Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
@deepwatermike.bsky.social
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.
I've said it a million times. Conservatives love America but hate Americans.
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I've said it a million times. Conservatives love America but hate Americans.
This is just a reminder that "Kid Rock" is older than I am and I haven't been a "kid" in a hella long time.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
This is just a reminder that "Kid Rock" is older than I am and I haven't been a "kid" in a hella long time.
This is why I think @profmsinha.bsky.social's framing around the Second American Republic (read the book, ok) is so important. If we're lucky, we'll soon begin a third Reconstruction and Fourth (by my reckoning) republic.
I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...
We’re overdue for another Republic
February 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
This is why I think @profmsinha.bsky.social's framing around the Second American Republic (read the book, ok) is so important. If we're lucky, we'll soon begin a third Reconstruction and Fourth (by my reckoning) republic.
From your lips to [insert cosmic forces name here]'s ear.
I'm calling it now -- during the second song of Bad Bunny's halftime performance, It Will Finally Happen.
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
From your lips to [insert cosmic forces name here]'s ear.
I am increasingly convinced that of all the sci-fi visions of the future I've read that Jonathan Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music" is the most prophetic.
There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I am increasingly convinced that of all the sci-fi visions of the future I've read that Jonathan Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music" is the most prophetic.
Maryland. Hands-down.
Massholes about to sweep this event until we’ve poured enough money into Boston transit that nobody in the city is allowed to own a car
coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road
February 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Maryland. Hands-down.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me.
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me.
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
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