Derek Buckaloo
@dbuckaloo.bsky.social
Professor of History, Lover of Justice
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
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How can you help? Spread information. Spread it. It breaks through. It’s not meaningless.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
How can you help? Spread information. Spread it. It breaks through. It’s not meaningless.
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Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party. Daddy's raging, destroying, lashing out, & most political analysis amounts to ...
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party. Daddy's raging, destroying, lashing out, & most political analysis amounts to ...
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Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
October 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
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The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
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Proud to work with @ocasio-cortez.house.gov and others to enact reforms to campaign finance and ethics laws —including banning Members of Congress from trading stocks or becoming lobbyists.
Let’s get it done!
Let’s get it done!
August 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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In 1776, approximately 20% of the people who lived in the 13 colonies were enslaved. As his White House gears up for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Trump wonders why we spend so much time talking about how bad slavery was.
August 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In 1776, approximately 20% of the people who lived in the 13 colonies were enslaved. As his White House gears up for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Trump wonders why we spend so much time talking about how bad slavery was.
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🔥🧵Different Party, Same Ideology
There’s a favorite talking point on the American right: “Democrats were the party of slavery. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.”
If you're sick of that, this free analysis is for you.👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
There’s a favorite talking point on the American right: “Democrats were the party of slavery. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.”
If you're sick of that, this free analysis is for you.👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Different Party, Same Ideology
The South Switched Teams but Kept the Same Ideology
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🔥🧵Different Party, Same Ideology
There’s a favorite talking point on the American right: “Democrats were the party of slavery. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.”
If you're sick of that, this free analysis is for you.👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
There’s a favorite talking point on the American right: “Democrats were the party of slavery. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.”
If you're sick of that, this free analysis is for you.👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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Also liberals are fucking dumb not to blame shit on Republicans. Most liberals wouldn’t blame Trump for COVID either. Stop being so fucking nice. They drowned those Texans. They gave us all Covid. They’re the problem.
Jesus H Christ.
Jesus H Christ.
There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Also liberals are fucking dumb not to blame shit on Republicans. Most liberals wouldn’t blame Trump for COVID either. Stop being so fucking nice. They drowned those Texans. They gave us all Covid. They’re the problem.
Jesus H Christ.
Jesus H Christ.
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It’s such a profoundly important point - and one all (capital-D) Democrats and (small-d) democrats should seize on relentlessly: Define your project through the egalitarian promise, acknowledge the country has yet to live up to it, insist it is a patriotic duty to finally fulfill that vision.
From the 1970s into the 2010s, a statement like this would not have coded as particularly partisan or leftist. The fact that virtually no Republican public figure could have said this today is a sign of how much that party has radicalized away from what used to be the center of US politics.
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It’s such a profoundly important point - and one all (capital-D) Democrats and (small-d) democrats should seize on relentlessly: Define your project through the egalitarian promise, acknowledge the country has yet to live up to it, insist it is a patriotic duty to finally fulfill that vision.
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The time for careful calculation has passed. It made sense in earlier political moments, but not now. The GOP has called the question. Are we a nation who chuckles when a DHS secretary who shot her dog in a gravel pit makes a joke about alligators ripping the flesh of humans in her custody, or not?
June 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The time for careful calculation has passed. It made sense in earlier political moments, but not now. The GOP has called the question. Are we a nation who chuckles when a DHS secretary who shot her dog in a gravel pit makes a joke about alligators ripping the flesh of humans in her custody, or not?
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This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
June 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
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The Trump administration has proposed cutting nearly 90% of funding for tribal colleges and universities, a move that would devastate institutions serving Indigenous communities in the U.S.
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…
www.propublica.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Trump administration has proposed cutting nearly 90% of funding for tribal colleges and universities, a move that would devastate institutions serving Indigenous communities in the U.S.
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This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...
The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.
June 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much?
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
May 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much?
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
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FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.
An appropriate way to understand Project Esther, and Trump's "anti-semitism" purge, is that it is predominantly driven by right-wing Christian nationalists attacking institutions they dislike, even if it also includes attacking Jewish students and groups.
May 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.
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In the 1980s, American fascists tried to turn Idaho into a white Christian nationalist homeland for “refugees” from American multi-racial democracy and religious pluralism. One such community was called “Aryan Nations.” So this tracks perfectly . www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...
Expedited South African refugees to resettle in Idaho under Trump order
South Africa is Elon Musk’s home nation. The white refugees from there got preferential treatment from the Trump administration.
www.idahostatesman.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In the 1980s, American fascists tried to turn Idaho into a white Christian nationalist homeland for “refugees” from American multi-racial democracy and religious pluralism. One such community was called “Aryan Nations.” So this tracks perfectly . www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...
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April 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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It was always a myth…
April 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It was always a myth…
Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/23/d...
Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship | Washington Monthly
A serious threat of prosecution must hang over those who break the law in the second Trump administration.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/23/d...
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The GOP Built a Propaganda Empire. Democrats Built a Consultancy Firm.
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One Party’s Selling a Big Lie; the Other Can’t Sell the Truth
The GOP Built a Propaganda Empire. Democrats Built a Consultancy Firm.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The GOP Built a Propaganda Empire. Democrats Built a Consultancy Firm.
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