Mitch Axness
@mitchaxness.bsky.social
Dad of 2 | current IT guy | history grad student (public history, 1850-1950 US) | aspiring archivist and historian | Star Wars fan | comic book nerd. You've been warned.
Opinions are mine, because <insert deity of choice> knows no one else wants them.
Opinions are mine, because <insert deity of choice> knows no one else wants them.
The Trump Regime is speedily reinstalling Confederate monuments across the country, renaming military bases back to their Confederate general namesakes... 1/
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The Trump Regime is speedily reinstalling Confederate monuments across the country, renaming military bases back to their Confederate general namesakes... 1/
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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Trump likes to brag that he doesn't take his presidential salary (this, of course, is setting aside the projected $50 million American taxpayers have spent on him playing golf at his personally-owned properties in 2025 alone), but let's extrapolate on the salary numbers quick. 🧵 1/
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump likes to brag that he doesn't take his presidential salary (this, of course, is setting aside the projected $50 million American taxpayers have spent on him playing golf at his personally-owned properties in 2025 alone), but let's extrapolate on the salary numbers quick. 🧵 1/
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Eight residents of the tiny tourist town of Medora, North Dakota, decided to hold their own No Kings rally outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park rather than drive to a neighboring city. “We’re all so sad that our national parks are closed,” said Sandy Baertsch. (Photo courtesy of S. Lambert)
October 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Eight residents of the tiny tourist town of Medora, North Dakota, decided to hold their own No Kings rally outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park rather than drive to a neighboring city. “We’re all so sad that our national parks are closed,” said Sandy Baertsch. (Photo courtesy of S. Lambert)
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The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
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"a culture of domination necessarily promotes an addiction to lying and denial."
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994
October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"a culture of domination necessarily promotes an addiction to lying and denial."
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994
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Hey Pete - I found one of those woke, bearded, overly sensitive, not in the best physical shape generals who wore a dirty uniform regularly. He was certainly ready to win, though. 🗃️🧵
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hey Pete - I found one of those woke, bearded, overly sensitive, not in the best physical shape generals who wore a dirty uniform regularly. He was certainly ready to win, though. 🗃️🧵
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hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
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Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
Two things about tonight's news:
1) "Power doesn't panic." -Cassian Andor
2) "The <Trump Regime's> need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik
1) "Power doesn't panic." -Cassian Andor
2) "The <Trump Regime's> need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Two things about tonight's news:
1) "Power doesn't panic." -Cassian Andor
2) "The <Trump Regime's> need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik
1) "Power doesn't panic." -Cassian Andor
2) "The <Trump Regime's> need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik
The most (unintended) self-aware moment Trump has had in his entire life. 🤣
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The most (unintended) self-aware moment Trump has had in his entire life. 🤣
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this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
September 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.
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Historian hereQuoted in an article for E&E News by Politico on erasing history. Statues celebrating proslavery Confederate traitors and Lost Cause mythology is not history and censoring and deleting our past is not saving history. A sad day when civil liberties and the Constitution is violated daily
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Historian hereQuoted in an article for E&E News by Politico on erasing history. Statues celebrating proslavery Confederate traitors and Lost Cause mythology is not history and censoring and deleting our past is not saving history. A sad day when civil liberties and the Constitution is violated daily
"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest...The monster who will come for us all soon enough is <the MAGA movement>."
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest...The monster who will come for us all soon enough is <the MAGA movement>."
Seeing the story below this morning is so ironic. Today is the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest single day of the Civil War (about 22,717 killed/wounded/missing/captured), and American history overall – ending the first invasion of US territory since the War of 1812. 🗃️🧵 1/
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Seeing the story below this morning is so ironic. Today is the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest single day of the Civil War (about 22,717 killed/wounded/missing/captured), and American history overall – ending the first invasion of US territory since the War of 1812. 🗃️🧵 1/
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The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports
Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
variety.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
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Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate
The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.
September 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate