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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

@waitmanwbeorn.com

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Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him Host of The Holocaust History Podcast TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers Psalm 109: 7-18

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 4h

German tanks were not extremely good.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

Weird...I don't see where anyhone said they didn't care about Islamophobia.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of historians suddenly cried out...

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11h

History warned us about tyrants. Nobody warned us they’d be this dumb.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

But...WHO WAS THE FATHER?!

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

That's some incredible mental gymnastics.

9.5 from me.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

Got mine in the UK.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

Hahaha.

Meanwhile, me in the UK:

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

Please log off.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5h

He disabled the quote posts...lol

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John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 20h

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

Wait...WHEN did the US get involved in WWII again?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

Is that Devil's Advocate?

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

It's always so weird that these right-wing talking heads never say, "Better leadership and better soldiers."

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely lol

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

I love that the ONLY reply that seems to part of the issue is from the only person here that follows me.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

Yeah. Total coincidence. An attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur...not at all antisemitic.

Touch grass, weirdo.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

K. And what about the other one?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

No. I mean the knife-wielding antisemite.

FFS

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

Thanks for proving my point.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

That’s some Goldhagen shit.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 17h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 17h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

Huh?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

youtu.be/Y5dQOYe6yRY?...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7h

I’m guessing it has something to do with the violent fatal antisemitic attack on a synagogue last week…because, you know, current events.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

This is absolutely shameful.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

I really feel like we need to retire the word “Zionist” because I don’t think common usage is accurate, no matter your political perspective.

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