Irate Historian
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Preferred pronouns? Buddy I got no idea. Buddhist, lover not a fighter, perpetually tired, historian in training, and professional nerd. Loves birds, science fiction, religious studies and poetry!
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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Buy it now because I promise this will be the most popular Christmas gift of 2026
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Buy it now because I promise this will be the most popular Christmas gift of 2026
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Annual Holdovers rewatch time.
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Annual Holdovers rewatch time.
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there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
December 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
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Better: Christmas was an instance of North African and Mediterranean folx decentering Northern European narratives of supremacy
"Christmas was stolen by Western Whites from tribal Celtic and German Pagans"
will you get a grip
will you get a grip
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Better: Christmas was an instance of North African and Mediterranean folx decentering Northern European narratives of supremacy
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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I think it is WILD to think Blanc leaves no less interested in Christianity. I cannot imagine being so low context that you can only assume people’s motives and thoughts from their explicit words (and then only when bad)
The Gospel Coalition’s Review of Jesus’ interaction with The Rich Young Ruler:
“The Rich Young Ruler leaves Jesus as disinterested in Christianity as he was at the start. What he sees from Jesus is not compelling. It’s woke, corrupted, audience-pleasing justice Christianity, not true Christianity.”
“The Rich Young Ruler leaves Jesus as disinterested in Christianity as he was at the start. What he sees from Jesus is not compelling. It’s woke, corrupted, audience-pleasing justice Christianity, not true Christianity.”
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I think it is WILD to think Blanc leaves no less interested in Christianity. I cannot imagine being so low context that you can only assume people’s motives and thoughts from their explicit words (and then only when bad)
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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sorry buddy, you signed up for evil clown college, this is what you get
“It's like telling the whole room that you didn't fart,” one of the senior Trump administration officials says, referring in part to the Justice Department’s social media post. “Nobody's going to believe you.”
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
sorry buddy, you signed up for evil clown college, this is what you get
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Imagine paying a ton of money for great seats and having to deal with some troll. It sucks for everyone!
December 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Imagine paying a ton of money for great seats and having to deal with some troll. It sucks for everyone!
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Another aspect of this that I rarely see discussed--the vast majority of fans do not act like this AND HATE BEING AROUND SHITTY FANS. It's not just about the players!
Also a Lions fan. Some posts by people claiming to sit by him say this is normal behavior for him and he’s a known/hated entity. The team absolutely need to ban him.
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another aspect of this that I rarely see discussed--the vast majority of fans do not act like this AND HATE BEING AROUND SHITTY FANS. It's not just about the players!
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Turns out if you maximize your utility to powerful people you end up contorted into strange shapes! No one is suggesting that Bari Weiss is typical; she is indeed exceptional
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Turns out if you maximize your utility to powerful people you end up contorted into strange shapes! No one is suggesting that Bari Weiss is typical; she is indeed exceptional
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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The trumpeting call of a Sandhill Crane hanging in the air. I heard a Sandhill Crane pair calling down the trail and wondered if I could see their call in the current conditions.I quickly tootled over to the Cranes, working to get an angle of where their call could be seen
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The trumpeting call of a Sandhill Crane hanging in the air. I heard a Sandhill Crane pair calling down the trail and wondered if I could see their call in the current conditions.I quickly tootled over to the Cranes, working to get an angle of where their call could be seen
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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
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OK, regular hours today and 12-5pm on Christmas Eve. Also anyone who buys a pie from now until 5pm tomorrow gets a free tshirt with their pie.
We’ve still got some of the festive holiday pints left and if you need a last minute online gift order a custom haiku written by yours truly.
We’ve still got some of the festive holiday pints left and if you need a last minute online gift order a custom haiku written by yours truly.
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
OK, regular hours today and 12-5pm on Christmas Eve. Also anyone who buys a pie from now until 5pm tomorrow gets a free tshirt with their pie.
We’ve still got some of the festive holiday pints left and if you need a last minute online gift order a custom haiku written by yours truly.
We’ve still got some of the festive holiday pints left and if you need a last minute online gift order a custom haiku written by yours truly.
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l m a o
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
l m a o
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"Stop calling them Kavanaugh Stops you guys!!!"
Interesting that Justice Kavanaugh decided he had to add footnote 4 to his concurrence, which addresses the "State’s underlying objections to the activities of federal immigration officers when they make immigration stops."
![The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) (“[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race”). This application does not require us to delve into the parties’ underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iv73mapy52ilxfjnetqatnvu/bafkreiam3tsfxtxu4atn73qvjbdcuuxkcanqxsuj2cenme5r2dwisi2tgm@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Stop calling them Kavanaugh Stops you guys!!!"
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
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yeah disagree here, because CECOT had vanished almost entirely since the Venezuelan migrants were let out in the summer, any degree of attention they are getting for crimes in the rear view mirror is bad for them (and Bari's reputation)
I'll be a bummer & say that I expect people expecting the Weiss decision to pull the story to massively backfire are wrong. CECOT was already known, there are no new facts here that will attain prominence. The needle movement would have been this being shown to less political norms. She stopped that
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
yeah disagree here, because CECOT had vanished almost entirely since the Venezuelan migrants were let out in the summer, any degree of attention they are getting for crimes in the rear view mirror is bad for them (and Bari's reputation)
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A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.
