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Brooks D. Simpson

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Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?

Brooks Donohue Simpson is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras and the American presidency. .. more

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 1d

Grant made that trip via Panama in 1852. Harrowing experience. As president he advocated building a canal.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 4d

Quite the obsessed fan.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 5d

Fugitive Slave Law vibes.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 6d

But Democrats get in their own way.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 7d

Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.

How soon they forget.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 16d

Someone get JD Vance a couch.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 16d

Escalators are not the problem.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 17d

Fire the person responsible for hiring this person.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 17d

Abe's aged.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 17d

Did Jesse Watters actually say this?

"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 24d

What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 25d

That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · 29d

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'Thunder in the Valley'

Civil War Expert to Discuss the Shenandoah Valley Campaign on Sept. 29 at Ohio Wesleyan

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...

It's the coverup that gets you.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 7

So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...

You're trying too hard, Mikey.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 6

Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch

Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 6

'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch

Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Sep 5

So people are out of work just to spite Trump?

Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 31

JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.

Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's a photograph.

Ulysses S. Grant.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was.

Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 19

How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 15

It feels like 1938 all over again.

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 13

Kevin Levin's been on this issue for some time. I'm looking forward to seeing more historians speak out.

If not now, when? Never?

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trump doesn’t have an interpretation of anything remotely related to history. What Trump has is an authoritarian agenda that demands control over how Americans remember history as a means to justify its current political and ideological agenda and claim to power. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary

Yesterday I urged you to remember that ultimately we are in control of how we teach and commemorate our collective history. I still believe this to be true, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that...

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary

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Brooks D. Simpson @bds77.bsky.social · Aug 6

So the Secretary of Defense wants to honor people who killed US soldiers (many of whom are buried at Arlington National Cemetery) in their efforts to commit an insurrection to protect the enslavement of millions of people?

That's where we are today, folks.