Harry Barber

Historian - Military, US, Global; Project Manager for Chantel Lynn Barber (Acrylic Fine Art)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hello world: a 15 minute old lamb

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

https://t.co/obTSMFXLsa

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Start the video at 30 seconds. Press has not been able to find a single person at the Blue Angels’ beach who was upset that one of the pilots did such a low flyover. They all loved it!

“I literally thought we were going to get taken out by Blue Angels, but it was amazing! And that’s exactly how I’d want to go if that happened.”

“All of our tents blew away...but it was worth it! It was awesome!”

“I’m gonna remember that probably for the rest of my life.”

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: California “billionaire-backed” city facing backlash after city officials refused to meet with a company planning on building a $3.2 billion port and are now moving to Texas.

Saronic Technologies, an Austin-based defense contractor, was planning on building “Port Alpha,” an autonomous shipyard, in Solano County but has now switched to Brownsville, Texas.

Saronic, whose port is projected to bring in 10,000 jobs, sent executives to Solano, but state Senator Christopher Cabaldon and the Solano County Board of Supervisors refused to meet with the company.

Vacaville Mayor John Carli torched the officials, saying, “What a profound dereliction of duty. You don’t win 10,000 jobs by insulting the company bringing them. Solano County deserves leaders who fight to open doors, not lock them from the inside.”

California Forever, backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights and Jan Sramek, was blamed by Cabaldon because they “held the shipyard proposal hostage by tying it to their unpopular housing development proposal.”

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

UPDATED: Blue Angels Flight Debrief Complete: ‘No Problem’ Says Acting SECNAV — USNI News
https://t.co/E6JsoOYJCj

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

There was a time when a decision by ABC, CBS, and NBC to *not* air a presidential address meant that it would be seen by very, very few people.

Those days are behind us.

So too are the days when legacy media networks were perceived as evenhanded brokers of political speech.

[Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW]

Pending home sales data continues to be weak and sad, for 4 years straight we have been nowhere near pre-pandemic the historic norm

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

A “trip to Mars”, advertised for just ten cents, 1911.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Where you can find Moose in Canada & The US:

More about where they live: https://t.co/2ukF6yxuWq

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

The World Map, as issued by the Brazilian government

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

No.

1,000 times “no.”

Also, the last person I want to hear from on military advice right now is retired Gen. McKenzie.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

California deploys "trash spies" to make sure people are sorting their waste properly

https://t.co/ExUPq42P7e

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Warsh said he prefers using interest rates over the Fed’s balance sheet for monetary policy, as the former doesn't favor one class of people over another. Of course they do. Artificially low interest rates favor wealthy, leveraged borrowers at the expense of middle-class savers.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The most frustrating part of Warsh’s testimony was his failure to hold Congress accountable for its contribution to the inflation problem. By allowing members to complain about inflation without pointing out their role in creating it, Warsh did a disservice to the nation.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A woman and a chicken trying to separate two fighting cats.

[Daily Gondor 📰 @DailyGondor]

Right then

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

I could watch this wombat eat grass all day

[Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer @aviationarchive]

In mid-1944, the US Army Air Forces fundamentally altered its ground-attack capabilities by introducing air-launched rockets to its primary fighter fleets. Field deployment began in July 1944 across both the European and Pacific theaters, primarily utilizing the 4.5-inch M8 rocket fired from triple-tube M10 launchers and the heavier 5-inch High Velocity Aircraft Rocket (HVAR), nicknamed the "Holy Moses."

On the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the installation of under-wing launch rails allowed the 9th Air Force to transition the high-altitude escort into a devastating fighter-bomber that heavily targeted German armor, locomotives, and supply lines during the Normandy campaign.

Concurrently, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning received structural and field modifications to carry rocket clusters under its wings, providing a heavy, concentrated payload used to neutralize entrenched enemy positions. This technical adaptation successfully expanded both airframes from air-superiority fighters into high-impact close air support assets.