HM Beisswenger
@hmbeisswenger.bsky.social
2 minute history on why Columbus is in the Bad Place.
Happy Indigenous People's Day!
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Happy Indigenous People's Day!
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Indigenous People's Day
And why Columbus is in the Bad Place
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October 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
2 minute history on why Columbus is in the Bad Place.
Happy Indigenous People's Day!
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Happy Indigenous People's Day!
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The Night of Long Knives and parallels to the current administration.
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3 Minute Look at Nazi History
Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Night of Long Knives
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October 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Night of Long Knives and parallels to the current administration.
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Bullet point notes on things you should know about the government shutdown. It's less than a 2 minute read.
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A Brief Note on the Shutdown
Some things to note about the shutdown:
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October 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Bullet point notes on things you should know about the government shutdown. It's less than a 2 minute read.
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I watched Hegseth’s speech so you don’t have to.
TL:DR: He wants to abolish the RoE. That’s the legal code that prevents crimes against humanity, set up via the Geneva Convention.
Anyone who wants to get rid of the RoE is on the fast track to Nuremberg.
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TL:DR: He wants to abolish the RoE. That’s the legal code that prevents crimes against humanity, set up via the Geneva Convention.
Anyone who wants to get rid of the RoE is on the fast track to Nuremberg.
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Hegseth and the Generals
And the meeting that could have been an email
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October 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I watched Hegseth’s speech so you don’t have to.
TL:DR: He wants to abolish the RoE. That’s the legal code that prevents crimes against humanity, set up via the Geneva Convention.
Anyone who wants to get rid of the RoE is on the fast track to Nuremberg.
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TL:DR: He wants to abolish the RoE. That’s the legal code that prevents crimes against humanity, set up via the Geneva Convention.
Anyone who wants to get rid of the RoE is on the fast track to Nuremberg.
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A brief moment of history and how Horst Wessel compares to Charlie Kirk.
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The "Martyrdom" of Horst Wessel
A brief minute of Nazi history
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September 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A brief moment of history and how Horst Wessel compares to Charlie Kirk.
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Let's talk about bots: What they are, how to spot them, how to handle them, and what their goals are.
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Let's Talk About Bots
What they look like and how to deal with them
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September 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Let's talk about bots: What they are, how to spot them, how to handle them, and what their goals are.
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Anytime someone points out the obvious hypocrisy within the GOP, they are missing the point of the GOP's platform.
Hypocrisy is the point.
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Hypocrisy is the point.
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GOP Hypocrisy is the Point, Not a Design Flaw
What we miss when we focus on the hypocrisy of the GOP
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September 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Anytime someone points out the obvious hypocrisy within the GOP, they are missing the point of the GOP's platform.
Hypocrisy is the point.
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Hypocrisy is the point.
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Yesterday, I posted about how Charlie Kirk weaponized debate to target white boys in online forums.
This is the analysis of the alleged shooter and how he came from the same forums Kirk was trying to exploit.
Except it didn't work out for him.
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This is the analysis of the alleged shooter and how he came from the same forums Kirk was trying to exploit.
Except it didn't work out for him.
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Charlie Kirk and "Fake Conservativism"
And what we've learned about MAGA from the assassin
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September 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yesterday, I posted about how Charlie Kirk weaponized debate to target white boys in online forums.
This is the analysis of the alleged shooter and how he came from the same forums Kirk was trying to exploit.
Except it didn't work out for him.
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This is the analysis of the alleged shooter and how he came from the same forums Kirk was trying to exploit.
Except it didn't work out for him.
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Moderate liberals are celebrating Kirk as someone willing to sit down with people from all political backgrounds and have an honest debate.
That is NOT what he did.
This is how Kirk and the right-wing weaponized debate to radicalize young men.
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That is NOT what he did.
This is how Kirk and the right-wing weaponized debate to radicalize young men.
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Charlie Kirk, the Great Debater
And how the right-wing weaponized academic debates
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September 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Moderate liberals are celebrating Kirk as someone willing to sit down with people from all political backgrounds and have an honest debate.
That is NOT what he did.
This is how Kirk and the right-wing weaponized debate to radicalize young men.
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That is NOT what he did.
This is how Kirk and the right-wing weaponized debate to radicalize young men.
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When Christian apologists realize their arguments aren't leading to conversion, they all have a tendency to fall back to "If you just did your research/read the Bible, you'd understand."
Here's why that argument is absolute crap.
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Here's why that argument is absolute crap.
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Breaking Down a Common Apologetic Argument
And why "Just do your research" falls completely flat.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
When Christian apologists realize their arguments aren't leading to conversion, they all have a tendency to fall back to "If you just did your research/read the Bible, you'd understand."
Here's why that argument is absolute crap.
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Here's why that argument is absolute crap.
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Some history behind Yahweh as a Semitic storm god, and the story of the time he set about to murder all the other gods.
Psalm 82 is one of my favorite Bible myths.
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Psalm 82 is one of my favorite Bible myths.
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Folklore Friday: Yahweh, the Semitic Storm God
And the time he threatened to murder all the other deities.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Some history behind Yahweh as a Semitic storm god, and the story of the time he set about to murder all the other gods.
Psalm 82 is one of my favorite Bible myths.
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Psalm 82 is one of my favorite Bible myths.
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For a very long time now, I've been writing about how the intersection between book banning and mass violence and how it escalates.
The Minneapolis shooting has the potential to serve as the next step, when the government steps in to take over.
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The Minneapolis shooting has the potential to serve as the next step, when the government steps in to take over.
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Minneapolis and the Stages of Gun Violence
And what the Minnesota Catholic School means for what comes next
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September 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For a very long time now, I've been writing about how the intersection between book banning and mass violence and how it escalates.
The Minneapolis shooting has the potential to serve as the next step, when the government steps in to take over.
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The Minneapolis shooting has the potential to serve as the next step, when the government steps in to take over.
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What Trump is doing is beat for beat what a Uganda dictator did in the 1970s.
And it will lead to the same outcomes.
Here's how that works.
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And it will lead to the same outcomes.
Here's how that works.
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Migrant Deportations and Echoes from the Past
How Trump's agenda mimics that of Idi Amin
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August 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What Trump is doing is beat for beat what a Uganda dictator did in the 1970s.
And it will lead to the same outcomes.
Here's how that works.
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And it will lead to the same outcomes.
Here's how that works.
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Some of the history behind the Canaanite storm god, Baal and his epic rivalry with Yahweh.
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Folklore Friday: Baal, the Canaanite Storm God
and his epic rivalry with Yahweh
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August 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some of the history behind the Canaanite storm god, Baal and his epic rivalry with Yahweh.
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Instead of folklore for Folklore Friday, today we have the historical tale of Crispus, the first son of Constantine.
His death played a major role in the conversion of Constantine, who was most definitely a terrible person.
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His death played a major role in the conversion of Constantine, who was most definitely a terrible person.
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Folklore Friday: Crispus, the Son of Constantine
And the tragic tale buried at the core of Christian history
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August 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Instead of folklore for Folklore Friday, today we have the historical tale of Crispus, the first son of Constantine.
His death played a major role in the conversion of Constantine, who was most definitely a terrible person.
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His death played a major role in the conversion of Constantine, who was most definitely a terrible person.
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In 30 years, when the next generation is sitting in AP History class asking how did this happen again and how can we prevent it from happening again and again and again and....?
The answer lies in protecting the least of these.
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The answer lies in protecting the least of these.
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Fascism and The Least of These
Let’s talk about “the least of these” and how it ties into the rising terror within our communities.
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August 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In 30 years, when the next generation is sitting in AP History class asking how did this happen again and how can we prevent it from happening again and again and again and....?
The answer lies in protecting the least of these.
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The answer lies in protecting the least of these.
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Last week, I wrote about the goddess Asherah who was God’s wife in the Bible.
Today, we have Anat, the Hebrew/Canaanite war goddess, and God’s other wife.
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Today, we have Anat, the Hebrew/Canaanite war goddess, and God’s other wife.
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Folklore Friday: Anat, Hebrew/Canaanite Goddess of War and Savagery
And God's other wife
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July 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last week, I wrote about the goddess Asherah who was God’s wife in the Bible.
Today, we have Anat, the Hebrew/Canaanite war goddess, and God’s other wife.
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Today, we have Anat, the Hebrew/Canaanite war goddess, and God’s other wife.
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Folklore Friday: Asherah, the Queen of Heaven and mother of the gods from Hebrew and Canaanite mythology.
She was God's wife until the kings in Jerusalem figured out a "one god, one temple" policy gave them consolidated and unchecked power.
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She was God's wife until the kings in Jerusalem figured out a "one god, one temple" policy gave them consolidated and unchecked power.
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Folklore Friday: Asherah, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the gods, and God's Wife
And the convergence of Biblical tales with Canaanite mythology
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July 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Folklore Friday: Asherah, the Queen of Heaven and mother of the gods from Hebrew and Canaanite mythology.
She was God's wife until the kings in Jerusalem figured out a "one god, one temple" policy gave them consolidated and unchecked power.
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She was God's wife until the kings in Jerusalem figured out a "one god, one temple" policy gave them consolidated and unchecked power.
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The word "illegal" is designed to preprogram your mind to automatically think something is bad. Except the word is empty rhetoric and rhetoric is designed to escalate.
Here's how that escalation works and where we are headed next.
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Here's how that escalation works and where we are headed next.
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What Does "Illegal" Actually Mean?
And why the word is a lie
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July 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The word "illegal" is designed to preprogram your mind to automatically think something is bad. Except the word is empty rhetoric and rhetoric is designed to escalate.
Here's how that escalation works and where we are headed next.
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Here's how that escalation works and where we are headed next.
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A book recommendation for anyone who grew up in religious schooling now has to teach themselves science.
This is a great dive into the differences between evolution and creationism. I highly recommend for anyone early on in their deconstruction.
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This is a great dive into the differences between evolution and creationism. I highly recommend for anyone early on in their deconstruction.
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Book Recommendation: "Undeniable" by Bill Nye
Evolution and the Science of Creation
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July 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A book recommendation for anyone who grew up in religious schooling now has to teach themselves science.
This is a great dive into the differences between evolution and creationism. I highly recommend for anyone early on in their deconstruction.
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This is a great dive into the differences between evolution and creationism. I highly recommend for anyone early on in their deconstruction.
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Deportation camps are for brown people.
Labor camps are for kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
Prison camps are for queer people, democrats, and dissenters.
Functionally, they're all the same.
Labor camps are for kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
Prison camps are for queer people, democrats, and dissenters.
Functionally, they're all the same.
July 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Deportation camps are for brown people.
Labor camps are for kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
Prison camps are for queer people, democrats, and dissenters.
Functionally, they're all the same.
Labor camps are for kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
Prison camps are for queer people, democrats, and dissenters.
Functionally, they're all the same.
The goddess Libertas (or Lady Liberty) from Roman mythology and her dark duality through history.
Freedom for all?
Or freedom for me and not for thee?
Tis a very solemn 4th of July this year.
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Freedom for all?
Or freedom for me and not for thee?
Tis a very solemn 4th of July this year.
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Folklore Friday: Libertas
The Roman goddess of liberty and freedom
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July 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The goddess Libertas (or Lady Liberty) from Roman mythology and her dark duality through history.
Freedom for all?
Or freedom for me and not for thee?
Tis a very solemn 4th of July this year.
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Freedom for all?
Or freedom for me and not for thee?
Tis a very solemn 4th of July this year.
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It may be surprising to discover the Pentagon uses alien and UFO myths to cover up real classified development projects.
Here's some history behind why they do that, and how the conspiracy to use conspiracy theories to deceive the public is so effective.
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Here's some history behind why they do that, and how the conspiracy to use conspiracy theories to deceive the public is so effective.
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UFOs, Aliens, and the Pentagon
And the conspiracy to use conspiracy theory
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June 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It may be surprising to discover the Pentagon uses alien and UFO myths to cover up real classified development projects.
Here's some history behind why they do that, and how the conspiracy to use conspiracy theories to deceive the public is so effective.
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Here's some history behind why they do that, and how the conspiracy to use conspiracy theories to deceive the public is so effective.
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Reposted by HM Beisswenger
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953