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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 1d

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The Margravine and the Mountain: When Ida of Austria Survived the Ambush and Forged the March of Cilicia

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 1d

“History, ever uncomfortable with competence, let the March of Cilicia fade like mist after prayer. By the 1140s, scribes wrote of a Latin fort in the hills once ruled by a woman of the cross. The Byzantines folded her enclave into their maps as a dot without name… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 4d

When Measure Fails, 5 Signs The Republic Is Failing, & More - Week of the 12th of October

Weekly affairs from the frontlines of modern humanism. What The Medici would've tallied. What the Davos set should. A highlight of bold letters from the bureaus of brains, balance, and big ideas.

What If The Emperor Who Actually Tried To Save The Roman Republic Had Lived? Pertinax Survives, The Republic Rises Anew

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 6d

If Ridley Scott wanted to go full fantasy with Gladiator II, he might as well have actually done a plausible restoration of the Republic right after Commodus! Luckily, we reroute the history here on what might have been! Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

Max Buccini @maxabuccini.bsky.social · 8d

Zero chance. Like, literally not even a single one in all of the chances there are possible.

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s the Gladiator II film Ridley Scott should have made about a real story of the emperor after Commodus who did attempt to restore the a quasi-republican system. We reroute it and see if he had succeeded…stay tuned Friday!

A Rerouted Battle of The Three Kings (1578): When Morocco Became The Florence of Africa In A Golden Federation

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 8d

“Ahmad al-Mansur inherited the absolute crown & built an empire of splendor: the El Badi Palace, the conquest of Songhai, the sugar fortunes of Marrakech. Imagine a single difference: a fever, a vision, a moment of revelation on that blood-soaked plain… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/a-rerouted...

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Stay tuned tonight!

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 10d

“Something of Hadrian lingered there. Something of Antinous. What if the Red Sea’s most remote outpost, Farasan, was never a garrison at all, but a grief disguised as devotion—a palace hidden in coral where an emperor once tried to escape the world?.. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-palace...

Rolling Out “The Receipts” of the Republic: Remember — Congress Carries the Coin of the Realm

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 11d

“Through The Medici lens, we see the metamorphosis of civic finance into factional faith. Lorenzo’s Florence ran on reputation. Trump’s DC runs on retribution. The Treasury has become a tribunal. The accounting sheets, a list of enemies. Indulgences for the loyal… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

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The Regent of Revelation: Theophanu, The Tide Tying Together Two Romes

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 12d

Coming up for a special weekend edition: we apply The Medici Method(™️) on how states can “Rollout The Receipts” as the kids today would say, with the federal government illegally impounding its funds.

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 12d

Incredibly insightful comments hot-off-the-printing presses of President Emmanuel Macron on liberal democracy and social media. The Medici would agree. Take a look at the article, plus our profile of him:

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 12d

“Into this fevered imagination walked a woman: Theophanu, Byzantine-born, Ottonian-crowned. Married into the West in 972, widowed too young, regent of an empire that doubted her, mother of a boy many believed destined to close the book of history itself reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-regent...

MAGA Misreads Machiavelli, Now Trump Marches the Military Into the Republic

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 14d

The great economic unmasking begins. The ADP jobs data is getting closer and closer to predicting the BLS numbers—catch up on what we wrote about the Phantom Quarter economic fundamentals below from last month:

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 15d

“For those pretending Machiavelli stands at his shoulder—whispering clique cynicism into his ear, validating each abuse—let us call the esteemed Florentine secretary to the stand. His writings are clear, his intent sharper still. Demolish distortion reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-misre...

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 16d

For any of the MAGA morons who want to shroud themselves in Machiavelli at training MILITARY in AMERICAN cities, you’ll be in for a rude introduction to the real Niccolo. Stay tuned, Humanists.

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The Road to Cairo: How Nicaea’s Walls Could Have Made the Fatimids Masters of Jerusalem

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 16d

“In real history, Crusaders took Antioch, carved principalities, and toppled Jerusalem in 1099. But here, with the pilgrimage dissolved in the mud of Nicaea, Fatimids fill the void. Jerusalem falls not to the West, but to Cairo, everything changes... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

The Winter That Never Thawed: Elizabeth Stuart’s Cold Reign from The Hague

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 16d

“At the heart of that frost stood one woman, denied her coronation yet crowned by circumstance: Elizabeth Stuart. She was no Winter Queen where she wore the Bohemian crown. No, she became something greater. What followed was Europe’s first Cold War… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-winter...

The Archives Breached, The Honor Betrayed: Hands Off Sherrill’s Service Files

Max Buccini @maxabuccini.bsky.social · 18d

What’s the win rate here, though? Considering the Supreme Court

Max Buccini @maxabuccini.bsky.social · 18d

Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.

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Max Buccini @maxabuccini.bsky.social · 18d

Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 18d

“This assault is weaponized against patriotism. A Trump-aligned candidate in NJ now circles Sherrill’s privacy like a vulture. The message is as clear as it is chilling: step into public life as a veteran opposing the regime, and your very life will be laid bare… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

In life, a healthy amount of skepticism of correlation and causation is warranted.

Agriculture Secretary Rollins promised tariffs would help American farmers. Now she says they need a bailout.

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 19d

Far left @reason.com (again, please understand sarcasm), has yet another devastating piece on the regime’s state-run economy:

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The bailout would simply redistribute wealth from American businesses and consumers to farmers. Here's a better idea: end the tariffs.

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