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Large-scale destruction visible in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia in recent @planet.com SkySat imagery from May 31. Compared with mid-May, can see large swaths of residential homes have been razed by the IDF. This is taking place elsewhere in Gaza as well, such as Khuzaa, Al-Qarara and Rafah.

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Wrath—but y'all aren't ready to sing about that

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Massive wave of attacks in Mali just in the past week - complex attacks on army posts and bases, IEDs, ambushes, and that's not to mention the wave of attacks in Burkina Faso, and IS as well as JNIM attacks in Niger. We are in a new and extremely dangerous dynamic in the Sahel. x.com/SimNasr/stat...

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Curtis Yarvin may be a moron, but he has a way of foreseeing the ideas that greater men later put into action for good or ill—in this case, Nathan Fielder on Season 2 of The Rehearsal

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50 Cent for national security advisor if this works

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One of those headlines that really makes you stop and ponder things for a minute

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If the SECDEF and Dodge Cabal were really about that "cut costs to the bone" life, they'd include transitioning COMPO 2/3 from operational reserve back to strategic reserve in their defense strategy, and get rid of every single Active Guard Reserve billet in the inventory

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In the mid-60s, John McPhee published a book on frozen orange juice that read like a metaphor for mid-century America. (The same evaporators and science that had processed blood plasma and penicillin for soldiers now made shelf-stable juice.)

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I’d like to see a spinoff docuseries that’s just about the HBO executives who handle the legal and financial stuff around “The Rehearsal”

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They got close to this last time around, with a “storytelling” format of the PDB for Trump, according to a CIA history of the PDB: www.cia.gov/resources/cs...

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GWOT operator cosplay as an element of the administration’s repurposing of the war on terror

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…how many “deceased Gazans” is the IDF hanging onto, and why? Did they all die in custody?

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This article hammers home with example after example that it’s neither junior leaders nor top echelons in Tel Aviv/Jerusalem that have made block-by-block demolition the norm in Gaza—it’s been the initiative of battalion, brigade, and division commanders seemingly bent on making Gaza uninhabitable.

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Good story, with a detail I’d missed elsewhere: the US government has recently ceased paying stipends to the Somali Danab commando brigade, which US SOF have trained and advised for years, effectively halving their salaries. (Unclear to me whether this was 127e money or State Dept money.)

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Fun with AI: I googled something about this 2012 suicide bombing in Afghanistan and Gemini informed me that Flo Groberg died in it, which I think he would be surprised by

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Nobody tell the secretary of defense

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Something that stands out to me about Isom’s bio is that while he served in SEAL Team 6, it appears his time there culminated in its intelligence-focused Black Squadron, and instead of climbing the hierarchy in the assault squadrons, he then moved for his command master chief time to SRT-2…

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Israeli officer tells AP that during his time in Gaza, “nearly every platoon” used the practice—ostensibly forbidden by the IDF, and forbidden under IHL/LOAC—of forcing a Gazan prisoner to enter buildings ahead of them in case of boobytraps apnews.com/article/isra...

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The death toll of Israel’s war in Gaza, according to this investigation, includes 266 entire nuclear families (two parents and their children) of three, 192 entire nuclear families of four, 171 of five, 121 of six, 50 of seven, 17 of eight, 10 of nine, 3 of eleven, and 1 of fourteen.

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Just a teaser of the kind of drama contained in this sweeping story about backstabbing French paleontologists: “I was attacked, I was insulted, I was threatened…Poitiers is the asshole of the world.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Worth recalling that Trump already undermined the prohibition against territorial conquest in his first term through his recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights—a decision the Biden administration refused to rescind. foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/06/b...

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I do enjoy reading about a good academic feud, and none are more feudy than paleontologists www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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