Brendan P. O'Malley

How could you ever leave this place?

Huge fan of both X-Files and Coogler! Still watch old X-Files episodes when folding laundry. And Sinners was my favorite new movie in years! Been following Coogler’s career since Fruitvale Station.

Yes, I am the son of a Latin teacher and went to Roxbury Latin.

Radix! Third declension feminine noun. Radishes and radicals are etymologically rooted together.

You just don’t usually hear them articulate in public, out loud, the idea that as long as a few folks get rich it’s OK to rape children.

Puerto Ricans did not choose to be colonized by the US and held as second-class citizens in perpetuity. The historical irony of certain White people in the US still being angry over a 15 minute celebration of a nation that their ancestors seized by force is indeed very rich.

I always think of the chants that broke out across the UK when Thatcher passed. "Maggie" and "Donnie" are the both two syllables!

This books will reframe the entire way we think about US migration history. Please check it out!

Friends in Holden, MA: Please get the word out that folks should come out to our town meeting on Monday, February 23, and vote "YES" to the sensible rezoning plan that puts us in compliance with the MBTA Communities Act. #masspoli #mbtaca

AP US Gov student answering a prompt asking for an example of a federal law that failed and explaining why is almost poetry: "No Child Left Behind because children were left behind."

Overheard in our household: “Now that hockey is gay, maybe we will watch it!”

They killed a woman & called her a fucking bitch. Then, they killed a man for protecting a woman they likely wanted to murder and call her a fucking bitch, too.

ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas.

These euphemisms have to die.

There should be a whole chapter on Judith Miller alone.

Learning this lesson over and over again: the complete dumbness of everything breaking my brain (today it’s ICE and Greenland). People can’t possibly be this stupid. But apparently they can.

HA!!! He is giggling with delight! Actually taking a train into Boston with him today, but a far slower one than that one.

Glad I could be of service!

Delicious!!!!! That’s the good stuff. And this has been a week…..

If we were back in the Roman Empire, the Praetorian Guard would do its thing now.

Got a recent request from a health insurer to help a third party vendor to "find out if someone else...is responsible for the cost" for a recent procedure. OH HELL NO. Help a third party to find a reason to deny my claim for a legit health expense? This needs to be regulated out of existence.

Where is ICE agent John E. Ross? Somebody who just shot someone in the face three times for no good reason is a danger to society and should be in jail awaiting arraignment. That he is not in jail right now at a time when SO many people are for doing so much less is disgusting to me.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Birthright citizenship and the attack on democracy: 'If you know the history, you know what they're trying to do' Prof. Anna O. Law spoke to The Redoubt about her upcoming book and why the 14th Amendment made America great.

www.theredoubt.net/birthright-c...

“Maybe tomorrow.”

I show my AP US History students clips from this every year.

I fell in love with the topic before learning about the 1876 Castle Garden fire followed by the 1911 Albany capitol fire. So many records destroyed! Made the research process very frustrating!

The NY State Assembly's intent in setting up the NY Board of the Commissioners of Emigration was indeed to protect vulnerable immigrants in transit. The federal bureau modeled a lot of its practices after the NY model.

Fascinating letter! My diss focuses on the NY State agency founded in 1847 that opened Castle Garden in 1855, largely because of the abuses that immigrants faced in the Port of New York and during their transit across the state. Railroad companies behaved similarly toward immigrants in the 1850s!

Much happier with this cover!!!