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HistorySmith
@historysmith.bsky.social
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Teaching APAfAmStudies and APUSH. Taught Gov, Econ, Philosophy, and US History. Believing strongly in the 1st and 14th Amendments; and that the 19th took too damn long. #HATM #WillWork4Democracy #IKnowTheWayToSanJose (he/him)
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Somewhere in Colorado, David Lightman is frantically convincing the computer that it's a game not worth playing.... that's my ending 🫠 #HATM
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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YAAASSSSS!!!!
#HATM
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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"What are they going to do, hide under their desks?" #HATM
Bert the Turtle and the evil monkey of communism... a still from a 1950s civil preparedness film called "Duck an Cover."
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Starting a watch of “Death by Lightening” and I’m already geeking out. Literally starts with Guiteau’s brain!!! 🤩

Also, re the opening title card…

I did not forget! #HATM 🤓
Opening title card for “Death by Lightening” (Netflix, 2025)
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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And here we have the current (for now) @teenvogue.com BlueSky page… check out that pinned post. 🫡🫥
Screenshot of Teen Vogue’s Bluesky page as of 5:52 PST on November 3, 2025. Note the pinned post acknowledging receipt of the Four Freedoms award.
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Also not enough ninjas 😔
A page from “The Tick” comic book. Issue 3. Ninjas disguised as a hedge.
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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[insert screaming fanboy gif]
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#HATM
There’s a new Fear Street movie on Netflix!!!! Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) and the teaser song is Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” from 1987. This one is pushing all the buttons 😱 🤓
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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If James Earl Jones spoke with an Irish brogue…
James Earl Jones as writer Terrence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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This is now a Bo Bichette stan feed! Bo knows ⚾️

Go #BlueJays #BeatLA ⚾️ 🍁
Clip from MLB app showing Bo Bichette’s 3 run homer.
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Some will… but it won’t be enough.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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This is now a Davis Schneider stan feed! 🥸⚾️🍁

Go #BlueJays #BeatLA #WorldSeries #DavisStache
Headshot of Davis Schneider with his line for Game 5 of the 2025 World Series where’s he hit a lead-off Home Run.
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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NY’s voting sticker game is top tier. 🫡

But I do like that the @sccgov.bsky.social sticker showcases nine different languages 😎🥳
Santa Clara County (CA) I Voted sticker.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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How am I just finding out a TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE #boardgame exists?!?

I ❤️ Betrayal at House on the Hill. I just picked up the legacy version and we are looking to cycle it into our play.

Spent yesterday learning The Presence. Diff type of play mechanism 👍

purplelanterngames.com/thepresenceg...
Mid-game state for The Presence by Purple Lantern Games. At this point it was unclear if the spirit was a helpful or vengeful spirit. But soon after this the detective and the orphan learned that the spirit was exceedingly vengeful and they both succumbed.
October 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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My recently acquired lifelong fandom of the Toronto Blue Jays appears to have paid off for Game One. 🍁 ⚾️

It seems that limiting Shohei Ohtani to one HR is a winning strategy. Brilliant game plan. Worthy of Cito Gaston 🤓

Go #BlueJays #BeatLA
World Series Game One score: Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 11
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Currently rewatching The Expanse and I just got to the entrance of David Strathairn’s Commander Ashford… and from here on out I am calling him John-Brown-in-Space.
David Strathairn as Commander Ashford in the series The Expanse.
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The last time I was with my Dad was for a baseball game in Pittsburgh in 2016. We had met in Philly, saw a game there, and then drove together across PA to see a game at PNC Park. Then we each flew how to our different parts of the country... he died about 5 weeks later. 😢

I am sorry for your loss.
PNC Park. June, 2016. That's my Dad over on right, leaning on the barricade fencing, wearing the green sweater, and waiting patiently for me to finish taking the picture.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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That's why they made the 30' long curly cord! #HATM
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Although these two posts are about different things... I choose to believe they are about the same topic. 🤣 #HATM
October 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Some of my fav signs from the #SanJose #NoKings march. Felt like 15-20k people on the streets.
Resist Like It’s 1776. I See American Patriots History will remember complicity and Silence The Truth Won’t Rest. Rise Up While U Can. - Georgia Mason
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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For the next week or so I am a lifelong #Brewers fan. Go Milwaukee!!!

Anybody know any chants for Paul Molitor or Robin Yount?

#BeatLA
1970s-era Brewers mascot beer slide. How do you not root for a team with a history of beer slides?
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Doing a four-day weekend getaway with family in Santa Cruz, so I’m going to be taking a pass on the #HATM Martian watch tonight… but I’m looking forward to checking in on the commentary. 🤓
Morning sun rising over the Santa Cruz wharf.
October 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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October 18th ❌ 👑
#NoKings
WW1 poster repurposed for #NoKings The female figure of Liberty with a raised sword and a caption: We bow to no king.
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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To borrow a phrase…
This is America.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in Portland meeting with ICE, Border Patrol and DHS officials; Nick Sortor posted video of Noem saying a prayer for the safety of their officers at the start of the meeting. NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court.
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Me to!

I’m hoping to get some points for doing the “optional” reading before class 🤓

#HATM
Screen grab of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack on my phone. 💃
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The only good Dodger is a Brooklyn Dodger… and maybe the Artful Dodger. 😉

#BeatLA #GoPhils
Philadelphia Phillies logo from 1976 to 1980.
October 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM