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Prof David J Galbreath

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Professor of War and Technology at the University of Bath. Working on digital battlefields. Occasional work on Ukraine.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
The cryptocurrency industry, which spent heavily to defeat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in 2024, is spending millions of dollars more to prevent him from returning to the Senate this year.
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Crypto industry spends big to try to stop Sherrod Brown from winning in Ohio
The industry also worked against him in 2024.
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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russian independent media outlet Mediazona and BBC Russia confirms IDs of 258,989 #Russia military personnel killed in #Ukraine Journalists note actual number of deaths likely far Ukraine: Russia has lost almost 1.6m troops --- killed, seriously wounded, or captured --- during full-scale invasion
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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: PROGRESS IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMME www.opcw.org/sites/defaul... Note: Conspiracy theorists have always challenged the #hexamine used to manufacture Syria's sarin. Not anymore ... ...
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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Switzerland reject stricter neutrality. Leave John Lennon alone people.
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Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation
70% vote against tightening centuries-old neutrality, which far right said was being eroded by sanctions against Russia
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"He wants his arch to have snipers and drones. He isn't leaving office." 1) Yes, he is. We did this dance once already. 2) If you think he's going to build his arch and cover it with drones in two years, I have a ballroom to show you. Why? The East Wing was demolished 11 months ago. Tada!
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Three courses in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, are among the 90 programmes to be axed as Edinburgh University seeks to save £140m at the cost of as many as 1800 jobs. Edinburgh UCU has announced a five week programme of strike action in protest. #BonfireOfTheHumanities
scotsman.com
Edinburgh University to mothball 90 courses as five weeks of strikes to start
The university said mothballing 90 courses will not detract from the institutions standing on the world stage
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A Russian is driving around ranting at Ukrainians, blaming them for the alleged nationwide gasoline shortage. It seems the cause-and-effect link still hasn’t formed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Corn: Trump wants to rule like Putin, and he wants to do deals with Putin. The war in Ukraine is just a nuisance for him that gets in the way. He doesn’t care about protecting Ukrainian democracy or the Ukrainian population. He wants this war over with so he and Putin can stride the world together
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing inside Luhansk Oblast. Even Russian military maps now acknowledge Ukrainian-controlled territory there. Russia does not fully control a single one of the four Ukrainian oblasts Putin illegally claims as Russian territory. Read my full report today below👇
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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Latest with @sjasmith.bsky.social on NATO and Russian hybrid war
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
if you’re not leading the Reform story with ‘A convicted money launderer…’ you’re just reading a press release
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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh, that Ben Delo? The one who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering law? www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
Anthropic also found that hackers used AI in attacks against targets in Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic sectors.
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Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Man in Swindon charged with assisting Russian intelligence agency (GRU) Joshua Cammidge, 31, arrested after investigation led by counter-terrorism policing London www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Man in Swindon charged with assisting Russian intelligence agency
Joshua Cammidge, 31, arrested after investigation led by counter-terrorism policing London
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If only the government worried about tech billionaires as much as it does about migrants.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/09/2026
One week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal. n.pr/4d1Miba
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As Nepal identifies those killed in the floods, questions grow over China's reporting
One week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Remember folks, Ford was a virulent anti-semite, was praised in Mein Kampf, and did business with Nazis.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/09/2026
NEWS: The U.S. military is carrying out strikes on multiple targets in Iran after earlier “precision strikes” in Bandar Abbas
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A lot of folks dismissing this because these GOs probably won't recognize their duty. But that isn't the only or most important direct effect of the piece. It is to develop the understanding in broader society that the military senior leadership is failing. That will matter going forward.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think Hegseth genuinely believed the top brass was just waiting for someone to release them from the shackles of Washington liberals, and had no sense of what sort of officers and defense professionals modern Western defense establishments produce
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David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Highly recommend this piece.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is - in more military language - what Putin set out in his July 2021 article 'On the historical unity of Russians & Ukrainians'. Putin's aims for Ukraine were & are genocidal. No-one in Europe should kid themselves that this is a war for territory, still less 'to prevent NATO expansion'.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/08/2026
With the war in Iran driving up fuel prices, diesel is now nearly $5.60 a gallon, affecting school districts at the start of the year. n.pr/45Mr2SW
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School districts face a back-to-school math problem: The high price of diesel
With the war in Iran driving up fuel prices, diesel is now nearly $5.60 a gallon, affecting school districts at the start of the year.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m beginning to suspect that wasting years dragging feet on military aid to Ukraine and playing escalation management games, giving an aggressive militaristic Russia the time and resources to ramp up its war machine to full power against the free world, might not have been the brightest idea.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27/08/2026
Israel is considering expelling British, and potentially other European, officials from the US-led co-ordination centre for postwar Gaza in retaliation for criticism of Netanyahu’s policies in the Palestinian territories. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/isMh4ro
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me: "I really like this pastry from this one bakery. They seem to do it better than anyone else" BlueSky: "Why are you supporting monopolies!!!"
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Iran war ranks among the stupidest in U.S. history. It may take the cake.
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s getting stupider by the second.
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Questions for former and/or current department chairs 🪑: 1. Did you manage to stay on top of your research/writing? If so, how?? 2. Did you find the experience worthwhile in the long run? 3. What advice would you offer to new chairs? 4. Would you do it again?
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Woman falls out of chair
Alt: Woman falls out of chair
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 25/08/2026
A sanctioned vessel that was previously reported to have transported weapons for Russian mercenaries has been traversing ports on the African west coast since March, exhibiting what experts told Bellingcat was an unusual set of movements and behaviours. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...
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Tracking a Sanctioned Russian Vessel’s West African Odyssey - bellingcat
Cargo vessel reported to have transported weapons destined for Russian mercenaries has been shuttling between West African ports since March.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I see someone characterize cis men disrupting and harassing women’s basketball players as “protecting” women’s sports, I think about how last year at a women’s soccer game some young men behind me paid for tickets just to heckle the women on the field. It’s all blatantly misogynistic.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not againnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not a great sign of the times: Neighborhood kid didn't show up for the first day of school and my first instinct was to look on the ICE detainee locator to see if the family was in custody.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Upton Sinclair remains undefeated, financial journalism edition
Sinclair difficult to get a man quote
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Important to recognize that the Trump administration’s new and improved Maximum Pressure campaign against Iran is not an alternative to warfare but a continuation of the conflict. Both because it entails a US naval blockade and because of Iranian retaliation/escalation. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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New Tanker Strike in Hormuz as Iran Vows Retaliation for U.S. Economic Offensive
The tanker was struck by an unknown projectile off the coast of Oman, the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations said.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I have been saying this for years: President Trump’s first tariff war with Canada (it was over milk) led to a 40% bankruptcy rate amongst Wisconsin’s dairy farmers. And DOGE decimated the Department of Agriculture, so no-one get financed now: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u....
nytimes.com
Farmers Struggle to Get Basic Services From Depleted Agriculture Dept.
After the departure of thousands of federal workers, rural communities report problems obtaining loans, grants, technical assistance and support for infrastructure and other services.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/08/2026
Donald Trump's treatment of Canada is a disgrace. In a Trumpian world of tariffs and threats, the UK must rejoin the EU to build our collective power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx272np…
bbc.co.uk
Trump says Canada wants 'benefits' of being US state after trade talks collapse
Canada's PM said he was "reluctantly" announcing retaliatory tariffs and accused the US of starting a trade war.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 25/08/2026
A motorcade bearing license plates used by US diplomats was spotted by local residents traveling through Moscow. Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said no meetings with US officials were planned. #Russia
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is bad.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Russia’s next generation of generals is already being shaped by the war in Ukraine. But which officers are best positioned to reach the top? warontherocks.com/russias-next...
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Russia’s Next Top General: Promotions in Russian Military Leadership
Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
WATCH: Jesse Watters defends a broken health care system that enriches private insurers while failing 🇺🇸 The truth is we can’t afford NOT to do it. #MedicareForAllNOW (And @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is right— there’s always money for war. Republicans don’t care about the debt.)
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The University of Bath @uniofbath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
With drought declared across half of England and all of Wales in July, the latest blog from the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR) @uniofbathipr.bsky.social explores the policies needed for a more drought-resilient UK.
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Drought: Water resources and food security in increasingly rainless environments
Wildfires and critically low river levels are causing significant environmental damage and economic costs across Europe and North America. In the UK, drought was declared across half of England and…
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I hate to say it because it applies to lots of people I like and respect, but if you watch the NFL, you are, in a small way, implicated in this.
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Thomas von Boguslawski @thomasvb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) has signed a 14-million-euro contract for the procurement of unmanned FPV combat drones, as #Finland continues to bolster its military capabilities: yle.fi/a/74-20242819
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Finland signs €14m deal for FPV combat drones
All of the systems will be manufactured in Finland, according to the Finnish Defence Forces.
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