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I am currently in graduate school for history. I'm a writer and investigator. I also make small doodles from time to time.
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he did it twice just in case

submitted 151 days ago • 374 comments

Trumpism in one image: you have to be prepared to believe precisely the opposite of what you believed five minutes ago, if the dictator demands it.

submitted 152 days ago • 3 comments

"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

submitted 151 days ago • 729 comments

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submitted 151 days ago • 7098 comments

Do you have a feeling that the economy is being balanced on a cheeto that is teetering on a cliff? Me too bud... me too...

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know if I should feel lucky or scared that I'm simultaneously in training to be a historian while all this shit goes down.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

On this day in history: And in 2025, on MLK day, white u.s. citizens put in the oval office a rich white man, who once called for 5 black kids to be executed decades before, has called for black rights activists to be shot, who's celebrated by white supremacists, and who refuses to disavow them.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk Holds Up AI Girlfriend App So She Can See theonion.com/elon-mu...

submitted 151 days ago • 77 comments

Not only do I agree with Simon Patten that there's enough to go around, but I think modern politicians have abandoned the pursuit of joyful consumption for cheaply made toxic trinkets and quick profits. Thereby resulting in a modern society that's poor, miserable, and full of junk.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

submitted 152 days ago • 3549 comments

I'm not pro ban, but I don't use tik tok. So the ban doesn't affect me. In all honesty, I find the premise of tik tok to be off-putting. I like typing and reading. However, I am seeing a lot of people upset. So my question is: How does this affect activism and the state?

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe by introducing ai tech that enables future generations to easily complete projects that previous generations would've needed finely tuned skills and intellect to complete, we've created a future that will be less intelligent and skilled.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

I got vaccinated because folks who spent years studying science told me that it was the wise choice. You protested against vaccinations because someone's mom, who barely passed high school, shared a post on Facebook that claimed vaccines cause homosexuality. We are not the same.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

submitted 156 days ago • 143 comments

So that Hegseth... You know, if any of us pulled a Hegseth at a job interview, we'd never get hired.

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