Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

This is it?? It took them over a year to come up with four pages that lay out six pillars of the same things we have been doing for years. Pathetic. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

As for Van Riper running his mouth after and lying about all this in the press, well, might have been an indication of how he'd go off the deep end with the chowder II chucklefucks

do not hand it to von riper, a guy who is basically a Chowder II clown warontherocks.com/2023/05/the-...

It is really a low water mark to be at war with the one of the worst regimes on Earth and manage to come away as the callous and undignified party.

Make it stick.

Not one GO that resigned rather than participate in this shit show.

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

It's well known in Kurdistan that around Nowruz is when they celebrate Toyotathon

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Now do The Waltons, but leave in the sex scenes

Also: one Hornet beats three F-15s? Navy and Marine fighter jocks are gonna be insufferable about that

Am I understanding correctly that a single Kuwaiti fighter pilot took down 3 F-15s in a Hornet in a single day? If so, we should try to sign that guy.

If you want to take down American planes, you need American planes

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

The next six months may prove the most important yet

But other than that, things are going great!

Are we taking bets yet on how long until someone testifies to Congress that we’re “turning the corner” in Iran?

“how about we send the kurds to ukraine” - the greatest thread in the history of the special activities center, locked by a branch chief after 12,239 pages of heated debate

RAJU: You'll concede this is war? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

I’m gonna say it Saddam had that dawg in him. He was a hater. He had a haters heart.

Domestic security services in turmoil to promote racism while prosecuting a war against a foreign power known for having sleeper cells and little compunction about terror attacks is a hell of a (non) strategy.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, ex NSA chief, says at an event that he was distressed by the rift between the Pentagon and Anthropic, including the unprecedented ban on contractors using Anthropic on security grounds: “This is not a supply-chain issue.”

I also have two affiliations with US universities in a similar situation, but it is somehow with the US Department of Defense.

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

My station chief told me the security service keeps sending him walk-ins so I asked how many walk-ins he has had & he said he just goes to the Red Arrow and gets a new walk-in afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just letting the security service run GT/PROLOGUE & then his deputy started crying.

Meanwhile over at Anthropic

Counterpoint:

If we do ultimately opt for boots on the ground in Iran, I would like to nominate ICE.

OTOH, of course the gulf states were going to side with Trump. They paid a lot of money for him!

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

They don’t want you to know this, but anything can be a T-SCIF if you don’t give a shit

This is a grossly wild misunderstanding of NSA’s multiple and distinct authorities, the limits of EOs, how collection and incidental collection works, how USP data is treated, etc. If your concern with the Pentagon’s AI contracts has anything to do with NSA, you don’t understand NSA.

So far Trump has been very lucky in his military adventures - he lost military assets and wasted high-tech ammo, but no serious casualties. Since the GOP-controlled Congress refuses to rein him in, he'll keep starting new military adventures until one of them goes sideways and many Americans die.

I think it’s ok to take a break from the “here’s what this all really means” takes. We don’t even know what’s happening.

>the regime functionaries are yellow border posting on main @adam35.bsky.social come get ur mans

With the news of Khamenei’s possible death, I was ready to make a crack about “good thing no one has a succession plan for a leader in his 80s” but then I remembered the situation in the US.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Meanwhile, on the IO front…

I really hope FBI counterterrorism officials were substantively briefed on all this and had a plan in place for possible contingencies.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

So many questions

Two thoughts: 1. If you don’t live in or haven’t visited SF in the last few years, I cannot underscore enough enough how big/prominent the AI sector has become to local economy. 2. The Anthropic/DOD battle has the *potential* to cause the greatest DC-Silicon Valley rift since the Snowden fallout.