Now that the UK and Colombia have taken similar steps to cut off intelligence sharing with the US (at least re possible drug smuggling in the Caribbean), I wonder two things. 1) Will other countries follow suit. 2) Will such measures inhibit US strikes on boats or just make them more indiscriminate?

"Why You Should Read #KGBLiterati: An Elevator Pitch for My Book" Read it here: tinyurl.com/mspbns8a #KGB #CIA #spies #writers #books

The Tokyo Electro Automobile Co. Tama Electric Car from 1947. It achieved the driving range of 96km and the maximum speed of 35km/h. And it looks GORGEOUS. I love it. If they were still being made, I'd get one. I wonder if a sheep fits in the back seat. www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE_...

Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well. The Lawyers March for Democracy kicks off on Nov 15 @1pm: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @newrepublic.com

Calling all historians of US foreign relations. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Wonderful to see this news that the Kennan Institute will continue its vital work, now as an independent center.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

🚨ALERT: 4 people have been detained in Bladensburg this morning, on or close to Baltimore-Washington parkway. All from work vans. Park police were involved. We recommend staying clear of this area. 1/

Seems to me that the obvious answer is to have the next James Bond film be set in the 1950s, the era of the first novels.

We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.

I’m sad to learn that Lenny Wilkens has died. He was an inspiring figure and a constant in my childhood in the Seattle area.

How to identify some of the different units of the Gestapo www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today with espionage historian @intelhistorian.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

A 1965 comedy record album parodying James Bond. It's called "James Blonde Secret agent 006.95." This is...something.

I received my copy today of "The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA," the new book by @petercgrace.bsky.social. I read it in the editorial process and it's fun and groundbreaking. Strongly recommend for those interested in the history of the CIA or intel analysis

Remarkable that the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence had to retract an article, "Strengthening Caribbean Intelligence: Education and Training for Enhanced Intra- and Inter-Agency Collaboration." This sort of thing does not happen frequently in the intel studies world.

What does “wartime” even mean? Are we going to spend 10% of gdp on defense now? Are we going to draft? Are we going to magically reorganize industry to build 155mm? This shit is just nonsense

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

appearing in my 2011 dorm to tell my collegiate self that “the syrian revolution ends with an al-qaeda operative currently in american custody letting the guy from the apprentice build an airbase outside damascus because they’re the presidents now”

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS This is his part-time job

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

The Advanced Base Force was the pre-WWI equivalent of Force Design 2030's EABO. I've been working on a longer piece on its history, but thought this was a good week to share the introduction. #USMC250 islandjohnny65.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-vi...

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown. The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

Check out this great new article in the Journal of Strategic Studies by @nsarchive.bsky.social research assistant Walker Gargagliano: "A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Space junk may have struck a Chinese crew ship in low-Earth orbit arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Russian propaganda, infiltration and Quislings in the High North. www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...

A fun look at efforts to make sense of unusual intercepts in the early days of Canada's signals intelligence effort in WWII. declassified.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/sho... Looking forward to the author's future writing.

An all-in-one resource for the many elections happening today... boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Honestly, folks. Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism. Take heart, peeps. It's fuel to step up and keep going!

Wow.

NBC News projects that Pennsylvania will retain all 3 Democratic state Supreme Court justices. Its a complete and total loss for Republicans tonight. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

My FOIA request regarding the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) has resulted in the release of 5 documents related to wheel-motion studies on this machine. Britain and the USA used the CCM during the Second World War, and NATO used it in the 1950s. Continued...

Visited Khan Market in Delhi today to call in at the institution that is Bahri Sons books. Great to see Spying in South Asia on the shelves. Better still, Bahri Sons had me sign copies that were sold straight on to customers! @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kcsi.uk @universitypress.cambridge.org

Get out and vote! Plus, you get a cool sticker when you do. I'm wearing mine even as we speak.

Interesting, if true. Always fascinating to see what GUGI may be up to.

We saw this same issue — voting day bomb threats — in 2024. Motive could be strategic voter suppression, but in 2024 it was likely foreign interference designed to cause mayhem and further erode trust in US election. These tactics can also provide pretext for contesting elections later.

Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:

A new GRU investigation dropping tomorrow. And later this week: a translated KGB trainining manual about infiltrating U.S. institutions. Oh, and cruise missile talk with two special guests. Subscribe to and follow Foreign Office: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...