Brianna McClure
@mcclureditorial.bsky.social
Freelance editor and proofreader. Writer. History lover. I want to walk your dog, please let me walk your dog 💛
EFA and ACES Member, developmental and line editing for historical fiction, proofreading for academic papers and student theses
EFA and ACES Member, developmental and line editing for historical fiction, proofreading for academic papers and student theses
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a cat is peeking out of a box with the words `` hug coming your way '' written on it .
ALT: a cat is peeking out of a box with the words `` hug coming your way '' written on it .
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In an interview that aired over the weekend Obama was asked if aliens were real and he replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”
Obama Clarifies His Aliens Are ‘Real’ Comments
In an interview that aired over the weekend Obama was asked if aliens were real and he replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”
www.forbes.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
In an interview that aired over the weekend Obama was asked if aliens were real and he replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”
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"this your mountanish inhumanity"
Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7)
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Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7)
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Leave it to Shakespeare and Ian McKellen to so eloquently speak of man's mountainish inhumanity. See Ian McKellan in AN ARK, a new play for mixed reality, at @The Shed now! #Colbert #IanMcKellen #Sh...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
"this your mountanish inhumanity"
Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7)
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Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7)
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One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
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i wrote a 2500 word substack article about this and other weird medieval dogs!! it is paywalled you can for it to support the weird medieval cause!! or you can enjoy the many articles i have available for free!!
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weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-did-me...
January 24, 2026 at 12:09 AM
i wrote a 2500 word substack article about this and other weird medieval dogs!! it is paywalled you can for it to support the weird medieval cause!! or you can enjoy the many articles i have available for free!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-did-me...
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-did-me...
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normal dog, switzerland, 15th century
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM
normal dog, switzerland, 15th century
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Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
January 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
some essays on how to write essays (p. 1)
intro / choosing a subject
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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how to cure your phone addiction (sitting through the ring cycle)
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
how to cure your phone addiction (sitting through the ring cycle)
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So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.
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"The behavior of ICE and CBP agents reminds me of the Fascist blackshirts who arrived in trucks, armed with clubs, knives, guns, and castor oil, to subjugate towns in early 1920s Italy, before Benito Mussolini declared dictatorship."
The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...
The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...
The Language of Public Violence; My Conversation with the Anti-Authoritarian Experts of STROIKA
US government agents behave like Fascist blackshirts and state security forces in Turkey, Iran, and other autocracies.
lucid.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"The behavior of ICE and CBP agents reminds me of the Fascist blackshirts who arrived in trucks, armed with clubs, knives, guns, and castor oil, to subjugate towns in early 1920s Italy, before Benito Mussolini declared dictatorship."
The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...
The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.
January 31, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.
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🎁🔗: History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him >>> "Trump appears to be testing the depths of the hole into which he can throw himself — and drag America with him." via @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
🎁🔗: History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him >>> "Trump appears to be testing the depths of the hole into which he can throw himself — and drag America with him." via @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside — accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside — accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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Failure to seriously critique capitalism and commercial medicine will make us all sicker. MAHA instead criticizes pharma's profit motives in order to promote the wellness industry, with its own profit motive. Here I situate this drama in a history of health care.
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...
Consumptive Capitalism
On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein
snyder.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Failure to seriously critique capitalism and commercial medicine will make us all sicker. MAHA instead criticizes pharma's profit motives in order to promote the wellness industry, with its own profit motive. Here I situate this drama in a history of health care.
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...
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Happy Valentine's Day! Here's the skull of St. Valentine in Rome.
February 14, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! Here's the skull of St. Valentine in Rome.
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Conservatives do not like slavery because the left says it slavery is bad.
They like slavery because they are conservatives
They like slavery because they are conservatives
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Conservatives do not like slavery because the left says it slavery is bad.
They like slavery because they are conservatives
They like slavery because they are conservatives
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Within the right wing Sparta valorization narrative, they can’t offer a single coherent rationale for why the Spartans were defeated and reduced to irrelevance - can’t pretend that they ever went “woke” by extending citizenship, just have to accept that their glory was a flash in the pan!
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Within the right wing Sparta valorization narrative, they can’t offer a single coherent rationale for why the Spartans were defeated and reduced to irrelevance - can’t pretend that they ever went “woke” by extending citizenship, just have to accept that their glory was a flash in the pan!
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I recently finished this phenomenal book from @curtisdozier.bsky.social and it is the perfect book for the present moment
If you want to know the white supremacist context behind the embrace of Greece and Rome by the Trump admin (including Rubio’s Munich speech) give this a read ASAP
If you want to know the white supremacist context behind the embrace of Greece and Rome by the Trump admin (including Rubio’s Munich speech) give this a read ASAP
February 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I recently finished this phenomenal book from @curtisdozier.bsky.social and it is the perfect book for the present moment
If you want to know the white supremacist context behind the embrace of Greece and Rome by the Trump admin (including Rubio’s Munich speech) give this a read ASAP
If you want to know the white supremacist context behind the embrace of Greece and Rome by the Trump admin (including Rubio’s Munich speech) give this a read ASAP