Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
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Technical trainer and occasional historian. Erstwhile medievalist. Now practicing the Wudang 108 form of Taijiquan and delivering sizzling takes. Walking the elements and holding the gates in North Carolina.
Do NOT threaten me with a good time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Do NOT threaten me with a good time.
His Majesty's two best property lawyers secretly pine for each other.
Escheated Rivalry
Escheated Rivalry
The two best whiskey distillers in the country secretly pine for each other.
Peated Rivalry.
Peated Rivalry.
The two best soccer players in the country secretly pine for each other.
Cleated Rivalry
Cleated Rivalry
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
His Majesty's two best property lawyers secretly pine for each other.
Escheated Rivalry
Escheated Rivalry
Islam came to British America, and the United States, on slave ships. He the Congresscritter should show some damn respect. Muslims helped win our independence. They helped build the damn country.
This kind of blatant Islamophobia from members of Congress is so normalized that it barely attracts notice. It should not be acceptable to any of us.
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Islam came to British America, and the United States, on slave ships. He the Congresscritter should show some damn respect. Muslims helped win our independence. They helped build the damn country.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
New cosmology just dropped.
Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.
February 5, 2026 at 1:09 AM
New cosmology just dropped.
This is the medieval content you crave and you know it.
*to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun"
There is a church in old Orleans
They call the Holy Cross
Where I was led to ruin in dark heresy
By Stephen and Lisois. 3/
There is a church in old Orleans
They call the Holy Cross
Where I was led to ruin in dark heresy
By Stephen and Lisois. 3/
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
This is the medieval content you crave and you know it.
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm pretty sure this didn't happen so hard it actually caused things to un-happen.
Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I'm pretty sure this didn't happen so hard it actually caused things to un-happen.
I'd carry a bag of charcoal and a bottle of red wine on the campaign trail. For the Billionaire Barbecue.
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I'd carry a bag of charcoal and a bottle of red wine on the campaign trail. For the Billionaire Barbecue.
I still think I'm responsible for this.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
I still think I'm responsible for this.
Do we have any sense of how the Melania ticket sales correlate to actual fannies in the seats?
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Do we have any sense of how the Melania ticket sales correlate to actual fannies in the seats?
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Terrific thread:
Week 1 - Black History Month 2026
1. You may have seen this image of Black men voting during Reconstruction, and assumed it is a depiction of voting after the passage of the 15th Amendment (which outlaws denying the right to vote based on race).
1. You may have seen this image of Black men voting during Reconstruction, and assumed it is a depiction of voting after the passage of the 15th Amendment (which outlaws denying the right to vote based on race).
February 2, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Terrific thread:
Outstanding work here.
February 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Outstanding work here.
This is who runs this account
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
This is who runs this account
"How can you make a joke at a time like this?"
Me: We have a date with destiny...and she just ordered the lobster.
Me: We have a date with destiny...and she just ordered the lobster.
"How can you make a joke at a time like this?"
Me: "'I don't believe it! I tore my pants!' -Chief Miles Edward O'Brien"
Me: "'I don't believe it! I tore my pants!' -Chief Miles Edward O'Brien"
"How can you make a joke at a time like this?"
Me: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance."
Me: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance."
January 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM
"How can you make a joke at a time like this?"
Me: We have a date with destiny...and she just ordered the lobster.
Me: We have a date with destiny...and she just ordered the lobster.
So I looked it up and Greg Bovino actually IS shorter than I am (not by much...my people, we are short).
Hey, Greg! Being a short person doesn't mean you have to be a small person!
Hey, Greg! Being a short person doesn't mean you have to be a small person!
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
So I looked it up and Greg Bovino actually IS shorter than I am (not by much...my people, we are short).
Hey, Greg! Being a short person doesn't mean you have to be a small person!
Hey, Greg! Being a short person doesn't mean you have to be a small person!
Of course, I have a soft spot for Hand Grenade Man
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Of course, I have a soft spot for Hand Grenade Man
Since 1986 (this is from about 2002)...
January 30, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Since 1986 (this is from about 2002)...
We were Reagan-pilled.
Backing up The Argument in NYT/Siena, Gen X still has an astonishing 49% approval for Trump (!), while Boomers have dipped to 42%.
Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.
Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
We were Reagan-pilled.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
All good history is revisionist history. The problem is that all bad history is, too.
"The danger is not in practicing revisionist history—it’s in constructing individual and collective lives around historical frameworks too shaky to be looked at again."
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
contingentmagazine.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
All good history is revisionist history. The problem is that all bad history is, too.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."
I Am the Payroll Accountant for Professional Protestors in Minnesota, and I Am Swamped
“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., slammed Minnesota state leaders after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators disrupted a...
buff.ly
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."