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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 7d

I think this is exactly right.

Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve seen them 3 times. The Mindcrime tour opening for Metallica on their Justice tour, the Tribe tour (2004?), and the last one was about a week before they broke up. The first two were fantastic, the last one was not. There was a real hostility on the stage that night. Weirdest show I’ve seen.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 13d

I think they’re much closer to Maiden than Crue. Their first couple albums have a real edge to them. And some of their most recent ones are pretty good too, even if the band probably shouldn’t be called Queensryche anymore.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14d

Queensryche is also one of my favorites. Operation Mindcrime is a perfect album, in my opinion and Empire is also really good. I’d say they fall under the metal umbrella somewhere. Maybe progressive metal?

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14d

Can’t go wrong with Ritchie Blackmore. Though sometimes Slayer hits just right.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe some Iron Maiden or Scorps too.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14d

It could get a little riffier around these parts.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 15d

This thought-provoking piece is worth a read (take two).
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

Historical Imagination and Alternatives to the Schlieffen Plan

And Why It's Worth Remembering Yesterday's Tomorrow

open.substack.com

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 18d

Very difficult for that long time Republican to come to terms with what his party both laid the groundwork for and for what it has become.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 20d

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 21d

something the American isolationists have never appreciated is the degree to which Europe not feeling this way was a material benefit to us

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 23d

In case anyone is looking for a primary source reader on the German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War, the one I co-wrote with Adrian Wettstein is one sale for $12.14 on Amazon. Described by the incomparable @crusaderproject.bsky.social as "a must."

www.amazon.com/German-Army-...

The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War

The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War [Rutherford, Jeff Rutherford, Wettstein, Adrian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 28d

David Alegre Lorenz - Verdugos del 36

La maquinaria del terror en la Zaragoza golpista

À paraître en octobre chez Critica

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Brits (and other Europeans) refer to it as the First World War. I went to a conference in Birmingham long ago and was greeted with surprise about us Americans calling it World War One or World War Two.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · Sep 14

As I noted a while back, this is a new feature on the blog, aiming not to make me rich (ha!) but just to defray some of the cost of running the shop.

The articles retail for £4, this is the first one.

@alanallport.bsky.social @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · Sep 14

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be…

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be subject to payment of UK£4 or local currency equivalent. General blog entries are going to remain free, there are no plans for a subscription requirement, and the blog will remain advertisement-free as well, because we hate advertisement.

rommelsriposte.com

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · Sep 14

You know things are going well when a school district tries to attract students by touting its metal detectors in a tv commercial.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · Sep 13

That’s a pretty good list to be on.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · Sep 12

The best hope for America's continued future as a great power lies in Trump's indiscipline and incompetence undermining MAGA attempts at authoritarian regime-building in ways that enable Democrats to win in 2026 and 2028

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Sep 12

For those asking, here’s the video of the sociopath.

(🎥 Newsmax)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 10

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.

You're taking a class, not buying a product.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 10

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 10

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · Sep 8

And not to be dramatic, but it’s never a bad thing to have a non-abstract sense of the murderous lengths American corporate and governmental power structures will go to in order protect themselves. None of this is ancient history.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · Sep 6

Couldn't agree more. An accessible economic history that demonstrates the fundamental importance of economics to the Nazi state. It's truly an outstanding book.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Sep 3

Whenever someone mentions Baedeker, I just have to mention that they published a travel guide for...the General Government in 1943.

k-larevue.com/en/about-the...

About the 1943 Baedeker Guide of the General Government of Poland - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century

In 1943, a Baedeker on the General Government of Poland was published. The famous tourist guide offered Germans a tour of the Polish outpost of the Eastern living space - also referred to by the Nazis...

k-larevue.com

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hegseth wishes he was Zhukov.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Sep 1

A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars

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