Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump

#OnThisDay M3A1 Stuart light tanks of the 5e Division Blindée advancing on the village of Courchaton, Haute-Saône department. 16 November 1944. The tank in the 4th photo appears to be named "Risque Tout II" (Risk It All II). #WWII #WW2 #history #France #Tank #Armor #OTD

always worth noting that Longstreet was objectively the best corps commander in the CS Army but that he never had a post named after him (for the reasons noted here)- but Bragg and Hood, who had terrible track records, did.

Put aside for a moment that we shouldn't be giving KSA or any sort of state like it these aircraft, it is absurd that there exists a third party country which thinks it can impose external conditions onto how we conduct business with with countries, no?

Some quote about "amateurs talk tactics" comes to mind every time I see anything about allied logistics during the war. What a feat!

Thread on the State Department and USG investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh's assassination, with a whistleblower interview from an Army officer in the NYT confirming what has long been suspected: the Biden administration report was intentionally softened to preserve relations with Israel.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Another FCM 36 at this event. Though underarmed with the 37mm SA 18, it was actually excellent in many ways- it was well protected for its weight, had a robust suspension, and good autonomy thanks to its diesel engine. However production was halted so FCM could focus on Char B1s. #WWII #WW2 #France

SPAD S.XVI French two-seater biplane reconnaissance aircraft flies over the Compeign sector, France, approx. 1918.

You had to be a real pioneer to fly one of these early machines, but one shudders to imagine the fatal accident rate among helicopter pilots if WWII had lasted a little longer.

Ratings clearing ice from the forecastle of H.M.C.S. LUNENBURG, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 1942. (LAC a105685-v6.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History

Vichy French units fighting in North Africa were armed with obsolete French tanks, including the Char D1. Units that changed sides following a ceasefire #OTD in 1942, were given modern American tanks. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Good Night World

Back from work and about to spend the rest of my evening until dinner rubbing polish into my boots. What a life.

It might look like an anti-grenade roof screen. It might even work as one to some extent but this Rolls Royce Armoured Car named 'HMAC Chatham' is actually fitted with a long-wavelength wireless and this is the antenna. 1/2 #tanks #WW1

More Ship's Company Marines, this time on USS Texas, while Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank Roosevelt inspects them. They are with the British Home Fleet in the Firth of Forth.

Yeah, I am starting to think the constitutional crisis is in a death spiral. It does not occur in singular acts but in the orchestration of administration ripping itself apart. The parts that constitute a government is what gives its coherence and this is the unwinding.

The plaques removed from the American war cemetery in Limburg by the incumbent regime. The shame of it all.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

I struggle not to repost every Renault and Hotchkiss I see, I just find them so charming. For all their obvious inadequacies, they were sturdy, stubborn little machines, and I can't help but feel a certain affection, mixed with a healthy touch of pity, for them and their crews.

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Boosting the Romania micro-thread

Loading luggage and postal cargo into the nose of the Dewoitine D.338 three-engine aircraft in 1942. © Images défense

'The claw of the Italian invader wants to enslave us!' 1937 Spanish Republican poster depicting Mussolini's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Designed by Amado Oliver for the Junta de la Defensa de Madrid.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Good illustration of some of the constraints imposed on the "Armistice Army" by the Germans after 1940, all Vichy armored cars remaining in metropolitan France had to be stripped of their 25mm guns.

Love a French pre-dreadnought thread

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

パリのリヴォリ通り（Rue de Rivoli）、ルーヴル美術館に隣接するチュイルリー公園のすぐ隣の場所で放棄されたドイツ軍の戦車：Pz.Kpfw. 35R 731(f) 、第100装甲連隊第8中隊の「51号車」。これも1940年にフランス軍のルノーR35を接収して砲塔キューポラの頂部をカットしてドイツ風に仕立てたもの。塗装も３色迷彩ですっかりドイツ軍車両になっている。 8月25-26日のパリ解放で繰り出した人々。お祭りだからか普段着なのかはわからないがみんなスーツなのがパリらしい。年配のおじさんは30年代風の仕立てか、ボトムも裾幅ゆったりめ。自転車の青年はウエストの絞りがタイトな仕立て。

we now know that it’s not illegal to throw sandwiches at ICE agents, an important development

Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Incredible Beaufighter firepower. 😮 #WW2 #HISTORY

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

Completely unsurprising but always frustrating to see dangerous and flagrantly illegal behavior from riot police; in this case, specifically on the orders of superior officers. No doubt there's a spectrum of behaviors when comparing countries, but sadly a seemingly-universal problem.

Following the sinking of HMS Jervis Bay, the tanker MV San Demetrio, carrying highly flammable aviation fuel, was hit by shells from Admiral Scheer and set alight. Captain White, fearing a devastating explosion, ordered his crew to abandon ship. 📷©️National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 🧵1/7

zizek is a land of contrasts but in sublime object he most convincingly argues this is actually the structure of antisemitism

The new reactionary obsession with "Taqiyya" is really a textbook example of contemporary Orientalism. The perfidious easterner is concealing his true intentions, shared by all of his kind, by smiling and being nice. Secretly he wants to kill me, something I certainly don't want to do to him

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Really interesting story, a new one for me and I suspect many others!

１日１ミリ。1945年8月、パリ市内を牽引されるドイツ軍の火炎放射戦車 Pz.Kpfw.B2 (f) ( Bis 740 (f))。フランスのChar B1-bisを1940年にドイツ軍が鹵獲して火炎放射形に改造したもので後部に大きな装甲燃料タンクを装備している。 牽引する車両には自由フランス軍（Forces Françaises Libre,FFL）のロレーヌ十字が描かれている。ジャンヌ・ダルクの象徴でもあり、アルザス・ロレーヌがドイツに併合された時代にも国土回復のシンボルだった。フランス開放に参加した自由フランス軍兵士の多くは海外の植民地出身で1944年までパリを見たことのなかったという。

I've only personally seen #4 (the National Palace of Culture), but I stubbornly maintain that it's over-criticized. Think it's probably better, and certainly not worse, than any other mall or convention center or what have you.

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Every Cold War spying case is like: UK: He was recruited to MI6 from Oxford, where he was founder and president of the Friends of Stalin chapter. He was assigned to the Moscow desk for 20 years. US: His 4th Bugatti that he paid for in cash on a civil servant's salary stated to arouse suspicion.

It is often said that if an airplane looks good, it will fly good. I guess the fact that so many DC-3's are still flying today is proof that this is true. Nikon Z8 with a Nikkor Z 24-120 f/4 S. #dc3 #douglasaircraft #flagshipdetroit #blackandwhitephotography #fineart #AviationArt

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)

Char B1 bis No. 260 "Ouragan" (Hurricane) of the 8e BCC, 2e Division. Another unfortunate victim of the mechanically over-complex Naeder hydraulic system, which was meant to facilitate precise aiming of the hull-mounted 75mm gun. Here's two color photos from the excellent www.chars-francais.net

Looking back I realized I'd posted a photo of two of these men previously: André Baudion and Henri Goupy were photographed in front of the Reichskolonialbund building in Lauterbach, Germany, during the Sarre Offensive in 1939. #WWII #WW2 #history #France #Germany #Sarre #Saarland

A-8A Shrike, 3rd attack group formation, 154th observation squadron.