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Happy Independence Restoration Day to all Lithuanians! 🇱🇹

Surely, Tankfest 1.0 😊 #WW1 #HISTORY

17 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary minesweeper HMS Jarak was scuttled off Singkep Island, Sumatra. She had been attacked by Japanese warships and a cruiser-launched aircraft two days earlier but had been able to recover from heavy damage and continue south. No lives lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

17 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary patrol vessel HMS Tandjong Pinang was sunk by Japanese warships north of Bangka Island. Having brought evacuees safely from Singapore to Tembilan, she had turned back to rescue survivors from earlier sinkings. She sank with heavy loss of life. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Royal Navy corvette HMS Bluebell. Image: Imperial War Museum: FL 2384. Description: a small warship under way slowly in an enclosed stretch of water, with other ships and land visible in the background.

17 Feb 1945 // Corvette HMS Bluebell was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.711 off Murmansk. She exploded and sank within 30 seconds of being struck. 3 men of her 90 crew were picked up but 2 died shortly after being rescued. (Imperial War Museum image: FL 2384) #RoyalNavy #WW2

Condemned as a total loss, HMS Lark was deliberately run aground in Kola Bay, stripped of stores and equipment, and abandoned. Some reports say that she was salvaged by the Russians and saw service in the Soviet Navy after the war, but these are unconfirmed.[2/2] #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Royal Navy sloop HMS Lark. Imperial War Museum image: FL 9968. Description: a warship moored to a buoy close to land, with the shore visible behind.

17 Feb 1945 // Sloop HMS Lark was torpedoed by German submarine U.968 off Murmansk, killing three men and wrecking her stern and propellers. Prompt damage control kept her afloat and she was taken in tow, but the damage was too severe for her to be salvageable. (Imperial War Museum: FL 9968) [1/2]

Those are the only substitutions allowed!

Everyone knows she was his sister! 😉

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

America has lost a titan in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. From his days at the side of Dr. King, to his moral leadership in this century, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. spent his life pushing our nation closer to its own ideal.

RIP Robert Duvall aka Colonel Radl. “A wink from a pretty girl at a party results rarely in climax, Karl. But a man is a fool not to push a suggestion as far as it will go.”

16 Feb 1807 // 4-gun schooner HMS Jackdaw was chased and captured off northern Portugal by a Spanish ship. After an exchange of fire the Spaniard took up a raking position. The schooner had suffered damage and now had only two guns capable of firing, so her captain and first mate surrendered. [1/3]

I did my bit in early 2024 btw. Over 10,000

16 Feb 1811 // 36-gun frigate HMS Amethyst was driven ashore and wrecked with eight men killed at Mount Batten, Plymouth, when the single anchor holding her dragged in a gale. Captain and Master were severely reprimanded for trusting the ship to just one anchor. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1918 // HM Tug Thames was lost, presumed foundered, off Aberdeen while under tow. The towline parted in poor weather and she was never seen again. There was no crew on board at the time and no casualties resulted. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Recepto, in use as a minesweeper, was sweeping in Tees Bay with another trawler when she detonated a mine laid by German submarine UC.30 four days earlier. She sank immediately and there were no survivors from her nine crew. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1941 // Paddle minesweeper HMS Southsea (formerly Southern Railway ferry PS Southsea, requisitioned 1940) struck a mine at the mouth of the Tyne and sank in shallow water. She was raised and beached but became a total loss. Eight of her crew lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1941 // HM Trawler Ormonde was minesweeping with two other trawlers off Peterhead when a single German aircraft made a sudden attack and sank her with two bombs. Searches by the other trawlers and the Peterhead lifeboat found no survivors: all 18 crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Pictured is an absolute clown of a candidate standing for Reform in the Gorton and Denton, Matthew Goodwin. The words “reform will give incentives to women who have more children and penalise those who don’t. Change is coming.”

I thought this was an AI mock up because no man would be so monumentally idiotic, insensitive and intrusive as to punish women for not having children…but then it is Reform.

Reform are not on yourside.

Reform not care about women’s safety.

Reform only see us as baby making machines.

MEMORANDUM OPINION February 16, 2026 “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.” George Orwell, 1984' As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…

CONCLUsION For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place. Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy Presidents Day.

My next book? 😆

I don’t know whether I’m more offended by the lap dog obsequiousness or the misuse of “I COULDN’T care less.”

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] YouTube video by NENA

Thinking Cold War songs today...some absolute bangers in there!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5...

bring back shame

If STIs took on human form...

Our next @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social FREE newsletter is going to drop at the beginning of next week. This month’s free article is going to be from a forgotten part of the Western Front, so make sure you sign up in time to to find out what it is!

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.

To *Italy*.

I remember being on detachment to Sicily - working with USN - where (I am appalled to say) we made a crew Spaghetti Bolognaise using American pasta, beef, tomatoes, Parmesan cheese and herbs. 🤦‍♂️