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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 1h

Henry right now

a man wearing sunglasses is talking into a microphone and says give me what i want

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses is talking into a microphone and says give me what i want

media.tenor.com

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🏳️‍🌈✈️ @daddykens.bsky.social · 3h

Dude, I was getting antsy for the last episode, then it dropped. I had to listen to it twice! Just a fantastic episode. Podcast perfection.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t wait for Ezra to tell us that these guys are doing politics the right way.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5h

The script is with Zee. It should launch on Thursday.

Episode 485 - What Happened?

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 13h

This was all part of the plan.

The oligarchs are destroying any institutions that threaten their grip on power (and might report on their friend, Epstein).

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 22h

🐓🦖🐸

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 23h

The Kissinger of the 11th century.

jaipurmithridates.bsky.social @jaipurmithridates.bsky.social · 1d

Unrelated but how tf is Edgar the aetheling still alive.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 2d

I love how he's all "I've made things better for a lot of people" and then, as an example, he says that if he was president the ukraine war wouldn't have happened.

The guy can't even cite a single example of how he's made anyone's life better. All he does is complain and deflect.

Incredible.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 2d

That second "annual" checkup appears to have gone well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 3d

This is an excellent article on what’s happening to my hometown, and why everyone should replicate our response to it.

Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

www.thenation.com

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 4d

The regime is:

- losing ground to a guy in a frog suit
- making up stories about Portland
- terrified of the Epstein Files
- making up fake arrests of imaginary girlfriends
- babbling incoherently about cognitive tests

Do not despair. These people are losing and they know it.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, the cops are on the public’s side.

I didn’t have this on my 2025 bingo card but it’s a welcome change.

Yesterday, while on a run, I saw a patrol car and I waved at him. Waved!

a man is sitting next to another man with the words `` dogs and cats living together '' written on the screen .

ALT: a man is sitting next to another man with the words `` dogs and cats living together '' written on the screen .

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 4d

If your crazy uncle starts ranting about how Portland is burning, send him to this handy website.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, once this is done, we should replace the beaver on our flag with wizard frog.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5d

Freedom is taken, not asked for.

If your government is telling you that you can be free, but only in a special zone and in constrained ways, that isn’t freedom.

Don’t comply. Be free.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5d

We are free to praise Hitler, and we’re definitely free to praise the coup lead by reality tv stars and podcasters…

But saying that these people are cringy unamerican weirdos who are worshipping Epstein’s best friend?

Apparently, we aren’t free to say that.

But we’re still saying it.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5d

Regime: Portland needs free speech zones.

Portland: We have one of those. It’s called “the city of Portland.”

Regime: ….

Portland:

a man is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car looking out the window .

ALT: a man is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car looking out the window .

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 5d

And I thought I had it bad with my X-Files scribes being all “and then blood started bubbling out of the ground in Berkshire… but anyway, the king held his Easter court in Winchester.”

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 6d

“She’s totally real. You wouldn’t know her, though. She goes to a different school.”

- these idiots.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 6d

Hey @cnn.com, @nbcnews.com, @nytimes.com… come to Portland.

Film us and put the footage next to Trump whenever he talks like this.

I’m tired of you guys letting him lie.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 6d

Regarding the alleged arrest of “the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.”

1) it’s not illegal to date someone.

2) antifa is a leaderless and loosely organized ideology, not a group

3) if antifa did have a founder, I’m pretty sure it would be a 150 year old Italian person.

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 6d

They’re taking victory laps claiming they arrested “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.”

That’s like claiming they’ve arrested the husband of one of the founders of quiet quitting.

And, of course, they haven’t released any names or photos of this definitely real person.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 6d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 6d

This is proof that no one else would serve them.

Jojo’s, Killer Burger, Monster Smash, Lardo, there are so many better options than the dry overpriced patties at f’ing Burgerville.

Clowns.

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