Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 12hstatic.klipy.comTim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!ALT: Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It! 0183
Reposted by Bad History TakesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18hThe president promised to conduct a whirlwind tour for the 32 days before the midterms, even a long haul to Alaska, and I for one can't wait to see how his fragile 80-year-old body holds up from the strain. 2032095271
Reposted by Bad History Takeserictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 16hA multi-polar system is a system in which you've got multiple organizing centers of power *in competition with each other.* When you see this happening at a national level, it doesn't get a nice neutral term like 'multipolar', it's called a Warlord Era and everyone agrees it sucks*. 1255
Reposted by Bad History TakesChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16hMoney does not buy elections. Lack of money can surely lose one. But the diminishing returns come quick 36714
Reposted by Bad History TakesVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 22hAlso noteworthy that almost no one has gone harder on the “civilization-state” thing than 🇷🇺 and they don’t get a shoutout because that would be too embarrassing by to claim as 🇷🇺 gets bodied by a former imperial subject Pre-2/24/22 or if 3 Days to Kyiv had actually worked it certainly would have 2452
Reposted by Bad History Takeseek @eke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026to quote some queer hyperpop theys: get your ass off twitter because it gives you fucking mental illness 11199
Reposted by Bad History TakesVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Right like the core problem is that voters elected a bunch of cowardly and/or treasonous Republican senators 210810
Reposted by Bad History TakesWalter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is NOT funny or cute, the French only have mass protests when they are mildly annoyed. 0122
Reposted by Bad History TakesJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 06/10/2026as a 'blue no matter who' person of record marcy fucking kaptur is your free "throw a dem under the bus", it will be actively better for all of us if she loses her job, her district is cursed now post-gerrymander, we need to lose it and get it over with 48620
Reposted by Bad History Takeselias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026it's the same joke as this one except people under 40 seem especially bad at realizing it 116728
Reposted by Bad History TakesBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear. 131133162
Reposted by Bad History TakesBenjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 06/10/2026Seems like the world needs a reminder. 26913
Reposted by Bad History TakesDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7737711085
Reposted by Bad History TakesGloom🌺 @oddish.net · 06/10/2026you are not allowed to be nostalgic for this decade, I was there and it sucked.  65413
Reposted by Bad History TakesAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Someone from high school on Facebook. We were literally in high school when Bush was president. More proof that nostalgia for the past is mostly about wanting to be young again. 1019718
Reposted by Bad History TakesWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i'm beginning to be on the cusp of when nostalgia shit is aimed at my age group specifically, like not quite there yet but can definitely see it from here, and it still seems as pathetic as it ever was. maybe will change when my micro-cohort is in the bullseye, but still seems contemptible for now. 12839
Reposted by Bad History TakesMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was gonna say 9% but I was like “no better look up the unemployment rate when I graduated I don’t want to exaggerate” and turns out I was off in the wrong direction 0233
Reposted by Bad History TakesAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These are the basic contours of every major religious schism 3183697
Reposted by Bad History TakesDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/10/2026It's almost like those of us who spent the last 20 years saying overdependence on oil is a national security issue weren't just tree hugging hippies! 1459
Reposted by Bad History TakesAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026Hassert was kind of a case in point for @joestieb.bsky.social’s argument. There’s more continuity with the pre-Trump GOP than people may be comfortable acknowledging. Pedocon theory was already true 511632
Reposted by Bad History Takeselias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026here's the actual quote just fwiw www.politico.com/story/2013/0... 1495
Reposted by Bad History Takeselias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026OBAMA: *You* go have a drink with Mitch McConnell 2788
Reposted by Bad History TakesWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/10/2026Of the 1,125 West Point graduates who fought in the Civil War, 815 remained loyal to the United States. In other words, 72% fought for the North. 1014622
Reposted by Bad History Takesmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026no....no!!!!! 4973951457
Reposted by Bad History TakesAndy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026but the proper solution is to make sure every neighborhood is walkable, with tree lined streets, protected bike lanes, great public transit options, lots and lots of additional housing and other public amenities that make it so every neighborhood is as goddamn delightful 1203
Reposted by Bad History TakesDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026reactionary centrists will be telling libs to calm down already while the actual reactionaries are going to be calling for The Purge 634915
Reposted by Bad History TakesMom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Choosin' Texas 32064
Reposted by Bad History TakesHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome 404797664
Reposted by Bad History TakesMicah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026every election everywhere after one (1) cycle with the fascists out of power: FASCISM NEPOBABY: 50.1% NORMAL POLITICIAN: 49.9% 221155145
Reposted by Bad History Takesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 189101571130
Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Some things haven’t changed since 2000. 070
Reposted by Bad History TakesOliver Colander @olivercolander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Frankly, it would have been more surprising if he had voted for her. Anyway, and for no related reason, Tom Morello is worth tens of millions of dollars. 1163
Reposted by Bad History TakesSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this 151234196
Reposted by Bad History TakesNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026545. One of the most brilliant conceits for a book I've ever encountered, so funny that I don't even want to explain it so you can go in blind. Only downside is that the country it's set in (a pastiche of 20th Century Catholic Ireland, I think) is so grim that I was rooting for their enemies to win. 7391
Reposted by Bad History Takeslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026... and the latter is very obviously in fact a racist movement, the former is, I dunno, depends what you think of 19th century nationalism in general (I probably would not call all such things racist ideologies fwiw), and so there is just ambiguity because different people hear different things? 1125314
Bad History Takes @badhistorytakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It seems like the worst people (twitter) are blasting around about the Pneumonic plague in Russia because it validates the COVID Lab Leak theory, but there’s a big information gap because of little real/informed analysis of it. 030
Reposted by Bad History TakesHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is my response to people saying that Trump will simply overthrow the constitution at this point tbh. “Do you believe the United States federal government is able to mobilize enough repressive capacity to stem nationwide riots with unrepentant force?” “No?” “Okay then what’s gonna happen?” 0152
Reposted by Bad History TakesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Could do without another "The Man in the High Castle" reboot if I'm being honest 1174388
Reposted by Bad History TakesGood Birdman Mr. Evening: @embirdened.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Realize it's gauche but this is one to file away for later 4492
Reposted by Bad History TakesYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"blind carbon copy" lol I am far too young to have any idea what the fuck that refers to 132191
Reposted by Bad History TakesZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Getting Jacob Rees-Mogg to turn into Will Stancil for an hour is some real gonzo Video Game Achievement But Real Life shit. Absolutely incredible. 1336648
Reposted by Bad History TakesMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m not one to take a single Moscow Times article reporting on an inherently difficult to confirm situation as gospel but boy would it be ironic if after all we’ve heard about NATO biolabs in Ukraine, Russia had a pathogen leak from a lab 4537
Reposted by Bad History TakesKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Extremely on brand for a Brit to be mocking names and acting like the arbiter of the world 5212