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Terrence Peterson
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Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Curmudgeon. Associate Prof. No Tyrants, No Kings.

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https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
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Turkey o'clock
Image of an orange sunrise through barren trees
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Doenjang Jjigae niggghhht
A blue bowl piled with rice, limchi, and a rich stew of tofu and zucchini, swimming in broth
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Clearly the only way to make sense of this graphic is that one restroom is for epaulets, and the other is for jodhpurs
A tweet shows an image of very ambiguous bathroom signs with the caption "Bro, I'm seconds away from disaster! Where's the men's restroom?" The figure on the left is a square centered over two lines with two smaller squares located at the outside top of the lines. The figure on the right is a square over two lines with smaller squares located on the outside middle of the lines
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Makin' sauce
Two boxes of jars filled with chile verde and serrano hot sauce
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Love pomegranate season
A blue bowl with a crimson mound of pomegranate arias sits on a wooden table next to a bowl of bright oranges. Bands of sunlight and shadow drape across the bowls, lending the arias a luminous intensity
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Cheers with this very medicinal, very fall-appropriate Fanciulli
A man's meat hand holds up a fancy coup with an amber cocktail
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Couscous night
A platter piled high with fluffy yellow couscous, layered vegetables, and topped with chickpeas sits next to a bowl of orange broth loaded with more vegetables
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Fall comfort food
Romano beans braised in tomato sauce served over polenta
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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So that sale price means I need two or three... MORE wheels of Rush Creek Reserve, right?
A multi-level display of cheese, featuring saran-wrapped pyramids of cheese and several wheels of Rush Creek Reserve, a soft bloomy-rind cheese modeled after Vacherin Mont d'Or from Switzerland
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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New Yorkers got it so good. Yo guys don't even know
Szechuan stir ried chicken with chilies piled atop a plate
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Managed to fit in a little archive time, even
An image of a white table with a stack of battered archival documents laid out across it
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Turns out you can want just a little bit more
Image of an old fashioned deli counter at Russ and Daughters. Rows of clean glasses and multicolored bottles stand under illuminated white signs that read "sardines," "chubs," "pickles from the barrel"
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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One last view of the Casbah for the road
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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And the sun sets on this visit to Algeria. What a privilege to have been here
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I was very honored today to be invited to visit Algeria's National Museum of Mujahid and to sign the book inside the Dome of Remembrance.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The Mitidja
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Roman ruins in Tipaza
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Statue of Emir Abdelkader, Algiers city center
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Algiers is everywhere robed in the green, white, and red of its flag for the anniversary of the revolution (1 Nov)
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Casbah d'Alger
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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And here is the Bay of Algiers.
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Today I got to be on live radio for the first time ever, which was cool. I wore the headsets and everything!
A covered walkway stretches toward a tall building in the background topped by an Algerian flag and the emblem of the national broadcasting network. Strings of Algerian flags stretch from the covered walkway out of the right hand frame of the picture
November 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Bientôt!
Poster for an event in Arabic
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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At the Salon International du Livre d'Alger to present my book at the US Embassy booth!

#SILA2025
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I am no numismatist but it always gives me a little thrill to see the Group of Six on money
An image of an Algerian 2,000 dinar note featuring an image of the 'Group of Six' founders of the FLN
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM