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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 tiktok.com/t/ZP8U3spfu/

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/

Sen. Mike Lee invokes a fake Thomas Jefferson quote and it’s earned him a 2026 Weemsy Award nomination!
#ushistory #mikelee #jefferson #constitutionalrepublic #democracy tiktok.com/t/ZP8ppBKXs/

AOC flubs a reference to the American Revolution. #ushistory #aoc #americanrevolution #taxthebillionaires #founders tiktok.com/t/ZP8pbbjsv/

Healing the site of the worst Native American massacre in U.S. history deseret.com/environment/20… #ushistory #nativeamerican

Thomas Paine helped start America. In the Trump era, he's under fire. religionnews.com/2026/05/13/mee…

Pete Hegseth tells a fake George Washington story.
#ushistory #americanrevolution #hegseth #rededicate250 #GeorgeWashington  tiktok.com/t/ZP8pQPgCU/

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/

#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 #APUSH tiktok.com/t/ZP8p2eKwK/

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. #iranwar #blockade #ww2 #dday tiktok.com/t/ZP8pLYkG4/

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 tiktok.com/t/ZP8pdECKN/

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 tiktok.com/t/ZP8pJdJH5/

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.

Is Jeff Bezos going to jail? I found this on Amazon.

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

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.

Ousted Sec. of the Navy, John Phelan, didn’t know when Pearl Harbor happened #ushistory #phelan #ww2 #USNavy #pearlharbor tiktok.com/t/ZP8gqgQwR/

It turns out Donald Trump doesn't need a pandemic to wreck the economy.

Damn... sad but true.

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

FoxNews host Maria Bartiromo does some amazing “historical research” into WW2 #ushistory #iran #ww2 #straitofhormuz #MariaBartiromo tiktok.com/t/ZP8gCVxRP/