Here to say that if you need access to January 6 data, I’ve kept a handy link posted on my profile since the day I set up shop here.
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Yes it’s true that Michael Flynn’s brother commands the Navy in the Pacific.
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I’m thinking about taking that Dark Brandon bumper sticker off of my windshield.
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Insert Reichstag fire gif here.
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FFS Nigel at the rally.
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Here is volume one of Jack Smith‘s report on Trump‘s election interference.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25486132/report-of-special-counsel-smith-volume-1-january-2025.pdf
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It’s a crying shame.
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Just here to say that I am very disappointed in the way that BBC television covered the trials against Trump, and Jack Smith in particular. The stolen classified documents did not merit a mention 😟 It’s like they had a MAGA cultist doing the analysis.
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Look, the Wildfires layer on Google Earth shows where the smoke is going.
[#]SaturdayMaps
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If you want to see some of the most awesome surfing footage ever, here you go. Just in case you need a little something to distract you or brighten up your day.
https://kost1035.iheart.com/featured/ellen-k/content/2025-01-06-watch-santa-cruz-surfer-alessandro-alo-slebir-ride-colossal-108-foot-wave/
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Since I adore Albert Bierstadt, allow me to share with you a photo of a painting that I took at Stanford Canter art museum four years ago.
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The Tang dynasty was one of the most successful ever rule China, extending the region in to central Asia. Their successors, the Sung, fell to the Mongols. 618 to 1287. This covers arise of Buddhism in Tibet.
If you look at the map, they were spread out too far. All the way to modern day Kazakhstan through a narrow corridor, the Gansu. Not very tenable.
“however because of the great distance involved the central Asian empire was difficult to defend.”
All of these empires were too large.
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You’ve got the Byzantine Empire featuring mostly Greece and Turkey from 324 Cita 1453 and the Mediterranean along with their crusades, Russia converts and the Byzantine legacy in four pages next up is the rise of Islam from 6:32 to 1453CE including the end of the Caliphate. Then we’re off to medieval Europe from 1050 A.D. to 1500 in the Renaissance, the age of the Crusades and Joan of Ark. Next up…
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The thing about this Atlas is that you go from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 turn a few pages to Europe in the dark ages and you see Genghis Khan on the upper right along with all of Europe. In two pages you cover Charles great, the Vikings, and the life of the monasteries.Did I mention how beautifully illustrated maps are and the graphics? This is great data visualization. Why the fuck has four stars I don’t know it is amazing.
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For some reason, I’ve had technical errors loading a photo of the Atlas of past times. Suffice to say its cover feature the Mongolian horde of Genghis Khan, spreading southward and Westward
Ukrainians call Mongols the Golden Horde.
I think of the Soviet Union as the Golden horde of the 20th century. And that’s ultimately what all of these atlases are about.
Here’s a link to the atlas
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4208571-the-atlas-of-past-times
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How prescient. 🤯
What has happened in the last three months? Let’s see.
Israel expanded to bombing Yemen & Lebanon.
Syria is liberated from their tyrant.
North Korean troops are taking a licking in Russia’s futile war against Ukraine, who have new weapons.
Myanmar sees many areas freed from military control.
So yes, the gods of war & expansion got together on the bulls horns & here we are. Uranus has thrown us a few surprises. Overall, we are in a better place, at least for 🇸🇾 🇲🇲
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My current collection of atlases includes
• tattered, paperback Goodes World Atlas c 1978
• a leather bound Britannia c 1994
• Australian Atlas c 1981 an Australian school textbook
• The Atlas of Past Times c 2006 in high quality paperback
I still regret letting go of the greatly oversized National Geographic, which was a gift. It was impossible to store, though.
With the exception of the Britannica, these measure approximately nine wide by 12 tall. That’s inches, 🇺🇸 imperial system.
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Over on the hellscape, I used a hashtag, #SaturdayMaps.
I enjoy looking at maps. You can learn things from them that cannot be learned from Google Earth or Google maps or Apple Maps.
Actual physically printed maps are different.
And that is why I have a small collection of atlases.
This is a small thread about one of my minor hobbies.
Happy solstice, people.
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For anyone who wants to keep score, right now it’s America one, Elon Musk zero.
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My neighbors down the road have a pretty good sized stand of prickly pear cactus. The fruit are bright red.
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