Thomas Heaney

Thomas Heaney

@captainabraham.bsky.social

Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO Opinions are my own &not the views of my employer Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games

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Micah
@rincewind.run

Replying to @rincewind.run

2026, everyone

Jeremy C-howl@jmchao.bsky.social

The concept of the American right getting horny for a gender swap of an evil character created by a Scottish woman who famously hates real life gender swapping makes me want to just stare at the horizon until the heat death of the universe.

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Please count me among those who support naming an ocean after Trump. Changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to Stupid Shitstain Treasonous Motherfucker Ocean seems eminently reasonable to me.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

trib.alTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

I've been saying it, and I'll keep saying it: Trump's goal is to weaken the United States. He is an existential threat.

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social

Completely unhinged and beyond pathetic. This directly undermines US national interests and core principles (ones it used to have), leaving the US weaker and more isolated. No enemy has done more to dismantle US alliances than Trump

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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social

It became necessary to destroy women's sports to save them.

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

open.substack.comGive Them an Inch...And they'll take away women's sports...
Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

The manner in which fascist leaders like Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu have weaponized mass global migration in the past couple of decades is both horrific and fascinating. Hitler and Stalin would both be very proud.

groku.bsky.social@groku.bsky.social

Netanyahu was at the White House this week, and the surge of Morroccon immigrants happened shortly after the visit, he is implicated along with Trump in the attack on our NATO ally Spain. Spain told those who stormed Ceuta in hopes of toppling the government to get the hell out. #FAIL.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering
@jeanneologist.bsky.social

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

news.com.auAI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Bingo.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social

Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Years ago, I was exploring the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and in anteroom there was a wonderful exhibit about George Washington's plantation and the enslaved men and women who lived and worked there. There were maps showing the locations of slave quarters as well as letters and ledgers.

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social

Trump orders signs be installed outside Smithsonian warning of ‘inaccurate information’ | Click on the image to read the full story

wcvb.comTrump orders signs be installed outside Smithsonian warning of ‘inaccurate information’Trump on Friday ordered signs to be installed near the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History warning of "inaccurate information."
Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

It was a smaller space and I was alone geeking out on the sources and the stories they told when a white couple came in with their several children. Mom & Dad were initially unclear about what was on display in this room and quickly surveyed the contents of the exhibit. Dad asked "What is all this?"

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

The Mom pronounced, disappointedly, "Aw, this is just a bunch of ni**er sh*t! We don't need to see this sh*t." And she herded the family back out the way they had come entirely uncontaminated by the knowledge the room contained. That's what Trump's signs mean. "Just a bunch of ni**er sh*t."

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Given their sudden, uncontrolled growth, I propose that we call them "Data Cancers."

Paris Marx@parismarx.com

The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point. HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20. Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com

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Brian Finucane
@bcfinucane.bsky.social

As an alternative to this chaos, the dual-hatted Secretary of State/National Security Advisor could manage up and re-institute an actual national security policy process. And take away POTUS’s phone.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

One of the issues with Trump’s kneejerk, say-whatever-pops-into-his-head policies —like his 20% Hormuz toll — is that his aides spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to execute his whims, and then 24 hours later he says never mind, and then they all move on to his next idiotic idea.

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Can someone please explain to me the pricing logic of airlines? How is it that if I take United 926 to Frankfurt I pay $1,746 but if I take the exact same flight and then also take another flight to another destination it costs only $945 -- almost half the price?!

Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

Lincoln's body is currently spinning faster than the quasar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com

Hauling out the Medal of Honor recipients. He loves doing this. And a third historical flag gets a shoutout! This one "draped over the casket of Abraham Lincoln."

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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com

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Hauling out the Medal of Honor recipients. He loves doing this. And a third historical flag gets a shoutout! This one "draped over the casket of Abraham Lincoln."

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Christopher Martell
@chrismartell.bsky.social

"Women’s rights and trans rights are not competing causes. They never were. They share a common enemy: the rigid gender hierarchy that has always used 'protection' as a cover story for control." msmagazine.com/2026/06/30/s...

msmagazine.comThe Supreme Court Decided Who Gets to Be a Girl. We Disagree.On Tuesday, June 30, in a complete distortion of federal laws requiring equal opportunities in education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to further the Trump administration's political agenda to persecu...
Thomas Heaney
@captainabraham.bsky.social

This.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

These findings *should* prompt universities to invest in more support for student mothers (and address academia's anti-mom cultural biases). But I'm guessing they'll instead be used to shame women who don't "make good choices"--ie, who don't wait to have kids until they finish their degrees.