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Al Mauroni

@progmil.bsky.social
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NatSec analyst, WMD and nukes, sci-fi enthusiast, gamer

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 9h
This man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force.
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We are so screwed.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The CIA declassified some interesting pre-9/11 memos on al Qaeda's intentions to develop unconventional weapons almauroni.substack.com/p/al-qaedas-...
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Al Qaeda’s Pre-911 WMD Interests
They never developed a real capability, but this put us all on edge
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 25/09/2026
AC/DC HAS BEEN THUNDERSTRUCK ⚡️
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m catching up on Star Trek #StrangeNewWorlds and watched S4E8 today. What a horribly written piece of shit. Supposedly this was written along the “Crimson Tide” theme. A rogue admiral committing a mass murder should have zero support from the Enterprise crew. He’s no Gene Hackman.
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Star Trek Pike Fish
ALT: Star Trek Pike Fish
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Golden Dome" enthusiasm continues in Washington DC, but what a waste of money. almauroni.substack.com/p/dont-look-...
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Don’t Look Up - Space Is Getting Crowded
The military budget for space operations is getting very large
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mr. Hegseth's critics point to an ongoing military defeat in Iran, hiding the number of dead soldiers, running out of missiles, and an alarming pattern of racism and misogyny. Mr. Hegseth's defenders point to successes like not getting blackout drunk in public and not raping any of his colleagues.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just finished the Netflix series "The Gentlemen" and it was glorious. Tight plot, great acting, beautiful cinematography
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Chest Kiss
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I love being able to watch “Slow Horses” season 6. I have a mundane question though - if they were fired, how do they still have access to their office and it’s not packed up?
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My Losers, Absolute Losers
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michael J Fox is the GOAT. Just an amazing actor and an amazing person.
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Michael J. Fox in Sitcom Scene
ALT: Michael J. Fox in Sitcom Scene
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Blind patriotism is never a good look, Nancy. Be better.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm disappointed that USANCA's "Army Biodefense Strategy" still believes in a single (poorly articulated) approach to dealing with very different challenges in disease prevention, biological warfare, and laboratory safety. almauroni.substack.com/p/usancas-fe...
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USANCA’s Fever Dream to Oversee Biodefense
There are none so blind as those who will not see
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The GOP flag
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This and the NYT headline on the Anthropic AIxBio cases are misleading. There is no evidence the research was for BW. Researchers were attempting to circumvent geoblocks on access to AI models like how soccer fans use VPNs to watch World Cup at the office. Most likely mundane, not malicious.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Turned on the television. Saw Condoleezza “what threat assessment” Rice finishing her remarks at the Pentagon and Pete “drunken frat boy” Hegseth quoting religious scripture. Turned off the television.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/m... I'm kind of tired of pieces like this because the question is dumb, and the answer is obviously "no." There are continuities between every era of history, even across the most staggering and singular events. But we don't get anywhere with this question.
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Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What Trump gets about voters that Democrats don't usually 1. Wildly malleable 2. Require repetition 3. Need a story with a villain 4. Want a catharsis (in his case, dominating others) 5. Require repetition
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's a new emphasis on protective mask fits in the military, but for the wrong reasons. almauroni.substack.com/p/cbrn-defen...
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CBRN Defense as a Political Weapon
They’re using protective masks to discriminate against select service members
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Noting two excellent articles on nuclear issues - Amy Woolf on "nuclear norms" and Erin Dumbacher on nuclear stockpile sizes almauroni.substack.com/p/good-point...
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Good Points on Nuclear Issues
I don’t always criticize people. I like identifying good articles.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Let you in on a secret. There's a connection here." Herblock in 1951.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jesus wept.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems like it would be bad for morale to treat so many military professionals as accused leakers
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ok there would be a few more things in my platform
sparky running for prez, promising to tear down ballroom, abolish ice, tax billionaires out of existence, etc
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here’s an old brief (2011) on nuclear terrorism that I dug up. Some minor changes. almauroni.substack.com/p/nuclear-te...
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Nuclear Terrorism
A Public Policy Perspective
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: My story on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's proposal to end the use of "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (ALARA) as a guiding principle for radiation protection. As usual I'll do a little 🧵 for the super ☢️🤓 crowd.... www.npr.org/2026/08/27/n...
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Nuclear regulator prepares to abandon a decades-old radiation safety rule
A push by President Trump could mean the elimination of a safety standard designed to keep radiation exposure as low as possible.
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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There is utility in debunking the various lies & distortions in this NYT op-ed, both for the "biosafety" pretext and the Lab Leaker idiocy at its heart. But take a step back & recognize how odious it that anyone is willing to promote such crank bs to get attention for their own biosafety projects.
An image of the nintendo character Kirby "eating the frame" as popularized by @anthonymoser.com . The image shows Kirby eating a shape with the words "China & Fauci frankensteined up the pandemic" while a larger block of text over Kirby reads "ghouls are lying about a pandemic caused by a natural virus to promote their own prior agendas".
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They keep trying to make biodeterrence a thing. It's absolutely not a thing. Stop trying to make it happen. almauroni.substack.com/p/the-case-a...
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The Case Against Biodeterrence
They're still trying to make it a thing
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On April 11, 2024, soon after Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” was published, I replied to her tweet about an excerpt of it in TIME, pointing out several significant factual errors (including about the origin of the “Football”). She DM’d me, asking for “a brief discussion,” adding …
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21/08/2026
If you want Star Trek but Muppets just watch Farscape
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good morning team! This is silly and ignorant. Let's say so.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Lioness” season 3 ep 3, this learned gentleman explains that sending US funds to China’s Wohan lab to do GoF research was all part of a grand international conspiracy. FFS.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
embarrassing and dangerous to scientists and public health workers.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
2026 US is not operating under the Constitution. The White House is massively corrupt with no consequence. Masked secret police violating rights. Minorities disenfranchised. DOJ transformed from law enforcement into lie-based repression. What more does one need to say US no longer a democracy?
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Trump administration's move to increase the role of nuclear weapons in the Pacific is dangerous almauroni.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Administration's Move to Increase the Role of Nuclear Weapons
The nuclear hawks are succeeding in advancing their narrative
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What the actual fuck. How … how does this idiot function. He has no idea how to act as a SecDef. Still a drunken frat boy begging for attention.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m constantly amused that responsible defense analysts and media reporters treat this program as either a valid requirement or even slightly implementable. It’s a bad joke.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Well this isn’t good. It’s pretty much the opposite of running a national public health program.
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How should the Army Chemical Corps mission evolve? almauroni.substack.com/p/the-army-c...
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The Army Chemical Corps' Search for Relevance
Looking for a role when the natsec community doesn't talk about WMD anymore
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For 20 years, the chemical-biological defense budget barely moved while every national security strategy warned louder about the threat. warontherocks.com/possible-is-...
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Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A better term than WMD! h/t to @progmil.bsky.social
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with April Arnold on this article, just released on #WotR warontherocks.com/possible-is-...
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Possible Is Not Plausible: How Nightmare Scenarios Hijack Unconventional Weapons Policy
Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@progmil.bsky.social spitting 🔥 on this Monday morning
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We ought to be careful not to overexaggerate biological threats to the point of paralyzing policy discussions on this topic. Annie Jacobsen's book does no one any favors here. almauroni.substack.com/p/fearmonger...
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Fearmongering About Biological Threats
The "Death of Expertise" is displayed once again
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
anyway the """fact based""" argument in this piece of shit is a ~bioengineered~ whatever that somehow kills literally everyone in the US in a week lmfao not sure if this better or worse than genetically modified mengele kids doing Roswell for stalin
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Read @progmil.bsky.social excellent take
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Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The "death of expertise" certainly applies to the discussion of U.S. preparedness for biological threats. I disagree with Annie Jacobsen's views in her recent op-ed in the Washington Post almauroni.substack.com/p/no-one-mak...
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No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios
It's way past time to stop admiring the advice of doom-sayers
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Someone in the Q&A audience at Politics & Prose should ask her about the scathing Kai Bird review of her CIA book (in which he noted a number of sloppy inaccuracies by the author).
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