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Mike O'Malley

@mikeomalley.bsky.social
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US history Prof. at GMU. Author most recently of The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry See historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/mo…

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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 14h
We bought a lifetime pass last month, first making sure it didn't have a picture of Trump on it.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff knows how to do oppositional language while remaining politically centrist
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes there’s that long chapter in Das Kapital about the importance of men playing women’s sports
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can we mention it was a slave society or would that be too woke?
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The people who LITERALLY tried to prosecute a guy for creating "8647" with seashells are big mad that people don't know "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" was just a 'joke'. 🖕🖕🤡🖕🖕
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We bought a new Equinox EV last Feb. for $30,000. Picked it over the Bolt because at the time Chevy said they were discontinuing the bolt and the EQ EV had all wheel drive and significantly more range. Didnt; want to buy a car that was being discontinued
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GMU makes us review grad applications with program that alphabetizes by first name. It won’t let you alphabetize by last name.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/susan-c...
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Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts?
In recent weeks, as the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ...
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Disney’s Pinnochio was actually scary AF. Monstro the whale, and also the seen where boys turn into actual jackasses. I was about five or six
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hegseth feels a surge of anxiety every time he sees a bearded man. He starts to reach for the whiskey, but then reminds himself that Jesus hated beards.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That is a great collection! taught it many times
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Beschloss, “presidential historian” and popular dc party guest
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A shock and awe of stupidity
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well done getting this ridiculous evil baseless prosecution smacked down
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's always been a strain of American culture that loves punishment far more than preventing crime.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How did this happen? I think probably the staff used some for of AI to make connections and the AI just assumed "Hawks="Hawkeyes"? Because if humans did this they're amazingly lazy and dumb, and that can't be the case, can it....?
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a clown show. He's all heated up about this nonsense conspiracy theory, but then at the hearing somebody realized the mistake and took it down quickly. Schmitt responds with bluster--when you don't have the facts, pound the table
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most liberal/Dem politicians spend all there time saying "here's why you can't have nice things." Basically telling their voters that what they want is wrong. Mamdani doesn't do that
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most liberal politicians spend all their time telling the voters why they can’t have nice things. Mamdani makes actually nice things happen. Unlike other mayors, he doesn’t hate his voters
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mamdani is the greatest politician of this era.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The mainstream media are trying to force-feed us Rahm Emanuel as If they’re parents who cooked a bunch of cauliflower and are pissed that their kids won’t eat it.
NYT: Rahm Emanuel makes his 2026 play
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sinclair Lewis was making fun of the “muscular Christianity” trope 100 years ago.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What sort of game is this shithead playing?
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fantastic outcome, gonna make me chuckle all day
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Philly native here. My wife and I are moving to Maine today, this very day, partly because the summers are less and less tolerable
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why the hell would they speak in old English? Shakespeare did not write or speak old English.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maddeningly stupid people
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was settled by Annette Gordon-Reed in 1997.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jefferson and Hemmings: historians always welcome new evidence, but Annette Gordon-Reed settled this question over two decades ago, through impeccable research and careful analysis. Jefferson was the father.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's actually his typical formula: umbrage about an imaginary grievance.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is great work. Collins has to go.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WTF is he talking about? What are the 8 wars? Where is the trillion dollars "pouring in" from? None of it makes a goddam lick of sense
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This was my memory of grad school as well.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
YES! The form, the intercutting, is so powerful that it makes you root for the KKK even as you're horrified by the grotesque racism
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This could end up being a good thing. The WHPC mostly just regurgitates stuff trump says, or just paraphrases press releases
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How could anyone NOT see that?
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning some media outlets is bad, but the White House Press Corps is mostly bullshit, asking superficial questions and serving as a megaphone for Trumps inanities. And holding a chummy, clubby annual dinner with the guy. It's just performative pseudo journalism
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh Noes! Not the White House Correspondent's Dinner!
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also using adorable sheep to ensnare the FBI
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Clearly not a good thing, but what does the White House press corps actually do besides serve as a megaphone for Trump's nonsense? Maybe right it up with a half assed "both sides" and call it a day. Happy to be shown how this take is wrong?
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We need to buy banana from the vast tropical plantations of Nebraska
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Somehow BIden keeps raising gas prices, from retirement.
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He's a stupid, lazy mental slob
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some day the world will be rid of this reckless lazy slob
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An F-15 pilot who needs to wear glasses in daily life?
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fucking idiots
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Mike O'Malley @mikeomalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What difference would that make?
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