I wrote something for @fpri.bsky.social on CENTCOM's request for Dark Eagle. While not super useful in that theater, the flexibility its range offers means such a deployment could pose issues for Moscow. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Damn this kinda fucks tho

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

This is a neat project to produce tiny ADS-B receivers that can be used for just about anything, but are especially designed for fpv drone integration my ADS-B station at home is the size of a shoebox and relies on a Raspberry Pi which is pretty inefficient, love the idea of dedicated hardware

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

The message needs to resound clearly and constantly: "THESE PEOPLE STOLE YOUR FUTURE. WE ARE PUNISHING THEM FOR EVERY PENNY." And along with it, the rich will need to be soaked completely. If the middle class has to pay for a mismanaged public fisc, the rich must be devastated for it.

My GOAT is back!

He fucked up and overestimated the American people. He thought voters voted for Trump because they liked and/or agreed with him but they voted for the magic money man to make them rich because girls have cooties.

perhaps its better that some unknown known unknowns remain unknown

In light of everything going on, I took a look at some Iranian air defense sites and found something surprising. Namely, what appears to be S-300 launchers! This contradicts past claims they had all been destroyed. Read more on the Arms Control Wonk Blog: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times

“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors

If you haven’t tried Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth I deeply recommend them.

It should be noted street without joy is a banger, soup book on the other hand, not so much

We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

The world is bigger than the stories on your phone

Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

Brutalizing civilians in the streets for daring to be inconvenient to Dear Leader is exactly what social ostracization is for. And for those we can prove charges against beyond a reasonable doubt, there should be jail cells ready and waiting.

They put 6 kids in the ER by tossing a flashbang into their dad's car while they were in it. Periodic reminder that ICE agents' lives must be *ruined* after we get back into power. Fired for cause, names and faces publicized, banned from federal service for life, and any state services we fund.

Roman Centurion Modern Infantry 🤝 Hole

Ironically, I wouldn't move now because if I flee who will fight?

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

Do you or did you work at the VA? @propublica.org wants to hear from you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Iz...

"The golden age of jerks" (sound on)

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES

Request for #AfghanEvac help. One of my interpreters is in bureaucratic limbo with his SIV to enter the US. I'm running the traps on that. Where he needs help: Organizations that fund the execution of leaving the country - medical exams, visas to get his family to Pakistan, etc. Any ideas?

Baking cakes that depict military campaigns and battles

@gregdoucette.bsky.social we just might be getting that puritanical anti-corruption backlash I've been hoping for.

Do you know what this meeting is about? Get in touch on Signal: signal.me#eu/ES70l_cAl...

As someone who thinks Harris would have been a pretty great president overall, it has never been more obvious how ”courage“ and “willingness to take a risk” are values, beliefs largely absent from the democratic leadership

Certain Americans did not experience the 20th century and have doomed themselves to repeating it