Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My prediction is that this is what brings down HBO Harry Potter, not boycotts or nostalgia fatigue. If this show gets on the Stranger Things production schedule, they're boned. 051
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Donald Trump has ordered the death of every firstborn son in blue states *putting hands on my hips and making a shitty face* instead of helping lower gas prices for the middle class 161632263
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026we are slowly morphing the linguistics of american english to parallel smurf language 745240
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“They’re calling it ‘Shrekking,’ Jerry! This is the best shot I’ve had in years!” “Shrek? Like the ogre?” “Like the ogre, Jerry!” “And you’re a Shrek?” “I might be a Shrek.” “You might be a Shrek.” 053
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I screenshotted this elsewhere because the line: “the crushing weakness of our politics against the unmet needs of our people” landed on me like a ton of bricks (h/t @acyn.bsky.social) 422554
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Thoughts and prayers for Max Miller, host of the charming and educational "Tasting History" YouTube channel, right now. 030
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Watching the Avengers: Doomsday trailer when you've been off the Marvel wagon for a few years:static.klipy.comKing Of The Hill I Dont Know YouAlt: Bobby from King of the Hill shouting, "I DON'T KNOW YOU!" 010
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Now that I've seen Nolan's Odyssey I can say that the ratio of whining about Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong'o versus their actual screen time is hilarious. (Also, they were both great.) 011
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026My first and only midnight premiere was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 🤠 000
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Teachers often simplify concepts for the benefit of students' understanding even though the reality is more complicated. For instance, you were probably taught that there are 100 senators. How many are there, really? We just don't know. 000
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing 8669531770
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?" 14475158
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The Disney/ABC 250th coverage of “America’s natural wonders” is centering Native voices to a degree I did not anticipate. This feels like a broadcast from a different timeline. Is the White House rage tweeting about it yet? 010
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Inspired by seeing multiple hot chicken outlets in BNA, here’s my dumb YouTube video pitch: eating cities’ signature foods… but only in their airports. @siryacht.bsky.social 000
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Dads across America are going to get a lot of mileage out of "actively listening with my eyes closed." 041
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"Seersucker" sounds like a word you have to tell Grandma we don't say any more. 000
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A non-comprehensive list of great things about the United States: -New Mexico and New Orleans cuisine -The Columbia Gorge -Bacon egg and cheese from a proper NYC spot -National Parks -Giant fountain sodas -Staggeringly huge evergreen trees between the Bay Area and the Canadian border -Costco 5267046
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026How long until RFK announces that screwworms are a great source of protein? 010
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The hottest new lifestyle trend is cooking and eating the food you have at home. It’s called fridgemaxxing 1854961610
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Cedar waxwing Red-shouldered hawk Steller's jay 010
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026fortunately I too have made up an AP US history text so I had some thoughtstheatlantic.comI Have Some Questions for the New Florida U.S. History CurriculumTake a final exam inspired by the state’s new anti-woke course framework. 515429
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026An extremely Portland story. I wonder if Pencil will pick up the coveted Unipiper endorsement? 011
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/05/2026My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. 713174566
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/05/2026History shmistory 332641
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 16/04/2026All of this pope talk has me pumped for this semester's showing of Conclave. (I show it in my New Testament class to talk about faith and Christian leadership.) 010
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 15/04/2026A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your... 4382176405
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 11/04/2026All of Bluesky right now:youtube.comWe Like The MoonYouTube video by Rathergood 000
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content" 2138451040
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Thinking about going on an egg-only diet for Lent this year. 181
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 03/02/2026He has cast down the mighty from their thrones 0176
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians. 4458193
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime. 6303561212729
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I hope Minneapolis is having an Ewok Dance Party tonight. 000
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 25/01/2026In a landscape of seemingly infinite doom and gloom, Mayor Mamdani always seems happy to be here. I'm nowhere near New York and I still find that encouraging. 001
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Hey, does anyone know of a document that lays out what to do if a ruler quarters large bodies of armed troops among us, protects them for any murders which they should commit on us, abdicates government by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us? 12447126
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions. 1940231022
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026we built monuments to MLK and buried our honored dead on a traitor's plantation. we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans. our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them. 313826
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026His Hall of Presidents animatronic is looking a lot more accurate these days! 000
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality 11276581844
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I think we need a Carrie A. Nation for online gambling. 4236
Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 13/01/2026My home river will always be the Willamette. Honorable mentions to the Chattahoochee, the James, and the Los Angeles. 000
Reposted by Dr. Bagel, PhD 🖖dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/01/2026new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up 684393832
