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Thomas Heaney

@captainabraham.bsky.social
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Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO Opinions are my own &not the views of my employer Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games

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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me inside of Outlook trying to block spam from Pinterest. "Why won't you die?!"
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Leonardo DiCaprio with a Flamethrower
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio with a Flamethrower
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Impeach Convict Remove Arrest Prosecute Imprison #8647
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
*stares in Platt Amendment* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platt_A...
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Platt Amendment - Wikipedia
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've been saying it, and I'll keep saying it: Trump's goal is to weaken the United States. He is an existential threat.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It became necessary to destroy women's sports to save them.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The most corrupt party in US history approving the most corrupt Attorney General in US history appointed by the most corrupt President in US history. Pretty on brand, actually.
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Bruce Feldman @brucerfeldman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Daily reminder that we don’t have a president. We have a mob boss masquerading as one.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The manner in which fascist leaders like Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu have weaponized mass global migration in the past couple of decades is both horrific and fascinating. Hitler and Stalin would both be very proud.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
SHOULDN'T IT BE A BIGGER STORY THAT EVERYTHING TRUMP SAID ABOUT THE REFLECTING POOL WAS A FUCKING LIE 🤷 EVERYONE TRUMP ACCUSED SHOULD SUE HIM FOR EVERYTHING HE HAS 👍 Post Anything Here: interactink.vercel.app
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A shakedown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
wat
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
But of course neither Kelly nor Miller “built this country,” and they have as much to do with, say, the writing of The Odyssey or the painting of the Sistine Chapel as I do—the fact that Kelly and Miller are white does not make these accomplishments theirs. People who espouse these views do not value the classics for what they can teach us about the ancient world or our own, but as bleached marble monuments to their own superiority.

There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s ancestors (although Miller’s were actually poor persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe, not ancient Roman senators). Honoring and celebrating the past achievements of those ancestors, however, is different from taking credit for them. All Kelly and Miller did was win the lottery of being born in the richest country ever, one whose institutions and traditions they are busy helping destroy with as much zeal as the Greeks in Nolan’s film defiled the temple of Athena.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Bingo.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Years ago, I was exploring the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and in anteroom there was a wonderful exhibit about George Washington's plantation and the enslaved men and women who lived and worked there. There were maps showing the locations of slave quarters as well as letters and ledgers.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@nytimes.com, None of those Strands are petty officers. Just sayin'.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Given their sudden, uncontrolled growth, I propose that we call them "Data Cancers."
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We're like 5 minutes from formation taint solar exposure drills, aren't we?
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As an alternative to this chaos, the dual-hatted Secretary of State/National Security Advisor could manage up and re-institute an actual national security policy process. And take away POTUS’s phone.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new Dey of Algiers. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...)
CNN Headline: "Trump says the US will impose a 20% fee on cargo moving through the strait"Gru's Plan Meme with 3 phases:
1. Demand free movement of international trade through Strait of Hormuz.
2. Bomb Iran for demanding payment of tribute for safe passage through Strait.
3. Demand payment of tribute of 20% of cargo to US  for protection.
In the forth panel, Gru seems to recognize the contradiction.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2026
this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@united.com, why did your servers reset after I had worked for 2 hours to assemble the correct flights and seats? OMG.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Studying history and listening to historians is very useful. youtu.be/QhTfM9-o-WE?...
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Putin can no longer hide this scale of destruction | James Holland
YouTube video by Frontline
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now, if the United States goes on to win the World Cup, it will forever be tainted. #ETTD
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Can someone please explain to me the pricing logic of airlines? How is it that if I take United 926 to Frankfurt I pay $1,746 but if I take the exact same flight and then also take another flight to another destination it costs only $945 -- almost half the price?!
United 926 to Frankfurt is $1,746The same United flight to Frankfurt followed by a connecting hour long flight to Brussels costs $945.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Lincoln's body is currently spinning faster than the quasar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 05/07/2026
Hauling out the Medal of Honor recipients. He loves doing this. And a third historical flag gets a shoutout! This one "draped over the casket of Abraham Lincoln."
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#WeKilledHitler. Again. Medium difficulty this time. Ambushed Hitler in Poland after a conspiracy to poison him failed.
Dice showing the 4 bullseyes necessary to kill Hitler.Kronk from Emperor's Groove discusses the poison chosen specifically to kill Hitler.Game board at the end.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#WeKilledHitler Ok, it was on the lowest level of difficulty, but on our first game! @pdubarry.bsky.social
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Women’s rights and trans rights are not competing causes. They never were. They share a common enemy: the rigid gender hierarchy that has always used 'protection' as a cover story for control." msmagazine.com/2026/06/30/s...
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The Supreme Court Decided Who Gets to Be a Girl. We Disagree.
On Tuesday, June 30, in a complete distortion of federal laws requiring equal opportunities in education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to further the Trump administration's political agenda to persecu...
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This image is a popular internet meme template that features three cartoon golden dragon heads against a cloudy blue-grey sky.
The two heads on the left are fierce and menacing with red, narrowed eyes, multiple horns, and spiky scales. The head on the far left has white text superimposed over it that reads "1876 PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION." The head in the center has text over it that reads "1892 CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION."
The head on the right is drawn in a starkly different, simplified, and "derpy" style, with smooth, curly horns, huge googly eyes looking in different directions, and its tongue sticking out in a silly grimace. It has white text over it that reads "2026 GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR."
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump
The Justice Department is still sitting on millions of Epstein files. Some of them could reveal a lot about the president.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You may be cool, but you'll never be cool like the archivists at NARA who, upon request, will trackdown the classified documents you request, declassify them for you, scan them as a PDF, and email you the requested documents a week later! USA! USA!
Deck Logs of the USS Minneapolis (CA-35) from July 1941 showing her moored at Mare Island, California undergoing extensive maintenance.  Includes a tag showing that declassification was approved June 2026.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The existence of a global trillionaire is a tragedy to be lamented, not a triumph to be celebrated.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Even Goebbels would have been embarrassed by such a bald declaration.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?
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Armed Maidan: Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide @armedmaidan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Me after lining up 4 legs of a trip by train and checking every platform and car number with absolute precision.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I went to Berlin, and all I got was this library card for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Good Lord the Germans smoke soooo much! What the heck?
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