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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 14h

“I do not calculate factorials. That is not a government service.” We need this on a t-shirt…

America.gov

The current U.S. flag has 50 stars, one for each state.
• U.S. Embassy: flag facts 7
• Smithsonian: flag facts 7
• GPO Ben's Guide: current flag 7 i do not calculate factorials. That is not a government service. For official flag information, use the links above.

Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 14h

Typing “what basketball games took place…” then a random winter date yields *only* NBA games for me. So Google’s AI results are misogynistic and ignore NCAA entirely. Then his staff lazily and willingly accepted that misogyny.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/09/2026

I mean - the outbreak here is also almost exclusively localized to Lancaster County and the anti-vax Mennonite community there. Lancaster just has a *massive* density of those communities and then bleed over into the “English” who live around them.

A map of measles cases in 2026 in Pennsylvania. Most of the state is empty; Lancaster County is bright-fucking maroon.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 23/09/2026

Small cathartic moments in a sea of sorrow… embrace them.

An SMS exchange:

“Hi
We are assisting with the U.S.
Border Patrol's effort to identify highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to apply for their entry level Border Patrol
Agent positions.
Border Patrol Agents are focused on securing our international land borders and coastal waters between ports of entry.
Interested in learning more? Reply YES. Reply NO or STOP to opt out of future CBP job opportunities.”
“Fuck DHS, Fuck ICE, Fuck CBP, Chinga la Migra!”
“Your message has been flagged as inappropriate. You will not receive any more messages from this number. Thank You.”

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 20/09/2026

I once again say that we all owe Alex Garland a huge apology…

The poster for Alex Garland’s “Civil War” featuring military snipers posted in the sand-bagged torch of the Statue of Liberty.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 13/09/2026

My phone number is tangled with my dad’s, so I get these scams *constantly* and they’re all the same predatory bullshit. I get one every other day or so. Almost all of them are the same TTS voice with different names and “banks.”

Transcription
"Oh this is Julie with upstart financial I was asked to follow up with you one final time regarding the offer we extended to you at the beginning of the month your current offer amount is just shy of $43,000 and the payback will be around $418 a month your file is eligible for next day funding and with the new guidelines there is no credit minimum to qualify if this is something you're still considering I would be happy to answer any questions you may have I'II go ahead and mark the message as delivered on my end but if you have five minutes today please return my call at 866-268-9566 again that's…”

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 10/09/2026

It’s not so hard to be an actual ally, either. You simply stand by the people who matter. Who are hurting. And everyone matters. So you hold people’s hands when they’re hurting. And you stand up and shout as loud as you can at the bigots:

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 28/08/2026

Assisting the mother of a terminally ill child to kill her kid?

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 28/08/2026

Nah, Don Keefer will keep you informed…

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 28/08/2026

Let’s just be simple and correct…

Lake Ontario labeled Lake Ontarí'io - the original Huron/Wendat name.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/08/2026

It’s amazing you can see exactly when the internet found out Dolly and Tim died.

Down detector interface for blue sky, showing spikes yesterday afternoon and today shortly before lunch

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/08/2026

99% of our issues today could’ve been solved with more hugs (and with systems that didn’t sentence designated hug givers to death).

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 16/08/2026

Is it me or does the T-rex costume in this flick look an awful lot like Barney? #Svengoolie

Barney, the purple dinosaur as seen in Universal's The Land Unknown

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 11/08/2026

It’s a “In Case of Emergency - Break Glass and Eat Zagnut” kinda day.

A zagnut bar already opened… it’s too late, it must be consumed.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 09/08/2026

Not to fact check your joke, but… *glances at own username*… Radio Shack was actually founded in 1921. So the 1941 catalog he likely ordered his “shock a man to death machine” from was this one. Popular product line, that one. #Svengoolie

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 06/08/2026

We don’t have front plate mandate here either; Flock is logging a lot of instances of Mater driving around for me…

Mater’s A-113 license plate registered to Carburator County from Cars

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/08/2026

What children’s book has caused the most harm to society? QT your answer. For my money, it’s gotta be “The Little Red Hen.” Whenever I read it to my kid, I always change the last page to be about sharing the bread, because eating should never be contingent on labor.

Cover of Golden Book version of “The Little Red Hen”

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 30/07/2026

When you live in a town where Abner Doubleday did something important, you obviously use a shot glass from a town where Abner Doubleday *didn’t actually* do anything important.

A shot glass with General Abner Doubleday’s face from Cooperstown NY, the “Birthplace” of baseball.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 19/07/2026

It’s the Everything-But-The-World-Cup-Final app, folks!

User reports show problems with X (Twitter)
X (previously Twitter) is a microblog that allows users to publish shorter, less text messages.
Twitter users can post their tweets across multiple devices and platforms. This includes iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Windows Phone devices and traditional computers.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 19/07/2026

Also, that "Mr. Batman" is said in the voice of Phyllis - as in "Mister Bat-mun."

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 12/07/2026

So #Svengoolie is sandwiched in between Argentina, Switzerland, and Canada tonight…

1. Big Brother 28
Entertainment
2. AEW Collision
Sports
3. Argentina vs Switzerland
이이
Sports
4. Svengoolie Movies
Entertainment
5. Canada
Politics

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 11/07/2026

Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, they’re apparently celebrating the current President by overpaying for gas. Here, I’m celebrating Lincoln instead…

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 05/07/2026

I matched you at least - that’s what two degrees get me (and my ability to know Silent Cal’a face by sight…)

10/10 - Captain American
History
You're the trivia hero this U.S.
semiquincentennial needs! May your to-be-read pile always grow and your research rabbit holes be endless. Go ahead, do the daily crossword puzzle in pen. You deserve it.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 05/07/2026

To give a sense of the storm tracks at the moment - sone strong cells inbound to the mall from Arlington in next 15-30 minutes. Pretty slow moving, too.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

At the back door - just before you exit - is a QR visitors can scan. It takes them to a feedback survey on the #FreedomTruck website (remember the one I mentioned yesterday?) Kids, don't scan random QR codes! But I've checked this one out; scan it without fear... or check the alt text.

A sign reading "Scan here to take the Freedom Truck Survey" and a QR code leading to https://forms.freedom250.org/landing/freedom-truck-survey

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

All of this adjacent to Hole 8 of the Gettysburg Campground's minigolf course, too. The #FreedomTruck with its natural guard and protector watching over it: Temu Porky Pig.

The Freedom Truck sits beside a minigolf course with a poorly executed giant fiberglass pig wearing a green shirt and white pants.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

Wandering back outside, there's Heath Ledger again (and apparently Anne Hathaway, too, thanks @bluebelletrist.bsky.social). I do kinda love how the Continental soldiers on one wall are aiming their rifles directly at Heath and Anne on the other... well thought out, there, #FreedomTruck.

The exterior of the truck, with the Heath Ledger AI image apparently being shot at by Continental troops on an adjacent wall, and the text "Patriots Welcome."

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

At the back is a mirror - only at the height of a standing adult - that has the text "America's Next Hero!" underneath. In most museum settings, you'd expect a second "kids and wheelchair users" height mirror.... but the #FreedomTruck doesn't disappoint even with it's final panel.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

Beside the video in the #FreedomTruck is the interactive "Wall of American Heroes" with a *certain* American featured dead-center (transcript in alt text). I grabbed photos of each flipper panel AND reveal text, have no fear. But I didn't stand there an read them all. I'm crazy, but not THAT crazy.

The "Wall of American Heroes" interactive, with Trump quote at center:
"Together, we are part of one of the greatest stories ever told the story of America. It is the epic tale of a great nation whose people have risked everything for what they know is right and what they know is true It is the chronicle of brave citizens who never give up on the dream of a better and brighter future. And it is the saga of thirteen separate colonies that united to form the most just and virtuous republic ever conceived."

Another visitor chooses to read about American Hero Elvis Presley... of course.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

I tried to record the video of the current President in the #FreedomTruck but... those speakers suck! So I then set my phone directly on top of the TV screen showing his tangerine visage and recorded a voice memo. Here I've linked the two together to make a clean-ish version.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

Then there's the video. All the screens in the truck save ol' AI Jorgé have atrocious speakers - they sound like they're stripped from 1970s pocket transistor radios... tinny and quavering. Miraculously, they included open captions on some of the videos #FreedomTruck (not AI Jorgé, tho).

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

That King quote end is cut strategically; the lines they leave off are damning: "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.... America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"

"When the architects of our Great Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Martin Luther King Jr.
"I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

The panel is labeled "Promissory Note." But it's at ankle level, so it's easy to miss. But jeez, is it a doozy! The #FreedomTruck text underscores that title: "Martin Luther King Jr. called it a 'promissory note' guaranteeing liberty and equality for all."

The Declaration of Independence has guided every American freedom movement and inspired many globally. Martin Luther King Jr. called it a "promissory note" guaranteeing liberty and equality for all. The Civil Rights Movement sought to hold the nation to that promise, challenging Jim Crow laws and segregation. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education struck down school segregation, ruling that "such segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws."

The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement. Peaceful protests by King, Rosa Parks, and others led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, advancing the Declaration's promise of equality.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

But Douglass isn't the only Black hsitroical figure that Prager chooses to sock puppet in the #FreedomTruck. Nope... It's time for the King, baby!

Again, an AI Martin Luther King portrait - because why the fuck not?

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

That speech later says, "What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?" He knows they weren't: the fundamental American contradiction.

Sure, Prager... go ahead and make an AI image of one of THE MOST photographed men of the 19th century. Not like there's ANY pics you coulda used of his sexy face.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

Then below that stuff, there's this... portraying Douglass' 1852 "What to the slave..." speech as... pro-celebration? Douglass is being beautifully SNIDE in that whole speech, even when he appears sincere. At the end of the section they quote, he basically makes a Sally Hemmings joke, FFS.

The Fourth of July is the first great fact in your nation's history-the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost." Frederick Douglass
"What to the slave is the Fourth of July?", July 5, 1852

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

"...the Civil War was fought to preserve the Union and to end slavery." This #FreedomTruck panel (full text in alt) tries to make it seem like Abolitionists were dominant from 1789 to 1860?! And it concedes the Civil War was about slavery, too - a concession only made when convenient, apparently.

Congress abolished the slave trade in 1807, but Southern interests defended the institution. Abolitionists looked to the Declaration of Independence in their efforts to oppose slavery. Under President Lincoln, the Civil War was fought to preserve the Union and to end slavery.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring enslaved people in rebellious states "free." The Union's victory, along with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, secured freedom and citizenship for enslaved Americans and laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

These three panels near the back of the #FreedomTruck really got my goat - "The Promise of Liberty", "Saving Principles" & "We Still Hold These Truths." I'm a Civil War & beyond historian; I just don't have the depth to see all the cracks in the Rev. War stuff. But here? This my bread and butter.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

The #FreedomTruck juxtaposes Douglass & Garrison; Douglass "concluded - like Lincoln before him - that the Constitution was not pro-slavery." That's just not right. Douglass knew it was inherently pro-slavery... as did Lincoln. They just believed it could be fixed by amendment, not revolution.

THE FUGITIVE STORY SCULPTURE
The 1869 sculpture by John Rogers honors the abolitionist movement, and features John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Ward Beecher, and William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison denounced the Constitution as a slave document, but his former protégé Frederick Douglass studied the document and concluded-like Lincoln before him-that the Constitution was not pro-slavery. The revival of that argument marked a turning point in the abolition movement.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

The #FreedomTruck very much wants the country to be obviously and inherently antislavery. This panel is immediately adjacent to one about the contested creation of the Constitution, which famously didn’t include 3/5th of ANYTHING.

The American Founding is the greatest experiment in liberty the world has yet seen.
The Declaration of Independence recognized the "self-evident" truths that "all men are created equal" and equally endowed with fundamental rights. It would take the new nation nearly a century to fulfill these truths and secure these rights for a large segment of the American population. The Founders anticipated that slavery would decline and wither away, and many states began restricting and abolishing slavery. In the original draft of the Declaration, Jefferson called the slave trade a "cruel war against human nature itself." That language was removed to pass the Declaration, but the signers succeeded in establishing the principle of human equality that would drive slavery toward extinction.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

An interactive on “England’s Most Wanted” - the enemies of the crown - just lumps together “Freed Blacks & Slaves.” Note the “Freed” - not “Free.” Their former status matters more than their later in the simple construction. #FreedomTruck

An older man wearing a “250 Years of American Independence” shirt reads about James Armistead Lafayette.

The interactive panel of “England’s Most Wanted” including “Freed Blacks & Slaves.”

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 04/07/2026

There is just so much text in this truck… the exhibit is a classic “textbook on a wall” which is, of course, the MOST effective kind of museum exhibit ever made. #FreedomTruck

In June 1776, as the momentum for independence grew, the Second Continental Congress appointed a Committee of Five to draft a formal statement declaring America's independence. The committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R.
Livingston. The committee elected Thomas Jefferson to write the first draft. Jefferson asked Adams to take the lead, but Adams declined, giving several reasons: Jefferson was a Virginian, while Adams was from Massachusetts; Jefferson, a Southerner, would be better received; Adams
feared his own draft would face harsher scrutiny due to his outspoken support; and finally, he believed Jefferson had the superior pen.
Over seventeen days, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, with important input from Adams and Benjamin Franklin. They drew ideas from George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Congress cut a quarter of the text and made several important changes, including adding references to the "Supreme Judge of the World" and "divine Providence."
OBJECTS OF HISTORY

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Dunl
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night
to produce between 150 and 200 Dunlap
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Declaration. By morning, these sheets were ready to spread the news. John Hancock sent them to state legislatures, key officials, and
General Washington's headquarters in
Mant
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color hies.
Consuress later ordered Timothy Matlack to crea
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finist
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Hancock first. The final signature, delegate
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