Broken Historian
@practicalnecromancy.com
Historian, geek, social justice advocate, storyteller, maker
✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈⬛ Black Cats
✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈⬛ Black Cats
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Broken Historian
@practicalnecromancy.com
· Dec 31
Guess I'm moving to ANOTHER platform...
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What I Geek About:
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✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History
⚖️ Social Justice
🌲 Southern PA History
📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs
🗣️ Communication Theory
🏗️ Scale Models
🧱 LEGO
🚀 Star Wars
🐈⬛ Black Cats & Voids
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What I Geek About:
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✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History
⚖️ Social Justice
🌲 Southern PA History
📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs
🗣️ Communication Theory
🏗️ Scale Models
🧱 LEGO
🚀 Star Wars
🐈⬛ Black Cats & Voids
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Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house
I joined agriculture leaders from across the state today in Mankato for the Minnesota Ag Expo. Minnesota farmers are the backbone of our economy, and we must ensure they have what they need to thrive—strong markets and stable trade policies.
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
For any of us with kids who go to school with kids like Liam, this is a shadow of things yet to come for us.
Gods, grant me the strength…
Gods, grant me the strength…
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 AM
For any of us with kids who go to school with kids like Liam, this is a shadow of things yet to come for us.
Gods, grant me the strength…
Gods, grant me the strength…
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I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
If only they had had time for the "don't kidnap 5-year-olds and send them to detention centers 1000 miles away from their families" training module
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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He’s five. He’ll need snacks. Are they gonna have anything he recognizes or likes? He’s gonna need bathroom breaks. Who’s zipping him up tight when it’s cold? Who’s holding onto his winter clothes when it gets warm all way south? Who’s changing his socks? Who’s keeping him clean? Putting him to bed?
January 22, 2026 at 4:02 AM
He’s five. He’ll need snacks. Are they gonna have anything he recognizes or likes? He’s gonna need bathroom breaks. Who’s zipping him up tight when it’s cold? Who’s holding onto his winter clothes when it gets warm all way south? Who’s changing his socks? Who’s keeping him clean? Putting him to bed?
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There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.
January 22, 2026 at 3:36 AM
There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.
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It's been a really long day. What I posted on Mastodon this morning:
Southeast PA.
ICE is here now. 200 cars at York facility. ICE vehicles in our streets here today, this morning. Enormous Puerto Rican population, also many many various immigrants.
Clients are freaking out and sending me photos.
Southeast PA.
ICE is here now. 200 cars at York facility. ICE vehicles in our streets here today, this morning. Enormous Puerto Rican population, also many many various immigrants.
Clients are freaking out and sending me photos.
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 AM
It's been a really long day. What I posted on Mastodon this morning:
Southeast PA.
ICE is here now. 200 cars at York facility. ICE vehicles in our streets here today, this morning. Enormous Puerto Rican population, also many many various immigrants.
Clients are freaking out and sending me photos.
Southeast PA.
ICE is here now. 200 cars at York facility. ICE vehicles in our streets here today, this morning. Enormous Puerto Rican population, also many many various immigrants.
Clients are freaking out and sending me photos.
Every abduction by ICE is wrong; the kidnapping of Liam Ramos is magnitudes worse. This is pure, unadulterated evil. Unvarnished. Unalloyed. Evil.
This is Liam. He's 5. My story: sahanjournal.com/education/ic...
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Every abduction by ICE is wrong; the kidnapping of Liam Ramos is magnitudes worse. This is pure, unadulterated evil. Unvarnished. Unalloyed. Evil.
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The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 AM
All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
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He is five years old. He has the same name as my now-adult son. They used him as bait for his father—who does not have a deportation order. His family did not know where he was for nearly 24 hours.
He is five. Years. Old. He probably says “I’m this many years old.” He has a cute hat.
He is five. Years. Old. He probably says “I’m this many years old.” He has a cute hat.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 AM
He is five years old. He has the same name as my now-adult son. They used him as bait for his father—who does not have a deportation order. His family did not know where he was for nearly 24 hours.
He is five. Years. Old. He probably says “I’m this many years old.” He has a cute hat.
He is five. Years. Old. He probably says “I’m this many years old.” He has a cute hat.
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This is excellent but we can do more
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This is excellent but we can do more
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Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
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DISCONCERTING?
Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK
(Sorry…)
Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK
(Sorry…)
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:19 AM
DISCONCERTING?
Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK
(Sorry…)
Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK
(Sorry…)
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Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Important perspective from Greenland.
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In a way all Americans are Musicology Duck, trapped on a bus going somewhere unknown with an erratic and irrational driver. In this essay I will...
January 20, 2026 at 1:37 PM
In a way all Americans are Musicology Duck, trapped on a bus going somewhere unknown with an erratic and irrational driver. In this essay I will...
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Everything is so stupid
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Everything is so stupid
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[stares in economist]
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM
[stares in economist]
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i have so many notifications that Bluesky is glitching
January 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
i have so many notifications that Bluesky is glitching
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who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
January 19, 2026 at 9:57 PM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.