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Grimly Optimistic Historian

@clioden.bsky.social
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Ph.D. in history. Lefthanded leftist. Black-belt in karate. Tax the rich. Universal healthcare. BLM. LGBTQIA+ ally. Care for people, and fix the climate.

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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
After he is gone, what is it going to take to rebuild our relationships with former allies he alienated? I would guess we will need lots of public trials and convictions, and maybe even some changes to the constitution. Otherwise they won't trust that we won't rip up treaties every four years.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fun thought: we need a real, honest to goodness Stalinist Communist party in America to move the Overton window far enough to make democratic socialism a mainstream idea.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Okay, at bottom, are creationism and the idea we are living in a computer simulation the same thing?
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
They’ll prolly try to deport Madonna, too, come to think of it. All that voguing.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Are they setting up Shakira and BTS for the most public ICE arrest/deportations ever?
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How long before Trump says, "Melania? I hardly knew her."?
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Classic blunders: “Never start a land war in Asia, and never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Is this the Reichstag moment they’ve been waiting for?
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
As if 2025 didn't have enough weird stuff already.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Trump called bankers Shylocks, today. The antisemitism doesn't surprise me at all, coming from him. The Shakespeare reference though? Didn't see that coming.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The Big Beautiful Bill passed, so I think I'll go down to my local, rural hospital, and raise a glass. I'm going to miss it. Especially when I have a heart attack.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm beginning to think the Democratic leadership is trying to be the Washington Generals to the Republican Harlem Globetrotters . . . wait a minute. They're ALL the Washington Generals.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today I learned that robots can get aggressive prostate cancer after leaving office.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am definitely NOT saying Trump was replaced by a Russian robot in 2016. . . . but damn, think about that.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It might be amusing to get a negative answer to the rhetorical question, "Is the Pope Catholic?" Looking at you, Lindsey Graham.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I guess I wasn't prepared for the anti-Christ to be such a delusional idiot.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hey, I posted another blog on Clio's Nightmare about the pre-conditions for a revolution. Check it out! Please subscribe and share if you like it. It's free. paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...
paulschue.substack.com
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If you heard of a cologne called "Evil Musk," what do you imagine it would smell like? No particular reason. Just wondering.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Hey, I wrote a new history blog post. Are we heading for a revolution? A historical take, part I. Check it out. Subscribe and share if you like it! It's free! open.substack.com/pub/paulschu...
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Is a Revolution on the Horizon? Part I.
A historical take on the preconditions for revolutions.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hey, I wrote a historian's perspective on how Trump might try to turn himself into a dictator. Check it out, and share it if you like it. paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...
paulschue.substack.com
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I wrote another thing for my history blog on substack. Check it out! paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...
paulschue.substack.com
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DeeJ @passthesalty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Putting together a Starter Pack for #Resisters under 10k. We are stronger together! UNDER 10K FOLLOWERS? LET'S FIX THAT! 👉Comment with a 💙 and REPOST so others can get onboard. Make sure you follow me After vetting, I'll pick 150 at random #NoDemUnder10k #DemsConnect #BlueCrew #FBR LFG!!!
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
229,766 voters in just 3 states actually decided the 2024 election. The other 155,200,000 of us did not actually count. Time to END the Electoral College.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hey @aoc.bsky.social- we love you. You are remarkable and braver and tougher than all of us put together. The shit you deal with from the right AND the left would cause all of us to quit. But we know you won’t because you’re built different. Keep fighting. You’re the future of this party.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Remember, it's only champagne terrorism if you kill a CEO from the Champagne region of France. Killing CEOs from anywhere else is just sparkling terrorism.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Human beings are relatively weak and defenseless compared to other large mammals. We have only survived through cooperation, coordination, and community. If we forget how to help each other and work together, we will not survive as a species.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Breaking: Mike Johnson proposes replacing Obamacare with GoFundMe as America’s official healthcare plan.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reading the news and trying to decide whether I should be more afraid of global warming of nuclear winter.
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Teeshasmom @teeshasmom2.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/11/2024
I’m still amazed people think Project 2025 isn’t going to happen. Nobody writes a 920 page manifesto and then at the very end says, “just kidding!”
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Linda Childers @chilwriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I feel for all of us who didn’t FA but will still FO. FAFO
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a woman says i did n't sign up for this in a netflix ad
ALT: a woman says i did n't sign up for this in a netflix ad
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Dev Clifford @devclifford.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The corruption is marbled throughout what remains if the Republican/MAGA party. There is no way to remove it, the entire organism needs to be eliminated.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
So, we're getting a Bird flu epidemic right as TFG gets back in the Oval Office, and he appoints the anti-vaccine loon to HHS? Perfect. What could go wrong?
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It's getting awfully hard to resist believing we just live in a simulation, and the operator is high as a kite and trying some stuff out to see what happens.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Boebert as Sec. of Ed. and Gaetz as A.G. I didn’t think Trump had a sense of humor, but I might need to reassess.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Pete Hegseth as Sec of Defense makes me think we are not going to get government, we are going to get a fire sale. Everything must go, down to the studs.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My only real hope at this point is that in the incoming Trump administration, the greed and incompetence will actually prevent the effective implementation of their agenda.
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Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello! I just moved here from Twitter (I know, I know, X). Please follow me here if you followed me there!
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