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Brexton O'Donnell

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Public historian, fencer, and nerd.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At this time back in 1862, George McClellan's Army of the Potomac was aligned along Antietam creek, prepared to attack Robert E Lee's left flank before first light. It would be a piecemeal and totally uncoordinated battle, ultimately becoming the bloodiest day in American history.
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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Palestinian boy walks to school as Israeli tanks fire and quadcopters fly overhead.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just fucking obscene.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Even in the annals of the second Trump era, the Haitian TPS deportations may be the most morally reprehensible and indefensible act.
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Three rival brother claimants currently sailing their war longships towards Oslo
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We have so much to thank Canada for - maple syrup - moose - hockey things - Insulin - the pacemaker - basketball - Pvt John A Huff of Ontario, who as a member of the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment shot and killed Confederate General JEB Stuart at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICE is a domestic terror group.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase."
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanma...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I just can't get over this. How unveiled it is now. If any other POTUS said this... oh what the fuck this is America now.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
look how i'm treated for making a tongue-in-cheek joke 😔
Dan Crenshaw tweets: "I can't believe I live in a world where my only lunch option is a $20 burrito." 

I reply: "not true. republicans eat donald trump's ass every day for free." 

Someone named "The Noooticer" replies to me: "You're brown and larping."
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I heard about this earlier today. He was denied his meds, taken out on a stretcher on Saturday and was DOA at the hospital. The Trump regime is running death camps.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our “house”—national parks—are being defunded to pay for what he considers to be his house. Not hard to guess where most Americans would like to see their money spent—NOT on pointless ego-serving renovations.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
elementary school: slavery caused the civil war high school: complicated economic issues caused the civil war College: slavery caused the civil war Grad school: the civil war was a struggle between feudalism and capitalism Your 30s: the civil war was a metaphysical struggle between Good and Evil
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I do 100% think that "Never Ever Doom" is one of the single strongest and most consistent themes of everything Tolkien ever wrote lol. Dooming is *always, always* the wrong call, it always leads to worse outcomes, and defiance is always right even when there is literally no hope
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Correct. Complaining about an entire ethnicity or nationality as a whole is racist. And it is very bad to be racist.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Showing up Liberty University is good for all of us, this is an American Hero
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/05/2026
every day a new story comes out that would be the single most corrupt act by a president in american history if done by anyone else and barely makes the top 10 for this one
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
War hero and president James Garfield describing Lee as he should be remembered.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/05/2026
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/05/2026
This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He's located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10
a gray and white australian koolie with bright blue eyes looks directly at the camera with a tongue-out smile. he's wearing a blue vest and the sun shines down upon him.Bear stands on charred ground wearing his blue vest and red booties. he looks up toward the sky. he's presumably found a koala high up in a tree.Bear sits low to the ground on a sandy beach. the waves of the ocean come in behind him, but he's too focused on the orange and yellow ball sitting in front of him to notice.
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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“I think everyone should have rights” is always going to be less fractured than competing lists of who you believe shouldn’t have rights
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Ben Dillon @benjdillon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
America made a mistake electing the dumbest president in American history who has handed control to an administration of ignorant sociopaths.
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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
x.com/JamesTate121...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 09/05/2026
Democracy dies in horserace coverage
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2026
When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve. This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive. From our “The End of Aid” series, a 2026 Pulitzer finalist:
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Kinda burying the lead here, NPR
At times during the interviews, Kennedy appeared to embrace the scheme as a way to help a wide range of kids harmed by street drug addiction and what he described as over-prescription of anxiety and depression medications.

But Kennedy also spoke specifically about his vision for Black children. After making the false claim that "every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence" Kennedy offered what he described as a solution.

"Those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented and live in a community," he said.
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Trump is threatening to withhold all HIV assistance to Zambia unless it grants American companies favorable access to rare earth minerals. Killing innocent people to advance piracy by his fellow Oligarchs. Our Congress, representing us, developed this important assistance project.
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Trump Administration 'turning humanitarian assistance into a bargaining chip' by threatening to withhold aid unless Zambia expands mineral access – Oxfam
In response to reports that President Trump could withhold HIV assistance to Zambia unless given greater access to the country’s
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Again, the Democratic nominee who comes closest to promising to send every member of DOGE to The Hague, along with Musk, Vought, and Rubio, gets my support.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There came a point when the Roman empire couldn't keep the sea lanes open and free of piracy anymore. If you're keeping up on your bingo card for what the collapse of a decaying superpower hegemony looks like.
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