Benjamin Badgers
@benjaminbadgers.bsky.social
I live with an orange cat and pick up free chairs from the side of the road and repair them.
conservatives are proof that a poor understanding of history leads to poor outcomes because generations of Americans have refused to believe that slavery was, in fact,
bad, and early 20th c laws on food safety, labor, and the environment were good.
bad, and early 20th c laws on food safety, labor, and the environment were good.
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
conservatives are proof that a poor understanding of history leads to poor outcomes because generations of Americans have refused to believe that slavery was, in fact,
bad, and early 20th c laws on food safety, labor, and the environment were good.
bad, and early 20th c laws on food safety, labor, and the environment were good.
As someone who professionally gritting my teeth as people say misguided things at me about the US rev war I agree, but finding a catchy, short slogan for a mass movement is hard. I’m not losing any sleep over No Kings when the Trump admin is trying to make telling the truth about US hist illegal.
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As someone who professionally gritting my teeth as people say misguided things at me about the US rev war I agree, but finding a catchy, short slogan for a mass movement is hard. I’m not losing any sleep over No Kings when the Trump admin is trying to make telling the truth about US hist illegal.
Alas, “The Loyalists had a lot of good
points, but Trump is still bad” just isn’t as catchy.
points, but Trump is still bad” just isn’t as catchy.
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Alas, “The Loyalists had a lot of good
points, but Trump is still bad” just isn’t as catchy.
points, but Trump is still bad” just isn’t as catchy.
I work in ww2 currently and get to try to keep a straight face while listening to leftists compare American plantations to Nazi extermination camps (Mt Vernon was not, in fact, Sobibor). The degree to which people are bad at drawing historical comparisons has yet to cease to amaze me.
October 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I work in ww2 currently and get to try to keep a straight face while listening to leftists compare American plantations to Nazi extermination camps (Mt Vernon was not, in fact, Sobibor). The degree to which people are bad at drawing historical comparisons has yet to cease to amaze me.
“No Kings” is a succinct, catchy slogan referencing a shared pop history/myth of a founding as an elected democracy that values the rule of law vs personal dictatorship, in a country that has very few shared reference points left, especially w/ US history. If it bafffles you, you’re overthinking it.
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“No Kings” is a succinct, catchy slogan referencing a shared pop history/myth of a founding as an elected democracy that values the rule of law vs personal dictatorship, in a country that has very few shared reference points left, especially w/ US history. If it bafffles you, you’re overthinking it.
In addition to how our schools mostly teach the American side of the war’s politics because of our obsession w the Declaration &Constitution, all our surviving stuff is American things in the form of battlefields and historic buildings & enthusiasts tend to focus on that, not the UK political system
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In addition to how our schools mostly teach the American side of the war’s politics because of our obsession w the Declaration &Constitution, all our surviving stuff is American things in the form of battlefields and historic buildings & enthusiasts tend to focus on that, not the UK political system
I’ve spent almost a decade as an interpreter at various rev war historic sites and the degree to which even educated Americans understand the British political background of the war is minimal; very few
can articulate the difference between parliament and the king or know who Lord North is.
can articulate the difference between parliament and the king or know who Lord North is.
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’ve spent almost a decade as an interpreter at various rev war historic sites and the degree to which even educated Americans understand the British political background of the war is minimal; very few
can articulate the difference between parliament and the king or know who Lord North is.
can articulate the difference between parliament and the king or know who Lord North is.
I don’t want another generation of concentration camp guards & Ordnungspolizei to slink back to their families & pretend they didn’t do anything or were just following orders. They know what they’re doing. Trials first to be publicly tarred with breaking laws. THEN we can talk reconciliation.
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I don’t want another generation of concentration camp guards & Ordnungspolizei to slink back to their families & pretend they didn’t do anything or were just following orders. They know what they’re doing. Trials first to be publicly tarred with breaking laws. THEN we can talk reconciliation.
That’s all nice but I still want ppl who knowingly & enthusiastically broke the law to be charged, tried, &, if found guilty, listed as having committing crimes. Maybe that leads to reconciliation not prison but I want criminals who broke the law trying to destroy the US to be labeled as such.
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That’s all nice but I still want ppl who knowingly & enthusiastically broke the law to be charged, tried, &, if found guilty, listed as having committing crimes. Maybe that leads to reconciliation not prison but I want criminals who broke the law trying to destroy the US to be labeled as such.
No, this is just a case of a staff member who didn’t know what was going on. If they had worries they should have reached out internally. This person’s irresponsibility in going to the press has now put media and WH attention on a long-planned project and people are fucking pissed.
August 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
No, this is just a case of a staff member who didn’t know what was going on. If they had worries they should have reached out internally. This person’s irresponsibility in going to the press has now put media and WH attention on a long-planned project and people are fucking pissed.
The museum spokesperson’s telling the truth: the exhibit refresh was planned for years & not b/c of Trump. The staff member who forwarded that email didn’t talk to anyone actually on the exhibits team. People are freaking out for no reason instead of focusing on actual attacks on museum integrity.
August 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The museum spokesperson’s telling the truth: the exhibit refresh was planned for years & not b/c of Trump. The staff member who forwarded that email didn’t talk to anyone actually on the exhibits team. People are freaking out for no reason instead of focusing on actual attacks on museum integrity.
Meanwhile people in the county are convinced that they could get shot if they go to Main Street.
August 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Meanwhile people in the county are convinced that they could get shot if they go to Main Street.
White people who live in Annapolis will complain about how bad crime is when all they have to deal with is opportunists swiping stuff if you forget to lock your car door overnight, which is quite unpleasant but I consider to be an acceptable trade-off to living in a gorgeous walkable town.
August 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
White people who live in Annapolis will complain about how bad crime is when all they have to deal with is opportunists swiping stuff if you forget to lock your car door overnight, which is quite unpleasant but I consider to be an acceptable trade-off to living in a gorgeous walkable town.
So many bangers in the shapenote tradition!
August 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So many bangers in the shapenote tradition!
I grew up next to Sleepy Creek WMA hiking and hunting all over it, and the PAT is a real hidden gem, the area around Devils Nose in particular. Gorgeous photos - glad you had a great time in my neck of the woods!
May 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I grew up next to Sleepy Creek WMA hiking and hunting all over it, and the PAT is a real hidden gem, the area around Devils Nose in particular. Gorgeous photos - glad you had a great time in my neck of the woods!
If I had just normal rich people $ where I didn’t have to worry about bankrupting my family if I failed I’d buy the empty bank in my tiny WV home town & turn it into a coffee shop and teen friendly community space. There’s no indy coffee shops within 25 min & it’s got a drive thru! It’d be great.
April 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I had just normal rich people $ where I didn’t have to worry about bankrupting my family if I failed I’d buy the empty bank in my tiny WV home town & turn it into a coffee shop and teen friendly community space. There’s no indy coffee shops within 25 min & it’s got a drive thru! It’d be great.
I would spend the entirety of my grotesque fortune on doing whatever it would take to rebuild the railway that connected Annapolis to Washington DC between 1840 and 1935 so I don’t have to drive to the f$&@ng metro and sit in traffic to get to DC for work or fun.
April 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I would spend the entirety of my grotesque fortune on doing whatever it would take to rebuild the railway that connected Annapolis to Washington DC between 1840 and 1935 so I don’t have to drive to the f$&@ng metro and sit in traffic to get to DC for work or fun.
Orban, Putin, & Duarte are better parallels to warn Americans about the dangers of 21st century authoritarianism but, like, national myths have power for a reason. Personally I want more pre-Civil War imagery like the Wide Awakes but the grievances of the D of I are a widely known shared vocabulary!
April 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Orban, Putin, & Duarte are better parallels to warn Americans about the dangers of 21st century authoritarianism but, like, national myths have power for a reason. Personally I want more pre-Civil War imagery like the Wide Awakes but the grievances of the D of I are a widely known shared vocabulary!