Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
🧵 A network of 100+ BlueSky accounts pretending to be legitimate news syndication, some impersonating BBC News, @EuroNews.com, and @Meduza.io.
Built upon ≥70 Mastodon instances, then bridged to BlueSky using @ap.brid.gy, it feels like a social-media reinvention of the Portal 🇷🇺Kombat concept.
This was common among American backpackers in Latin American during the late Bush years too
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference
Someone forgot to take down this webpage:
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Hey @bdherzinger.bsky.social, how many times have you been sent this so far?
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Rum and afternoon naps
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law...And remember that we are not descended from fearful men." - Famous Murrow speech just got cheers on Bway
The cruelty is the point, just like deliberately announcing the USNS Harvey Milk renaming during Pride Month.
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."
Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965
China admits its latest aggression around #Taiwan is a rehearsal for a blockade. This latest exercise is described as "stern warning and forceful deterrence" by an Eastern Theater Commander spokesman. A quick examination of the exercise and its purpose. 1/11 🧵
The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
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having bad nachos is worse than having no nachos at all
The chow hall on KBay is named for him!
I went to an event with Brubeck back in undergrad at GW (it was a public diplomacy thing tying in Jazz, American values, etc), and it was cool. Miles Davis would have been on a totally different level...
Austin Dahmer. And yep
During a ceremony In 1913, a tug carrying Army officials was attempting to become the first vessel to transit the locks of the Panama Canal. However, two Marines in a canoe appeared and then paddled furiously to pass the tug and take the unofficial honor.
#SeaStorySaturday
Really living up to your handle there bud
My spouse called it an "old New England lighthouse keeper" look
Nothing pretend about it, they're definitely exploring their little slice of the world!
The TV coverage isn't for us. Just like the flyovers, and giant flags, and salutes to service aren't. They're for recruiting.
I just find it odd how bothered other non-academy grads get about the whole thing. Really seems to rankle for many. Watch or don't, or record and skip all the pomp!
So what should junior officers be doing to not end up in the same place as our naked emperor(s) down the road? Are we talking basic computer literacy, quantitative analysis skills, tech/AI proficiency? What should we be focusing on between hitlist scrubs and the 10% that suck up 90% of my time?
Sure, but many of us still enjoy rooting for Canoe U even if we we enlisted, commissioned via a different source, or did both (like me)
3) while a definitive break one way or the other in coming years is plausible, Thailand is very likely to continue hedging by extracting benefits from both China and the U.S. while avoiding definitive bandwagoning (basically Bamboo diplomacy continues, which I am far far from the first to predict).
Ie: OECD and BRICS applications back to back, and balancing security cooperation with economic integration.
2) multi and mini-latetal institutions are key to Thailand's leadership in the subregion, though the great powers also use them to shape their engagement there.
Big takeaways, while governments may lean one way or the other between the great powers, they are overwhelmingly committed to strategic hedging and balancing the two. When specific overtures are made that favor the US or China, they are often closely followed by a balanced move in another sector.