Brooks D. Simpson
@bds77.bsky.social
Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?
It's Sunday. Having helped someone prepare to take the US citizenship test several months ago ... I know how cringe worthy it is.
PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.
PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It's Sunday. Having helped someone prepare to take the US citizenship test several months ago ... I know how cringe worthy it is.
PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.
PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.
So Harry Truman and George C. Marshall were woke?
Trump: "We won the first world war, second world war -- I always say, everything before and everything in between -- and then we got woke and we said, 'Well, let's call it Defense.'"
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So Harry Truman and George C. Marshall were woke?
Appomattox Court House.
October 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Appomattox Court House.
The coup continues.
In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.
Especially if you like neat numbers.
The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.
Especially if you like neat numbers.
The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The coup continues.
In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.
Especially if you like neat numbers.
The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.
Especially if you like neat numbers.
The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
Fugitive Slave Law vibes.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Fugitive Slave Law vibes.
Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.
How soon they forget.
How soon they forget.
October 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.
How soon they forget.
How soon they forget.
Someone get JD Vance a couch.
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Someone get JD Vance a couch.
Escalators are not the problem.
September 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Escalators are not the problem.
Did Jesse Watters actually say this?
"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."
"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Did Jesse Watters actually say this?
"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."
"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."
What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.
That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.
So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?
September 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?
The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...
It's the coverup that gets you.
It's the coverup that gets you.
September 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...
It's the coverup that gets you.
It's the coverup that gets you.
So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...
You're trying too hard, Mikey.
You're trying too hard, Mikey.
Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch
Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
www.rollingstone.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...
You're trying too hard, Mikey.
You're trying too hard, Mikey.
So people are out of work just to spite Trump?
Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"
September 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So people are out of work just to spite Trump?
Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.
August 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.
Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?
August 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?
Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was.
Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?
Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was.
Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?
Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?
How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?
QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?
LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement
LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?
It feels like 1938 all over again.
August 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It feels like 1938 all over again.
Kevin Levin's been on this issue for some time. I'm looking forward to seeing more historians speak out.
If not now, when? Never?
If not now, when? Never?
Trump doesn’t have an interpretation of anything remotely related to history. What Trump has is an authoritarian agenda that demands control over how Americans remember history as a means to justify its current political and ideological agenda and claim to power. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary
Yesterday I urged you to remember that ultimately we are in control of how we teach and commemorate our collective history. I still believe this to be true, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that...
open.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Kevin Levin's been on this issue for some time. I'm looking forward to seeing more historians speak out.
If not now, when? Never?
If not now, when? Never?
So the Secretary of Defense wants to honor people who killed US soldiers (many of whom are buried at Arlington National Cemetery) in their efforts to commit an insurrection to protect the enslavement of millions of people?
That's where we are today, folks.
That's where we are today, folks.
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So the Secretary of Defense wants to honor people who killed US soldiers (many of whom are buried at Arlington National Cemetery) in their efforts to commit an insurrection to protect the enslavement of millions of people?
That's where we are today, folks.
That's where we are today, folks.
It's Bobby Murcer 5, Baltimore 4 day ... 1979. My most memorable regular season Yankees game.
Take care, Lemon and Tugboat.
Take care, Lemon and Tugboat.
August 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It's Bobby Murcer 5, Baltimore 4 day ... 1979. My most memorable regular season Yankees game.
Take care, Lemon and Tugboat.
Take care, Lemon and Tugboat.