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As a Canadian, I heard about how America's 'checks and balances' protect them from tyranny since I was a child. We learned from US TV that Americans would fight tooth and nail to preserve their democracy and their constitution. So it's weird to watch them just roll over to a pair of con-men.

@enortonhistory.bsky.social just listened to your history rage pod on Katherine of Aragon.👏👏👏

I've unfollowed an account here for the first time. Not for anything offensive. Its just that they retweet so often that my timeline was overwhelmed with their stuff & i was struggling to see anything else. Anyone else had this problem? PS I wish more folk would join us here from fascistville.

“Following all this chaos is stressful and exhausting and feels largely pointless given that if I had fallen into a blissful slumber nine days ago and been oblivious to the threats against Colombia, Mexico and Canada, I’d be no less informed and a lot less anxious.”

Good to see tgat this place is gradually filling up with my favourite historians but where are the sports writers???

I worry about this quite a bit.

From the party that "hadn't quite understood" how reliant UK trade in goods is on the Dover-Calais crossing, another puzzling geographical insight...

This is such a good piece, rich with the scorn the whole "wellness" and "detox" grift sector deserves.

@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social good to see you here Jen.

Interesting piece - "Blarite karaoke" is quite a good description of what's coming out of DHSC at the moment...