Aaron Mehta
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Editor in chief of BreakingDefense.com, shameless Boston sports nerd.
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Jared Keller
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I have been hollering “WHOOP WHOOP IT’S THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ” to the tune of KRS-One’s iconic 1993 bop in my apartment for the last week and my wife is SO close to murdering me in my sleep
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Dr Emma Salisbury
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Jon Bois
4 days ago
harry potter's the second one, right? never got around to reading it. i didn't even read harry pot
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Craig Calcaterra
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Most people call me…jim
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Superman (2025)
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Mark Alan Andre
7 days ago
Beautiful Sunset yesterday. Managed to catch a bird sitting on a light post and a crazy shot of a plane taking off from Dulles and landing at DCA in the same frame
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Tonight a judge ruled in favor of the New York Times in its lawsuit against the Pentagon, finding that the department's leadership violated both the first and fifth amendments in its attempts to limit press access. Our statement:
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Scott Nover
9 days ago
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:
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David S. Bernstein
10 days ago
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Breaking Defense
10 days ago
What is the Pentagon’s ‘Space Data Network,’ and why does it matter for Golden Dome?
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/03/what-is-the-pentagons-space-data-network-and-why-does-it-matter-for-golden-dome/
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What is the Pentagon’s ‘Space Data Network,’ and why does it matter for Golden Dome?
The SDN will provide the communications pathways for integrating and moving data from missile warning/tracking sensors to interceptors in near-real time under the Golden Dome construct.
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/03/what-is-the-pentagons-space-data-network-and-why-does-it-matter-for-golden-dome/
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"The adversary gets a vote" is also something said in my household about raising children.
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Ankit Panda
20 days ago
If Putin facilitates the US-Iran ceasefire, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will have the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable.
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David S. Bernstein
26 days ago
It’s amazing that we’ve all just had to accept that our top military leaders in time of was will only take questions from wildly partisan media outlets. LindellTV, Daily Caller, Daily Wire get called on, but no legitimate general audience or defense press outlets.
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Wesley Morgan
28 days ago
George W. Bush, Sept. 25, 2001: “We’re not into nationbuilding. We’re into justice.”
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Breaking Defense
about 1 month ago
For the second time within a month, El Paso airspace has been closed due to a miscommunication between DoD, DHS and the FAA. Analysts predicted earlier this month that the first incident wouldn't be the last.
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As Dems push for briefing on El Paso incident, experts warn it could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’ - Breaking Defense
“I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the ...
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/as-dems-push-for-briefing-on-el-paso-incident-experts-warn-it-could-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
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Brian Grubb
about 1 month ago
[watching hundreds of guests get maimed and eaten by some of history's most efficient predators] ok but i'm different tho
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Stacie Pettyjohn
about 1 month ago
New from
@breakingdefense.com
by Michael Marrow & Val Insinna. The El Paso shootdown highlights the hard work ahead to safely implement new counter-drone authorities for DoD, DHS, & local agencies.
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As Dems push for briefing on El Paso incident, experts warn it could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’ - Breaking Defense
“I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the ...
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/as-dems-push-for-briefing-on-el-paso-incident-experts-warn-it-could-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
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Nick Kodama
about 1 month ago
tfw you spent the last year constantly flying to DC to negotiate tariffs
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NEW: It's not official yet, but the Franco-German-Spanish next-gen fighter? Sure seems dead now, with Merz signaling it doesn't meet Germany's needs and Belgium saying they're looking elsewhere.
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'SCAF is Dead:' Sixth-gen Franco-German fighter is all but over, officials and analysts say - Breaking Defense
New comments from Germany's chancellor seem to spell the end of the next-gen fighter jet for Germany, France and Spain.
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/scaf-is-dead-sixth-gen-franco-german-fighter-is-all-but-over-officials-and-analysts-say/
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These world class athletes are barely alive crossing the line here and the dog is just running around having an absolute blast with them. Inspiring, really.
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Sarah Laskow
about 1 month ago
Come work with me
atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
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Staff Writer
The Atlantic is hiring a Staff Writer to cover extreme weather and natural disasters. This is a position for a journalist of the highest ambition who is eager to report from the ground on the realitie...
https://atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/Washington-DC---The-Wharf/Staff-Writer_R677-1
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Germany joins Sweden in openly stating it is talking with non-American nuclear powers about deterrent options.
breakingdefense.com/2026/01/swed...
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about 1 month ago
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Well, this was..... quite something.
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Rodger Sherman
about 2 months ago
wild AI story from the Olympics ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
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This was fascinating.
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about 2 months ago
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The Post's coverage of this is gonna be li- ah, shit.
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Susan Rinkunas
about 2 months ago
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-amazon-beat-reporter-1236651840/
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
about 2 months ago
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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Jack Mirkinson
about 2 months ago
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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Claire Watkins
about 2 months ago
WaPo specifically making cuts to its most subscriber load-bearing sections like Sports and Metro while doubling down on commentary, which frequently does little for your bottom line, really underlines how much this is about what they want the Post to be, rather than what a good newspaper actually is
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TFW you open your inbox and see you have 40 new emails since you last checked, but then you realize it's just every member of congress saying they got appropriations passed and you can delete them.
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The State Department announced a new, $6.7B weapons sale for Israel at 530 PM. Due to family stuff, I hit publish on our story at 7:25.... having missed that at 7:14, the State Department announced a $9B deal to Saudi for Patriot missiles. Please clap.
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US clears $6.7B in new weapon sales to Israel, $9B in Patriot missiles for Saudi Arabia - Breaking Defense
The Trump administration has approved a potential sale of 30 AH-64E Apache helicopters and over 3,000 JLTV ground vehicles to Israel.
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/israel-saudi-weapon-sale-us-apache-jltv-fms-patriot/
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Dan Lamothe
about 2 months ago
And so concludes another week w/ no news briefing at the Pentagon. The last on-camera briefing was held for an alternative right-wing press corps nearly two months ago, on Dec. 2. The press space has been mostly vacant since the traditional press corps departed in October.
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Gerry Doyle
about 2 months ago
gwot alert: "in theater" it's minnesota
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Breaking Defense
2 months ago
South Korea's Hanwha plans to open a munitions plant at the US Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal to bolster US stockpiles of 155mm artillery shells and other critical munitions, the service said Wednesday. Read Mike Yeo's preview of the lease in December.
https://ow.ly/tV7F50Y543P
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So, about the National Defense Strategy: It's ambiguous, but maybe that's part of the plan?
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New National Defense Strategy could leave adversaries, and allies, guessing: Analysts - Breaking Defense
“It’s very ambiguous, and I don't know if they even recognize the contradictions that they're creating,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimso...
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/a-national-defense-strategy-that-could-leave-adversaries-and-allies-guessing/
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Geoff Brumfiel
2 months ago
EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-rules-rewritten-trump
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Wesley Morgan
2 months ago
Former Marine infantry NCO T.M. Gibbons Neff breaks down the remarkable amount of expensive stuff DHS agents in Minneapolis have on their rifles and what it is supposed to be for
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The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/ice-agent-weapons-minneapolis.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Louisa Loveluck
2 months ago
As
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international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to
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Somebody at the Pentagon needs to rehire whichever website manager was laid off by DOGE.
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Our first writethrough on the NDS. If you're South Korea and Europe you're probably not happy right now.
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Pentagon releases National Defense Strategy, with homeland defense as top priority - Breaking Defense
Pete Hegseth's first National Defense Strategy lays out how the Pentagon will execute guidance from the White House.
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/national-defense-strategy-hegseth-pentagon-western-hemisphere/
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I like to think that Jens Stoltenberg is sitting in a sauna, sipping from his bottle of beer and just chuckling to himself without a care in the world right now.
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It's a little known story, but both the Danish government and its general population worked to protect its small Jewish population throughout the Holocaust, often at personal risk.
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A reminder that Denmark and the first Trump administration worked together to keep China out of Greenland, without all the drama. From me in 2018:
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How a potential Chinese-built airport in Greenland could be risky for a vital US Air Force base
What is China really buying with its investments in Greenland?
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2018/09/07/how-a-potential-chinese-built-airport-in-greenland-could-be-risky-for-a-vital-us-air-force-base/
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Stats
2 months ago
This shot from NFL Films is unbelievable
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Joe Sheehan
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Brian Grubb
2 months ago
timeline cleanser
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GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
YouTube video by The A.V. Club
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Nate Schenkkan
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