Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King
@sammyflex.bsky.social
Amateur historian, temporarily exiled from Paris 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
(Cover image: 6e Régiment de Tirailleurs Marocains, Viticuso, Italy, Feb. 1944)
(Cover image: 6e Régiment de Tirailleurs Marocains, Viticuso, Italy, Feb. 1944)
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Bringing my French WWII photos thread to Bluesky
Anti-Aircraft gunners of the 402e RADCA (Air Defense Regiment) hooping in March 1940.
Anti-Aircraft gunners of the 402e RADCA (Air Defense Regiment) hooping in March 1940.
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“The United States, according to the New York Times, has a Maginot Line problem.
The problem is that Monsieur Maginot’s infamous namesake fortification has little to do with what really happened in 1940.”
Me in Foreign Policy (gift link)
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/f...
The problem is that Monsieur Maginot’s infamous namesake fortification has little to do with what really happened in 1940.”
Me in Foreign Policy (gift link)
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/f...
U.S. Strategists Keep Getting France’s Defeat Wrong
Myths about the Maginot Line are strangely persistent.
foreignpolicy.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“The United States, according to the New York Times, has a Maginot Line problem.
The problem is that Monsieur Maginot’s infamous namesake fortification has little to do with what really happened in 1940.”
Me in Foreign Policy (gift link)
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/f...
The problem is that Monsieur Maginot’s infamous namesake fortification has little to do with what really happened in 1940.”
Me in Foreign Policy (gift link)
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/f...
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lol, lmao, lol, lmao
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
lol, lmao, lol, lmao
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December 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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DC-5 transport originally with Dutch airlines KLM but captured by the Japanese is shown in Japan for testing, Tachikawa Air Field, circa 1943
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
DC-5 transport originally with Dutch airlines KLM but captured by the Japanese is shown in Japan for testing, Tachikawa Air Field, circa 1943
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Absolutely vile behavior. It should be a national shame that this is even close to legal. Of course this shithead is a landlord YouTuber one of the most cursed possible combos. A whole country full of wannabe scammers
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Absolutely vile behavior. It should be a national shame that this is even close to legal. Of course this shithead is a landlord YouTuber one of the most cursed possible combos. A whole country full of wannabe scammers
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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Escort carrier USS Altamaha (CVE-18) operating with blimp K-29 on 24 February 1944, in a test off the California coast.
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Escort carrier USS Altamaha (CVE-18) operating with blimp K-29 on 24 February 1944, in a test off the California coast.
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This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.
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Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
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14 décembre 1908 : Naissance de l'athlète et photographe polonais Eugeniusz Lokajski.
Remarqué pour son palmarès en lancer de javelot, il participe à l'Insurrection de Varsovie en août 1944, durant laquelle il prend un millier de photos d'une valeur remarquable pour les historiens.
#CeJourLà
Remarqué pour son palmarès en lancer de javelot, il participe à l'Insurrection de Varsovie en août 1944, durant laquelle il prend un millier de photos d'une valeur remarquable pour les historiens.
#CeJourLà
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
14 décembre 1908 : Naissance de l'athlète et photographe polonais Eugeniusz Lokajski.
Remarqué pour son palmarès en lancer de javelot, il participe à l'Insurrection de Varsovie en août 1944, durant laquelle il prend un millier de photos d'une valeur remarquable pour les historiens.
#CeJourLà
Remarqué pour son palmarès en lancer de javelot, il participe à l'Insurrection de Varsovie en août 1944, durant laquelle il prend un millier de photos d'une valeur remarquable pour les historiens.
#CeJourLà
Another mult-part #OnThisDay post, once again with the 2e Blindée in Alsace, which is risposting south of Strasbourg following a local-level German counterattack yesterday. The 1re Armée is clearing the last pockets of resistance in anticipation of the eventual crossing of the Rhine.
#OnThisDay 14 Dec 1944 French 2nd Armored (2e DB) on the offensive in the Witternheim-Benfeld sector, south of Strasbourg. [1/5]
1&2: M4A3 "Douaumont II", 3e Cie., 501e RCC. Commander+Driver WIA later this day.
3&4: 9e Cie., Rgt. de Marche du Tchad.
#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace
1&2: M4A3 "Douaumont II", 3e Cie., 501e RCC. Commander+Driver WIA later this day.
3&4: 9e Cie., Rgt. de Marche du Tchad.
#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Another mult-part #OnThisDay post, once again with the 2e Blindée in Alsace, which is risposting south of Strasbourg following a local-level German counterattack yesterday. The 1re Armée is clearing the last pockets of resistance in anticipation of the eventual crossing of the Rhine.
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RSF gets the Israel treatment in headlines now. Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed by completely independent drone that just did that on its own I guess
A drone strike on a U.N. facility in war-torn Sudan left six peacekeepers dead, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
UN chief says 6 peacekeepers killed in drone strike on a UN facility in Sudan
A drone strike on a U.N. facility in war-torn Sudan left six peacekeepers dead, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
RSF gets the Israel treatment in headlines now. Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed by completely independent drone that just did that on its own I guess
Second life with the Finns for captured Morane-Saulnier M.S.406s, where, much like the infamous Brewster Buffalo, these underpowered planes put up a better performance than they probably had any right to.
Morane-koneita (MS) Latvan kentällä. Latva, Latvan lentokenttä 1943.09.09
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Second life with the Finns for captured Morane-Saulnier M.S.406s, where, much like the infamous Brewster Buffalo, these underpowered planes put up a better performance than they probably had any right to.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers.
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Episode 391 - The US Navy's Flying Aircraft Carriers ft. Dr. Patrick Wyman
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December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers.
m.soundcloud.com/llbdpodcast/...
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Until a drastic change is made, and a complete break with fascism is achieved, including the removal of any chance of its return, only a fool would trust anyone in a position of authority in the modern USA, regardless of their supposed liberal or socialist bonafides.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Until a drastic change is made, and a complete break with fascism is achieved, including the removal of any chance of its return, only a fool would trust anyone in a position of authority in the modern USA, regardless of their supposed liberal or socialist bonafides.
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🧵 Maintenance of Invaders.
"Three-quarter left rear view of a Douglas RB-26C Invader (s/n 44-35651; c/n 28930) getting its wing attended to by a maintenance man standing on a jeep."
The "jeep" actually appears to be a Clarktor 6 aircraft towing tractor.
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/176888908
"Three-quarter left rear view of a Douglas RB-26C Invader (s/n 44-35651; c/n 28930) getting its wing attended to by a maintenance man standing on a jeep."
The "jeep" actually appears to be a Clarktor 6 aircraft towing tractor.
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/176888908
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🧵 Maintenance of Invaders.
"Three-quarter left rear view of a Douglas RB-26C Invader (s/n 44-35651; c/n 28930) getting its wing attended to by a maintenance man standing on a jeep."
The "jeep" actually appears to be a Clarktor 6 aircraft towing tractor.
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/176888908
"Three-quarter left rear view of a Douglas RB-26C Invader (s/n 44-35651; c/n 28930) getting its wing attended to by a maintenance man standing on a jeep."
The "jeep" actually appears to be a Clarktor 6 aircraft towing tractor.
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/176888908
Some really great observations on a classic
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Some really great observations on a classic
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For the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), model makers from Fox Studios created models nearly 40 feet long. Here are several of them in the Fox tank at Calabasas, California.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), model makers from Fox Studios created models nearly 40 feet long. Here are several of them in the Fox tank at Calabasas, California.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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１日１ミリ。1945年２月３日前後か。アルザスのコルマールポケットの攻防。第12機甲師団714戦車大隊所属のM4シャーマン。手前の車両はHVSSサスペンション、T23砲塔に72.6mm砲を装備するM4A3(76) 。他はHVSSサスの75mm砲型 M4A3だろうか。
雪が降ったり消えたりの風景に対応するため、この時期のアルザスでは部分的に白くした冬季迷彩のシャーマンを見かける。
雪が降ったり消えたりの風景に対応するため、この時期のアルザスでは部分的に白くした冬季迷彩のシャーマンを見かける。
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
１日１ミリ。1945年２月３日前後か。アルザスのコルマールポケットの攻防。第12機甲師団714戦車大隊所属のM4シャーマン。手前の車両はHVSSサスペンション、T23砲塔に72.6mm砲を装備するM4A3(76) 。他はHVSSサスの75mm砲型 M4A3だろうか。
雪が降ったり消えたりの風景に対応するため、この時期のアルザスでは部分的に白くした冬季迷彩のシャーマンを見かける。
雪が降ったり消えたりの風景に対応するため、この時期のアルザスでは部分的に白くした冬季迷彩のシャーマンを見かける。
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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In 1942, Harold Weston quit painting and founded Food for Freedom an organization that provided food for millions of refugees displaced by WW2. He returned to art seven years later to embark on a series of paintings that chronicled the building of the UN headquarters in New York
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 1942, Harold Weston quit painting and founded Food for Freedom an organization that provided food for millions of refugees displaced by WW2. He returned to art seven years later to embark on a series of paintings that chronicled the building of the UN headquarters in New York