1/ The story of a young Coast Guard staff officer that volunteered to lead troops in support of WWII’s Operation Overlord through the German controlled city of Cherbourg, secured the port on a gambler’s bluff and freed the captured American paratroopers held there. 2/ The Coast Guard, renowned for its maritime service, saw its members called to action beyond their usual roles during WWII. One notable instance is Coast Guard Commander Quienten Walsh.

1/ Fight or flight? A question facing Americans today - to recoil from the cities, from institutions, from society or to fight. It is a question the Boers also faced when the British gained control of South Africa in 1806. 2/ For half a century the ununified, individualistic Boers, who just wished to just be left alone, fled. That is until the First Boer War in 1880 when for the first time, the Boers decided not to run from British oppression but to fight.

Weenen Massacre - 1838

In 1652 the Dutch East India Company established a victualling in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide safe harbor and provisions for their ships conducting trade around Africa. 2/ For the next century and a half the Dutch colonists, Boers, developed the land, that is until 1815 when the British took over control of the colony through the Treaty of Paris after the Napoleonic War.

Coast Guard Thread Series -One:

A short shorty on how the Revenue Cutter Service herded reindeer across Alaska to save over 200 trapped whalers: 1/ During the harsh winter of 1897, eight whaling vessels,comprised of 265 crewmen, were unexpectedly trapped in the Arctic ice near Port Barrow, AK. The whaling companies, fearing their men would perish from starvation due to their limited supply of food,

1/ In the late 1800s, the country was faced with 2 serious problems: homeless children in the cities & inadequate farm labor in the west. One of NYC’s “elite”, Charles Brace, saw these 2 issues and came up with a solution… sell the children of the city to rural farmers. 2/ Brace, a Yale graduate and Calvinist minister from Connecticut, arrived in NYC with the stated intention to help solve the ever-growing problem of “homeless” children that was infecting the city.

1/ The Battle of Salamis and the Power of Brothers over Slaves

In 480BC, the Achaemenid Persian Empire seemed unstoppable after decades of ruthlessly conquering the lands and the people from the Balkans to Egypt. 2/ Throughout the known world, only Greece stood against the Persian ambitions. A decade prior King Darius I had set his sights on Greece in the first Greco-Persian War, but the King’s dreams on conquest died with his army in front of a Greek phalanx at Marathon.

1/ Today we hear “fake news” proclaimed at everything. We see sensational, opinionated, clickbait headlines masquerading as “news” but this type of journalism isn’t new. In fact, fair and objective “journalists” have always been the exception rather than the rule. 2/ In the late 1800s the refined and elite readers watched as two NYC papers outright lied, and started a real war with real casualties, all to sell more papers. They termed this inaccurate, entertainment-based reporting “yellow journalism.”

1/ January 30th, 1862

- USS Monitor -

A large & mostly unknown part of the history of the USS Monitor is the story of freed slave Mary Louvestre, who’s heroism in smuggling information to the Union helped change the Union Navy’s attitude toward the need for an ironclad. 2/ Throughout the world in the 1800s the need for armored ships that could withstand shelling from more powerful guns grew. While other countries began using heavy iron plating on the sides of their warships, America was in no hurry to do so...

1/ A thread about ANONS and why knowing someone’s name is not relevant to knowing them. As stated by Richard Feynman, “(there is a) difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” He was referencing birds, and how they are called a different name in 2/ different languages. His father taught him this, because other boys teased him that he didn’t know the names of the birds. While Richard didn’t know the names, he did know its mating, nesting and other characteristics of the birds. Now look at us ANONs, through interactions,

Dad picked the 49ers.

So I am stuck with the Eagles.

And I’m trolling tf out of SF fans, holy shit this is fun. Lmao… wooo these people get all worked up

1/ January 28th, 1915

- United States Coast Guard -

The Coast Guard officially celebrates her birthday on August 4, as that is the day congress approved funding for the construction of 10 cutters for the Revenue Cutter Service in 1790. 2/ However, on January 28th, 1915, Congress voted to merge the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S Life-Saving Service, officially creating the United Stated Coast Guard.

1/ January 27th, 1776

- Knox's Noble Artillery Train -

Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the Continental Army laid siege to the British trapped in Boston. A small contingent of New England Militia blocked the narrow strip of land leading to Boston, 2/ forcing the British to look to the sea as their only hope of resupply.

This impasse carried on for months, with the British unable to dislodge the Continental Army from the road, and the Continentals lacking heavy artillery to push the British out of Boston.

1/ Jan 25, 1917

This is the story of the SS Laurentic.

When I first decided to research her for today's history thread, I never imagined I would read such an intriguing story of a murderer on the run, war, a hidden cargo and the loss of life, that I have. 2/ SS Laurentic was a White Star Line ship that was built in the same shipyard as the Titanic in 1908.

While initially built as another ocean-liner passenger vessel, she was converted into an armed maritime cruiser, so basically a tank, during WWI.

1/ Word Manipulation for Emotional Response - A Thread

Let’s begin with the “bait” tweet. Bait tweets are used for engagement, like click bait. They are cunningly worded to increase engagement of both support and dissent. 2/ First two words, “ventilators killed” are designed to cause an emotional response.

He immediately follows up these damning words with “I know doctors didn’t mean to…” leading these two thoughts & actions to be connected, and readers to blame doctors.

Dear Con Inc:

There are many of us who voted for Trump (twice), but we were never team MAGA.

We disdain you, as much, if not more than we do the Lincoln Project or the Never-Trumpers, cause you use our people and our beliefs, but you’re all the same - grifters. 1/ We don’t buy your books, read your websites or listen to your podcasts.

Why?

Cause we don’t need some egotistical, self serving, narcissistic polisci grifter telling us what freedom is. We don’t need your lectures on liberty or your fake appeals to our faith. 2/

1/January 13th, 1842

While looking for today’s history, I came across this fascinating story about Dr. William Bryson, the sole survivor of British retreat from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War, & figured I’d share it with you.

(Preface: I am NOT an expert by any means) 2/ Two years after their successful invasion of Afghanistan in 1840, the British discovered like so many others, that Afghanistan was much easier to take than to hold. In the winter of 1842, the decision was made by British commander Maj. Gen. Elphinstone to march...

1/ I shared this tweet yesterday- and highlight keywords in it - but the whole thing continued to bother me. The complete manipulation of the wording of the entire tweet.

So I took a minute to break it down, piece by piece, into a thread. 2/ So let’s start with the first line-
"The way we are handling it in NYC" - It’s false appeal to authority.

@aoc has no jurisdiction to handle anything there, she is a rep to the federal gov for her district.

She can speak on their behave, but has no state or local authority.

1/ A thread about ANONS and why knowing someone’s name is not relevant to knowing them. As stated by Richard Feynman, “(there is a) difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” He was referencing birds, and how they are called a different name in 2/ different languages. His father taught him this, because other boys teased him that he didn’t know the names of the birds. While Richard didn’t know the names, he did know its mating, nesting and other characteristics of the birds. Now look at us ANONs, through interactions,