Great to see! Welcome @jamesmscott.bsky.social!

NEED! 😍

RIP Ken Dryden 💔 One of my favourite players of all time.

Jazz for the win! #OscarPeterson

This looks fantastic!

This Saturday I'm speaking at the Military Heritage Day at the Chatham Kent Municipal Airport about Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands. Also lots of warbirds, military vehicles, and other displays. Hope to see you there!

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

I've blogged about how the Israeli air force has reshaped the Middle East and what others might learn from them markurban.substack.com/p/israels-sl...

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

Trump on WW1: "Recently other countries celebrated the victory of World War I, France was celebrating, really. The only one that doesn't celebrate is the USA. And we're the ones that won the war. Without us, you'd all be speaking German right now. Maybe a little Japanese thrown in." Ignorant c*nt.

h/t @coldwarhost.bsky.social

h/t @coldwarhost.bsky.social

Canada will achieve NATO’s 2% target this year — half a decade ahead of schedule.   In an increasingly dangerous world, we will be ready to protect our people, our sovereignty, and our Allies.

The most remarkable film shot on one of the most remarkable days in history. It captures the North Shore Regiment on JUNO Beach near St. Aubin-sur-Mer on D-Day. For me, the most touching moment comes at the end of the clip when a soldier pats his comrade on the shoulder to say, "it will be ok." 🧵1/4

I think the Chancellor’s response generally reflects collective memory among Germans. “Nazis are bad, and I’m glad they lost the war.” It’s such a stark contrast to how so many white Americans remember the Civil War and mythologize the Confederacy.

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

This was released today - appropriate listening, as 81 years ago right now, those guys were landing in Normandy. youtu.be/ku7GZPQTD7Y?...

Leadership, D-Day, & General Eisenhower. We know that D-Day was an overwhelming success but 81 years ago today, victory was not a foregone conclusion. Failure was a real possibility. Eisenhower wrote this note to be released if the landings failed. The last line really hits home. #responsibility 🧵

Sad to hear about the passing of Marc Garneau. He was the first Canadian to go into space and flew on three space shuttle missions. RIP.

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Excellent commentary by Sean Maloney providing historical context about Trump's Golden Dome initiative and possible Canadian involvement. medium.com/@mk36y1/trum...

RIP Norm 💔

Why are historians important? Check out this post. Pure hyperbole and completely wrong. The RAF Thousand plane raid on Cologne dropped over 1478 tonnes (3.3 million lbs) of bombs on the night of 30–31 May 1942. The USAAF dropped over 3000 tonnes (6.6 million lbs) of bombs on Berlin on 18 March 1945.

Tasha wanted to bask in the sunbeam but the curtains were closed!

KAPUT! Gunners of the 12th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery with the Victory issue of the Maple Leaf newspaper, Aurich, Germany, 20 May 1945.

Sad, but true.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I loved how Carney fed T's narcissism by praising him using double entendres. He called him a "transformational" president and said he had "revitalized" international security and NATO. T. just lapped it up but you know Carney didn't mean them as compliments.

Carney's a real beauty!

The AUDACITY! Great thread on the Battle of Pulo Aura where a convoy of British East India merchantmen defeated a much stronger French squadron.

Irony! Or, maybe not. Perhaps it is fitting to commission a doll to commemorate a battle in which the "elite" HJ soldiers were badly trounced.

On to round 2!

Irony! Or, maybe not. Perhaps it is fitting to commission a doll to commemorate a battle in which the "elite" HJ soldiers were badly trounced.

When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did. But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it. I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.

🚨Part Two of our Canada at War Series🚨 @mike-bechthold.bsky.social joins us to discuss the Canadian effort in the Second World War in Normandy and Northwest Europe! Links- Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4knu... YouTube: youtu.be/BB0dI4GtLoI?...

It was a pleasure to chat with Bo and Joey on @homebrewhistorypod.bsky.social! My talk on Canada at War: Normandy and Northwest Europe is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0d...

The CPC lost me in Feb 2022 when Polievere served coffee and donuts to the convoy crazies. For three years after that, it was nothing but name calling, conspiracy theories, culture wars and lies. Oh, and handholding with the far right. And *now* they want to pivot and be taken seriously. Nope.

Being immortalized in cartoon form alongside two of Canada's great military historians will probably be one of my great accomplishments 😁 ICYMI - an examination of the legacy of Vimy with @mike-bechthold.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com @bigandylock.bsky.social and the legend himself, Tim Cook.

The Jays in extras over the BoSox and the Leafs in OT over TB! It’s a great night!

Every student in a Canadian history course who wants to write about Vimy should be forced to read @mike-bechthold.bsky.social thread on myths and realities first! After doing so, I wonder how many would abandon the topic #cdnhist #vimy

Excellent thread on the myths of Vimy Ridge + useful resources from my brilliant friend and colleague @mike-bechthold.bsky.social Thanks for the shout-out!

On this day in 1917 the Canadian Corps advanced together into battle and captured Vimy Ridge. It was easily their most famous (but not most important) victory of the First World War. A thread on the myths and reality of this celebrated battle: 1/

On this day in 1917 the Canadian Corps advanced together into battle and captured Vimy Ridge. It was easily their most famous (but not most important) victory of the First World War. A thread on the myths and reality of this celebrated battle: 1/

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Not sure how I missed this, but one of the best aviation artists working right now, Piotr Forkasiewicz, is now branching into CGI animation, and sweet Christ almighty, this is unbelievable. No sound- but just watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwU...