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breckod.bsky.social
Sometime historian, web developer, fencer, and nerd.
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vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

there’s been a lot going on, so just in case you forgot that the DOGEing of USAID had consequences, this estimate puts resulting global deaths to date at ~190k and counting. it’s been less than three months

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I can’t get over the fact that Trump disappeared a legal U.S. resident to a gulag in El Salvador and is refusing to bring him back despite a unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering him to

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Coming in hot! Pan is a Krider's red-tailed hawk, a naturally occurring color variation noted for being very light to almost white. Wild red-tailed hawks come in an amazing variety of colors, from nearly black to bright white and a whole scale in between.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social was an absolute delight, I strongly recommend it!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Alright, I haven't really done one of these on this website yet, so I'm going to talk about the one part of Byzantine Military Equipment we actually have a ton of information about: swords. #MedievalWarfare #MedievalSky #Medievalists #ClassicalWarfare #AncientWarfare #ClassicsSky

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 426 comments

Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860 “Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Perfect example of the media failure. Focus on what polls say people think about the economy, and what they think about Trump and Harris on the economy. Not how the economy is actually doing, or what Trump and Harris's plans would do. Repeating polls is "neutral." Informing the public is "biased."

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

David Blight saying it straight: “It’s what the Nazis did. It’s what Spain did. It’s what Mussolini tried. This is like the Soviets: they revised the Soviet encyclopedia every year to update the official history. Americans don’t have an official history; at least we’ve tried never to have.”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I associated A&E's long-running cop reality show "The First 48" with re-run marathons. But when I learned that it was mentioned as a factor in the 2024 exoneration of a man convicted of murder in Minnesota, the state I live in and cover, I perked right up. Thread 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments