Brexton O'Donnell
@breckod.bsky.social
Public historian, fencer, and nerd.
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Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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A lot of people will lose their minds about this, but it's probably just that the obvious conclusion that persuadable/swing voters are a bunch of amoral dumbasses who don't pay attention isn't politically useful.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A lot of people will lose their minds about this, but it's probably just that the obvious conclusion that persuadable/swing voters are a bunch of amoral dumbasses who don't pay attention isn't politically useful.
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This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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The President of the United States is a deeply evil man, but also a deeply unimpressive, contemptible little loser.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The President of the United States is a deeply evil man, but also a deeply unimpressive, contemptible little loser.
Wake Up Dead Man was really good, strong recommend.
December 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wake Up Dead Man was really good, strong recommend.
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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⚓ An Ottoman Göke Ship from 15th Century #NavalHistory
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
⚓ An Ottoman Göke Ship from 15th Century #NavalHistory
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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remembering one of the all-time greatest twitter posts
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
remembering one of the all-time greatest twitter posts
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On December 2, 1859 John Brown was executed in Charles Town, Virginia for his role in leading an attack on the US Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the name of Black liberation.
“Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
“Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
On December 2, 1859 John Brown was executed in Charles Town, Virginia for his role in leading an attack on the US Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the name of Black liberation.
“Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
“Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
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an extremely tired point to make but Jesus CHRIST imagine if Obama or Biden had pardoned a 400-ton coke trafficker. Jake Tapper would fuckin stroke out live on CNN
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
an extremely tired point to make but Jesus CHRIST imagine if Obama or Biden had pardoned a 400-ton coke trafficker. Jake Tapper would fuckin stroke out live on CNN
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
Well, yes, actually.
I think it's an opinion that is shared by most people, I'd wager probably including you. Unless you're in favor of bombing, let's see, Sudan, DRC, Myanmar and Israel currently
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Well, yes, actually.
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Murdered. The word you're looking for is murdered, Newsweek.
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Murdered. The word you're looking for is murdered, Newsweek.
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A VERY popular question right now on AskHistorians is also a pretty frequently asked one. "How does Ken Burns hold up? " Several of our fantastic contributors weigh in on the matter, including links to previous discussions on older documentaries . Don't miss it #Skystorians!
How does Ken Burns hold up?
I’m a high school history teacher and recently had a coworker bring up that Ken Burns doesn’t hold water with historians. Is this true?
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November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A VERY popular question right now on AskHistorians is also a pretty frequently asked one. "How does Ken Burns hold up? " Several of our fantastic contributors weigh in on the matter, including links to previous discussions on older documentaries . Don't miss it #Skystorians!
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Meet Yoshinobu Yamamoto's new dog, Carlos! 🐾
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Meet Yoshinobu Yamamoto's new dog, Carlos! 🐾
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