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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I start my deep dive into the history of Punk by going back to one of the first bands that is often listed as being a major progenitor of the style: The Velvet Underground. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The History of Punk Part 1 Velvet Underground - Distorted History Podcast
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The story of the 38 witnesses watching on and doing nothing as Kitty Genovese was attacked multiple times before ultimately being killed is one of the most famous stories in true crime and psychology and yet its also not really true. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The Murder of Kitty Genovese Part 2
The murder of Kitty Genovese was a tragedy. The story that grew up around that murder however made Kitty's death a cultural touch stone of sorts but as we will
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Leave it Mox and Orange to make us laugh a midst all of this. #AEW
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fucking empty chair Yeah that hit hard #aew
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How is this Mox promo so goddamned fitting? #AEW
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm simultaneously not ready for #AEWDynamite tonight while also thinking that this might be a moment that a lot of us including the men and women in that locker-room need to just kind of symbolically grieve together.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Many have like heard the story of how in 1964 a young woman named Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered in New York City while 38 witnesses watched on and did nothing. This is the part of that story that gets left out and why that tale is far from accurate. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The Murder of Kitty Genovese Part 1
The story of the murder of Kitty Genovese is often one of a young woman killed in the big city while 38 witnesses watched on and did nothing. That tale however
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Was not prepared for emotional PAC. #aew
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
While Kyuss wasn't around long they would leave a massive legacy as one of the bands responsible for inspiring the stoner metal/desert rock genre. www.spreaker.com/episode/soun...
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Sound Stories Kyuss
The story of short lived but incredibly influential desert/stoner rock band Kyuss.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
God damnit #AEW that's twice you broke me tonight
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After learning that the great diamond find that had excited the entire country might have occurred in the same region that he and his men had just conducted their geological survey Clarence King sets off to rectify this mistake only to make a much greater discovery. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The Great Diamond Hoax Part 3 Exposed
As Clarence King wraps up his grand survey of the great basin area he and his men receive disturbing news. It seems that the great diamond discovery that they'd
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Absolutely amazing show from top to bottom from #AEW Went out of my way to make sure I could sit down and watch everything from the buy in on and I didn't regret a moment of it. I've never seen a wrestling company with a roster this deep and this dedicated to putting on the best shows.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.
In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We continue our tale of the Great Diamond Hoax by following Clarence King, the man who would eventually reveal this grand deception, as he begins his career as an adventuring scientist risking his life exploring the Sierra Nevada mountains. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The Great Diamond Hoax Part 2 Clarence King Mountain Climbing Scientist
Young scientist Clarence King indulges his obsession as he risks life and limb to ascend some of the highest and most treacherous peaks in the Sierra Nevada ran
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New episode covering the fraught creation of Metallica's biggest album ever. The album that made them forever a household name. The Black Album. www.spreaker.com/episode/soun...
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Sound Stories Metallica Black Album
Following the surprising success of the uncompromisingly heavy ...And Justice For All, Metallica look to radically shift gears. In doing so the undertake the mo
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I always love the game of 'Is this an actual name or did I just massively screw up when typing this up?' and then having to go look it up (again) whenever I go to write or record an episode.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The word of a discovery of veritable field of diamonds and other precious gems some where in the western territories in 1872 excites Americans from San Francisco to New York. The only problem is this discovery is actually a part of the long history of mine fraud. www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
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The Great Diamond Hoax Part 1 Mining Fraud and the Comstock Lode - Distorted History Podcast
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Klan leader DC Stephenson commits a crime so heinous that not even all of his power and influence is enough for him to escape justice. A fall from grace which eventually also helps to lead to the downfall of the 1920s klan. www.spreaker.com/episode/1920...
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1920s Klan Part 4 Downfall
Klan leader DC Stephenson commits a crime so heinous that not even all his power and influence can help him escape justice. His downfall then becomes the first
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The recently fired Ozzy Osborne believes his time as a rock star is at an end until the daughter of his manager Sharon Arden throws him a life line. He then launches his solo career and in doing so brings the worlds attention to a talented young guitarist. www.spreaker.com/episode/soun...
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Sound Stories Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman - Distorted History Podcast
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 11/07/2026
I even wrote about this for @atrupar.com!
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Linda McMahon is much worse than you think
In a sane world, her past would be disqualifying.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
As the 1920s klan spreads its brand of racist, anti-immigrant ultra patriotism it welcomes women into its ranks. While in Indiana one man builds a political machine that sees the klan essentially take over the state government. www.spreaker.com/episode/1920... ko-fi.com/post/1920s-K...
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1920s Klan Part 3 DC Stephenson
The klan looks to expand its power by incorporating women into its ranks and also by pushing their '100 percent American' agenda through politics. One of the mo
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2026
Forced detransition is unethical medical experimentation on trans people. It plainly violates the 8th amendment but they want to use trans people to roll back the barest protections incarcerated people have. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-...
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GOP governor signs bill forcing trans inmates to detransition - LGBTQ Nation
The bill's sponsor said people who are convicted of crimes don't deserve gender-affirming care.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📣 New Podcast! "1920s Klan Part 2 Expansion" on @Spreaker #1920s #american #history #podcast #politics #racism #religion
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1920s Klan Part 2 Expansion
As the klan ties itself to the evangelical movement it experiences both explosive growth and also internal scheming as it begins to shift gears to focus on politics.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You can draw a through line between Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, the Palestine encampment student protests, and the results of the Prairieland case. And then still have Dems asking why there aren't more protests...
Two guys clasping arms. The first is labeled as "Democrats", the second as "Republicans", and the text under them both is "charging peaceful protestors with conspiracy to commit domestic terrorism".
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📣 New Podcast! "Sound Stories Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell" on @Spreaker #black_sabbath #dio #heavy_metal #history #metal #podcast
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Sound Stories Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Ozzy's issues reach a point that he's fired from Black Sabbath. The band though carries on and finds a new singer in Ronnie James Dio. Who helps to revitalize the band. Leading to them to release their best and most successful record in years.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026
there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 14/06/2026
It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📣 New Podcast! "1920s Klan Part 1 Rebirth" on @Spreaker #american #history #immigration #podcast #politics #racism
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1920s Klan Part 1 Rebirth
The 1920s klan is notable for targeting immigrants seeking to take over the government through electing loyal politicians and for being a pyramid scheme style grift.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/06/2026
Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry
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Michael Brooks 🇬🇧 @michael.brooks4.com · 04/06/2026
Excalibur signed off of the first Dynamite of Pride Month with : "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE! THIS IS ALL ELITE WRESTLING!" Which is a Twin Peaks reference where a character played by the late David Lynch said it it whilst standing up for a transgender colleague 🔥 #AEW
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
📣 New Podcast! "The First Klan Part 3 Fall of the Klan" on @Spreaker #history #klan #podcast #reconstruction
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The First Klan Part 3 Fall of the Klan
The original klan is finally brought down thanks largely to the efforts of one cavalry officer and his men. Unfortunately the klan's ultimate goal is still realized.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Well that was a fascinating way to kick off #aew Dynamite. The history between Mox and Omega with Osprey in between.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘He sacrificed his life’: security guard killed in San Diego mosque attack hailed as hero
Security guard Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad were killed in shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Over 300 detainees at Delaney Hall signed an S.O.S. letter about the horrid conditions they are facing: rotten food, lack of medical attention, and so much more. Yesterday we went to inspect Delaney and that letter is correct. The solution is closing Delaney and abolishing ICE.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣 New Podcast! "The First Klan Part 2 Reign of Terror" on @Spreaker #american_history #history #klan #podcast #reconstruction
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The First Klan Part 2 Reign of Terror
As the Klan spreads all throughout the states of the former Confederacy it unleashes a reign of terror on all who stand in their way.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/05/2026
The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...
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Boeing, Toyota Donated $1 Million Each to Transportation Secretary’s Road-Trip Show
A video series will feature Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family on a road trip to mark America’s 250th birthday and promote tourism.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.
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Why Farmers Voted For Trump
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📣 New Podcast! "The First Klan Part 1 Birth and Reconstruction" on @Spreaker #american_history #history #podcast #reconstruction
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The First Klan Part 1 Birth and Reconstruction
The ku klux klan is one of the most violent, vile and unfortunately probably most influential organizations in American history. It is then important to examine its history and its motivations.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
With MJF crashing out over losing the belt I'd love to see a zen Hangman show up at some point to thank Max for freeing from the burden of pursuing the #AEW world title. Which of course will annoy Max until he decides the best way to torment Page is to free him from his promise.
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distortedhistory.bsky.social @distortedhistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
With the people of Central America rising up against him William Walker completes his villain arc. Yet even in defeat he refuses to give up. #podcast #history www.spreaker.com/episode/will...
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William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 5 The End - Distorted History Podcast
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 17/04/2026
this is fucking nuts:
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Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)
YouTube video by Nick Dellow
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