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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 41m

I want to have a night of drinks with the US-Mexico Maryland secessionist.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

Today is the 3rd anniversary of the 10/7 attacks. Cowardly massacres committed by Hamas terrorists and their allies largely aimed at soft, civilian targets. This, in turn, became casus belli for the Israeli gov't wars and genocide across the Levant. You can and should be against both.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

Piker is someone we shouldn't worry about until November 4th when the pundits need to discover a reason the Dems couldn't take the Senate like they uncovered the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2h

This is the great opportunity to say that, one of the few moments I make points that may be deemed political in my course, is when I show this map, start making jazz hands, start explaining that "Mēxihco" is a Nahuatl word, and point out the common sense fact that is the gulf the Aztecs lived in.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2h

I once heard Christopher Hitchens call Moore "large-print Noam Chomsky" and I have never forgotten that assessment.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I was struck blind before I clicked on this post.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19h

I learned this morning that a mentor of mine and retired colleague within Kean History, Dr. Brian Regal, passed away suddenly Quite literally everything I believe about being a historian flowed from this man's example in some way. He was also why I abhor pseudoscience He is a dearly missed friend.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 18h

How is it that a sitting president wages a pointless war against a country, invites said country to bomb US cities, and still remains a sitting president?

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19h

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah but the real answer is House of the Dragon.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 23h

"Why are you hurting us?" is a maddening response to the simple advise to not handle potentially explosive chemical weapons.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We probably have two more years of this.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I say again, every DHS employee, across the board, from 2017 to 2029 should be investigated and anyone linked to the deporation enterprise should be brought up on human trafficking charges as well as any other that apply. Pipe dream, sure. But that should be how we answer this.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Listen to me BBC, I am a Star Wars fan, make this canon. Make it canon. Make Whovians try to figure out how where the Toaster is during Attack of the Cybermen or how those Daleks feel about Davros. Make it canon, you cowards.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump, in a war he already surrendered in once, has pulled strategic bombers out of an allied NATO member country, a continent away from the Persian Gulf, because the sole global superpower is unable to defend them from Iranian drone attacks. This is a spectacular show of American weakness.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

George Carlin, of the Silent Generation, in 1996 for Back in Town comedically nailed this attitude "Gimme it! It’s mine!" attitude when the average Boomer was in their 40s. The youngest Millenials are now as old as the youngest Boomers were in 1996. Keep that in mind as they begin to demand this.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a republic that still cared about its laws, this would be an act of treason.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where have I heard this before? My edgelord friends in high school who had no idea how the world works. That's where. I, for one, don't give a crap what some Emirati meme-lord felon who turned crimes into millions thinks the benefits of a autocracy are.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Note to Rahm Emanuel, casually calling for the arrest of the free press is something we should punish the President for.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, the GOP earned this. They could have cut Trump off in 2015 with the Access Hollywood tape, in 2021 when he tried to ovethrow the government, or 2024 primary when he refused to debate. They earned a Blue Wave by chaining themselves to a llecherous, criminal ship anchor for a decade.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my students connected the mass violence against Alawites in Syria to the excerpt Bartolomé de las Casas from their readings. I am so proud.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever a Democrat says impeachment isn't important, remember that Trump is serial killing national monuments dedicated to better men than him all the while desecrating our nation's natural beauty that he is too evil and stupid to appreciate. Oh and also he's credibly accused of being a pedophile.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good thing we didn't elect an insurrectionist, defund everything we needed to fight a pandemic, and basically put a mule-kicked alchemist in charge of our nation's health.

motherjones.com

Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher

Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The replies to this are insane. Special snowflakes who cannot read but want to let everyone know they are goodies. It infects your phone. It infects your web browser. If you get an AI response to a Google search, even if you keep scrolling, you interfaced with this accursed technology.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zoom asks to summerize my lectures. Canvas asks me if I want us its AI tools. Outlook asks if it can write my work emails. Everything we see, a version of it is pitching the same to students. All the while we impotently ask them not to listen.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again, the two term lame duck President doesn't understand civics.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hahahaha! Hahaha! *struggles to breath* Ahhhhahahahaha!

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026

And that tells you everything you need to know about Michael Tracey.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As I told someone I went to the Rays-Mets game with last month, when Mike Piazza gives you a phone call as a kid, you don't switch loyalties.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a Mets fan in Tampa Bay, who's brother converted to the Rays, there is one simple choice:

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump, a month out from Election Day, is just setting off depth charges to help that Blue Wave while the people actually trying to win elections within his own party all but beg him to stop behind the scenes.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You might not be adult enough for this conversation then.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is true for any conspiracy theorist but the fun thing about being antisemite is that you can just lie about basic facts while making jazz hands. Everyone knows what you mean.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Pelkey’s family used AI to create a video of his likeness to give him a voice. Pelkey’s sister, Stacey Wales, raised the idea of her brother speaking for himself after struggling to figure out what he would say." With a sister like this, who needs a murderer?

apnews.com

Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video

An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“They voted against me too often, I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often...They vote for me too...I gave them the chance of a lifetime, and it’s unfortunate what they did." This should be Exhibit 1 of his next impeachment trial.

thehill.com

Trump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett

President Trump revealed in an interview published Thursday that he regrets nominating conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “Yeah. …

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching this man get eaten alive by actual Republicans in a primary his boss can't rig is going to be so satisfying.

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