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Martin D.B. Brown

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Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist #BondianColdWar book https://martindbrown.substack.com/ https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · Apr 26

Me on the right-wing influencer Candace Owens, her forays into "hidden" histories, and the costs of the right's attack on epistemology.

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Lost on the Wrong Side of History: The Case of Candace Owens illiberalism.org |

Martin D. Brown on the right-wing influencer Candace Owens, her forays into "hidden" histories, and the costs of the right's attack on epistemology.

www.illiberalism.org

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Looks nice ..

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 5 bedroom village house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom village house for sale in Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy for £339,183. Marketed by Dimore Toscane SRL (Houses in Tuscany .COM), Lucca

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 4h

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Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cher

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 4h

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 4h

The revolution will not be televised...Although I didn't have Cher on my bingo card

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Humm, so found what I was looking for but can't get hold of it, nor can I read it...

books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

40 kirja lugu

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h

““Burn, burn,” he said, according to the intercepts. “I want the whole kibbutz to be in flames.”

“Set fire to anything,” a commander in the northern Gaza city of Jabaliya referred to as Abu al-Abed said around the same time.”

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h

A directive, which Israeli officials believe was written by Yahya Sinwar, the powerful leader of Hamas in Gaza, and recordings called for fighters to target soldiers and civilian communities — and to broadcast the violent acts.

Ronen Bergman and Adam Rasgon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

www.nytimes.com

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 7h

I am not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line in a computer it's gone forever.

Elmore Leonard, #BOTD.

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 9h

Personally I am willing to take the financial hit so long as they are both stripped of all titles, assets and made to sit in the stocks to be pelted with rotten fruit -- ideally mobile stocks that travel around the country so we all get a go

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 10h

To misspell is to be human...
[Or that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.]

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 11h

There's also a deeper problem here of 'history' as some repository of 'lessons' for current policy makers. Doesn't work like that for a whole range of reasons, many of which were clearly laid out by the late Ernest R. May.
And no, history doesn't 'rhyme either'

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’ - Research Professional News

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 11h

Detailed photos emerged of damage to the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant's machine hall and dam from a Russian missile strike on October 10.

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 11h

Seems unfair to bring Monty Python into it

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 11h

A good article on the psychological aspects of the current European drone scare, which brings in the (Scandinavian) 1930s ghost planes, 1940s ghost rockets, and 1980s ghost subs (thanks to an interview with Robert Bartholomew, who was an inspiration for my own mystery aircraft research)

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

www.theguardian.com

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 11h

Unsolicited Rik pic

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII.
Lessons should have been learned.

A satirical comic drawn by Dr. Seuss with a train with a swastika on the front of the engine is barreling down the tracks, and a man in a jacket is sitting on the train tracks wearing an "America First" jacket trying to reassure Uncle Same that the train will turn off at a point labeled "Appeasement Junction" onto a far too small track and not run him over.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h

It wouldn’t be the first time.

Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12h

Someone made a new bitcoin account, betted against the market 30 minutes before Trump made the announcement. Got 88 million USD profit, cashed out. It was apparently one of two accounts other made more! Inside trading was rare because rich people hated losing money, nobody cares about cryptobros

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 12h

Quite

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 12h

He's not the antichrist either, just a wally

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 13h

Some dangerous snakes of Australia, helpfully indicated by Professor Frederick McCoy. Thanks, Professor!

1877 poster depicting a tiger snake, copper-headed snake, brown snake, black snake, and death adder, views of head and tail.

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 13h

I've earned money so I know 'shit'

*Nope, that's not how it works, mate

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Prussian Army in the Bureaucratic State. The Case of Quartering Troops in Breslau 1815–1848 - Jacek Jędrysiak, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Prussian Army in the Bureaucratic State. The Case of Quartering Troops in Breslau 1815–1848 - Jacek Jędrysiak, 2025

This article deals with the issue of establishing barracks in Prussian cities after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The city of Breslau (modern-day Wrocław) was...

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 13h

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13h

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)