#Dispatches

DOMara

croonaert

Seeing as tomorrow will probably (rightly) be swamped with British 1st July '16 stories, I thought I'd sneak this thread in today!Another tag I obtained at the same time as

James Bloodworth

J_Bloodworth

A few of what I think are the best pieces I wrote in 2020: How the British government - backed by contrarians scribblers and the Stalinoid left - enabled genocide

VatsRohit

KesariDhwaj

[Indian Military History]- Combined thread for three Services covering Indian Military History from pre-1947 to current times. Naushera ka Sher - Brigadier Usman.- Pakistan desperately tried to get him on

Nat Cutter

NatCutter

Bloodthirsty pirates, white slaves, renegadoes and raging Turks. The scourge of Christendom. Terrorists, hostage-takers, treaty-breakers, an early modern ISIS. Or participants in a Mediterranean-wide system of maritime predation, slavery an

Political Philosophy Podcast

PolPhilPod

Ok, I'm game, 1 like = 1 book that's influenced my political thinking.This should be fun.https://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1287390837530398720 1. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson.One of the very

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Throughout the Normandy campaign, Allied commanders anticipated that German soldiers would surrender in large numbers, but this... rarely happened.Why? /1#WW2 #SWW #History Throughout the campaign this question vexed the Allies,

András Tóth-Czifra

NoYardstick

Huge difference between data reported by activists and officials in #Russia's constitutional plebiscite. According to this exit poll, 62% voted against the reform in St. Petersburg and 53% did in

Tom Winter

WinterForMT

I’ll never get over the “dispatches from the provinces” tone of these New York Times/Montana articles it’s wild.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/montana-senate-bullock-daines.html?referringSource=articleShare Wow we’

John Bull

garius

I'm fascinated by how military history shapes language in ways we don't spot. Mostly navy in the UK but army too.E.g.Stop and ask yourself: why do so many British football

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

𝐎𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡"Make no mistake: it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning." - Doc Holliday, 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 (1993)There is a

The damndest bastard you ever met

DamndestBastard

Everything you have been told about Conan is probably wrong #4: The Frost-Giant's daughter.This story is used by activists to suggest Howard promotes [email protected] of Howard's stories paint a very

Dave

SandleDavid

Joe Biden Thread : https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/ https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill https://www.businessinsider.com/plagiarism-scandal-joe-biden-first-presidential-run-1988-2019-3 https://pr

Eric Geller

ericgeller

Recently started a chronological @TheCloneWars rewatch, and I have to say, for all the complaints re: cringe-worthy early Ahsoka scenes, the movie set the tone for her & Anakin's relationship

MIT Technology Review

techreview

This is a thread about how to avoid sharing bad information about the election.https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/02/1011521/election-2020-how-to-avoid-sharing-bad-information-online/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor

Idrees Ahmad

im_PULSE

Thread: The fact that a toxic reactionary like @mtaibbi still has a gig with @RollingStone and gets treated as a commentator worth quoting shows (1) that "cancel culture" is a

Mark Englehart Evans

mark_e_evans

What’s a podcast or podcast episode that blew your mind in 2020? Here are a few eps that I’ve revisited a lot (a thread): .@questlove supreme - the whole show

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