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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I thought that the purpose of the TSA was to keep terrorists OUT of airports.

TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I've started seeing people refer to the "theory of the Lost Cause" and please fucking stop that. "Myth of the Lost Cause" is correct. "Theory" implies some degree of empirical merit.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This will all be over soon. Not the fascism. You guys are fucked. But I can't afford health insurance anymore so once my antidepressants run out events will take their own due course. 🙌

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I can't help but notice that federally-sponsored radical white nationalist terrorists are still active while the government is shut down.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

People are more worried about Artificial Intelligence than they've even been about Genuine Stupidity.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Andrew Johnson was the first of many southern white people who only aligned with the Confederacy after it was dead." I just wrote that line and I was so proud of it, I wanted to share.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Who wants to go in on a tontine? Last one not murdered by fascist thugs or political police wins!

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

That's amazing! My wife bought this shirt at the Houston show in July because we always reference that bit, but this makes it even better. Joe Pera is a treasure.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I was just reading about southern reactions to Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and it turns out that authoritarian white supremacist traitors have always been hypocritical lying narcissists with a victim complex.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Regardless of your politics, please shut the fuck up with "X didn't deserve to die." You're either stating the obvious or denying the obvious. What you're never doing is making an intelligent point.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Bothsidesism is not objectivity. It's intellectual laziness and moral cowardice.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The last person who was as sick of this bullshit is am I burned down Georgia about it.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

There are so many people who do nothing but spew ignorance, bigotry, and authoritarianism, then play the victim the second they receive any pushback. Those people are being particularly loud and proud this week and they make me fucking sick.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Currently trying to sweet talk the Mrs. into making me some vanilla ice cream in the Ninja Creami to spin these bitches into.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The officer of the day has ordered a halt and commanded pets.

Astro Peach lays on Trae's desk, on top of his Civil War research.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Today is the anniversary of what is perhaps the most significant historical event of the 21st century. 20 years ago, I attended my first pro wrestling card.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I am not a cruel or unkind man. I smile at children, hold doors open, lift heavy things for seniors, and use my turn signals. I am courteous to people I know nothing about. If you want me to be pleasant to you, literally all you have to do is not tell me you're a shitty person.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Nothing is more precious or sacred than human life. Ergo, I will not pretend to mourn anyone who spent their life degrading and devaluing the lives of others.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The worst people you know are about to be really sanctimonious.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Those who benefit from the state's monopoly on legitimate violence would very much like to maintain the state's monopoly on legitimate violence.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Whoever said "history is written by the winners" never read anything written by white people about the American Civil War from about 1865-1960, or about half of what's been written since.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I am running for POTUS in 2028 on the platform of selling Florida to Cuba for rum and cigars.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I think I just figured out a way to backhandedly write that Robert E. Lee's decision to attack the center of the US line on the third day at Gettysburg was Earl Van Dorn-level stupid.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I think I'll spend the rest of my birthday revisiting an old friend for the first time in a long time.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The Mrs. understood the assignment.

A pastel purple and pink birthday cake with balloons, reading "Happy Super Soft Birthday Trae"

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Things were actually on the upswing for me until Fanta Franco's Big Bullshit Bill took away 3/4 of the work I was getting. I have the same contempt for MAGA voters as I would for any other lowlife piece of shit who stole money out of my pocket and food off of my table.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the "Stars and Bars" is this thing, not the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag. (This is not a statement of any beliefs other than my absolute commitment to historical accuracy.)

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The few months in 2000 when Disco Inferno was the Filthy Animals' stooge was the only time in his career that he was remotely entertaining.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My biggest regret about dropping out of academia when I did was that I never got the chance to apologize to the lady whom I offended by making an unkind remark about the facial features of known traitor, slaver, and all-around subhuman shitgibbon Alexander Hamilton Stephens.

The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In 1863, Confederate chief of ordnance Josiah Gorgas described the Confederacy's military efforts in the Trans-Mississippi as "a lamentable record of bad management and of failures." Ironically, that's also a pretty solid description of my academic career.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Hi, this is Firstname from Timeshare Scam Resorts! How are you this evening?" "Bad. Really bad." He hung up.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I don't know that she was the only graduate of the original ECW Wrestling Academy, but she's the only one who did anything in the business.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Before I flamed out in 2021, I was experimenting with #Zettelkasten as a research/writing tool. Since I started easing back into the craft, I've been working on actually building one. These are hard copies for redundancy. Main working version is in a Roam Research graph.

3 notecards displaying reading notes on the causes of the American Civil War

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When you're a fascist, everybody to your left looks like a Communist. And, when you're a fascist, everybody IS to your left.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Fascists think everyone to left of Atilla the Hun is a communist. They are not smart people.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The Civil War was not "a consequence of false issues trumped up by demagogues or fanatics." The current "culture war," on the other hand, is a consequence of false demogogues Trumped up by fanatics with issues.

A photo of a Kindle Scribe. The substance of the highlighted text is in the accompanying post.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's funny when people who don't know pro wrestling complain about pro wrestling being pro wrestling. It's embarrassing when someone who presents themselves as a wrestling fan complains about pro wrestling being pro wrestling.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I was having a rough patch and got behind on wrestling and not one of you sorry motherfuckers loved me enough to tell me that Dustin Rhodes came out to his WCW "The Natural" theme on the July 31 Collision. I see how it is.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I wish that six-man tag from Morristown had made tape, because that sounds awesome.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

At some point in the last 4 years, they took the Gettysburg soundtrack off of Spotify. How the hell is my brain supposed to remember which flank we're on now?

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Do not come for me unless I send for you.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Every Brody in wrestling is Brody except for Brodie Lee, whose name was an homage to Brodie from Mallrats.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Anybody want to go to a thing on Thursday? I'll drive.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If we just banned everyone who gives a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo from ever voting for anything that isn't American Idol again, most of this bullshit would sort itself out.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Lady at the library: "That's a cool last name." Me: "Thank you! I got it for my birthday." Always a good day when somebody sets that one up for me.

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

$20 to whoever can give me a non-idiotic reason that the new Cracker Barrel logo is "woke."

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TRAE @oregatrae.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Is there anything as indicative of such a profound lack of taste as painting a brick house?

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