My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
@myhist.bsky.social
Podcasting since 2006. Providing historical context to today's politics. Knows a little about a lot.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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"History doesn't say goodbye, it just says see you later" -Galeno
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"History doesn't say goodbye, it just says see you later" -Galeno
It's enough in my opinion to oppose procedure and use counterfactuals - "If he sent troops to defend Ukraine or Taiwan" Just sucking up and in effect saying "Can we get into the war room with you guys" will not work. Individual Congressional districts, adjust to local conditions.
People asking me "Well what are the Democrats SUPPOSED to do in opposition?"
They can try opposition. For a start.
They can try opposition. For a start.
Some Democrats hate that their party is largely positioning itself in opposition to the operation that resulted in Maduro's capture.
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
January 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
It's enough in my opinion to oppose procedure and use counterfactuals - "If he sent troops to defend Ukraine or Taiwan" Just sucking up and in effect saying "Can we get into the war room with you guys" will not work. Individual Congressional districts, adjust to local conditions.
Got a little problem with your war room there.
January 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Got a little problem with your war room there.
Not to mention - am I crazy? Prices went waaaaay up, this is just slowing the rate (and it's biased dowward on top of that). They've already made the increases. We need them to lower. We need tariff reform, which would be deflationary.
This inflation data is a big mess with clear downward bias from methodological assumptions by BLS (essentially assuming zero inflation in Oct)
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not to mention - am I crazy? Prices went waaaaay up, this is just slowing the rate (and it's biased dowward on top of that). They've already made the increases. We need them to lower. We need tariff reform, which would be deflationary.
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No because quoting from BLS "November 2025 indexes were calculated by comparing November 2025 prices with October 2025 prices" so if you assume the price level was unchanged in Oct and then build the new level off that you have a downward bias
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2025 federal government shutdown impact on the Consumer Price Index
2025 federal government shutdown impact on the Consumer Price Index
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December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
No because quoting from BLS "November 2025 indexes were calculated by comparing November 2025 prices with October 2025 prices" so if you assume the price level was unchanged in Oct and then build the new level off that you have a downward bias
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Hmm...Mike Duncan (History of Rome, Revolutions); Bruce Carlson (My History Can Beat Up Your Politics) ; Brooke Gladstone (On The Media) ; Joanne Freeman (Various) all spring right to mind. If you've never read it, the old Atlantic article Host by David Foster Wallace captures talk radio magic well.
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hmm...Mike Duncan (History of Rome, Revolutions); Bruce Carlson (My History Can Beat Up Your Politics) ; Brooke Gladstone (On The Media) ; Joanne Freeman (Various) all spring right to mind. If you've never read it, the old Atlantic article Host by David Foster Wallace captures talk radio magic well.
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This year’s rankings continue the dominance of Matt & David (@1988toppspodcast.bsky.social) & Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social), making room too for Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social). Podcast vets Josh & Chuck, meantime, @syskpodcast.bsky.social, nab #1, their massive archive so mood-diverse. Titans all!
December 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This year’s rankings continue the dominance of Matt & David (@1988toppspodcast.bsky.social) & Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social), making room too for Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social). Podcast vets Josh & Chuck, meantime, @syskpodcast.bsky.social, nab #1, their massive archive so mood-diverse. Titans all!
Thanks! Good company to be in.
This year’s rankings continue the dominance of Matt & David (@1988toppspodcast.bsky.social) & Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social), making room too for Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social). Podcast vets Josh & Chuck, meantime, @syskpodcast.bsky.social, nab #1, their massive archive so mood-diverse. Titans all!
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Thanks! Good company to be in.
Death By Lightning: My Opinion of the Netflix Series, and Other Thoughts myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/d...
Death By Lightning: My Opinion of the Netflix Series, and Other Thoughts
Well, the 1880’s finally has some visual media coverage. That’s the good news. I do think it was an enjoyable series. I’m at a bit of a disadvantage being a history podcaster, as …
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November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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...And then having scored 7 points and dominated clock, the abandoned that strategy for lousy throws on 3rd and 2.
Jets don’t want to put QB Justin Fields in ‘harm’s way’ like he’s a running back
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The New York Jets came out running all over the New England Patriots on a spirited opening-drive touchdown…
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The New York Jets came out running all over the New England Patriots on a spirited opening-drive touchdown…
Jets don't want to put QB Justin Fields in 'harm's way' like he's a running back - NFL
The New York Jets came out running all over the New England Patriots on a spirited opening-drive touchdown march. The running and the spirit quickly withered
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November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
...And then having scored 7 points and dominated clock, the abandoned that strategy for lousy throws on 3rd and 2.
Also just generally, gerrymandering does involve risk, it is ultimately giving Ds to R districts to split the Ds up. But R gerrymanders over the year are getting close to some diminishing returns, I think. Might be OK in a normal midterm. In a wave, those Rs the computer gave you vote D.
“Considering that Trump has done nothing for Latinos, but done plenty to Latinos, don’t be surprised if Latino embrace of Trump proves short-lived, and the gerrymandered Texas map becomes a humiliating own goal.”
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Latinos Swung Left This Week. That’s Trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas Redistricting Gambit
Latino voters just swung left in New Jersey and California, signaling trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas gerrymander.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Also just generally, gerrymandering does involve risk, it is ultimately giving Ds to R districts to split the Ds up. But R gerrymanders over the year are getting close to some diminishing returns, I think. Might be OK in a normal midterm. In a wave, those Rs the computer gave you vote D.
Our podcast episode on the 1990's myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
1990’s Ephemera
Push in the drawer of your CD-ROM drive and enjoy random stories of politics and culture from the 1990’s. Stories that haven’t gotten much notice since.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our podcast episode on the 1990's myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/1...
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Responding here because I don't see a post for 90s Ephemera:
I hope you can tell I mean it as a compliment, that your music this episode puts me in mind of Joe Frank
And the Chirac nuclear episode may be timely, due to Trump's recent announcement about resuming testing!
I hope you can tell I mean it as a compliment, that your music this episode puts me in mind of Joe Frank
And the Chirac nuclear episode may be timely, due to Trump's recent announcement about resuming testing!
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Responding here because I don't see a post for 90s Ephemera:
I hope you can tell I mean it as a compliment, that your music this episode puts me in mind of Joe Frank
And the Chirac nuclear episode may be timely, due to Trump's recent announcement about resuming testing!
I hope you can tell I mean it as a compliment, that your music this episode puts me in mind of Joe Frank
And the Chirac nuclear episode may be timely, due to Trump's recent announcement about resuming testing!
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The unexpected Howard Stern anecdote that begins Bruce’s latest @myhist.bsky.social, man, is that worth the price of admission. I feel like I’d heard about it one time, if that, but regardless—Bruce knits together his insight and vintage clips into an exceptional slice of podcasting. Props, brother
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The unexpected Howard Stern anecdote that begins Bruce’s latest @myhist.bsky.social, man, is that worth the price of admission. I feel like I’d heard about it one time, if that, but regardless—Bruce knits together his insight and vintage clips into an exceptional slice of podcasting. Props, brother
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New episodes of Jerry & Alex (@presidencies.bsky.social) talking *vice* presidencies, & Bruce, @myhist.bsky.social, musing on the connection between Thomas Jefferson & John Adams, one of whom—you get one guess–was actually not a slaveholder, a rarity amongst the early presidents. Good listens ahead!
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
New episodes of Jerry & Alex (@presidencies.bsky.social) talking *vice* presidencies, & Bruce, @myhist.bsky.social, musing on the connection between Thomas Jefferson & John Adams, one of whom—you get one guess–was actually not a slaveholder, a rarity amongst the early presidents. Good listens ahead!
Well done 5 years ago and this ep Not complete, but good in its chosen scope. Interview with Michael Brown aka Brownie classic. 5 years ago, Brown gave his best "mea sorta culpa" to Vann and New Orleans. And despite some holdback, Brown is listen-worthy.
“Floodlines” examined what went wrong in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina—and what those errors meant for the people left behind. Twenty years later, host Vann R. Newkirk II catches up with a family grappling with the catastrophe’s legacy.
Listen now:
Listen now:
Floodlines Part IX: Rebirth
A visit with Le-Ann Williams, and her daughter, Destiny, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina
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November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Well done 5 years ago and this ep Not complete, but good in its chosen scope. Interview with Michael Brown aka Brownie classic. 5 years ago, Brown gave his best "mea sorta culpa" to Vann and New Orleans. And despite some holdback, Brown is listen-worthy.
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People wrongly think this kind of cruelty in America is new. I was listening to “My History Can Beat up Your Politics” podcast’s Kent State episode. It reminded me of all those Americans who said those dead students deserved what they got. The mother of one witness told her she should have been shot
April 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
People wrongly think this kind of cruelty in America is new. I was listening to “My History Can Beat up Your Politics” podcast’s Kent State episode. It reminded me of all those Americans who said those dead students deserved what they got. The mother of one witness told her she should have been shot
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[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics] Kent State: After the Bullets #myHistoryCanBeatUpYourPolitics
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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics - KENT STATE 1970: AFTER THE SHOOTINGS
Listen to My History Can Beat Up Your Politics - KENT STATE 1970: AFTER THE SHOOTINGS by Bruce Carlson on Podcast Addict. In this episode, we talk about everything that happens after that moment when four students were killed at a protest at a college (only two were participating in the protest). Opinion wasn't universally with the slain students, the school had little interest in memorializing and the criminal justice system focused not at those who killed students but at the students themselves. We
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Too soon. Mangold is what got this team (and a good defense) into two AFC Championships. Mark had a good arm at times but needed the center to call, and the blocking thing too.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Too soon. Mangold is what got this team (and a good defense) into two AFC Championships. Mark had a good arm at times but needed the center to call, and the blocking thing too.
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This was a fun one!
We had Dr. Todd Arrington on in 2020 to talk about a piece of this election. Highly recommend. One exciting thing about 1880 is the parties were laser close. Anybody's election.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
October 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This was a fun one!
We had Dr. Todd Arrington on in 2020 to talk about a piece of this election. Highly recommend. One exciting thing about 1880 is the parties were laser close. Anybody's election.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We had Dr. Todd Arrington on in 2020 to talk about a piece of this election. Highly recommend. One exciting thing about 1880 is the parties were laser close. Anybody's election.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
Well, I suppose they would say whisker close back then.
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I haven't had a chance to read it all the way through yet, but consulting with it for research has been insightful, and I look forward to having an opportunity to read it cover to cover one of these days.
October 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I haven't had a chance to read it all the way through yet, but consulting with it for research has been insightful, and I look forward to having an opportunity to read it cover to cover one of these days.
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Look, y’all, it’s my man Chester A. Arthur’s birthday. To Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social), Kenny (@kennyryanaustin.bsky.social), & Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social), a trio of exceptional podcasters who nurtured my fascination with Chet. History buff buddy: “What is it with you and Chester A. Arthur?”
October 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Look, y’all, it’s my man Chester A. Arthur’s birthday. To Jerry (@presidencies.bsky.social), Kenny (@kennyryanaustin.bsky.social), & Bruce (@myhist.bsky.social), a trio of exceptional podcasters who nurtured my fascination with Chet. History buff buddy: “What is it with you and Chester A. Arthur?”