Brad Simpson
@bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
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My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
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A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
OK 1 million is sort of a lot.
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's name appears in the unredacted Epstein files “more than a million times.”
The post Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
OK 1 million is sort of a lot.
Amzingly, Malinowski was a former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Law, and Human Rights under Obama and a reasonable left-liberal. The ground has shifted in basic ways that we are just beginning to comprehend.
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Amzingly, Malinowski was a former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Law, and Human Rights under Obama and a reasonable left-liberal. The ground has shifted in basic ways that we are just beginning to comprehend.
There is an awesome running gag in the Seth Rogan tv show platonic where he tries to run over/knock over/destroy delivery robots whenever and wherever he sees them.
Chicago’s autonomous delivery robots are getting into scrapes with humans, per city records we obtained via FOIA. with @robertchannick.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/f...
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
There is an awesome running gag in the Seth Rogan tv show platonic where he tries to run over/knock over/destroy delivery robots whenever and wherever he sees them.
Bad Bunny's historical advisor got a PhD in history from UConn. What's hard to understand?
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Bad Bunny's historical advisor got a PhD in history from UConn. What's hard to understand?
His collaborator is a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
His collaborator is a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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with a PhD from @uconnhistory.bsky.social. our alums do great things!
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
with a PhD from @uconnhistory.bsky.social. our alums do great things!
Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
This is the thing that will forever anger and mystify me. Like Biden could have released all this shit himself.
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 PM
This is the thing that will forever anger and mystify me. Like Biden could have released all this shit himself.
Has any other president attacked US Olympians as “losers” because they didn’t like him? Of course not. What a disgrace. What an embarrassment. Trump is the biggest whiniest, most insecure, pathetic, snowflake of a man baby in the entire history of politics, nay in the history of the country.
The president is now attacking a US Olympian as a “Loser” and misrepresenting his words for his mild unspecified criticisms about things going on in the US right now.
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Has any other president attacked US Olympians as “losers” because they didn’t like him? Of course not. What a disgrace. What an embarrassment. Trump is the biggest whiniest, most insecure, pathetic, snowflake of a man baby in the entire history of politics, nay in the history of the country.
It is a miracle and a scandal that no one has yet made a movie about the US cuing team starting some combination of Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, etc
February 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It is a miracle and a scandal that no one has yet made a movie about the US cuing team starting some combination of Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, etc
Trump Admin concludes Trump and friends not in any way involved in in Epstein child sex-trafficking scheme, which really wasn't even a sex-trafficking scheme, despite what everyone has said and the millions of documents and picures and survivor testimony and such. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. Videos and photos seized from Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands didn’t depict victims being abused or implicate...
www.yahoo.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Trump Admin concludes Trump and friends not in any way involved in in Epstein child sex-trafficking scheme, which really wasn't even a sex-trafficking scheme, despite what everyone has said and the millions of documents and picures and survivor testimony and such. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
A Palestinian friend of mine said this happens a lot at weddings and grooms’ pre-wedding parties.
February 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
A Palestinian friend of mine said this happens a lot at weddings and grooms’ pre-wedding parties.
Kid Rock lyrics sound like something from an advertisement for a local monster truck rally sponsored by a combination used car dealership/ camping supply store.
“Thirty pack of stroh’s straight rock and roll.
No rogaine but the propane flows”
Wut.
“Thirty pack of stroh’s straight rock and roll.
No rogaine but the propane flows”
Wut.
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Kid Rock lyrics sound like something from an advertisement for a local monster truck rally sponsored by a combination used car dealership/ camping supply store.
“Thirty pack of stroh’s straight rock and roll.
No rogaine but the propane flows”
Wut.
“Thirty pack of stroh’s straight rock and roll.
No rogaine but the propane flows”
Wut.
I like how the Olympic commentators are trying to speak in a very vague way about the Norwegian ski jump suit tampering scandal because they can’t quite say that the men were injecting their penises with strange substances
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I like how the Olympic commentators are trying to speak in a very vague way about the Norwegian ski jump suit tampering scandal because they can’t quite say that the men were injecting their penises with strange substances
“When will this paper finish? I guess we’ll never know.
This comment is a question. Oh look it is a bro.”
This comment is a question. Oh look it is a bro.”
February 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
“When will this paper finish? I guess we’ll never know.
This comment is a question. Oh look it is a bro.”
This comment is a question. Oh look it is a bro.”
Trump called his wife ugly, said dad was involved in the Kennedy assassination. And Ted came groveling back to kiss the ring, or the ass. In any case, I think dignity left the room a while back.
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Trump called his wife ugly, said dad was involved in the Kennedy assassination. And Ted came groveling back to kiss the ring, or the ass. In any case, I think dignity left the room a while back.
“ It’s time to write my paper. I will stay up all night.”
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 AM
“ It’s time to write my paper. I will stay up all night.”
I would volunteer to get arrested and go on trial for throwing one of these things just so I could hear the Trump Admin try and explain to a
Jury why a rubber dildo was a deadly weapon that mask clad and body armored ice goons cowering and fearing for their lives.
Jury why a rubber dildo was a deadly weapon that mask clad and body armored ice goons cowering and fearing for their lives.
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I would volunteer to get arrested and go on trial for throwing one of these things just so I could hear the Trump Admin try and explain to a
Jury why a rubber dildo was a deadly weapon that mask clad and body armored ice goons cowering and fearing for their lives.
Jury why a rubber dildo was a deadly weapon that mask clad and body armored ice goons cowering and fearing for their lives.
I had to drink the liter of the vile bile last time, and it was truly the most revolting experience of my entire life.
February 7, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I had to drink the liter of the vile bile last time, and it was truly the most revolting experience of my entire life.
FAFO is a perfectly reasonable democratic response to Republican gerrymandering. At some point, mutually assured destruction will lead to negotiations.
February 7, 2026 at 5:35 PM
FAFO is a perfectly reasonable democratic response to Republican gerrymandering. At some point, mutually assured destruction will lead to negotiations.
This is also a really good argument for periodically holding press Conferences were little kids just answer all the questions.
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This is also a really good argument for periodically holding press Conferences were little kids just answer all the questions.