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Current: Microsoft Former: US Army, FBI Clintwatts.substack.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Noah Shachtman
9 months ago
There's an “organized” attempt by China at “infiltration” of the US “government at a bunch of different levels,” a top prosecutor and spyhunter warns in a rare interview.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Took On R. Kelly, Chinese Spies, and George Santos
The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn went after big targets around the world. What happens when the Justice Department reports to Donald Trump?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/breon-peace-trump-r-kelly-china-spies-george-santos-adams-1235232063/
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Intel Girl 🤓
9 months ago
Russian Mercenary Caught With Drone On U.S.-Mexico Border
www.newsweek.com/russian-merc...
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Russian mercenary caught with drone on U.S.-Mexico border
It is unclear why Timur Praliev, an ex-member of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group, was carrying a drone in a backpack as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-mercenary-wagner-drone-us-mexico-border-illegal-immigration-2012941
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Ben Stiller
10 months ago
#Severance
Film still #11 Dylan getting his tie straightened. 1 17 25
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Quentin Sommerville
10 months ago
“We really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis," said Rapp, who led prosecutions at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes tribunals”
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Syrian mass graves expose "machinery of death" under Assad, top prosecutor says
An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-mass-graves-expose-machinery-death-under-assad-top-prosecutor-says-2024-12-17/
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Update: I’ve seen a drone in the night sky
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Jessica Elgot
10 months ago
This is one of those stories that I keep thinking will get bigger and bigger but which no-one outside of small security circles is talking about much...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Photos of Birmingham DHL fire suggest device could have downed plane
Images consistent with fire from magnesium-based device, suspected to be part of Russian sabotage plot
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/10/photos-of-birmingham-dhl-fire-suggest-device-could-have-downed-plane
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I watched the Yacht Rock documentary and it was far better than I imagined and am now inundating myself with Yacht Rock and the
@questlove.bsky.social
Spotify playlist. Highly recommend
www.hbo.com/music-box
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Music Box | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
The official website for Music Box on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.
https://www.hbo.com/music-box
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Gail Helt
10 months ago
Oh dear God….these are political prisoners who committed no crimes, sealed underground for who knows how long.
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David Agranovich
10 months ago
We've just released our Q3 Adversarial Threat Report. Being part of the team creating the threat disruption discipline has been the high point of my last 6 years at Meta. The report covers influence operations and adversarial ops we've detected and disrupted in the last quarter. Some key takeaways:
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https://transparency.fb.com/sr/Q3-2024-Adversarial-threat-report
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Ruth Deyermond
11 months ago
Since there's yet another round of "NATO expansion caused Russia to invade Ukraine in Feb 2022" on various platforms, I'll repeat: there was *no* prospect of Ukraine joining NATO after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its war in Eastern Ukraine. NATO, Ukraine, and Russia all knew that.
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David Priess
11 months ago
This is a big deal: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, FBI, and four other US agencies are jointly warning US defense companies to bolster security precautions in anticipation of possible Russian sabotage. Not an alarm to hit snooze on.
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Afshon Ostovar
11 months ago
Thrilled to announce my new book is finally out! Centered on the clashing agendas of the U.S. and Iran from 9/11 to the Gaza war, it examines how we got here, where it's all headed, & why the Middle East will remain vital to global geopolitics.
www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambitio...
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Amazon.com: Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East: 9780190940980: Ostovar, Afshon: Books
Amazon.com: Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East: 9780190940980: Ostovar, Afshon: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambition-United-States-Struggle/dp/0190940980?dplnkId=05849620-a8ee-4741-992b-49c81d4ae61e&nodl=1
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Afshon Ostovar
11 months ago
Trump’s focus on Iran will be tested. The Middle East has changed, Saudi and UAE have moved on, Palestine looms large, and Iran holds a weaker hand. Is that the recipe for war or could it portend a diplomatic opening? My latest
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/tru...
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Trump and Iran face off across a new Middle East
Four years after his first term, Donald Trump returns to a Middle East transformed by war, where the United States and Iran face a pivotal choice between escalating conflict or pursuing compromise.
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/trump-iran/
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Thank you for this
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It’s amazing And sorry to those who followed my other account. Forgot I had this one. Making the correction and hello 2012
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Classified Document leaker background looks a lot like the background of mass shooters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/13/jack-teixeira-discord-leaked-documents/
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.@intelwire - are we going to do this again?
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I like to sign up for a new micro blogging site every week.
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