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Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh)

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📖 Public Historian / Adjunct History Professor 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Proud 💙 "Woke" and Proud 🚫 Blocking MAGA and Hate See https://www.brewminate.com (Brewminate)

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Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 22h

Quoting History:

“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

A timeless reminder that the climate crisis isn’t just about carbon or temperature — it’s about restraint, equity, and the moral cost of excess.

#History #Morality #Brewminate

Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

From ancient history to modern insight — explore curated content rooted in scholarship, steeped in culture, and always fiercely independent.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 22h

TODAY IN HISTORY: October 9, 1963 – The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy

Nearly 2,000 dead after a landslide sent a tsunami over the dam.

Not nature’s wrath—human arrogance.

#History #Disaster #Engineering #Brewminate

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Before refrigeration, Persia and India mastered ice-making with yakhchals — ancient domes that kept water frozen in desert heat.

Science, art, and survival in perfect balance.

#History #Innovation #Architecture #Brewminate

Yakhchal and Baraf Khanas: Ice Houses in Ancient Persia and India

Explore the ingenious ice houses of Persia and India, how ancient engineers mastered desert heat through architecture and environmental design.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Denial won’t balance the books.

The real cost of climate change is measured in lives, livelihoods, and lost time.

#ClimateChange #Economy #Environment #Brewminate

The Rising Costs of Climate Change

Climate change already costs trillions. Denial won’t reduce the bill—adaptation, resilience, and policy are the only ways to limit mounting losses.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Before A/C, there was ingenuity.

Medieval Europe kept cool with earth, air, and ice — turning nature into technology.

#History #Innovation #Medieval #Brewminate

Medieval Cooling Systems: Architecture, Ice, and Air

How medieval builders mastered cooling—windcatchers, courtyards, and ice domes that kept homes and food cool through science, craft, and faith.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo XIV is carrying forward Francis’s climate mission — and MAGA is calling him “woke.”

When caring for creation becomes controversial, you know where the problem lies.

#ClimateChange #Religion #Politics #Brewminate

Pope Leo vs. MAGA: The Vatican’s Climate Clash

Pope Leo continues Francis’s climate legacy, defying Trump and MAGA critics who brand him a “woke pope.”

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Frederick McKinley Jones, an African American inventor, changed everything in 1938 — inventing the first refrigerated truck unit and revolutionizing how the world moves food and medicine.

#Innovation #History #BlackInventors #Brewminate

How Frederick McKinley Jones Revolutionized Modern Food Transport

Discover how Frederick McKinley Jones, a self-taught Black inventor, revolutionized transport refrigeration with his 1938 Thermo King design—reshaping food, medicine, and modern logistics.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 23h

Trump just cut $8 B in clean-energy funds — punishing blue states for political points.

When spite drives policy, the climate pays the price.

#CleanEnergy #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Brewminate

Trump Cuts $8B in Clean Energy Projects in Blue States

Trump cancels $8B in clean-energy funding, targeting states Kamala Harris won. Legal challenges mount over the partisan cuts.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

Food for Thought

When the state begins to fear its citizens, it arms itself.

When the citizens begin to fear the state, it’s already too late.

Power always claims to protect—until protection becomes control.

#Power #Freedom #Democracy #Brewminate

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

TODAY IN HISTORY: October 8, 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire and the Evolution of Modern Policing

🔥 Out of Chicago’s ashes rose more than new buildings — it birthed a new idea of power.

The fire gave rise to modern policing built on fear and control.

#History #ChicagoFire #Policing #Brewminate

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

🪶 The Founders feared a standing army would enslave the Republic.

Their solution — civilian supremacy — is democracy’s last defense.

#History #Liberty #Democracy #Brewminate

The Founders’ Fear of Standing Armies in America

How America’s Founders turned their distrust of standing armies into a constitutional safeguard for liberty and civilian control.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

⚔️ Trump wants to seize control of state National Guards — a move that defies the Constitution and resurrects the Founders’ greatest fear: a president with his own army.

#Trump #NationalGuard #Constitution #Brewminate

Trump, States, and the Battle Over National Guard Power

Trump’s bid to federalize the National Guard sparks lawsuits, protests, and court rulings. Can states and judges hold the line against executive overreach?

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

⚖️ Before the badge, there was the burden — keep order, but guard liberty.

Early America’s police defined both freedom and fear.

#History #Liberty #Police #Brewminate

Law Enforcement and Liberty in Early America

Explore the rise of U.S. law enforcement from 1800–1850, from local sheriffs to slave patrols, and citizens’ fears of power and lost liberty.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

🚓 Peacekeepers turned warriors — the battlefield came home.

America’s police force now looks more like an army than a community.

#Militarization #Police #Democracy #Brewminate

Militarization of Police in America: History and Impact

How U.S. police became militarized through federal programs, post-9/11 policies, and a “warrior” mindset—eroding trust and civil liberties.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

👮‍♂️ “Officer Friendly” was never just a mascot — it was propaganda in uniform.

America’s police image was rebranded to mask power with PR.

#Copaganda #Policing #History #Brewminate

From Officer Friendly to Copaganda

Trace the evolution of American policing’s image from 1960s PR campaigns to modern “copaganda,” where branding masks power and reform remains elusive.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 “Law and order” can’t mean obedience to tyranny.

Trump’s plan for federalized policing pushes America toward a modern police state.

History warned us — we didn’t listen.

#Trump #PoliceState #Democracy #Brewminate

Trump’s Police State Blueprint Threatens the U.S. Republic

Trump’s second term is dismantling oversight, militarizing policing, and pushing the U.S. toward authoritarian rule.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

💔 Homelessness isn’t only about money — it’s about lost connection.

When relationships break, stability breaks too.

#Homelessness #Poverty #Society #Brewminate

Relational Poverty and Homelessness

Explore how isolation, broken trust, and social disconnection — not only economics — fuel the crisis of homelessness in modern society.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

💰 Early America built its wealth on someone else’s hunger.

This is the story of how poverty became policy.

#History #Economy #Inequality #Brewminate

Poverty in Early America: Origins, Realities, and Responses

Poverty in early America was not an aberration but a persistent and structured feature of colonial and early national life.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

Echoes of History: Then and Now

⚒️ Peasants once bowed to lords — now workers bow to metrics.

The feudal fields became digital ones.

#History #Economy #ClassDivide #Brewminate

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

TODAY IN HISTORY: October 7, 1913 – The Ford Motor Company Introduced the Moving Assembly Line

⚙️ It built cars faster — and reprogrammed human labor.

It widened class divisions and turned workers into extensions of the machines they operated.

#History #Ford #IndustrialRevolution #Brewminate

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

⚒️ Rome was built by its workers — and ruled by those who never lifted a tool.

The story of ancient labor is the story of inequality itself.

#History #AncientRome #WorkingClass #Brewminate

The Working Class in Ancient Rome

Explore the lives of Rome’s workers—artisans, farmers, slaves, and freedmen—who sustained the empire through labor, resilience, and community.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

⚙️ The world runs on working-class hands — and they’re paid the least for it.

Without workers, nothing moves.

#WorkingClass #Inequality #Brewminate

The Struggles of the Working Class in Modern Society

The working class powers society yet remains exploited and unseen. Explore the challenges, causes, and paths to dignity and change.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

🌾 Bound to the soil, bound by power.

Medieval peasants lived in a world where freedom was a myth and survival a contract.

#History #Feudalism #Brewminate

Peasants and Power: Feudalism’s Grip on Medieval Society

How the feudal system kept peasants bound to their stations, serving elites through law, economy, and ideology in medieval Europe.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

🏰 Meet the new lords — same as the old.

Capitalism’s endgame looks a lot like feudalism: wealth concentrated, workers bound, power unchallenged.

#Capitalism #Inequality #Brewminate

The New Feudal Lords of Capitalism

The elite 0.01% rule like modern nobility, living off labor and debt. Feudalism never ended — it evolved into capitalism.

Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 2d

The dream is shrinking. 💸

The middle class that emerged and defined America is collapsing under debt, policy, and greed.

#Economy #MiddleClass #Inequality #Brewminate

The Economic Divide and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

Explore America’s economic divide from colonial wealth to today’s shrinking middle class, tracing cycles of inequality, reform, and decline.