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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · Nov 21

As a Heathen I honor multiple gods but two of the ones I feel closest to are Freyja, the goddess who embodies love, sex, and war, and Eir, the goddess who embodies health and healing. Their relationship with me means a lot and I can't be who I am without them. #Pagan #Heathen #NorseMythology

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 52m

She doesn't seem to be doing anything that requires a higher classification but also this isn't being a press secretary it's being a propagandist.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 17h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 54m

Israel just gonna keep Israeling even after the "peace deal" who would have thought

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1h

The county water plumber versus private company plumber feud is fun to watch almost like the Hatfields and McCoys

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1h

The erasure of January 6th is an insane thing to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 2h

We're taught that you never point a weapon at anything, especially with your finger on the trigger, unless you plan on killing that thing. Very excited for all my 2A enthusiasts and gun influencers to explain how this is okay.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 2h

I mean I can't really plan off of that other than "I guess we just kill more people" which sounds not great

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 3h

lololol nooooooooooooo who are these people

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 21h

The Department of Defense has murdered another 6 civilians off the coast of Venezuela

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 23h

We've already had people making 911 calls for Halloween decorations that waste our time and piss off our crews. But it's social media so it's not a shock the trolls are out.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Bristoe Station was another example of 1) commanders not doing even the basics of reconnaissance and 2) a defender using a railroad embankment as a trench to maul an attacker.

The Civil War Monitor @cwmonitor.bsky.social · 1d

A.P. Hill's Confederates engaged Gouverneur Warren's II Corps at Bristoe Station, VA, #otd in 1863. Hill's men suffered nearly three times as many casualties as his opponents in the Union victory. Shown here: a wartime sketch of a Union field hospital after the battle.

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing just the Speaker of the House endorsing federal agents arresting journalists and shooting protesters with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

It's literally halloween season you giant pair of clow shoes

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

If you think people don't take posts like that as an invitation to try and make the same joke then you are an unserious person who should fuck all the way off.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

If you think making prank calls to 911 is a basic joke then you're a ginormous trash fire douche bag. Please remove yourself from the gene pool.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings should not be controversial if you believe in the Republic.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

The 1940s was peak time for explainers on American freedom, democracy, and values. This and the "Don't be a sucker" short are classics.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Don't do this. It takes precious resources away from actual 911 calls, puts people in danger, and just pisses everyone off. It's not funny or clever.

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Calling the police every time I see a skeleton in somebody’s front garden

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when federal agent shit like this would have gotten the Threepers or Tea Party mad enough to grab their ARs.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

The first thing you're taught in EMT school is to make sure you have your BSI (protective masks and gloves) on and that the scene is safe. We were never taught that maybe the scene was unsafe due to federal agents pointing their guns at us.

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

If I show up to an ICE facility in my ambo and you threaten me or my patient, there will be problems for you, son.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody in America cared about Christopher Columbus until Italian Americans lobbied for a holiday because they were tired of being shit on and literally hung by mobs of anti-Italian protesters.

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Every woman knows that look on her face and what it means.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Meloni doesn't exactly looked thrilled as Trump calls her "beautiful"

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Decades of Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners that healthcare is not a right but something only for those who can afford it or have earned it has led us to this moment. Along with the racism.

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson: It's Obama's fault that we can't repeal Obamacare.

Jake Sherman: "JOHNSON this AM: 'Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now, because the roots are so deep, it was really sinister, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.'”

The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Pet peeve. When someone asks for an audio video check on a VTC and the outstation comes back with "hear you five by five" instead of you know Army shit.

Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 2d

I can't hear "five by five" without thinking of Aliens, and by extension Starcraft, and by further extension Buffy. #TheMartian #HATM

a woman is talking to someone and saying `` we 're five by five '' .

Alt: a woman is talking to someone and saying `` we 're five by five '' .

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Leo proving he is worthy