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@captslap.bsky.social

Historian of France and French Politics

19 Followers  |  13 Following  |  47 Posts  |  Joined: 28.11.2023  |  1.9407

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UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this.

So would you do us a favour and share?

UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

27.07.2025 20:57 — 👍 386    🔁 303    💬 12    📌 29

I don't

01.08.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whereas 'tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town', chances are high it'll be at the local jail.

12.07.2025 06:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Too soon to call for the Ottomans?

04.07.2025 03:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a fireworks display with the words `` celebrate sobriety day ! '' ALT: a fireworks display with the words `` celebrate sobriety day ! ''

When you finally get your travel expenses approved by Unicore...

24.06.2025 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How would he do that, exactly?

24.06.2025 09:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tbh I think we're over selling the new gas pipe into Economics and Geography

24.06.2025 05:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.

20.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 2140    🔁 498    💬 71    📌 23
Tulsi Gabbard selling a shirt that says No War With Iran

Tulsi Gabbard selling a shirt that says No War With Iran

Wondering if this shirt is still available

22.06.2025 00:36 — 👍 8369    🔁 1595    💬 111    📌 55

Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real.

22.06.2025 00:20 — 👍 2000    🔁 394    💬 6    📌 11

No, the Iraq war was nothing like this. There was a case made in public over many months, coordination with allies, a military buildup, and strategic goals. It was not one demented lunatic arguing with himself on TV over 5 days.

18.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 530    🔁 95    💬 32    📌 19
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Agathe Gaillard, galeriste et défenseuse de la photographie, est morte Cette forte personnalité a créé la première galerie uniquement consacrée à la photographie à Paris, en 1975, où elle a défendu des auteurs comme André Kertesz, Ralph Gibson, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, et lutté pour que les tirages soient considérés comme des œuvres d’art. Elle s’est éteinte le 13 juin, à l’âge de 83 ans.

Agathe Gaillard, galeriste et défenseuse de la photographie, est morte

17.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Bernard Cassen, figure de l’altermondialisme et cofondateur d’Attac, est mort Président d’honneur de l’association altermondialiste Attac France, qu’il avait cofondée, Bernard Cassen a aussi travaillé au « Monde » en tant que journaliste, avant de rejoindre « Le Monde diplomatique », en 1973.

Bernard Cassen, figure de l’altermondialisme et cofondateur d’Attac, est mort

12.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

Not to mention Joseph Caillaux and... Well, everyone

06.06.2025 11:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm here for it

06.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chris Mason

Chris Mason

I wonder what time Chris Mason is doing his to-camera piece about how Labour's by-election win could be bad news for Keir Starmer?

06.06.2025 11:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

Nora was one of the great French intellectual impresarios of the postwar period and truly representative of his generation - in all its imagination and dogmatism. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

02.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, what, suddenly PSG are the good guys?

01.06.2025 04:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those wretched Tate brothers. I don't know why we give them the oxygen of oxygen, let alone of publicity.

30.05.2025 09:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A fair point, well made

28.05.2025 05:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Can Ukraine Survive Without NATO? Breaking Down Putin's Strategy'– Dr. Brian Taylor, ZOOM-Interview YouTube video by UNITED24

It was an honor to talk to @united24media.com about Putin's goals and why any future peace deal without solid guarantees could lead to even greater risks for Ukraine. Recorded 10 days ago. Some things here the White House should but doesn't know.

www.youtube.com/live/N1H_75I...

01.03.2025 02:21 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Brian Glenn (of the Zelenskyy suit question) is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend, if that gives some indication of his gravitas and sound judgment.

28.02.2025 22:05 — 👍 34    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
Screen shot of Ben Rhodes tweet. Text: These are not political news cycle issues. Trump is transforming what the United States is as a country in the world into a far right, authoritarian, transactional, valueless oligarchy aligned with the world's autocracies.

Screen shot of Ben Rhodes tweet. Text: These are not political news cycle issues. Trump is transforming what the United States is as a country in the world into a far right, authoritarian, transactional, valueless oligarchy aligned with the world's autocracies.

Ben Rhodes captures the gravity of the situation in all its horror

28.02.2025 19:49 — 👍 901    🔁 285    💬 8    📌 11

We all made fun of "Somehow, Palpatine returned," but here we fucking are.

21.01.2025 17:41 — 👍 217    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 3
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Fair play to her

20.01.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@explodingheads.bsky.social he's got the club in his DNA

11.01.2025 10:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Syrie : « On est face à un mouvement qui s’est déradicalisé par le haut » Grand spécialiste de la Syrie, le chercheur Patrick Haenni analyse la nature du nouveau pouvoir issu du groupe Hayat Tahrir Al-Cham et les défis stratégiques et sécuritaires auxquels vont être confrontées les nouvelles autorités de Damas.

Syrie : « On est face à un mouvement qui s’est déradicalisé par le haut »

08.01.2025 18:55 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 1

@explodingheads.bsky.social Don't get me wrong, but he had to go. Tbh, I'd appoint Sir Trevor

08.01.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good grief. 😂

06.01.2025 13:39 — 👍 2374    🔁 540    💬 183    📌 60

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