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Brooks D. Simpson

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Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?

Brooks Donohue Simpson is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras and the American presidency. .. more

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 1d

The coup continues.

In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.

Especially if you like neat numbers.

The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 1d

One would hope that one's work makes the reader engage with the past with empathy and insight. It's left to them to decide what to feel about what the historian has said. Intent is not impact.

What makes one person feel good (or understood) may not hold for someone else.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 3d

Sheridan was a year away from becoming a thing of the past when he said this.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 6d

Grant made that trip via Panama in 1852. Harrowing experience. As president he advocated building a canal.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 9d

Quite the obsessed fan.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 11d

Fugitive Slave Law vibes.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 11d

But Democrats get in their own way.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 12d

Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.

How soon they forget.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 21d

Someone get JD Vance a couch.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 21d

Escalators are not the problem.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 22d

Fire the person responsible for hiring this person.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 22d

Abe's aged.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 22d

Did Jesse Watters actually say this?

"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 29d

What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 16

That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 12

www.owu.edu/news-media/d...

'Thunder in the Valley'

Civil War Expert to Discuss the Shenandoah Valley Campaign on Sept. 29 at Ohio Wesleyan

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...

It's the coverup that gets you.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...

You're trying too hard, Mikey.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 6

Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch

Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 6

'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch

Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.

www.rollingstone.com

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 5

So people are out of work just to spite Trump?

Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 31

JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's a photograph.

Ulysses S. Grant.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was.

Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 15

It feels like 1938 all over again.

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