Another very good one featured here: Greg Bovino, the roving commander of the administration’s immigration crackdowns, yelling at protesters on Sunday in Minneapolis. Bovino is going to be with us for a long time; he’s clearly trying to make himself the paramilitary version of a celebrity general.

News Analysis: President Trump’s Gulf Arab allies fear the repercussions of a potential U.S. strike on Iran, and some of them are publicly and privately lobbying his administration to choose diplomacy instead.

Sun setting over Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation Reservation #photohour #eastcoastkin #monumentvalley #navajonation #arizona

Rahm Emanuel is coming — whether Democrats like it or not.

Maybe just enjoy sports by watching it with friends in a living room, bar or at the venue if you can afford it?

Yesterday’a editorial in Sweden’s leading newspaper DN: ”This [situation] also calls for a discussion about nuclear weapons that goes beyond how the French and British can protect the entire continent. Is there a need for such capability in northern Europe?”

There would absolutely still be US military ops in Somalia and around Yemen, those engagements have been hot since the Bush years Nigeria and AQ and ISIS affiliates there have also been an off/on engagement as well.

Critic at large Eric Deggans says that in 2026, audiences have more power than they realize to determine the future of news and entertainment.

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re... We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely. Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.

As with (much smaller) Delta raids in Libya a decade ago to capture Benghazi attackers, there were likely FBI HRT agents attached to do the actual arrest. The idea that protecting those FBI agents was the legal justification under Article II for bombing a bunch of air defense sites seems…novel.

Thank you to all the Bluesky posters who think foreign policy analysis is saying the word “oil” a lot—sometimes in all caps!—but oil is not like a magical gem thieves grab from a vault and then have. Profiting from oil requires extensive, ongoing efforts to extract, which needs sustained security.

Sounds like they're indicting Maduro on National Firearms Act charges, which is pretty odd. Does anyone have the actual indictment?

Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."

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NEW: Military websites undergo annual update to make them worse www.duffelblog.com/military-web...

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

People who do not live in Taiwan or do not follow this stuff for a living probably don't realize how crazy aggressive PRC rhetoric on Taiwan has become, particularly during military drills. It's one of a few indicators I'm watching with concern.

“Nobody is talking about this” is frequently an indictment of one’s media diet, not The Media

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

The piece said that the pivot was because video can be better clipped for marketing but I always assumed the pivot was because of YouTube monetization.

Roger has your excuse ready if you are so inclined

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

We live in fascinating times

LOL at Cuomintang holy crap.

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official. More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

@tokuda.house.gov & @hirono.senate.gov say Trump is risking war in Latin America w/ escalating strikes on alleged traffickers and threats of land strikes as a carrier group sails to the Caribbean www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/26/h...

I suspect the next few weeks of living in a Dorothea Lange photo are going to shatter a lot of Americans' preconceptions about who's using SNAP and WIC.

The lethal strike in the Eastern Pacific widens the Trump Admin's war on alleged drug traffickers. The military buildup in Latin America had already begun pulling in some U.S Navy assets from the Pacific Now, some question the wider implications in the region www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/23/h...

As tensions with China continue to simmer and drug war operations ramp up in the Americas, the Coast Guard’s duties continue to expand — with largely bipartisan support. www.staradvertiser.com/2025/10/20/h...

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

On the positive side of there being no fleet at Fleet Week, I got to learn more about my family’s military service at the Presidio’s new Military Intelligence Service History Learning Center.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

what? what are you talking about?

The dude sang songs about running cocaine and shooting multiple people live IN one of the most notorious prisons in the country while hundreds of prisoners hooted and hollered at his audacity. Dylan could never. Educate yourself Jon Fasman.

This year has been deeply weird, but nothing has been more baffling than the collection of words below.

“There will be no more mercy.” “No one deserves pity. Spare me your whining.” Those are captions to videos of Russian drone operators attacking civilians in Kherson city and region. Living in Kherson means risking execution from the sky. www.wsj.com/world/russia... (read free)

ANOTHER WAPO SCOOP: Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The officer so enthusiastically introducing Hegseth in his partially unbuttoned shirt here is Naval Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, the Marine aviator Hegseth installed after cutting short the term of USNA’s first woman superintendent, Vice Adm. Yvette Davids

@mjgault.bsky.social was interviewing a ABC correspondent about new podcast on the murder of US solder Vanessa Guillén. When brought up Hesgeth's recent speech, ABC PR interrupted, asked not to talk about that. Then asked Matthew to cut that part. Wild, wild stuff angryplanetpod.com/p/vanessa-gu...

Sign of the times: @mjgault.bsky.social interviewed ABC's John Quiñones re: his podcast about Vanessa Guillén, a soldier who was murdered at Ft Hood in 2020. When Gault asked how Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth could roll back reforms made in response to Guillén's death, a PR person cut in to shut it down.

I think these IR theories are neat because they all functionally ignore that violence is actually real and you can just kill people in international relations to make them do what you want. No I am sorry Mr. PhD but a Tomahawk conveys both a message and an actual warhead.

Depends on the definition of “woke.” Both are actively tracking how climate change will change the map and change strategic outlooks. The self styled Secretary of War has said we’re done with “climate crap.”

Holy shit, this is bad. Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Listen to the whole thing, but the encounter in question starts about nine minutes from the end angryplanetpod.com/p/vanessa-gu...

immediately leaks, ofc www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...