Welp.

Ishaan is a Washington post global affairs columnist 👇🏽

It’s incredible that you may think he can’t say more idiotic statements that are so detached from rational thought, and there he goes with another zinger. Is he ad-libbing this speech? One has to wonder with this rambling diatribe.

This is an important thread if you follow public health policy. It’s also an important thread if you care about how major newspapers cover technical policy today (which is to say, poorly).

Laying this at the feet of NIH is misguided. Americans spend more of health care than people in other wealthy countries because we have a fragmented health care “system” with perverse incentives and many middlemen extracting money to no one’s health benefit. 8/n

The Air Force has updated its nuclear operations doctrine, and I have a few disagreements with it. There's also an interesting GAO report on the ICBM modernization effort, which is lagging. almauroni.substack.com/p/catching-u...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this

WaPo Editorial Board: Actually, calling it the department of war could prompt a serious discussion about the use of the military abroad. Also WaPo Editorial Board: WE'RE TAKING BAGRAM BACK BECAUSE OF CHINAAAAA. AMURIKA. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅

@washingtonpost.com editorial board has endorsed Trump’s idea to reoccupy Bagram air base. This is madness, and certainly evidence of that paper’s continuing obsequious fawning over the administration’s worst ideas.

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

The instinct for some people I power to automatically add “terrorism” to a shooting charge has always been a bad one.

May his memory be a blessing #ClementeDay bsky.app/profile/mcop...

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

good video on this from @sarahtaber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...

We already have the tools necessary to address the "convergence of AI and biotechnology." It's just a matter of recognizing this fact and acting upon it. almauroni.substack.com/p/how-produc...

If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

I have been a long-time Star Trek fan, but I just have to say after watching the season 3 finale of SNW

Okay so we can’t accept this report on its face value, considering the source, right?

I'm wondering when Dr. Bob Kadlec will get to talk to the SASC given his nomination for the ASD ND-CBD was back in February almauroni.substack.com/p/wheres-bob...

Tom Hanks's work portraying U.S. troops is extensive: "Saving Private Ryan," "Forrest Gump" and "Greyhound" among them. He also co-produced "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific." Hanks also has been a forceful advocate for The World War II Memorial and The National WWII Museum.

The mind reels. Of all people… shame on the West Point alumni group.

This week I am identifying on-line locations of the monographs, books, and videos of the (now defunct) USAF Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies. This final part is the videos. almauroni.substack.com/p/the-usaf-c...

Senator Kennedy just said that Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Opn Warp Speed. Jesus wept.

I’ll take that bet against RFK.

This week I am identifying the on-line locations of the monographs, books, and videos of the (now defunct) USAF Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies. This is part 2 of 3, the books. almauroni.substack.com/p/the-usaf-c...

This week I will be identifying the on-line locations of the monographs, books, and videos of the (now defunct) USAF Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies. Hoping that these will prove beneficial to academics and researchers in the CWMD field. Part 1 of 3 almauroni.substack.com/p/the-usaf-c...

He’s going to give Alabama more free shit because he wants to punish Colorado for not supporting his attempted power grab in 2020 more. The media won’t cover this because it would require remembering things that happened over a week ago. www.cpr.org/2023/03/24/p...

We need to discuss the possibility of limited nuclear war with China, but we need to start with the right questions. almauroni.substack.com/p/on-limited...

Someone please kill me right now.

NO, it’s really not. I loved #BattlestarGalactica, the actors, the special effects, but the fourth season sucked and the ending just was … empty. Disappointing.

if you only share one of my posts today, let it be this one

Well done helping the rest of us appreciate why the decision to honor an insurrectionist is damaging both to our military and our society, @markhertling.bsky.social.

What a tragic embarrassment to the defense community.

USSOCOM wants CB wearable technology, but how useful is it really? almauroni.substack.com/p/socoms-che...

EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

yeah i read civ-mil scholarship

By continuing to provide weapons to Israel — and bolstering the profits of America's military contractors — the U.S. is complicit in the genocide unfolding in Gaza. There is no moral justification in wreaking vengeance on innocent women, men, and children. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The Congressional Research Service has a two-pager on "Counterproliferation in U.S. Policy." I'm skeptical of the use of this term, given the anemic examples listed. almauroni.substack.com/p/counterpro...

Watching #StarTrek Strange New Worlds season 3 episode 7 and I just have to say “WTF was that”

I threw the sandwich but I did not kill the deputy

Trump calling himself a "war hero" is another one of those things that would've once ended a politician's career

US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down

Looking at the CBDP's medical R&D projects in the FY2026 budget almauroni.substack.com/p/examining-...

Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.

Talking about NATO’s biosecurity concerns open.substack.com/pub/almauron...

This week’s main story is about the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants, what follow through on that promise looks like in practice, and – to lighten the mood – which animal always looks like it was just caught cheating on its wife. Ok fine: The tarsier.