Brian Patrick O’Malley

@brianomalley2.bsky.social

1132 Followers 1211 Following

Writer, History Buff, Voice Actor

Scalping existed in North America before Columbus, as evidence from remains at the Crow Creek Massacre, dated to circa 1325 AD/the Common Era.
Reminder that Trump disparaged Prisoners of War, but POWs suffered terribly and are very much heroes. Google Jackson Broshears
Jaws, like Breaking Bad, was about American healthcare. In the book, the mayor did not want to close the beach, because of his medical debt!
Contrary to insinuations on Twitter, there were Muslim-sounding names among men serving in the American Revolution.
I hope you can pardon DC, interspersed with footage of January 6 insurrectionists, whose Trump pardon. A pun
A painting of an Old West prairie is captioned with a Nazi daydream about a population of 100 million sharing the same “blood” and “soil,” blood and soil being a Nazi slogan
Book cover for Urban Villagers, a study of working class Italian Americans in Boston, by Herbert Gans
Joking response to the claim liberals don’t own boats because there’s no government program for it. There is a “government program” for boat owners—the Coast Guard! Which often rescues boaters in distress.
Today’s step count was over 38 thousand! Thursday, January 30, 2025.
Ventriloquist and comic Edgar Bergen, with dummy Charlie McCarthy. Bergen is the late-father of Actress Candice Bergen (of Murphy Brown, Boston Legal, Miss Congeniality)
The Espionage Act of 1917 facilitated a wartime censorship campaign that put a number of newspapers out of business. The combination of censorship and economic damage parallel the TikTok ban
Awkward installment in an exchange between TikTok mutuals, this post apologizing for getting “tied up,” an English idiom suggesting being too busy to immediately reconnect
Video quotes 18th-century revolutionaries like Benjamin Franklin to indicate atheism was rare in the early USA
Louis Findlay, Actor headshot, handsome shot, with an intense look and trimmed beard
Photo of unwelcome follower’s user bio, featuring obscenity, innuendo and mature audience link
Actor Kyle O’Neill, 6 feet 4 inches, beard and mustache, playing age range early-20s
Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong on kindness to enemy prisoners of war.
Handsome Actor Christopher Everett, based in the vicinity of Manchester, England
Title and author of article, “What Killed Prisoners of War?” by Brian Patrick O’Malley, superimposed over an artist’s depiction of forlorn prisoners