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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Almost $100." Wow. That's, like, a lot of money. In 1812.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great, now I have numerous abdominal injuries from watching this. Thanks a lot.
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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 · 16/09/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Time for everyone's favorite game: Is He That Stupid, or Does He Think Everyone Else Is?
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
GOP 2026: Mercantilism, but really really stupid. #8647
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
*pounding head on desk gif*
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And just like that, I've got a new final exam question for my world history classes.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. . . . For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
These demands would have made Canada a mere US tributary.
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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 · 19/08/2026
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Oh Damn Reaction
Alt: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson expresses shocked "Oh Damn" Reaction
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yup!
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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
*post
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As opposed to the Nixon and Reagan Libraries which are devoted to the study of the events of the past 2020 world?
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
*Stares in Section 4 of the 14th Amendment*
Section 4

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's as if they just took Hitler's speeches and did a search-and-replacement of "Muslim" for every appearance of "Jew".
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Bonjour
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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 · 04/08/2026
The solution is, of course, testosterone injections.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead." That's the civics lesson. That's how he thinks civics should work.
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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
Not unlike the Ozone hole problem that was addressed by Congressional action in which people now claim that the lack of a current problem is evidence that concerns in the past were overblown. The success of the policy changes became "evidence" that scientists were wrong. See also: vaccines.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
And many of those shutdowns were implemented to PREVENT ICUs from being strained because you can't wait until they're already filled. "Empty" ICUs that resulted were the positive outcome not a sign of failure.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I never understood why the Democratic donkey in this image was so swole.
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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Because of the automobile.
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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For what it's worth. . . share.google/yK5eaEPV93oT...
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Doctor of Philosophy
A First-Principles Approach to Graduate Education in Political Philosophy and American Politics and Political Theory offering the Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hillsdale.
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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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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's as if George Lucas announced that he was spending his billions from Star Wars to ensure the establishment of an actual" galactic empire" and the elimination of "rebel scum."
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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 · 27/07/2026
1932? The WPA didn't exist yet.
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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
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Mom pronounced, disappointedly, "Aw, this is just a bunch of ni**er sh*t! We don't need to see this sh*t." And she herded the family back out the way they had come entirely uncontaminated by the knowledge the room contained. That's what Trump's signs mean. "Just a bunch of ni**er sh*t."
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