Brendan P. O'Malley
@bomalley500.bsky.social
Public school teacher in Worcester, MA. DSA🌹. Holden DTC Chair. Historian of immigration politics in the 19th-century US. NYC history. CUNY GC PhD. Sloppy indie rock drummer. Massachusetts politics. He/Him/His. Diss topic essay: https://tinyurl.com/cm55m
"We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
--Neil
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
--Neil
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
--Neil
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
--Neil
From a film-head perspective it's incredibly well made: the editing, the cinematography, the pacing, the writing, etc. Director Robert Wise was a total pro (he had won an Oscar for editing Citizen Kane). Just a gorgeous piece of cinema.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
From a film-head perspective it's incredibly well made: the editing, the cinematography, the pacing, the writing, etc. Director Robert Wise was a total pro (he had won an Oscar for editing Citizen Kane). Just a gorgeous piece of cinema.
Ordered! Excerpting for my APUSH students.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ordered! Excerpting for my APUSH students.
What a lovely and thoughtful gesture (and card)! The thoughtfulness and curiouity of the young keeps me going. Being an educator both drives me crazy and gives me a huge amount of hope for the future. In many, many ways they know better than us.
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What a lovely and thoughtful gesture (and card)! The thoughtfulness and curiouity of the young keeps me going. Being an educator both drives me crazy and gives me a huge amount of hope for the future. In many, many ways they know better than us.
The fact that Aristide Zolberg's _A Nation by Design_ was endnoted drove me nuts! This just verifies that you are truly an historian by at heart!
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The fact that Aristide Zolberg's _A Nation by Design_ was endnoted drove me nuts! This just verifies that you are truly an historian by at heart!
Greg Downey's book could give you some context: www.routledge.com/Telegraph-Me...
Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950
In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book g...
www.routledge.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Greg Downey's book could give you some context: www.routledge.com/Telegraph-Me...
Apologies to the juggalos.
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Apologies to the juggalos.
Reposted by Brendan P. O'Malley
I got a moldy warehouse basement in Worcester for rent that's move-in ready for this bitch. Welcome!
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I got a moldy warehouse basement in Worcester for rent that's move-in ready for this bitch. Welcome!
I'm seeing this message creep in secondary right now and it drives me insane. Teaching actual content is increasingly deemphasized.
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'm seeing this message creep in secondary right now and it drives me insane. Teaching actual content is increasingly deemphasized.
Reposted by Brendan P. O'Malley
It’s kind of like how immigrants don’t take peoples jobs— they can’t. employers are the ones who have the power to fire you and hire someone else.
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It’s kind of like how immigrants don’t take peoples jobs— they can’t. employers are the ones who have the power to fire you and hire someone else.