#Soldier

(1/35) A thread about growing up as a gay kid in a Christian fundamentalist right-wing homeschooling family in the 1990s, and how I interpret today's political culture in light of
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#OTD 63 yrs ago I like much of N. Europe was celebrating 11th Nov, St Martin's Day, a Feast day & a feast day to celebrate the end of the
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I've been working on this essay for a couple of months. It's about my childhood in evangelicalism, my time in wellness circles and working at Whole Foods, and the rise
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So much this by @marybeth_sb. Decades ago, @MarkDilley and I were kinda organizing consultants for AFT grad unions. We asked 1 question that always predicted where a local was: "How
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Remember boys, it's George Luz's birthday today. T4 Luz, who was described as "one of the pillars of Easy Company" by Major Dick Winters, was born July 17, 1921 in
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Six years ago I was deployed to a special operations advisory group in Afghanistan, advising an Afghan special forces aviation unit intelligence personnel. I had been awake for about 36
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#MyKargilStory I was about to go to Allahabad University and news of Manoj Pandey sir came. We have lost him someone told. I did not know how to react. 1/n@AbhishekBhalla7
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Former Israelí PM Shimon Peres had famously said “ The most important thing in life is to dare” and Israel dared in true sense when it planned one the most
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- THREAD -I am not #Armenia|n. The war and the unspeakable cruelties my friends in #Artsakh experience are thousands of miles away from me. Yet, the last 2 1/2 months
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Hodson's Horse in action at Rhotuck This painting shows Hodson's horse defeating a body of mutineer cavalry Rhotuck. William Hodson the Cavalry commander in the centre of the painting was
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A little something for throw back. A thread that will show you how times have changed in Nigeria Independence Building and Lagos Harbour (1974) General View Of Historic Kano
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Now that it's the fourth of july, it's once again time for me to be pretentious about history, so if anyone wants to hear me rant about why the american
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1) Some fun between the madnessSeems people are catching up with TENET; I wanted to discuss a spoiler, but if youve seen the hashtag #Protagoneil you can probably guess. My
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aight thread on the woman the cia hired to kill castro and then she had sex with him insteadhttps://twitter.com/gofi_kraves2/status/1360088827461656583 her early life is a lot to parse through mainly bcs
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Lately I've been recommending autobiographies to people who ask me what books can they start reading to learn more about how Black radicals view society. People have told me they
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As a riposte to @warmatters' S.L.A. Marshall shenanigans, I'll highlight work from our new @McGillQueensUP volume "Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare" by discussing Chapter
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