stcwhite.bsky.social

@stcwhite.bsky.social

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PhD in Military History. Linux partisan, cinephile, gamer. Retweets and links indicate interest, not endorsement. Still mourning Google Reader.
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This fake tweet was supposed to be a joke

Ffs www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OSwww.tomshardware.com Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 save the day.

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FWIW if Biden does withdraw, I think it'll take the Democrats about 12 seconds to rally around Harris, and all this bakeoff/mini-primary stuff will go away. Any other Dem throwing his hat in the ring will look like a dolt. If I'm wrong, I'll stand up like a man, delete this, and claim I was hacked.

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historians, of the 20thC European variety and/or military history variety: what are everybody's favourite free-to-publish Open Access journals to publish with?

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Here’s my thoughts on Trump’s attempted assassin and his apparent use of a DJI drone to scope out the site before hand - and why we need to better understand risks from drone-collected *information*.

Trump's Attempted Assassin Flew A Drone Over the Rally Site: My Thoughtslittle-flying-robots.ghost.io It was Friday evening. I was trying to relax. And then all of a sudden, a dozen people sent me the same link. Drone news. Of course. Why does big-drone related news never seem to drop at 10:00 AM on...

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Crying

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This is all so f*cking textbook. The leader embodies the will of the herrenvolk. That will cannot be represented through liberal republicanism, which sinister forces manipulate to poison the country.

Hulk Hogan's message of "unity" involved the idea that "real Americans" are going to bring the country back together again. Soon, according to Hogan, all of the "real Americans" are going to be called Trumpites. Because, you know, unity. youtu.be/ico2_fk3dGc?...

FULL SPEECH: Hulk Hogan calls Trump ‘my hero’ at RNCyoutu.be The retired professional wrestler spoke on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Subscribe to ABC News on YouTube: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/59aJ1G ABC News Digital is your daily source of breaking national and world news, exclusive interviews and 24/7 live streaming coverage. Download the ABC News app for the latest headlines and alerts: https://abcnews.go.com/devices Watch 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events on ABC News Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN0PZCe-kwQ&ab_channel=ABCNews Watch full episodes of World News Tonight with David Muir here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQOa26lW-uI8ixlVw1NWu_l4Eh8iZW_qN&feature=shared Read ABC News reports online: http://abcnews.go.com ABC News is the home to the #1 evening newscast “World News Tonight” with David Muir, “Good Morning America,” “20/20,” “Nightline,” “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, “ABC News Live Prime” with Linsey Davis, plus the daily news podcast “Start Here.” Connect with ABC News on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abcnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@abcnews X: https://twitter.com/ABC Threads: https://www.threads.net/@abcnews LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abcnews

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And anyone with an ounce of expertise in foreign policy saw this exact outcome coming…

Trump ushered the fastest accelration in the Iranian nuclear program over the last decade and a half by withdrawing from the JCPOA without putting anything else in place. (And Netanyahu allegedly helped put him up to it)

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The Aristocrats

I'm sorry, but what the hell is this?

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So proud to contribute alongside @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social to the excellent @warontherocks.bsky.social Rewind and Reconnoiter series, recapping and reflecting on our 2022 article titled "The Accelerating Threat of the Political Assassination." warontherocks.com/2024/07/rewi...

Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Accelerating Threat of the Political Assassination with Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware - War on the Rockswarontherocks.com In 2022, Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware wrote “The Accelerating Threat of Political Assassination,” where they explored the increased frequency of political

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I've said it before, and have no confidence it will happen, but Biden should summon all the stakeholders and make it clear his stepping down as candidate is 100% contingent on Harris getting the nomination with zero drama.

Again, these gobshites have no freaking idea about the coalitions that compose the Democratic Party. They think they can bypass the 1st black woman vice-president and replace her with a white woman and there isn’t an electoral cost? Are black women chopped liver?

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The media is still saying it's unity!! the last three nights have been about deporting immigrants and erasing trans people from society!!

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In the aftermath of the recent attempted assassination of former President Trump, Russian media swiftly engaged in a coordinated effort to shape public perception both domestically and abroad. Here’s what we found👇

How Russian propagandists spun the Trump assassination attemptdfrlab.org Conspiracy theories, alarmism, and early attempts to link the shooting with Ukraine

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Every time I hear people tout the decimation of the Humanities, I remember how large swaths of the population, including individuals who make LOTS of money, are functionally incapable of extracting ideas from written text, a process otherwise known as "reading."

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Like, there is no throughline to those other than that the Court isn't interested in applying law in any form to Trump. If he asserts he can do it, they will let him. Plainly obvious evidence to the contrary, plain text of the constitution, or even criminal process may not (and will not) block it

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And the logic of TvUS is that if the president orders something that's not only unauthorized, but outright criminal, and so shocking to the nation that a subsequent president is willing to forego executive privilege to prosecute it, the Courts will intervene to affirmatively block that

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Jacob T. Levy

The logic here is so obvious and so clear – as the dissents emphasized – that there are only three possible conclusions: 1) Roberts is much dumber than he previously seemed; 2) Roberts believes that he'll be able to step in and block anything that, in his view, crosses the line; or

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Radley Balko

It's just incredibly fucked up that one of the two major parties is demanding the largest forced migration in human history -- the sort that historically result in mass death -- yet since Saturday, the arbitrators of civility have told us that to call this what it is would be fomenting violence.

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An increasingly ethnonationalist party led by a hate-peddling authoritarian calls for mass deportation... what could go wrong?

I've seen a lot of one-offs of people holding these signs, but what is truly chilling is a sea of these being held up by delegates.

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The research and publications we do as academics is largely unpaid. Now, it is being sold, with none of that money going to us, to train a system that makes our work as mentors of new scholars even harder. (Ok, a ranty thread)

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filmfreakcentral.net/2024/07/long...

Longlegs (2024) - FILM FREAK CENTRALfilmfreakcentral.net ***½/**** starring Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt written and directed by Oz Perkins by Walter Chaw Thematically, at least, Oz Perkins reminds me most of Sofia Coppola, in th...

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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I mean Trump pretty much comes right out and says this.

While I do agree with Seth and Sam generally, I think there's a definite subset of the current GOP ruling class that doesn't believe good guys even exist and therefore they should do whatever they want to whomever they want. They know they're bad, they just think everyone else is too.

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This is absolutely the way forward for academic publishing. It's in everyone's interest except the for-profit publishers'. It just requires overcoming some pesky collective action problems. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. apnews.com/article/buxt...

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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The populist, working man ticket will be led by a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns a bunch of exclusive country clubs, and a Yale grad, ex-venture capitalist whose rise was funded by Bay Area billionaires.

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Kevin M. Kruse

This is the heart of it: the pathologically entitled belief that they can treat you any way they want and it’s aggression for you to block them. Batterer’s logic.

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The fact that you cannot imagine Vance hesitating for a second to throw an election to Trump gives a sense of how far we have descended

Among the many reasons a second Trump term poses a serious threat to American democracy: Vance is not a Pence-type VP www.vox.com/politics/360...

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"I do not greatly value party platforms, either for their political wisdom or truthfulness; but they are instructive as records of party life and tendencies." - James A. Garfield, 1870