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Patrick Wyman
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Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming soon: "Lost Worlds," on prehistory. (5/6/26). pwymanusc at gmail.
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Oct 2, 2025
    Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into.
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Apr 9, 2022
    Imagine being drunk as hell on cheap wine on a summer day in ancient Rome watching the chariot races, then seeing a chariot eat shit on a turn, the crowd must have been insane
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Aug 19, 2020
    If a police officer shoves a guy unprovoked in full view of literally thousands of spectators and cameras, then lies about it and claims he was assaulted, and his superiors back him for more than a year until the footage is released, imagine what they do when nobody’s watching
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    Bleacher Report
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    Aug 19, 2020
    Masai Ujiri's legal team has released this body camera footage of his encounter with a sheriff's deputy as he tried to walk onto the court at Oracle Arena after the Raptors won the 2019 NBA Finals. (via @diamond83)
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Jan 7, 2021
    I can't stress this enough: From the top down, if the people responsible for today's events face no consequences for what they've done, the next time will be much worse. If a political line is crossed, either enforce its existence or accept that the line no longer exists.
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Sep 26, 2025
    At some point you just have to assume that he’s an actively evil person, right? This was a massacre of mostly women and children, largely unarmed, one of the most shameful events in a period of American history that was full of shameful events. You can’t defend it.
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    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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    Sep 25, 2025
    Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Oct 14, 2024
    More like Geneva Suggestions
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Mar 24, 2020
    I’m sorry but the economy doesn’t work like a blood sacrifice, the gods don’t grant a bull market just because you condemn hundreds of thousands of people to a painful death
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Mar 2, 2021
    If a politician has done some shitty things, like sexually harass women, they can simply be replaced with somebody who doesn't sexually harass women. Politicians are completely and utterly replaceable, though of course they'll try to tell you they're indispensable leaders
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Feb 11, 2021
    Imagine pissing away a lifetime bag of money as a face of one of the most popular franchises in the world because you won't stop comparing yourself to a persecuted Holocaust victim on social media, just an incredible self-own
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    IGN
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    Feb 11, 2021
    BREAKING: Lucasfilm fires Gina Carano from The Mandalorian after “abhorrent and unacceptable” social media posts. bit.ly/3d7wSnT
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Mar 12, 2020
    I spent the better part of a decade thinking about the end of the Roman Empire and what it felt like to live through that, in all its various manifestations - the collapse of political authority, spreading pandemics, economic crises - and now it all makes a lot more sense.
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Apr 12, 2020
    The point of the Postal Service isn’t to make a profit and it’s a sign of how absolutely broken our public discussion of the topic is that it seems impossible to frame the issue in other terms
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Mar 11, 2020
    I don’t know if Biden will win in November but I think we should just take a second to laugh at the morbid hilarity of the guy who helped make sure younger voters can’t discharge student debt trying to get those people to vote for him
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Sep 18, 2020
    Ginsburg dying feels line one of those points where we’re all forced to explicitly grapple with how broken huge pieces of our political system are
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    Patrick Wyman
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    Sep 5, 2025
    Mr Speaker sir how do people usually become FBI informants
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    Aaron Rupar
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    Sep 5, 2025
    in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein
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