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Mitch Axness

@mitchaxness.bsky.social
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Dad of 2 | current IT guy | history grad student (public history, 1850-1950 US) | aspiring archivist and historian | Star Wars fan | comic book nerd. You've been warned. Opinions are mine, because <insert deity of choice> knows no one else wants them.

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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“You cannot understand the greatness of a country without understanding the totality of a country. You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners. Curating means let’s shine the light. Let’s tell the truth.” What Lonnie Bunch said! 🗃️
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think #MLB needs to keep doing the mic'd up players thing year-round. It's fun and makes the down time more entertaining. Having Roger Clemens on and Kody mic'd was special. #Fieldofdreams #phivsmin #fieldofdreamsgame
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.
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Jymbo (Smurfmaster from the place that shall not be named) @smurfmasterjym.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.
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a man with a cowboy hat and a mustache says bye
Alt: From the movie Tombstone, "Curly" Bill Brosius, a man with a cowboy hat and a mustache, says "Well, bye." as Wyatt Earp leaves with his younger brother's coffin.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
fortune.com/2026/04/22/e...
Liberal arts fields like
History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
To recap in light of breaking news out of the UK: The French found a way to prosecute former presidents. The South Koreans did the same. Our British cousins now literally are prosecuting members of the Royal Family. But U.S. presidents remain above the law.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
With Bondi's unhinged rant about how we shouldn't be talking about the Epstein Files because the Dow is over 50k, I had to jump on the meme train. #Bondi #Dow #StarWars
Meme with the Death Star destroying Alderaan, and Grand Moff Tarkin asking Princess Leia why she's crying when the Dow is over 50,000 while Darth Vader looks on.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This Jeopardy clip needs to be titled, "The Arrogance of Man." 😅
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I may be but a simple history grad student and observer of how time works, but surely the makers of this could've predicted the coming of the 250th anniversary with enough lead time to use real actors in real locations and real special effects.
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Rereading the Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1870) and this line about inexperienced federal officers is landing hard
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I guess this shows that if you're in a position to help save the life of one of these ICE pieces of shit, you don't.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I live in a city along the MN border, and although I've been a liberal my whole life, seeing what ICE and CBP have done this past year has radicalized me to a point I never thought possible. My blood boils whenever I see these masked gestapo wandering the streets.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
What is a catch in the NFL? That happens in the end zone, it's a TD. This judgement call on what is and isn't a catch has plagued the NFL for over a decade, and they still haven't found any consistency. They need to get it figured out ASAP.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
What is considered a catch in the NFL? 🤷‍♂️ I've heard possession plus knee down through the ground is a catch. Cooks had possession, knee down, *landed on his back*, but then the Denver DB took the ball and it's an INT?!? If that happened in the end zone it's a TD. They need to figure this shit out.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This Norwegian is not alone. This is what the overwhelming majority of the world sees, including America's allies. 2026 Trump America is 1934 Nazi Germany — and there's no amount of gaslighting from Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk that is going to change this horrific reality. 👇
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE agents anytime they see a car:
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a cartoon of a man with glasses and a mustache says it 's coming right for us
Alt: a cartoon of a man with glasses and a mustache says it 's coming right for us
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A question that keeps popping up in my head is what would happen when one NATO Article V country attacks another Article V country? Is it like an ouroboros of collective defense?
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Jay, The Comics Gay @ricomicbear.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Batman and Commissioner Gordon have a toast about surviving the year and hope to do it next New Years Eve.
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/12/2025
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 14/12/2025
Any essential service that is required for safe and functional modern living should be mandated to be public only. Profit motive is incompatible with essential services, because "everyone has it" and "increase profit yearly" don't mix. Water, power, heat, safety - and I'm looking at you, Internet.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Showers may be a close second.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This whole shitshow of a decade, with Trump and his white nationalist sycophants contolling the political narrative, started when America elected Barack Obama president, and these racist assholes saw that people of color really could accomplish the same things as white men. Just sickening.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is an absolutely amazing idea! Did you develop the game yourself? Is it available?
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This was me when I'd dreamt since I was an early teen of being a computer programmer and working at Microsoft. I started the comp sci program in college and fucking hated it. Went and got a 2yr degree for doing tech support. Went back to college at 41 for public history and haven't been happier.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
and attempting to erase any contributions by African American soldiers, but please, tell me again that Republicans are 'America First' and pro-military when 20% of US soldiers are African American. This entire regime is made up of the most despicable, racist pieces of shit alive today. /end
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I know they're not *techically* the exact names of the generals, but they've still went out of their way to find soldiers with the same last names... 2/
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The Trump Regime is speedily reinstalling Confederate monuments across the country, renaming military bases back to their Confederate general namesakes... 1/
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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a man in a deadpool costume is standing in front of a bridge .
Alt: Deadpool doing a double-take on a bridge, incapable of understanding the absurdity of what he is witnessing.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I'm sure this was said with tears in his eyes.
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
IMO, and as I'm approaching 50, 1985-1995 is *THE* best decade of music.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
But now he's demanding $230 million for the investigations into his illegal activities? That grand juries of his peers indicted him for? I guess grifters gonna grift, and his sycophants will happily get behind him, hoping a few nickels might fall out for them to pick up. /end
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A president's salary is $400k/year, or $1.6mil per 4-year term. So that's $1.6mil he redirected to other federal departments in his first term, plus the additional $1.6mil for the second (assuming he completes it). That's $3.2mil total Trump has or will return to the Treasury. 2/
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Mitch Axness @mitchaxness.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Trump likes to brag that he doesn't take his presidential salary (this, of course, is setting aside the projected $50 million American taxpayers have spent on him playing golf at his personally-owned properties in 2025 alone), but let's extrapolate on the salary numbers quick. 🧵 1/
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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