A dog shelter in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack.

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

Thanks @fbigge.bsky.social for this—and for the work you do @koerberhistory.bsky.social to promote dialogue across borders in these difficult times @europeatharvard.bsky.social @financialtimes.com @belfercenter.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

Listen, we should not let the richest people in the world own a network of globe-spanning surveillance satellites connected to another network of satellites equipped with lasers and missiles that they "rent" to the US military. Come on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Now up @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/why-...

Congratulations @radchenko.bsky.social !!

This is authoritarianism in operation. Americans don't know what it looks like, but that's it. This is what it looks like.

Four large satellite operators — Luxembourg’s SES, Spain’s Hisdesat, Viasat, owner of the UK’s Inmarsat, and France’s Eutelsat/OneWeb — have all told @financialtimes.com they’re in talks with governments and EU institutions about how to provide back-up connectivity to Ukraine. on.ft.com/4kyetAE

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Military-size drones have been flying night-time missions over strategic installations in NW Germany last 2 weeks. Sightings are confirmed by German armed forces. Security sources suspect they came from North Sea or possibly Baltic Sea and are of Russian origin. Targets: mil bases, ports, LNG.

This piece—“Can Ukraine Hold Out” after Trump stopped US aid—makes clear Europeans need to do: Use the frozen Russian assets now. If you don’t know German: worth using Google Translate, as it’s by the second-to-none German military expert @drfranksauer.bsky.social of @sicherheitspod.de

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Worth reading, from the WSJ: gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/puti...

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I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.

Germany‘s got the best US bases in the world. Beautiful bases. Tremendous. Nobody has anything like it. And, frankly, we’re giving them to the US for free. Can you imagine that? For free! It’s nasty what they’re doing to us, really. So we want a better deal. The US‘s gotta pay. They gotta pay. 🫲🫱

Good to see @stevenerlanger.bsky.social staying with this story nonstop from #MSC to Paris www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

Here is the ad the Washington Post accepted and then rejected:

It’s hard to see where this is going to go. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These people are fucking monsters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Ich sag doch, wird interessant

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says they are removing ALL American drinks from the market. The LCBO has a monopoly on drinks distribution in Ontario. Trump just torched $1 billion of US exports. Holy shit.

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Before yesterday's crash, President Trump: - Fired the heads of the TSA and the Coast Guard - Pushed out the head of the FAA — leaving no one in charge - Gutted a key aviation safety group - Pushed air traffic controllers to quit as he purges the government He's putting Americans in danger.

I have not seen people talking about this so far w/ 47's cuts to roles. "Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday" eliminating their role. This is a mandated committee by law dating back to PanAm 103. @jonostrower.com @wandrme.paxex.aero apnews.com/article/coas...

Well, this is good news for Trump, because otherwise he’d have to send his own Secretary of State back to Cuba. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

BIDEN: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT HAS BEEN RATIFIED www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

After Australia’s Black Summer it took years for us to rebuild. The realisation that you have to run for your life, that you can be threatened in places you thought were safe, changes you forever. Be gentle with yourselves US friends.

Finnish presser live: 3km No fly zone over Eagle S declared, finnish police and border guards on board and conducting investigation. Eagle S suspected of breaking the Estlink 2 power cable and other (unspecified) cables.

Looks like the Russians shot down the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft when it was attempting to fight #drones.

The incident involving undersea cables in the Baltic Sea is the latest in a series of suspected attacks on critical infrastructure. We commend the Finnish authorities for their swift action in boarding the suspected vessel. My joint statement → europa.eu/!k6cCfB (1/3)

A Foreign Affairs book of the year!!! Congrats @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social

A Foreign Affairs book of the year!!! Congrats @radchenko.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Thanks Anastasiia Lapatina for a great if sobering conversation @lawfare.bsky.social

One thing I found interesting in Putin's discussion of the Oreshnik IRBM is his repeated emphasis on how several conventionally-armed missiles could inflict damage "comparable to nuclear." He said this at least three times in the last few days.

@himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social Congrats! www.cfr.org/arthur-ross-...

Thanks! And be sure to follow up with Sergey’s most recent must-read book… www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

If you’re in the Boston area today… ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024/...

TODAY for folks in the Boston area…

For folks in the Boston area on October 28

JUST IN: The US Army has issued a stark rebuke of the Donald Trump campaign for an incident with an employee at Arlington National Cemetery. cnn.it/4dZ2Wq3

The more relevant announcement by Macron, in my view: “The policy shift signals France will lift its objections to using shared EU funds to buy artillery from suppliers outside the bloc, unlocking hundreds of millions of euros in additional finance.“

Thanks @munsecconf.bsky.social & @woidelko.bsky.social & @fbigge.bsky.social @koerberhistory.bsky.social for hosting @twiegold.bsky.social for attending And, most important, Prime Minister Kallas for debating! @rikefranke.bsky.social @drfranksauer.bsky.social @carlomasala1.bsky.social

If you’re at MSC2024 and would like a signed book, go to the MSC bookstore at 3pm for @himself.bsky.social or 4pm for me Haven’t found the bookstore yet? It’s behind the smokers zone in the sushi bar…no sushi 🍣 today, but books 📚 and free coffee ☕️ @abenewman.bsky.social

Batshit crazy, if true.

Books are in both English & Deutsch & I’ll sign in either language—or in the same cheerfully bad mixture of both that I used on the podcast😎 Strickjackestimmung! Thank you @twiegold.bsky.social @rikefranke.bsky.social @drfranksauer.bsky.social @carlomasala1.bsky.social @sicherheitspod.bsky.social

Für diejenigen, die gerade auf der #MSC2024 sind: Heute um 16.00 Uhr signiert Mary @sarotte.bsky.social ihr "Not one inch"-Buch, das wir in der letzten Folge diskutiert haben. Im MSC Bookstore.

Rutte on the European defence panel: We shouldn’t be doing more because of Trump but because it is in our interest. Exactly.