Tom Parker

"Avoiding the Terrorist Trap" by @tdgparker.bsky.social

Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…

…Booth also managed to snag one of the steel pikes Brown had had manufactured to arm the slave rebellion as a souvenir.

…Despite his personal dislike of the abolitionist, whom he rather ironically described as a “traitor and terrorizer”, Booth would later tell his sister: “John Brown was a man inspired, the grandest character of this century.”

…Booth was appearing at a theatre in Richmond at the time of Brown’s trial and on a whim he dressed up in military uniform to accompany a unit of the Richmond Greys who had been dispatched to county seat of Charlestown to provide security for Brown’s execution on the scaffold…

…Brown, who has a strong claim to be one of history’s first religious terrorists, had already murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, in May 1856. He’d make a great subject for a @theresthistory.bsky.social series…

…In December 1859 John Wilkes Booth was actually present at the execution of the revolutionary abolitionist John Brown, whose raid on Harper’s Ferry in Virginia on 16 October 1859 set in motion the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War…

Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…

#Constellations #Benjamin #FredricJameson

WATCH: 101st Airborne Division commander Maj. Gen. David Gardner spoke to soldiers and local high school students at the Carentan theater before the soldiers toured a WWII battlefield.

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Which also rather begs the question, if he thinks Trump is a sex offender why did Elon support his election?

Tweet from @thekafkadude It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Awesome, can’t wait to listen

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Incidents like this — law enforcement entering the wrong house — are already far too common.

Go read @radleybalko.bsky.social "Rise of the Warrior Cop." It details how military-style policing has been normalized over decades and how common adverse outcomes come from mistakes on addresses.

Legend

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I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect.

I am so pleased to announce that Dr. Lynn Schneider and I have signed a contract with @columbiaup.bsky.social for our book “Extreme Childhoods: Growing Up in Families Affiliated with Violent Extremism and Terrorism.” /1

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Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴

Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

If you are interested in learning more about how terrorists can be constrained in their actions by public opinion, check out my book Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism. Thanks for reading to the end!

The loyalty of their supporters is thus an important guarantor of terrorists’ physical safety, their operational capabilities, and even their long-term viability. If they alienate them through their words or actions, their entire enterprise can be put at risk…

As terrorism researcher Louise Richardson noted in her book What Terrorists Want: “Terrorism, to survive and thrive, needs a complicit society, a societal surround sympathetic to its aspirations”…

“We offer our apology and condolences to the victims’ families. We accept full responsibility for what happened in the hospital and will pay blood money for the victims’ families”…