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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
@waitmanwbeorn.com
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
I love introducing Tiny Human to new music.

But because I am now in my Lame Era, I have to do it sneakliy like some crazy PSYOP.
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This is the year the US wins the World Cup!

/s
Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667
January 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Pam Bondi: Our country was founded on law enforcement.

Our country's founders:
January 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
We really don't need to hear ICE's side on these things on the mainstream media, particularly if there is video because...we have eyes.

All platforming them does is give the false impression of a debate and disseminate their lies to a larger audience.
BOVINO: He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforceme--

BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States

BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
M-U-R-D-E-R.
Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Really looking forward to this!

Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Nailed it.
January 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Waaaaaaiiiiit a second...I thought guns didn't kill people, people killed people.
January 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
This fucker grew up 2 hrs west of me. Went to western carolina u and app state, was a cop in boone. He is the scion of italian immigrants who came to the US in 1909. He is a literal nazi, and regularly indulges in wink-wink-nudge-nudge signaling, as if to say 'what are you gonna do about it'
January 25, 2026 at 5:59 PM
One day IT will happen.
I do like this response to Trump's penguin post
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Arguably, it’s precisely their training that is what is making ICE brutalize and murder innocent protesters.
If I hear one more big name former prosecutor attorney call for better training of fascist military forces that are killing people, I am going to yeet my phone into the sun.

As I said yest, there are legal commentators who are built for this moment, and PLENTY, including those on MSM, who ARE NOT.
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 PM
For someone who is an expert on staying away from the front lines, it’s surprising that he made this mistake about UK troops.*

* it’s not surprising.
How exactly do you “climb down” from saying British soldiers were cowards who ducked the fighting in Afghanistan? It’s not a policy position, it’s a mortal insult! Another incredibly supine performance by the Home Secretary and the British establishment.
UK politicians welcome Trump’s retreat over British troops’ role in Afghanistan
Home secretary says climbdown was ‘as good as it gets’ from US president despite failure to apologise for remarks
dlvr.it
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM
That’s…definitely a new path.
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
A great takedown of crappy rage-baiting.
I was asked to look at this post!

And while the story obviously has important context that’s missing from the headline - which I’ll cover obvs 😜 - what’s more important is to question why this is being posted!

And what to ask yourself when you see something like this…

1/12
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January 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM
This hot tub is a little overdecorated for me, but I'll allow it.
Theology 101: Conversion to Christ not only saves you from eternal death. When lived in light of your baptismal confession and repentance, it saves you from deep despair, from a destructive life, from damaging decisions, from wicked deeds, and from diabolical deceptions.
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
In case you can't quite see the part where the asshole ICE guy murders a restrained guy from point blank range.

Keep your eye on this guy.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
They...did not use <checks notes> chlorine gas.

Where do these people get this stuff?
On the day Bovino used CHLORINE GAS on the streets of America

What have you become?
Or were you already?
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is a great thread on what makes ordinary people commit extraordinary violence.

I would contribute the work of Thomas Kühne on masculinity, male bonding, and violence to this reading list as well!
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Feeling froggy, huh, @yuanyiz.bsky.social?

Ok, kiddo, since you've chosen to "not pull rank" by insulting my colleagues (and my own scholarly record), perhaps you'd like to post all your award-winning work here?
January 24, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I dunno… my strategy of dunking on Democrats who voted to fund ICE seems oretty damn justified. bsky.app/profile/nkal...
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
JFC.

They murdered someone else in Minneapolis.
January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Finspan!!!

What a great game!
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Why not have fun with fighting the genAI assault on academia?
January 23, 2026 at 11:39 AM