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@historien.bsky.social
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Historian by education and techie by choice. Serial craft enthusiast with more unfinished projects than Leonardo DaVinci. I love my home among the hills and anything else you can ask.

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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
If you’re looking to voice your concerns to your Congressional leaders, I’d recommend 5calls. It gives you the direct phone number (bypass the switchboard), a basic script, and all the talking points. I use it and it makes the process so much easier to succinctly voice concerns.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Emperor Donnie Depends. Since he wanted to be a Sith yesterday, I thought I’d give him an accurate depiction. Don’t you just love AI?
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m not saying push them into the sea. I’m just saying the Boston Cyber Rave sounds kind of cool.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/03/2025
Bernie Sanders: "I'm gonna vote no. I think the American people are sick and tired of Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, running around, slashing Social Security, veterans programs. That Republicans are moving for massive tax breaks and cutting Medicaid ... you gotta draw a line."
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Let this sink in.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just leaving this here.
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United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. 1:73-01529 (E.D.N.Y.) | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Important words from the Auschwitz Memorial - courtesy of "the other place". @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
A picture of a tweet from Auschwitz Memorial saying:
"Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. 

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time."
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It’s freezing here tonight. Please keep us in your prayers. I think all my friends and family are safe and dry, but I know some aren’t so lucky.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. - Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, and orator.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A world changing American Author.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Doesn’t treason carry the death penalty? Trump and Musk probably should have thought that through more. As a historian, I can’t imagine that’ll end well for them.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Can we get age limits on Congress now? These dinosaurs are a threat to the nation and themselves at this point.
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Mitch McConnell using a wheelchair after falling down stairs at the Capitol
A spokesman for McConnell said the 82-year-old senator is "fine" and using a wheelchair “purely as a precautionary measure."
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
More of this please. Absolutely brilliant. No backing down, no going backwards. @repjasmine.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #JWST🧵 1/ This tantalizing vibrant color image (released in Dec. 2024) of the young star cluster NGC 602 uses Chandra X-ray data (in red) and JWST data (in various infrared colors). Reference➡️ chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2024/n... The combined use of X-rays and infrared
The image features the star cluster NGC 602, which comprises a giant ring of dust clouds, colored in green, yellow, blue and orange. The green hues and feathery edges create the appearance of a crown of evergreen branches. Hints of red, representing X-rays, provide shading, highlighting the inner layers.
The image is illuminated by dots and blobs of colored light, in shades of blue, gold, white, orange and red, representing the stars within the cluster. Some lights shine with diffraction spikes, others emit a diffuse glow. Many of the bright dots have spiral arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is a coup similar to the Nazi takeover of Germany. After a failed violent insurrection the Nazis resolved to pretend to be a legitimate political party with the intentions of dismantling democracy piece by piece at a rapid pace. Blitzkrieg Politik.
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". She would have 112 today.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trump should leave the US, he’s an embarrassment.
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Trump says Palestinians should permanently leave Gaza as he meets with Netanyahu – live — Guardian US
Hamas official says Trump comments ‘a recipe for creating chaos’; Trump earlier signed executive order to withdraw US from UN human rights council
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’ve heard from quite a few people that are concerned by this. To be clear, the “waste” he is talking about is spending people’s hard earned money on deserving legal citizens and not on his illegal immigrant bum. This is moving fast towards kleptocracy.
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Treasury Dept. gives Elon Musk's team access to federal payment system: Sources
If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If I hear someone say they’ve “done their own research.”, all I hear is “I’m the poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.”
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
They’re already criminals but now they want to add crimes against humanity to their long list. All so they can pocket more of our tax dollars in companies that Musk stole and is now running into the ground.
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Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’ | CNN Politics
Elon Musk said President Donald Trump agreed the US Agency for International Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was froz...
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. The group was awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The they received praise for their excellent combat record protecting American bombers from enemy fighters.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
She also made a great point about dismissing what he said he’d do. He did it the first time with the Muslim ban, what made people think he wouldn’t do it again? He’s a crook and a degenerate, the only lies he tells are ones to protect himself.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Temporary”? It’s class warfare at its worst.
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Trump Says Tariffs Will Cause Americans "Temporary Pain" | Morning News Rundown
Donald Trump says tariffs will cause Americans "temporary pain," China vows retaliation alongside Mexico and Canada, and there was another minor plane crash in Chicago last night.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989. He worked on projects sending craft to Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. #BlackHistoryMonth
Lonnie George Johnson holding his invention, the super soaker.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Oh look, taking a page from Joseph Goebbels.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Shouting from those who shout over the voices of the poor and oppressed to claim they are the victims. Revilers should not be allowed to persist.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
His response is a distraction from the fact that it was orders he issued that led to the domino effect of the crash.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The last internment camp on US soil was the Mariel Boatlift internment in the 80s. I did a study on this internment with the conclusion being it was based on ethnocentric stereotyping. They used the same “criminals” excuse to lock up refugees.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It was his fault. Period.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
On this day, a madman took control of a nation. He used chaos, fear, and violence to push his way into power. He claimed to be law and order, but instead fed off the destruction of democracy. 92 Years ago Adolf Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany, I wasn’t talking about Trump.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Expect more food born illnesses and higher prices for all animal based food products.
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Former USDA inspector general defies Trump order, escorted from her office
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran, said the Trump administration had not followed proper protocols, according to Reuters sources.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you." Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid. This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you’re not concerned by all these executive orders about trans folk, deportations, and now internment camps. I would remind you that oppression is like a boulder at the top of a hill. Once it is rolling, it is harder to stop.
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Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay — Guardian US
President signs executive order instructing preparation of facility to house 30,000 immigrants at US naval base in Cuba
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Love how our mainstream media is focused on the important things like tariffs and not what every world news source is reporting. Immigrants add $75.6B in taxes in 2022, he just wasted $2.4 million to do one of the most idiotic stunts in US. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/how...
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How much are Donald Trump's deportation flights costing US amid immigration crackdown? - The Times of India
President Trump is employing Department of Defense resources for mass deportations, including military planes which are significantly costlier than Department of Homeland Security flights. The Pentago...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Hate is like a fire that burns down your house.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump owes her an apology for the chaos he’s brought to the people she cares for.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I saw this on TikTok that the website is gone. Confirmed on Wayback Machine that it was there this morning around 10:26 but she gone. Not surprised, didn’t put his hand on the Bible during the oath…
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just reminding us he lived 17 years in apartheid South Africa.
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Phil @historien.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain means don’t make false oaths in God’s name. So… just saying… probably the last time he’s done something honest.
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