Tessera
Folgen

Alan Allport

@alanallport.bsky.social

Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.

18857 Posts7212 Follower2448 Folgt
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h ago

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d ago

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social · yesterday

French AT doctrine in 1940 was pretty solid and they would have blunted the Blitzkrieg advance but for positional mistakes at the outset which meant they never got a real chance to try.

tuccy.bsky.social@tuccy.bsky.social · yesterday

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Germans lost more tanks between Dunkirk and fall of France, than between 1939 and Dunkirk. French Army also seemed to shift to tactics similar to later Eastern Front (basically infantry-and-AT-guns strongpoints instead of regular "line"), but too late.

Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social · yesterday

About this “I have some conservative and some liberal views, just like all Americans” thing: it’s a reactionary centrist truism and it’s … simply not true. In terms of policy choices (not identity or voting habits), most Americans are consistently liberal. It’s been well documented since the 60s.

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · yesterday

Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...