Historian, author, college prof, public speaker, podcaster. Seen on @History channel @PBS. Founder of @WeemsyAwards. All his social media is @inthepastlane
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#PeteHegseth has won the top Weemsy Award for 2025 for the Most Absurd, Outrageous, and/or Demonstrably False Statements and Actions Related to #USHistory, including renaming 7 military bases for Confederate traitors. #confederatemonuments #woundedknee
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Commemorating Our History Under a Historically Ignorant President newrepublic.com/article/2111… #ushistory #america250
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Trump makes history as the first living president to have his name removed from a building.
#ushistory #kennedycenter #jfk #trump #presidents tiktok.com/t/ZP8sxjv3q/
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Trump absurdly compares the UFC staging in front of the White House to the Eiffel Tower
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Jun 11
Trump has actually stopped 153 wars if you count all the times Axios reported he's close to a deal
Jun 11
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump cancels Iran strikes as mediators claim deal close. My story on @axios
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Pete Hegseth compares Trump and his Iran war to the leadership of Washington and Lincoln
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Luxury sheet company Allaura depicts workers on George Washington’s plantation as white. And for it, they’ve earned a 2026 Weemsy Award nomination!
#ushistory #georgewashington #allaura #founders #slavery tiktok.com/t/ZP8p7WVCC/
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Sen. Mike Lee invokes a fake Thomas Jefferson quote and it’s earned him a 2026 Weemsy Award nomination!
#ushistory #mikelee #jefferson #constitutionalrepublic #democracy
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AOC flubs a reference to the American Revolution.
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Healing the site of the worst Native American massacre in U.S. history
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Thomas Paine helped start America. In the Trump era, he's under fire. religionnews.com/2026/05/13/…
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Pete Hegseth tells a fake George Washington story.
#ushistory #americanrevolution #hegseth #rededicate250 #GeorgeWashington
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Philip Caputo, author of one of the best memoirs ever written about the Vietnam War, has died at age 84. Let’s talk about his book, A Rumor of War.
#ushistory #vietnamwar #PhilipCaputo #JFK #history tiktok.com/t/ZP8pkFsVK/
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#RonDeSantis unveils Florida’s new, “anti-woke” alternative to AP US history - the latest chapter in his campaign to whitewash #Americanhistory. It’s earned him a 2026 Weemsy Award™ nomination! The Weemsies™ spotlight major #UShistory fails
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Trump claims his blockade of Iran is “the greatest military maneuver in history.” It’s earned him a 2026 Weemsy Award™ nomination! The Weemsies™ spotlight major #UShistory fails - like the Darwin Awards for history.
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I’m in another documentary now streaming on Netflix. It’s about the history of the Mafia - American Godfathers: The Five Families. Here are a few clips. I hope you’ll check it out.
#USHistory #Mafia #Omerta #Prohibition #JohnGotti
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The Supreme Court’s gutting of the #VotingRightsAct is part of a broader rightwing plan to repeal the 20th century
#ushistory #SCOTUS #democracy #civilrights #votingrightsact
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Edward T. O'Donnell inthepastlane.bsky.social retweeted
Apr 30
How is this being treated as normal?
A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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Is Jeff Bezos going to jail? I found this on Amazon.
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Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.
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When you constantly alienate and berate and ridicule your allies, don't be surprised when they say "go fuck yourself" after you start a war.
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