Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei... First case to Alien Terrorist Removal Court…

The State Response to Criminal Armed Groups in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

Digital fatigue is real. Since 2020, film has come back in a big way, and new cameras are everywhere. Here’s what to look for if you want to give film a try. nyti.ms/4psZMC0

In which Republicans discover the limits of sovereigntism for addressing planetary challenges www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

French tech leaders and politicians warn: Unless Europe develops a system to direct its cheap electricity resources into large language models of its own, it risks letting its energy advantage slip away. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

A year into a national guard deployment, DC residents say they live in ‘a city under siege’

The State Response to Criminal Armed Groups in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

If this were being done to Jews we would call it a pogrom

AK-47 and Guitar www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Medics battling the incurable disease in Democratic Republic of the Congo working in ‘agonizing’ conditions

A senior CIA official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ8Q7BGJ Recovering from war: Lessons from Ukraine

Leaked Documents Reveal Russian ‘Cognitive Strikes’ Against the West — Including Islamophobic ‘Pig Head’ Attacks in Paris www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Urban Operations: War, Crime. And Profit www.linkedin.com/posts/key-po...

Don’t Count on Courts to Rein In Unregulated AI www.lawfaremedia.org/article/don-...

Small Wars Journal-El Centro Overview www.linkedin.com/posts/small-...

Iran war may cause food shortages in Africa, world’s largest fertiliser firm says

Designating Cartels as Terrorists Has Sweeping Legal Consequences www.lawfaremedia.org/article/desi...

Trump Is Doing Structural Damage to American Intelligence x.com/larrypfeiffe...

Our government's citizenship lists are incomplete and inaccurate. The United States Postal Service is overburdened and inadequate. This combines a car crash with a train wreck. 2/2

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

‘Raise our heads and resist’: how Europe’s civil society is fighting back against the far right

Corruption has collapsed as a political category in the United States. Many man people will need to go to jail in order to reestablish it. Many of them will need to be prosecuted as Al Capone was….

He forgot that Congress is a thing. TBF, Congress also forgot that Congress is a thing...

In the U.K., decades-old prison buildings were designed to be secure from the ground but not the air. And, in recent years, drones have been flying into British prisons, transporting contraband that prison governors say is driving up violence and drug use.

Do not underestimate the importance of political symbolism. (Re)establishing a decent normative order requires that *nothing* the scumbag has done be publicly honored.

On April 20, a surveillance authority - FISA Section 702 - sunsets unless Congress reauthorizes. @lizagoitein.bsky.social @hannahajames.bsky.social write: USG reports on use of the tool are incomplete, and reveal why Congress should pass a warrant requirement to protect Americans’ communications.

Born in the USA www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The EU’s main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.

Beware the mattress www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ali Sanaei writes that the phrase “no quarter” is not a synonym for toughness – it’s dehumanizing rhetoric that’s been employed during times of war. And Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the phrase is dangerous. www.justsecurity.org/134484/hegse...

AI and warfighting www.justsecurity.org/134321/iran-...

🇬🇹 #HomicideRoundup | Guatemala’s homicide rate remained comparatively stable in 2025, diverging from escalating violence in other parts of the region. Organized crime dynamics remain localized but persistent. Read our regional analysis here:https://bit.ly/4rv74UV

"Thiel's vision must be read not as a simple rejection of Western values but as the pathological radicalization of some of their components — competition, technology, the individual — leading to radical divergence from the common democratic project." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

Middle East crisis live: Trump considering ‘winding down’ war; Iran reportedly fired two missiles at Diego Garcia military base

For years, Microsoft had failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server. Given that and other unknowns, government reviewers couldn’t vouch for the tech’s security. It was approved anyway.

I too have found that it usually works great to insult people from whom I am actively seeking a favor.

Soup at La Marmite www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Can extremists be classified as violent or non-violent? A new study finds violent extremists show more risk factors like alienation and impulsivity than non-violent ones. Read more on this key insight and its implications:… https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2025.2605135

I wrote a few words in memory of David Rapoport for @terpolv.bsky.social First 50 e-prints via this link are free to access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EWJP8...

The people responsible for these actions are behaving as if they will never face any moral or legal accountability — but if meaningful democracy is to be restored in America, they need to be proven wrong

LLMs inmasking pseudonyms arstechnica.com/security/202...

Sheinbaum’s Dilemma: Mexico’s Security Choices After FTO Designation smallwarsjournal.com/2026/03/05/s...

🇨🇴 | Armed groups in Nariño, Colombia are deploying explosive drones in their fight for control over a crucial transit corridor in the region. The Ombudsman’s Office has called for emergency intervention. More on the use of drones by criminal groups here.

To repeat: analyses of the decision to go to war that tries to explain it in terms of some national "strategy" are making a category error. The real motives behind what he is doing are *entirely* about domestic politics (justifying authoritarian takeover) and grifting opportunities for him'n'his.

El Mencho’s Death and the Kingpin Strategy Paradox www.lawfaremedia.org/article/el-m...

Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pent...

Sheinbaum’s Dilemma: Mexico’s Security Choices After FTO Designation." Journal of Strategic Security 19, no. 1 (2026) : 233-263 digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol19/is... by GhalebKrame, @zftwarning.bsky.social, and Maria Magdalena Garcia Rodriguez (maria