As a teacher of HS juniors and freshman undergrads, it’s certainly is a battle, but it always has been! I am always surprised when we trim the lists as if that will make them read it.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And how long now until we get a Proud Boy claiming to be an ICE agent trying to enact vigilante “justice” in the name of their dear leader. This is all getting so grim.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Yes. And pair it with limitations on “judge shopping” and make it a bipartisan appeal.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This and the ridiculous stories about Burgum at Interior just show that all these boot lickers are all petty tyrants that want to be made to feel like a king over whatever little kingdom they can get their hands on. What a bunch fascist simpletons. Meritocracy, everyone.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One of the best things I do each year is advise National History Day. This program does more for history ed in my small school than anything else. Cutting this funding has no other goal than cruelty and power from our fascist government. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

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Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled

Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860 “Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This needs to be sustained, though. Not a single US media source is picking this up with any seriousness.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Call on your reps who are veterans, especially R reps, and demand them to call for resignations. This war plans leak has to cross a line for some of them.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This needs to be the only thing we hear for a month straight.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is a crime. And is we think he’s not just softening the populace for when he starts sending US citizens there we’re kidding ourselves.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Some history: Columbia was founded as King's College by the British 👑 in 1754. During the Revolution, it was eyed as a prize by both patriots & royalists. Most trustees & faculty sided with the British. It was eventually seized by King's forces & occupied, used as a British military hospital.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is spot on. And even worse, the boot lickers know exactly what topic get their dear leader fired up. Why else with the suit comment? And that’s what drives foreign policy in America.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This 1000%. We don’t always have to on the reaction side of things.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.

Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon

Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“We are the law”. Shaking my damn head.

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Them: we have a mandate from the people to kill democracy and enact a monarchy. The “mandate”:

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RobbieTubbs.bsky.social @amhistteacher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Nichols does a great job here. The blatant lack of knowledge in actual governing is blatantly obvious. I particularly like his take that Trump is so weak he feels he needs an unelected billionaire to enforce his exec orders for him.

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