Visit of the Sultan of Morocco Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef (Mohammed V) to Strasbourg on July 11, 1939. Official tribune, Place Broille, parade of troops.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

The entire history of the right wing in this country is about an insecure minority trying to subjugate a majority that disagrees with them. It's the reason they hate democracy. Draw a line from antebellum Southerners to today's billionaires. They own everything but they pretend they're under siege

US Navy personnel freeing a PBY-5A Catalina aircraft from frozen waters in the Aleutian Islands at Kodiak Bay, US Territory of Alaska, Jan 1943

Little bit of light reading on the train today- lucky vintage find! #WWII #Aviation #France #history

Geoffrey Ingersoll, the author of that piece, served in the Marines. This is from his bio at the Young America's Foundation: "After his honorable discharge in 2009, Geoffrey enrolled in NYU’s graduate journalism program, discovering, in the process, that Greenwich Village is scarier than Baghdad."

That new domestic terror EO authorizes full surveillance state and info sharing with law enforcement on anyone with left politics. 1st and 4th amendments shredded for anyone left of Schumer, probably wider. And under Amnesty v. Clapper, no one will have standing to challenge until they’re charged 👍

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

Cannon de 25-mm Modele 1934 Hotchkiss. Next to the grave of the deceased French artillery gunner, may 1940

There is no possible concession worth giving that up. Any deal is worthless, what Congress actually passes now has no real force, he will spend or not spend as he pleases, and break any law he wants with impunity. Negotiating with that makes you look like a fool and worse, it makes you complicit.

Any vote to fund the government is a vote to fund everything he is doing with it, every crime he is committing, every assault on the Constitution. The only relevant choice congressional Democrats face is if they want to be party to that or if Republicans have to go it alone and own the consequences.

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Posting a bonus find outside the main thread: IAR 80s of the Romanian 9th Fighter Group and a Bf 109G of Jagdgeschwader 4 flying from Mamaia on the Black Sea, September 1942. #WWII #WW2 #history #Aviation #Romania

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

Having the bar trivia night of my life rn, so locked in. Just swept 5/5 on presidential losers. I'm cleaning up in here.

My dog’s severe epilepsy means his drugs mess with his motor skills/ability to grab on to his chews and so some nights he will get depression and just give up on the chew when it gentle falls out of reach. He’s such a gentle lamb, bro. He’s just a lil guy.

Look, you can’t buy your meds, your new car costs fortune, and your groceries cost 20% more than last year but at least the farmers who voted for this will get your money for free.

M-4 tractors tow captured 88mm Nazi guns into place to be fired against Germans pocketed in the 'bulge' between the 1st and 3rd U.S. Armies. Luxembourg. 11 January, 1945.

time to once again test the hypothesis of whether America’s Junker class will gladly accept a check to make 50% of what they normally do on hard work and a good harvest if it still means continuing the ethnic purges and destroying our world class thriving cosmopolitan economy.

Great thread on a fascinating figure.

Belgian anti-tank self-propelled gun T.13 with crew, on the eve of the invasion, 1940.

Journalist Mario Guevara, from detention: "May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."

Genuinely wonder how K-Hive types will grapple with Harris herself openly saying that being associated with her rabidly pro Israel boss and his rabidly pro Israel political impulses was a net negative.

Obsolete LT vz.34 tanks returned to action in 1944. A number of tanks were used by the Slovakian resistance during the Slovakian National Uprising. The Germans captured ten of these tanks #OTD in 1944, which were then used by the Tatra Tank Division. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Imagine what we could do if national democratic leadership had any interest whatsoever in mobilizing civil society against the most unpopular president of the modern era instead of leaving urban regions to fend for themselves from ethnic pogroms while no kings organizes a protest once every 3 months

apparently atlantic ghost crabs are self aware! maybe that's why they look like they're having an identify crisis

I am ready to give up hope on anything good happening for the Baltimore Ravens this year. Such a talented roster held back by incompetent coaching. Can't win the games that matter. A true shame.

Everybody loves those goofy denim fatigues

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

Today is Primidi the 1st of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate grapes.#JacobinDay More information on grapes

Ethnic pogroms and daylight terror, torture and death in camps, save your lectures on the strength of this regime until we find the +50,000 humans, thus far, who have been disappeared under the colors of our flag. Reparations and justice will be the proof of their weakness, nothing less.

I honestly don’t think this impacts Israel’s decision making all that much but the fact that US allies are able to act in open opposition to stated US goals and positions shows US leadership on the international stage is basically nonexistent at this point.

Unexploded German parachute mine with a curious observer! The Luftmine was designed for use against shipping, but when dropped on land, a 25 second fuse would activate before the weapon exploded, causing severe blast damage. It wasn’t unusual for the mechanism to fail, as here. 📷 IWM HU 2122 🧵5/6

Not a serious baseball team sadly

It's a terrible shame that his handling of France's domestic situation is so callous and idiotic, because Macron really is the most clear-eyed European leader on foreign policy issues (I will allow that there is room to talk about Pedro Sanchez)

R35 done. Calling this one"The Long Wait". Thanks for following along, #histscalemodels.

Marmon-Herrington CTLS-4TAY (Light Tank T16) in Alaska

Romanian soldiers of the 4th Mountain Battalion pose with a light machine gun during an exercise in Predeal in 1939.

there's never been a better time than right now to get lincolnpilled. well i guess 1858 or so would have been pretty good too but since then

The Russian M1869 Krnka musket conversion system. Single-shot, side hinged-block, breech loader firing 15.24x40mmR black powder rimfire rounds. It was adopted with the trapdoor M1868 Berdan I and bolt-action M1870 Berdan II. Why adopt 3 rifles at the same time? The Tsar is dumb.

⚔️20 septembre 1792 : Victoire décisive de l’armée française sur les Prussiens à la bataille de Valmy durant la Révolution française. À la suite de cette bataille, la Convention nationale déclare la fin de la monarchie et l’avènement de la République. #CeJourlà fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataill...

１日１ミリ。引き続きアルザス。1945年1月31日、ドイツ軍の立てこもる「コルマールポケット」を攻略するアメリカ第75歩兵師団を支援する第709（or 第750）戦車大隊のM4A3(76)wはT23砲塔の装填主ハッチが2枚開きの前期型か。　雪が降ったり消えたりといった気候に合わせて白をランダムに塗る迷彩はドイツ軍でも同時期のパンター戦車でも見かける。 コルマール郊外のリドヴィヒエ（Riedwihr）という村の建物はハーフティンバー（木骨造り）様式で、木組みの間に詰めるレンガが砲撃で脱落してしまってフレームだけになっている。屋根は野地板を貼らずに瓦を乗せる工法なのか、ずれて隙間から光が見える。