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Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6 Ad astra per aspera
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submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Fwiw … vanderbilthustler.com/2025/01/21/v...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

One of the strange things about rolling Thunder is that the McNamara led DOD kept such meticulous records and day-to-day analysis that there was never really a need for a USSBS or GWAPS, we knew basically by end of 1968 how and why the air campaign was a failure

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

it is absolutely true that schools and the ncaa were profiting off students who did not get what they were worth in return. but the nil situation is bonkers, I don't enjoy it and I think it has made division i much less fun and interesting there has to be a better way

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Disaster survivors in Arkansas left homeless by recent tornadoes have been blocked from receiving federal recovery aid after President Donald Trump rejected the state’s request to declare a major disaster in March.

submitted 55 days ago • 152 comments

educated people often miss the fact that factory work intentionally reduces everything to the smallest and most repetitive unit of labor possible

submitted 55 days ago • 80 comments

proud to have taught at hku in the Before Times

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 years. Now, human eyes have finally peered deep inside the doomed vessel, revealing a massive wall mural known only by reputation.

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

I am more of an expert on the explody side of military operations but afiak it is flatly illegal for the dod to deport people *on its own*

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on a computer in his office www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 55 days ago • 26 comments

this is the way

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

it's a weird, triangular stadium

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

for those playing the home version of tonight's game, the "cool zone" is a period of history that future students will find cool to study but living through it is a different issue

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Highest percentage response is “Nothing” Pew report released today 👉 pewrsr.ch/4jLDt6r

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

hopefully this is the first sign of false vacuum decay

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is. It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.

submitted 56 days ago • 52 comments

ok go in my pants

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

analysts have assessed with a high degree of confidence that these facilities are related and may be connected underground

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

this reminds me, the version my wife grew up saying was "snitches wind up in ditches" which is much darker imo

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

it's great that we eliminated measles in the united states and then just... did this

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

this is so on the nose

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Trump officials tried to reopen negotiations in recent days, but Harvard refused. Instead, the university has accused the administration of breaking the law.

submitted 56 days ago • 93 comments

people dunk on having a fake gun on your bedside table but a) I think this is much better/safer than having a real gun and b) if I could justify the cost I would 100 percent buy a prop replica of the blade runner blaster

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

as joel notes, this is a staggeringly large sum in general, but specifically in terms of hk's economy (its gdp equivalent it something like $350 billion, for instance)

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Tesla’s latest earnings were abysmal, says @liamdenning.bsky.social. Strip out EV credits, net interest and “other” — and underlying operations flipped to a loss:

submitted 56 days ago • 25 comments

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 56 days ago • 142 comments

🟡 SCOOP: Shari Redstone kept tabs on ’60 Minutes’ segments on Trump

submitted 56 days ago • 25 comments

I feel like the linked article is a fundamental misread of the pentagon, and uniformed military in general

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments