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Presidencies Podcast @presidencies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For today's #SaturdayShoutOut, I'd like to highlight the work of Bruce Carlson who is celebrating his 20 year anniversary hosting @myhist.bsky.social. He covers a number of topics (including lots of presidential history) in his podcast - check it out! myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com

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Presidencies Podcast @presidencies.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I had to take a moment to congratulate a friend and fellow podcaster, Bruce Carlson of @myhist.bsky.social, on reaching the 20 year mark of his podcast. If you're not listening already, be sure to check it out! #history #POTUS podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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20 YEARS OF MY HISTORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR POLITICS

Podcast Episode · My History Can Beat Up Your Politics · August 20 · 16m

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Listeners! You may have noticed I've been talking to some listeners on the show as part of the 20th year anniversary of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. DM or respond here if you are a listener to the podcast and would like to tell a story about history or politics, or ask a question.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

More than Shea Whigham, if you ask me. If you adjusted the hair, you got it

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hilarious. Your site is great and not impossible to beat computer.

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Cardgames.io @cardgames-io.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I have such a way with words sometimes.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Votes During Wartime: 1942 Midterms www.patreon.com/posts/votes-...

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I don't mind him taking a position on Iran. I do mind him bashing colleagues. And realizing, they only get right wing love when they bash Dems. That's how Tulsi happens.

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Writers’ Loom @writersloom.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Question I posed earlier to Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social) that I’d like to pass along to Alycia (@civicspod.bsky.social), Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social), and Kenny (@kennyryanaustin.bsky.social). Were Eisenhower and Ford the last upstanding Republican presidents?

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

*continued prosecuting those who fled draft, with a complicated clemency package at best.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And so in summary. I'm probably OK living under H.W., Ford or eisenhower. I will find more "moments" i like with eisenhower, such as when he spoke up about book burning. But I could live under any of them. I do worry with Ford or H.W. about the "next" if they reelected.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

extension of Reagan is somewhat true. He does increase spending that Reagan cut, and that comes along with some federal tax increase. Pell Grants increase under Bush, bit more Medicaid and such. But more w Clinton of course.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Putin takes charge within 10 years of coup, KGB back in. I think a better supported Gorbachev and dissolving the USSR without the extreme Russian Nationalism and Putin would have been better. Also H.W. Bush was horrible on day of USSR 1991 coup.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More explainer on the pauza - H.W. Bush does think better and put together the Malta Summit end of 1989 but the year wait hurt Gorbachev's position. Now isn't that great? Don't we hate USSR and want it to fall? Well yes but with hindsight look what happened...

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

But of course the biggest problem with H.W. Bush is the son. No bush, no Dubya. No Dubya - in my opinion...less chance you get a Trump. Why? no Homeland Security, red alerts, unpopular war, more executive control, harsh treatment of press - (Libby affair, Major League A*hole controversy.)

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is not very known or studied but H.W. Bush and later his son were afraid of conservatives in the GOP. Reagan for his faults could tell conservatives where to go a few times - tax reform w Bill Bradley or Gorbachev and INF treaty.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ford likely would have continued that, and so local jurisdictions up and down the United States, DAs were still putting charges on people who went to Canada to avoid the war. Just one issue of many.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In my view if Ford wins in 1976 it is like if McCain won in 2008. Sure, Democrats would like McCain better than Bush, but its denying a whole issue set that Obama brought in. Healthcare for instance. Same with Ford. So one thing Carter does is amnesty Vietnam draft dodgers.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Bush contributes IMO to the development of Yeltzin and eventually Putin by freezing out Gorbachev in the first year. Some call it the pauza. This crippled Gorbachev within USSR and forced him to bring in conservatives, many of whom do the 1991 coup.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

When we see Ford and think "he seems great" say compared to Nixon or Reagan, it's worthwhile to remember for much in the GOP they knew it was a Democratic time after Watergate, huge Dem midterm in 74, and Ford thus in that context was against the grain a bit.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ford was the right President for the right time and also it was right that Ford's tenure was short. It's worthwhile remembering that Ford's right hands were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and in a 2nd term they would have been more powerful.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

That gets complicated to say. On several policy fronts he was a change. First of all, Reagan didn't get along well. Not chummy, let say. And Reagan in 1980 had to accept Bush as VP but was not necessarily happy.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

3 votes dissent is important b/c it could presage denial of future review. So if new tariffs pushed. Fed. Judge knocks down, try to go to SCOTUS and only 3 votes to hear. Not enough. However this is not iron-clad, a 4th judge who voted affirmative on this opinion could do a friendly "I'll hear it"

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

With a little slap to Kavanaugh:" See supra, at 8–9; post, at 62–63. We do not speculate on hypothetical cases not before us. "

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Kavanaugh argues, and so are a lot of supporters today that POTUS can use other statutes - Opinion answers: The cited statutes contain various combinations of procedural prerequisites, required agency determinations, and limits on the duration, amount, and scope of the tariffs they authorize.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

and yet 3 is a plurality b/c no other reasoning has more votes.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Crazy decision but nonetheless a blow to Trump and his ill-considered notion that he can set tariffs target/duration/% by whim from the Oval. An opinion w/ 6 justices supporting decision [statue does not authorize Trump's tariffs], but only 3 supporting the reason why.

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Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 607 U.S. ___ (2026)

Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump

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Marvin. (Paranoid Android) @ukcsi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This image just gets bigger and bigger...

An image of a load of Tory MPs and Councillors all in a line with an angry man shouting "I'm never voting for Tories again!"
Above the same image of the reprobates all wearing Reform rosettes after defecting to the party and an image of a happy smiling man gleefully shouting "Yay! Reform!"

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

not only could we have had Lawerence we could have had Josh Allen in 2018.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Awful risk for him. He could be hurt, there could be other shining stars coming down the pike next year...

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

that being said, I'll provide my understanding on immunity from the past two days: it's not a matter under consideration with the state or fed prosecutor, but sure becomes important. Because if we shift to procedure, immunity is tested first (correct?) and if officer wins, there's no trial.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I guess I would say the only thing I have a license for is the history part. No expertise claimed, however reading/putting things together and trying to get to the best idea of what's going on. happy to stand corrected.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm only amazed that there are even debates on X anymore, but a few holdouts. Yes correct. It is entirely possible this Alito case never is uttered outside social media. As I understand it, it was 15 shots and officers pretty much in same positions. Case was on ground of "why so many shots"

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

(A rabbit hole in the Shot 2 and 3 theory is Plumhoff v. Rickard a case judge Alito (of course) ruled on which said "first shot justified than so is second." that is being hurled at me on X. however in that case suspect sped off in car, then tried again, suggesting public safety. )

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

After immunity is lost, I do believe it would be MN prosecutors leading the case in federal court, with some role for the USAO but not the USAO trying. Of course welcome correction. The other notable thing is Arizona v. Maypanny says MN can appeal any of this it doesn't like, it has standing.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My own opinion is while it's a tough bar, shots 2 and 3 here, where he sidestepped the car and fired (to ensure death?), mixed with the general lack of threat of victim, mixed with contrary instructions from agents, you have a chance (more than a Jim Carrey chance) on letting the case through.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'll poke around more recent cases for nuances but Neagle has not been overturned. So today it's the same as Marshall Neagle protecting Judge Field from a mad Copperhead has been politco: a) was the force necessary b) was it part of duties. so immunity is the fight.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"that Neagle was authorized to resist the attack of Terry upon him; that Neagle was correct in the belief that, without prompt action on his part, the assault of Terry upon the judge would have ended in the death of the latter; ..he was acting under the authority of the law of the United States "

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

this is where I hate to say it but it probably ends. But worth looking at: standard is from In re Neagle, which is actually a fascinating case where a CA Senator David Terry tried to kill a judge and was killed by a marshall. CA wanted to prosecute. Terry was a horrible Copperhead- CA had them.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My current understanding, admittedly non lawyer but one eyed man etc. MN will definitely have charges - even without FBI cooperation, based on eyewitnesses. Agent will remove and be successful b/c federal officer www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... US judge than determines immunity before trial.

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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The wretchedness of his duty aside, he was acting while on duty under federal law, gets thorny for a Minnesota judge to decide if he was operating correctly under federal law, and determine liability. It will be removed to federal court, most likely by his side. Non lawyer answer.

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