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

harry potter's the second one, right? never got around to reading it. i didn't even read harry pot

Superman (2025)

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 @popville.bsky.social @capitalweather.bsky.social

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:

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:

🤔

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/

"The adversary gets a vote" is also something said in my household about raising children.

If Putin facilitates the US-Iran ceasefire, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will have the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable.

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.

George W. Bush, Sept. 25, 2001: “We’re not into nationbuilding. We’re into justice.”

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. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/as-d...

[watching hundreds of guests get maimed and eaten by some of history's most efficient predators] ok but i'm different tho

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. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/as-d...

tfw you spent the last year constantly flying to DC to negotiate tariffs

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. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/scaf...

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.

Come work with me atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Germany joins Sweden in openly stating it is talking with non-American nuclear powers about deterrent options. breakingdefense.com/2026/01/swed...

Well, this was..... quite something.

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 sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

This was fascinating.

The Post's coverage of this is gonna be li- ah, shit.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

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.

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

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

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.

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. breakingdefense.com/2026/01/isra...

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.

gwot alert: "in theater" it's minnesota

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

So, about the National Defense Strategy: It's ambiguous, but maybe that's part of the plan? breakingdefense.com/2026/01/a-na...

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...

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

As @washingtonpost.com 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 #SaveThePost.

Somebody at the Pentagon needs to rehire whichever website manager was laid off by DOGE.

Our first writethrough on the NDS. If you're South Korea and Europe you're probably not happy right now. breakingdefense.com/2026/01/nati...

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.

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. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

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: www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

This shot from NFL Films is unbelievable

timeline cleanser www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...