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Teaching APAfAmStudies and APUSH. Taught Gov, Econ, Philosophy, and US History. Believing strongly in the 1st and 14th Amendments; and that the 19th took too damn long. #HATM #WillWork4Democracy #IKnowTheWayToSanJose (he/him)
I did not know I needed this,
until I did… 🤓 😎
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Played Scarface 1920 w Bloody Business expansion. Wow, it’s a lot of game mechanics… complex but very, very fun.

Capone eked out control of Chicago despite the Red Dragons domination with the opium and the Rothstein gang’s ongoing kidnap & ransom racket. 🤓
#boardgsmes @redzengames.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Stan Lee introduced the character Black Panther in July 1966. The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966... but they borrowed the name from a prior group - The Lowndes County Freedom Organization which used a Black Panther logo starting in March 1965 as a spin-off of Freedom Summer #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This cartoon is evergreen on your second point...
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Fort Wilderness? I stayed there once. 😉
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In all the American Revolutioning going on this week, I missed what @herberthistory.bsky.social picked for this Sunday.

I jumped over to the Insta and was pleasantly surprised to find that Judas and the Black Messiah is queued up for Sunday night #HATM

I’ve been wanting to watch it again 🤓
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The images we have of "snowed in and starving" are more harsh than the actual, and still very difficult, conditions.

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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
From the NPS Valley Forge website...

#HATM

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November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Least important detail, but WTAF... the modern day Federal lynch squad that is ICE has its Chicago HQ on Ida B. Wells Drive?!?!?!?! 🤬
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Battle of Bennington! Woot!

It's the battle where two of my ancestors met and led to my people moving from Massachusetts to Vermont.

#HATM
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The credits list on iMDB are not helpful 🤨
#HATM
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hey, I've been there! Love that you have a family connection, so very cool. 😎

This is a pic I took of the NPS Park Ranger giving a fantastic talk next to the bridge across the river from that statue.

#HATM
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So... who has the Upper Deck 2004 "History of the United States" card set?
🙋‍♂️🤓 #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It’s such a great exercise in constructing meaning as they have to connect the story they built to the real lives lived by the diverse peoples who inhabited that time and place.

Plus they get to roll dice 🤓😎

#APUSH #RPG #EduSky 🗺️
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Had another great day of students rolling up characters and building backstories for their characters using the robust and historically based character creation system for “Haunted West” by @darkerhue.bsky.social in service of a project exploring the history of “the West.”

#APUSH #RPG #EduSky 🗺️
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Same! Except for the complete beard erasure!!!
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
How about we hear the opinion of an actual Secretary of War…
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Somewhere in Colorado, David Lightman is frantically convincing the computer that it's a game not worth playing.... that's my ending 🫠 #HATM
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
YAAASSSSS!!!!
#HATM
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"What are they going to do, hide under their desks?" #HATM
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Starting a watch of “Death by Lightening” and I’m already geeking out. Literally starts with Guiteau’s brain!!! 🤩

Also, re the opening title card…

I did not forget! #HATM 🤓
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
And here we have the current (for now) @teenvogue.com BlueSky page… check out that pinned post. 🫡🫥
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Also not enough ninjas 😔
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If James Earl Jones spoke with an Irish brogue…
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM