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bagdmilksowhat.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth:
Nidal Hasan to be the first publicly executed individual in almost 100yrs.

Are You Not Entertained ?

newrepublic.com/post/216430/...
Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
codexcultus.bsky.social
#OTD On October 8, 1944, British forces secured Corinth and the island of Samos as German troops retreated from Greece. Simultaneously, the No. 9 Commando landed at Nafplio, successfully clearing the Peloponnese and setting the stage for the liberation of Athens days later.
#WWII #WW2 #history
October 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
some-rss-feeds.bsky.social
[some-subscribed-rss] New Post: A Tax-Side Agenda for Addressing US Budget Deficits, by conversableeconomist https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/10/08/a-tax-side-agenda-for-addressing-us-budget-deficits/
Teaser: The US is on track to borrow $1.9 trillion this year, with debt back at WWII-era levels. Economists Clausing and Sarin propose a tax-side fix—no wealth tax, just smart adjustments to what we already have: corporate rates, IRS funding, sin taxes on carbon and gambling, 1997-level income brackets, and capital income reforms. Their five buckets could raise roughly $1 trillion a year. But will that plug the hole when spending cuts are off the table? Dive into the trade-offs. teaser for https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/10/08/a-tax-side-agenda-for-addressing-us-budget-deficits/ generated by deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
October 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
codexcultus.bsky.social
#OTD On October 8, 1943, the British 8th Army captured Larino and Guglionesi along the Biferno River. Meanwhile, the US 5th Army reached the Volturno Line, completing its advance and planning a major assault against the German defenses for October 12.
#WWII #WW2 #history #militaryhistory
October 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
docnebula.bsky.social
Which means that he can get people to invest in his movies and people to watch his movies and that's annoying when his movies are always just somehow... wrong. It is offensive to rewrite the history of horrific mass murder the way Tarantino has for WWII and the Manson killings.
October 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
madeckersdiaries.bsky.social
Pretty fair day. Lovely overhead, but oh so sad. Bud and Ed bowling. Ok eve. #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday
October 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
beeb1up.bsky.social
Exploring A WWII Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun Battery! (Mautby, Norfolk)

Watch here now!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4N...
October 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
sillymickel.bsky.social
*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 98

🧵Click panel below for Thread complete book

or, for paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ4YVDQ...

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 98 “Generation X would swallow whatever untruths they had been fed. For they had been led, by the WWII-Gen media, to scapegoat the Sixties Generation for any problems they saw around them. This use of fake news and misrepresentation beginning in the 1970s and 1980s to deflect attention away from the actual filthy-rich perpetrators is important. This tactic of the wealthy elite targeting a scapegoat to create a Culture War, which would keep their larceny in the shadows, is indeed the premise of this book. “I need to make clear just how long has been going on this ploy of the wealthy using Culture War to hide their secretive and ongoing Class War. It makes it easier to see why it is so pervasive today, as we observe in the media’s use of Lefties as target practice for the irritations of grumbly MAGAts.”
October 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
oldsklmarine.bsky.social
But it's pretty easy to understand who's running the media and AI for that matter. Because when you ask the question how many Germans were actually in the Nazi party...,,? The Gemini. It comes back with
How many people were killed. 🙄
www.statista.com/statistics/1...
WWII: victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide 1933-1945 | Statista
Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20-25 percent of the total) were due to crimes aga...
www.statista.com
October 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
andrewspayde.bsky.social
I would argue that St Louis started French, turned Southern during the steamboat days, then flipped to Midwestern due to German and Irish immigration in the late 19th century. It has been sliding back to the South since after WWII. At this point most of Missouri feels like Arkansas to me.
October 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
sactowngrandma.bsky.social
Oh my! I know Grandpa Brown got a refrigerator in anticipation of the Rural Electrification Project, but funding got stopped by WWII, so the fridge stayed in his barn for the duration.

All was electrified by the time my Boomer sibs and I came along.
October 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
codexcultus.bsky.social
#OTD On October 8, 1939, Germany and the USSR partitioned Poland. Germany annexed western areas and set up the General Government, while the Soviets integrated eastern lands. In response, Poles formed the Underground State and the Armed Forces in the West to fight on.
#WWII #history #militaryhistory
October 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
inland-imperialist.bsky.social
1) I think your read on the 80s is broadly correct, but we're now at a time when the 1984 election (which I suspect lives on as a cautionary tale to every Dem who is old enough to remember it) is about far back in the past as WWII was to the NES' debut.
October 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
caseyapplegate.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...
Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
www.npr.org
October 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
quitecontrary09.bsky.social
The WWII mentality was to fight fascism.
October 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
patrickiber.bsky.social
And here's chapter 6, where the idea for these chapter memes came from in the first place. This is the chapter on neoliberalism and the Chicago Boys in Chile - Schultz moved to Chicago from Iowa State in part due to an academic freedom issue with the butter lobby during WWII
It's the "increasingly large dominos" meme, with a guy in khaki pants and blue shirt kneeling to knock over the tiniest domino. The small one reads "Ted Schultz defends substituting margarine for butter in wartime" and the biggest one reads "Global Neoliberal Restructuring"
October 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
trueblueliberal.bsky.social
Firing squads?

If America is wedded to state executions, maybe it's time to resurrect the only surefire humane method of execution, the one promoted by Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...
Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
www.npr.org
October 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM
oldnormalguy.bsky.social
Ok, let me count:

1. American civil war
2. WWI
3. WWII
4. Spanish war
5. Korean War
6. VN war
7. Afghanistan war
8. Iran war
October 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
War is pointless. With the notable exception of WWII, America, for all its investments in the trappings of war, sucks at it. Not the military breaking shot part, that America is expert at. But, the political/diplomatic part where it’s time to call a close to childish endeavors.
October 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
keithdev.bsky.social
Feeding the crew of an aircraft carrier is not historic. It's happened since WWII.
October 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
sentandoapua.bsky.social
Bombardeiro Boeing B-29 Superfortress, do 500º Grupo de Bombardeio da USAAF. Isley Field, Saipan, 1945

#aviação #militar #historia #WWII #bombardeiro #USAAF #B29
Bombardeiro B‑29 prateado com o nome "Silver Lady" no casco, estacionado na pista com fileiras de bombas alinhadas no chão prontas para carregamento.
October 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
princessofely.bsky.social
And Hitler, and concentration camps. My Uncle Daniel took photos that are in the Tower in the Holocaust Museum in DC. He never spoke of what he saw. In WWII he rode a motorcycle across the Pyrenees mountains, delivering mail to the troops, one of the few to carry their own camera.
October 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
tanngrisnir.bsky.social
As if you’d have had a couple of poached eggs in WWII.
gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2d
Does Britain know World War II is over
October 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
mikeblack114.bsky.social
to the extent this involves any thinking instead of being a (badly written) money grab attempt, they have an institutional pathology about the early days of Korea and to a lesser extent the Philippines in WWII
October 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM