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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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...

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Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield

SpaceX-led group is pitching the Pentagon on a ‘subscription model’ for missile defense

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 08/03/2025

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

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Europe races to find Starlink alternatives for Ukraine

Four satellite operators in talks over back-up for Kyiv if Elon Musk switches off broadband service

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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.

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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.

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

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Cole Hood @colehood.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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. 🫲🫱

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 05/02/2025

Ich sag doch, wird interessant

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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.

Every year, LCBO sells nearly $1 billion worth of American wine, beer, spirits and seltzers. Not anymore.

Starting Tuesday, we’re removing American products from LCBO shelves. As the only wholesaler of alcohol in the province, LCBO will also remove American products from its catalogue so other Ontario-based restaurants and retailers can’t order or restock U.S. products.

There’s never been a better time to choose an amazing Ontario-made or Canadian-made product. As always, please drink responsibly.

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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...

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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Sam @wiredforflight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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...

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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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...

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Effort to Restrict Birthright Citizenship: Live Updates

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gurruwagana.bsky.social @gurruwagana.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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.

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Aki H Heikkinen @akihheikkinen.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/12/2024

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

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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)

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Joint Statement by the European Commission and the High Representative on the Investigation into Damaged Electricity and Data Cables in the Baltic Sea

Yesterday’s 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...

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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.

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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To Run the World

Cambridge Core - History after 1945 (General) - To Run the World

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

TODAY for folks in the Boston area…

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

For folks in the Boston area on October 28

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CNN @cnn.com · 29/08/2024

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

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/02/2024

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.“

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Macron says sending western troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out

French president also drops opposition to purchasing artillery supplies for Kyiv from outside the EU

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

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

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M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

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

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Sicherheitspod @sicherheitspod.de · 17/02/2024

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.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 17/02/2024

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

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