I know I never leave home wothout my certified original Operation Desert Storm trading card

Technical appreciator@whatahellofawaytodad.com · yesterday

Saddam is claimed, but don't let that stop you from getting one of these dropped in your order

US Coast Guard Cutter Duane exchanging blinker signals with a US Navy K-class airship, 1943.

Another clip from the Casemates du Huberbusch: A Gnome et Rhône AX2 motorcycle of the 40e GRDI waved on by a rifleman from the 164e Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, with a Citroën type 23 light truck in the backdrop. #WWII #WW2 #Reenactment #MilitaryHistory #France

Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King@sammyflex.bsky.social · 2w ago

Neat clip I saw this morning from the Casemates du Huberbusch/164e RIF living history association. Reenactors representing the 40e GRDI, recon unit of the 7th Infantry Division, which fought in the Moselle in June 1940, reaching the Loire by the end of the campaign. #WWII #WW2 #France

Aug. 4, 1926: A Clayton steam railcar—a lightweight, self-propelled train with a built-in vertical boiler—enters service at Kurow, New Zealand.

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

The killed/missing the Heer alone suffered in France during Fall Rot amounted to 27,701 of whom 118 were missing. There were probably another 60-70,000 wounded during this period so total casualties likely >100,000. One presumes Pochin believes in her pea brain that they all stubbed their toes.

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 2d ago

I will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy

#OTD On Aug. 3, 1864, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed on Dauphin Island with 1,500 troops to attack Ft. Gaines. After a brief siege following the Battle of Mobile Bay, the confederate garrison surrendered on Aug. 8, 1864. #history #navalhistory #militaryhistory

Brazilian fighter pilots before taking off for combat, Italy.

I watched every episode of this show multiple times when I was a kid. Literally a formative experience.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Remember when the history channel was peak?

Nice little video of the production of Marmon Herrington armoured cars in South Africa in 1940. One thing that annoys me are people on FB who insist on correcting references to Marmon Herrington to 'South African Armoured Car - SARC). Both terms were used in official documents by the troops.

This has been the summer where it really sank in for me that it's just going to get worse for the rest of our lives. We all knew, but the abstractness of the idea is finally gone

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Tank is registration M885, 18e regiment de dragons, 2e peleton, photographed about 20th May 1940 at Saint-Laurent Blangy, near Arras.

Yeah congratulations, there are basically no conservatives under 30 in the United States who aren't just actual nazis. You flooded the media ecosystem with garbage for 30+ years and now you're reaping the rewards. Undignified to try to whine about it now.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

April 1940: A hospital bus of the Polish Red Cross waits to be loaded onto a ship for transport to Norway in Brest, France. The French-equipped Polish Independent Podhale Rifle Brigade was part of the Scandinavian Expeditionary Force (CEFS). #WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Poland #Norway

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

On this day in 1943, 177 US B-24 bombers take off from their bases in Libya to attack oil refineries in Ploești, Romania. 53 bombers and 530 crewmen are lost in the attack which slows, but does not stop, oil production in the refineries. Only 88 of the planes return to Libya.

Fantastic write-up on this action shared on reddit

Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King@sammyflex.bsky.social · 6d ago

1939: Two Curtiss H-75s of GC 1/4. The aircraft closest to the camera, serial no. 99, would be shot down on 11 May 1940, with the pilot, Sgt. Lacroix, KIA. The unit was operating from Dunkirk at that time. #WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #AviationHistory #Aviation

Charles-Fernand Lacroix received a posthumous Croix de Guerre with Palm: "Young pilot, ardent and enthusiastic, with a brilliant future. 11 May 1940 over Belgium, facing a numerically superior enemy, he downed a Dornier 17 before going down in flames himself, protecting his flight leader."

Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King@sammyflex.bsky.social · 6d ago

1939: Two Curtiss H-75s of GC 1/4. The aircraft closest to the camera, serial no. 99, would be shot down on 11 May 1940, with the pilot, Sgt. Lacroix, KIA. The unit was operating from Dunkirk at that time. #WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #AviationHistory #Aviation

Fun 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 crossover

Олександр Бузько@oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · last wk.

Type 89 tanks in French service, Indochina, late 1940s.

Agreed. On Monday @polphilpod.bsky.social and I explicitly tied Musk USAID cuts to his "belief" that white civilization is embattled and white nations must be saved from invasion to preserve the "West." We argued Musk's "zero died" claim is code to global far right: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

#Baltimore moment - we love our ships!

Codex Silens@codexcultus.bsky.social · last wk.

#OTD As the last sail-powered warship built by the U.S. Navy, the USS Constellation was launched on August 26, 1854 and commissioned as a sloop-of-war on July 28, 1855. #USnavy #history #navalhistory #maritimehistory

1./ I decided to dive a bit deeper to do some justice to Pierre Préaud, of whom not so much has been written. After serving as Commandant of Saint-Cyr from autumn 1940 until the German occupation of the "Free Zone" (Vichy) in 1942, he joined the ORA resistance group en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_...

Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King@sammyflex.bsky.social · last wk.

21/ Those who had been evacuated were ferried back to France where they joined ad-hoc cavalry units that fought in the June battles, including at Saumur. Col. Préaud later commanded St. Cyr military academy. The 1er GRDI was twice cited for its actions, and awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palme.

A Michigan Department of Aeronautics Stinson Reliant aircraft circa 1939. 🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/93489

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

Toledo Ohio retro Americana Willys Overland plant Jeep

Any fan of classic trucks - esp. British makes - that can ID this vehicle? Civilian truck requisitioned by the French army, from the Pais region based on the Z-series tag. I think it might be a Morris, but not 100%. Audun-le-Roman, France May 1940. #WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #ClassicCars #Trucks

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...