Ross

For the most part, I just retweet stuff. I favorite a lot of stuff, too. Mostly for reading later.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, Martha Gellhorn was sitting in a London briefing room when the news broke: D-Day had begun.

She had already been denied press credentials. The U.S. military had banned all female journalists from the front. Her editor at Collier's had quietly handed her D-Day assignment to someone else.

That someone else was her husband, Ernest Hemingway.

She got in a cab and went to the docks at Southampton anyway.

She talked her way past a military policeman by claiming she wanted to interview nurses aboard a hospital ship. Then she found a bathroom, locked the door, and waited in silence until the HMHS Prague was too far out to sea to turn back.

The Prague was the first Allied hospital ship to reach Normandy. In the dark water off Omaha Beach, Higgins boats ferried shattered men out to the ship. Gellhorn moved among them, helping carry stretchers, holding hands, recording everything. On June 8, she went ashore herself, one of the only civilians to set foot on that beach during the landing operation.

When she got back to England, military police were waiting on the dock. They arrested her, revoked her accreditation, and sent her to a nurses training camp outside London as punishment.

She went AWOL within 48 hours.

She went on to cover the Battle of the Bulge. She was among the first journalists to enter Dachau after liberation. She reported conflicts on six continents over six decades, never once embedded, never once asking permission.

Hemingway flew to Normandy on a press plane. Full military clearance. Official credentials. He watched the landings from the air and filed his dispatch.

He won the Nobel Prize.

You know his name. You probably didn't know hers until just now.

[Ryan Menezes @MenezesCracked]

If you thought the word "crypto-fascist" had something to do with cryptocurrency, Wikipedia has some history for you

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

@sentientist There are so many debates where you find people who allergic to tradeoffs because the real value of the discussion, to them, is a proclamation of moral purity.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Nothing could have prepared me for this correction. Throw me a funeral. I am deceased.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

this is legit funny.

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"We have a vaccine that prevents shingles, a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia, and a vaccine that might even slow aging itself. Conveniently, these three vaccines are actually just one: the shingles vaccine. But fewer than half of eligible Americans have received the vaccine." https://t.co/VKyZMDHJdj

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

The US population doubled from 76 million in 1900 to 151 million in 1950. And yet, housing was abundant and affordable in 1950 in the US. Why?

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"all those smokers who don’t die of lung cancer, or...heart attacks, are bound to die of another cause...likely to be a whole lot more expensive, since lung cancer is basically untreatable and heart attacks are one of the cheapest, fastest ways to die." https://t.co/KapHmDKpbd

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

They're good boys and it's not their fault that we have an amygdalic fear of things that look like them.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

A woman experienced being captured when she came to photograph a school of sardines.

[Ross @masseffected]

@PhilWMagness I sometimes feel like Marx is more “important” than Hayek in the same way that Hitler is more “important” than Coolidge. It’s just not the awesome dunk on Hayek that these people think it is.

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Donald Trump: " One of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein Obama. Remember when they sent Boeing 757s over there loaded with cash, hundreds of millions... Sent it to Iran almost as ransom. That's not gonna happen with Trump…Can you imagine if I did that?”

[reason @reason]

Nine months after Trump began murdering suspected drug smugglers, The New York Times notes that "Blowing Up Boats Hasn't Slowed Cocaine Traffic to U.S." The least surprising headline ever? https://t.co/clYtToUcI0

[Proton Pass @Proton_Pass]

Everyone keeps saying Google's AI is broken but tbh it nailed this one.

[Hunter Weiss @Hunter_Weiss]

sorry it blew up, but for explosion fanatics, this is an all-time explosion caught on camera https://t.co/nt12WgCwc3

[Kurt Loder @kurt_loder]

Sit down, Jane

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"This next song is an old Delta blues number, a mournful tune of hardship, loss, betrayal and deep despair, and it's called 'Where's My Fucking Dinner, Woman'"🔊🆙