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The Heathen Historian

@heathenhistory.bsky.social
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"Always sniff the breeze" Military strategist and historian, Germanic pagan, volunteer EMT, cavalry officer, Käfer driver "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world"

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 7h
Good night, folks. We are officially Putin's bitch. Sleep tight.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 7h
If a Combatant Commander has to post a video like this, then things are not "open for business." This is a strategic oopsies.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 8h
A Republican Senator spewing Putin talking points (which have been debunked myriad times) shouldn't be shocking anymore but yet here we are again. And he is absolutely defending that KGB agent.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14h
A college student died after she was drugged and raped in a New York City college dorm room, federal prosecutors announce.
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New York City college student dead after being drugged with fentanyl and raped in her dorm room, prosecutors say
Another student was also drugged in the Fashion Institute of Technology dorm room but survived. Two men have been arrested and charged in the incident.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 17h
"With a conventional military force they tried to control, by conventional military methods, a people that did not behave like conventional enemies and, indeed, quite often were not enemies at all." GWOT or the Indian Wars?
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 19h
If you thought Maryland drivers were bad now just wait until they have cars that can do this bullshit
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 20h
There should be a national monument to John Brown and a federal holiday celebrating his life and legacy
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 21h
I've always worried that the Army officer corps doesn't focus enough on the ethical and moral aspect of service, especially through GWOT and GWOT 2: ISIS Boogaloo. Dort is the proof we failed hard.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Heaven on Earth Lies on the back of a horse, In the health of the body, And the love of a woman.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Drop a pic of something you got in your Army career that Pete never got. I got two framed guidons.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“In a panel at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting on Tuesday, the message of other Guard leaders was clear: The demands are unsustainable — and they need to stop.” (@hopeseck.bsky.social is a great follow for military/vet reporting)
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‘Addicted to the Guard’: Generals call for ‘traffic cop’ to control state governor’s demands
One National Guard leader proposed a new "traffic cop" to filter state and federal activation and employment requests as the Guard faces increasing demand.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Texans don't understand their own history Side note: They came and took it
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This kid already knows not to start a land war in Asia
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When you realize the country music you listened to in college is now 30 years old
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Grover's Dramatic Faint on Sesame Street
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sending a mountain division trained in arctic warfare to the jungle is certainly a choice
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Researching the Cavalry Reorganization Act of 1861 like
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Computer Nerd Typing Intensely
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Maybe the Army should stop using the 7th Cavalry as the basis for its cavalry history and demonstration teams. Just a thought.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Being virtuous is a good thing. Showing and expressing that virtue to others, in support of others, is a good thing. Only the non-virtuous/vicious think it's bad.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Having been to the Triangle many times I can tell you that the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation of today is not the organization it was in the 1950s. They have done a supurb job of expanding the historiography to include more than just old white men.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A haunted house where every room just has Shelby Foote's ghost telling you how great Robert E Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia was
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We are a morally and ethically corrupt society if our "natural and national order" is aligned with watching a dude getting blasted in the chest plate live on the internet.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cool knows more about war than Pete Hegseth. He is my SECDEF.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh man 😂
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Nathan Fillion's Speechless 'Um No' Reaction
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As a Cavalry officer this hurts a bit, but as an American I gotta say yup that was a huge W for them. Not hating on it at all. Also, Custer was a narcissistic douche bag.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One of my ancestors who fought to put down the slaver's rebellion moved out to Nebraska after the war and became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. A group is working to restore their old GAR meeting house. So grateful for their work and determination to save history.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Slave owner, traitor, and man who led the rebel army that killed more US Soldiers than any other adversary in American history died today in 1870. Fixed it for you. You're welcome.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As Newt Gingrich works on defining the future of warfare, remember he co-wrote a Civil War alternate history novel that had the Confederates win the battle of Gettysburg.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Snapshot from a lecture about the battle of Little Big Horn. Look at the stats of the average US soldier in 1876. None of them are doing CrossFit. None of them are asshole muscle meatheads. Most of them are immigrants. Pete needs to read a bit of history about his own organization.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Indiana and Iowa still in the top 25. Just need my Illini to step up a bit more.
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Cornman: It's Corn Time!
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cozy rainy days
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tapping the fucking sign again
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you wear Rhodesian camouflage you're "trendy" and edgy and think nobody knows what it is, or that it's some cool vintage tiger stripe camo. But we know what you're doing, Seth. Go read your Soldier of Fortune magazine.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"For whatever reason, Zelenskyy doesn't make a deal." We all know the reason except for him. He's just parroting what Putin tells him to say.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This should change your mental model every time you ride Disney's Spaceship Earth. Thank the Phoenicians, not Steve Jobs.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
KKK
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When a fire dog meets a fire dog
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The "Waffle House closes during epic hurricane" warning is undefeated. If you're in Mobile, get out.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Okay just gonna say it. Might as well get kicked out of NATO for this one. Not sure what more Europe and Ukraine can take of us being stupid.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is 10000% Russian collusion and won't have any effect on the midterms. Should have the opposite, tbh. Buying fuel from the enemy. We're a joke.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are getting into Hunger Games territory, and I am not a huge fan.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My carpenter ancestors would be very proud of me today. Not just for my craftsmanship but also the nice injuries.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In honor of Mike Ditka #BearDown 🐻 youtu.be/BnwmxJ6RDHw?...
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Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew The Super Bowl Shuffle 1985
YouTube video by Staleys Chicago Italian Dining
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Recalling how the Bush administration considered the leaked tape of Saddam's execution to be a disaster. A garish and medieval end to what had been a carefully managed process from capture, interrogation (with full Geneva protections unlike others), public trial and transfer to a new "free" Iraq.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Poland and the Baltics are going hard on "heavy-ing" up their ground forces because they know the threat. This is good for NATO and for Latvia. Love me an ASCOD.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's almost like creating a raging, bigoted environment against LGBTQ people doesn't enable young, vulnerable teenagers to come out. But sure man, it's unclear.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Execution is morally wrong. Televising it is monstrous.
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