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Michael P. Breen

@mpbreen21.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On the same day that Dennis Hastert passes. 👨‍🍳💋
Pedocon meme
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pedocon theory meme
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Calvinball: “This game lends itself to certain abuses”
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They colorized “A Night at The Garden?”
Fascist George Washington in A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN still
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“You know the Calvinball rules. / Yeah, yeah. Anything we make up.”
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doonesbury “that’s guilty!”
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stephen Miller O @StephenM
X.com
This isn't complicated. If you vote for Kamala, Liz Cheney becomes defense secretary. We invade a dozen countries.
Boys in Michigan are drafted to fight boys in the Middle East.
Millions die.
We invade Russia. We invade nations in Asia. World War III. Nuclear winter.
10:34 • 11/1/24 • 2M Views
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The principle that every Republican accusation is a confession tells us all where this is headed
Stephen Miller O @StephenM
X.com
This isn't complicated. If you vote for Kamala, Liz Cheney becomes defense secretary. We invade a dozen countries.
Boys in Michigan are drafted to fight boys in the Middle East.
Millions die.
We invade Russia. We invade nations in Asia. World War III. Nuclear winter.
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI apologists to actual disciplinary experts & experienced teachers
NEW YORKER “allow me to interrupt your expertise with my confidence” cartoon
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#RCTID
Jose Mourinho, 5-4 is a hockey score not a football score
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Haven’t even surrendered a single point 😤
Reed College Football 1911 “Undefeated” T-shirt
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Elections have consequences
SpongeBob “Several Months Later” 1972 election map showing Nixon winning 60.7% of the popular vote, 49 states, & 520 electoral votes
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Democrats don’t understand just how bold their party was right before it suffered one of the greatest electoral wipeouts of the late 20th century” is the kind of compelling analysis that only the author of “The Liberal Case for Donald Trump” can provide
1972 Presidential election results showing Nixon winning 60.7% of the popular vote, 49 states, & 520 electoral votes
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why am I not surprised that the Portland Costco has llama toys for dogs?
Llama dog toy at Costco
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Stop the count!!! #RCTID
Leagues Cup table with the Timbers in first place
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Adrian Bott
@Cavalorn
I never thought leopards would eat MY face, sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
10/16/15, 1:18 AM
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m sorry but the author of this does not get to criticize any Democratic politician any time, anywhere, for any reason The guy she’s picking endorsed Harris in 2024. If that’s what she has to do to beat Andy effing Biggs in a state that might decide 2028, I can live with it even if I don’t like it
Walker Bragman’s infamous “A Liberal Case for Donald Trump,” an article so wrong-headed as to disqualify its author from consideration as a serious commentator for life
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Best goal smoke ever. Gracias Pipe #RCTID
Goal smoke from the North End after Felipe Mora’s 90+4 equalizer in the 2021 MLS Cup Final
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Indeed it is
AMERICA, Maurizio Cattelan (2016)
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Stephen Miller claiming that Kamala Harris would start a war in the Middle East & get Americans killed, because every Republican accusation is a confession
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If only it were this easy to make him disappear IRL
Spain photoshops malignant narcissist Trump out of their trophy lift picture
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Calvin & Hobbes playing Calvinball
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The season’s gonna be over before it even starts
USC football Trojans tweet about their Odyssey beginning on Aug. 29th
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I mean, that’s pretty much exactly what 19th century nativists said about the Irish, Italians, & guys with surnames like Wurman. I knew he reminded me of someone
Bill the Butcher from GANGS OF NEW YORK
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Stephen Miller O @StephenM
X.com
This isn't complicated. If you vote for Kamala, Liz Cheney becomes defense secretary. We invade a dozen countries.
Boys in Michigan are drafted to 
fight boys in the Middle East.
Millions die.
We invade Russia. We invade nations in Asia. World War III. Nuclear winter.
10:34 • 11/1/24 • 2M Views
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Shouldn’t we be adding coaches instead of losing them? #RCTID
Timbers announce departure of longtime coach Shannon Murray to Columbus
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And so the Valois-Habsburg rivalry is renewed
Portrait of Henri II of France
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’ve been recruited for the tifo. Unless I melt first 🥵 #BAONPDX (PS - More volunteers needed down in the @rosecityriveters.org section, I think)
A warm & sunny Section 108 at Providence Park
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s all explained in this circular
Calvin & Hobbes play Calvinball
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
L’Equipe pulling no punches
L’Equipe rating the Paraguay v France referee 1/10
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
And so it begins…
Oatmeal cartoon of Rambo the dog hiding under the couch on “Happy Scare the 💩 Out of Your Dog Day “
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
<They’re the same picture.gif>
King George III portrait Donald Trump looking senile portrait
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Even Trump state media has more honesty and integrity than you all…
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
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U.S. Snaps Hiring Hot Streak With Only 57,000 Jobs Added in June
The unemployment rate edged down to 4.2% as more people left the labor force
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Puppet Show & Spinal Tap sign
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can’t play it the same way twice”
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I can live with this result
My closest political match is Pope Leo XIV
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Stephen Miller O @StephenM
X.com
This isn't complicated. If you vote for Kamala, Liz Cheney becomes defense secretary. We invade a dozen countries.
Boys in Michigan are drafted to fight boys in the Middle East.
Millions die.
We invade Russia. We invade nations in Asia. World War III. Nuclear winter.
10:34 • 11/1/24 • 2M Views
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. Masaccio, The Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
So destroying national monuments is a crime now, is it?
Wreckage of the White House East Wing after its destruction by a vandal
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You just knew that the first time this rule came into play would involve an MLS player being sent off by a CONCACAF referee in a late night game. How could it possibly have been otherwise?
L’Equipe headline about Miguel Almiron making history by being the first guy sent off for covering his mouth
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ça, ce n’est pas normal 🥵
Forecast showing a week of 100+ temperatures in Paris
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
History of the book is debatable but not entirely off the mark
My InTheWeights score
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I’m beginning to think that Joe Biden wasn’t the decrepit, senile one after all
Joe & Jill Biden walk across the stage at the Obama Center opening   today
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Canada sending birthday wishes Trump’s way 😆
Line of thunderstorms headed from Ontario to DC
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Comically wrong NYT story about how it’s unclear whether Elon Musk is a conservative
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Elderly Politburo members at May Day parade in Red Square
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can’t play the same way twice
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
None whatsoever
2 Reposted by Melissa Johnson, PhD jamelle•
@jamellebouie.net • 1h
Bluesky Elder
especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v.
Ferguson?
Corey Rayburn...•
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Bluesky Elder
This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are:
1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination;
2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented.
It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How unlike the @nytimes.com …
NYT: 2016 headline downplaying Trump’s Russia ties
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