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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky

@bmceuen.bsky.social

Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches the history of Detroit, Michigan, and the US at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (5) and Boogie (3). Gynocentric communicator. He/him πŸ’–πŸ’œπŸ’™

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months oldβ€”too young for vaccination.

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

05.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

Gemini: Sorry you didn’t get raptured. Jesus was going to bring you until 10,000 people signed a petition against it.

05.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 15
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 29503    πŸ” 11011    πŸ’¬ 2517    πŸ“Œ 2287

Both

05.10.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to see I’m not just some homer and this actually was the case bsky.app/profile/umpi...

05.10.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a federalist society law prof ignoring very explicit laws formed in the early years of the nation.

Must be a day that ends in -y

05.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really hate the fact that I have altered my prison abolitionist views like this but it is out of necessity that whenever Dems gain political control again this man and RFK Jr. especially need to be given life in prison at minimum

05.10.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen Miller should be in the cell next to the rotting corpse of Milosevic until he too becomes a rotting corpse

05.10.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Engineer technocrats applying misunderstandings of biology is actually a really big problem in the history of eugenics

05.10.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Eugenics scholar here: you can’t do eugenics on a chatbot

05.10.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Ah fuck one of the people involved mentioned eugenics apparently so now I have to learn about it 😑

05.10.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

explain your username:

it’s my initial of my first name and my last name

05.10.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

explain your username:

there used to be two kellys in my friend group but the other one did something unforgivable, so they needed to differentiate between us until she was transitioned out and I became fun kelly. then my best friend & i worked together for years so everyone just calls me fun.

05.10.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 14

God I wish hypno worked

05.10.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Idk what this is about and I refuse to learn

05.10.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Zach McKinstry you beautiful beautiful man

05.10.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love it (for now)

05.10.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some folks here are calling out ISP troopers by name, looking up their salaries, and roasting them.

05.10.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 873    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 21

It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now.

05.10.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat if we did the Civilian Conservation Corps, but for arming men who aren’t allowed to see their kids”

05.10.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 379    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

05.10.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2798    πŸ” 530    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 35

Good thing Trump is taking on antisemitism can’t wait for him to come after these guys!

05.10.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This ump for the tigers game has a rather large strike zone

05.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe dehydrated and left a bunch on the moon”

β€œWe froze some for thirty years”

β€œWe boiled them for 24 hours”

β€œWe shot them out of a gun”

Just listen to yourselves

04.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Curious how Sweden will respond to this

04.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok but I’ve been on this for a minute the people who test what tardigrades can survive are some real sickos and we should not celebrate their work

04.10.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point jailing everyone working for ICE needs to be the bare minimum

04.10.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Domestic terrorists

04.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

19.09.2025 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 19371    πŸ” 8070    πŸ’¬ 264    πŸ“Œ 743
A poster announcing a teach-in in washington DC.

Sunday, October 26th - Sunup to Sundown
Washington, DC - The National Mall
β€œAMERICA’S FRONT YARD”

FEATURING KELLIE CARTER JACKSON, NICOLE HEMMER, DEREK MUSGROVE, NATE DIMEO, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AMANDA SEALES, JODY AVIRGAN, JAMES FALLOWS, MARTHA JONES, MARCIA CHATELAIN, PAUL BUTLER, NATHAN CONNOLLY, AND MORE

A poster announcing a teach-in in washington DC. Sunday, October 26th - Sunup to Sundown Washington, DC - The National Mall β€œAMERICA’S FRONT YARD” FEATURING KELLIE CARTER JACKSON, NICOLE HEMMER, DEREK MUSGROVE, NATE DIMEO, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AMANDA SEALES, JODY AVIRGAN, JAMES FALLOWS, MARTHA JONES, MARCIA CHATELAIN, PAUL BUTLER, NATHAN CONNOLLY, AND MORE

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th.

We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums.

Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us.

See you in DC!

26.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 10

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