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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 16h

Trump rightly deserves credit for pressuring Netanyahu to avoid escalation and deescalate the situation in the Middle East. Both Republicans and Democrats gave him that freedom,setting aside partisan political objectives. Starting at 3 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Qo...

Files Declassified: The disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart | Planet America

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Part of what makes a protest movement successful and enduring is that the protest events are fun. J6 would have been quite different if it was just a group of dancing frogs outside the capital.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Engineered asymmetry: The combinational effects of disruptive technologies are transforming battlefields for both strong and relatively weak actors alike.
www.thecipherbrief.com/asymmetric-war

Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Russia's economy is undergoing significant strains due to sanctions and the war economy which is squeezing out resources for other enterprises. Sanctions do matter -- Russia's economy is reaching a breaking point.
jamestown.org/program/krem...

Kremlin’s War Economy Driving Recession in Russia’s Regions

Executive Summary: Official economic data on the first six months of 2025 indicates that Russia’s war economy is stagnating as military industries absorb resources from civilian sectors. In the first...

jamestown.org

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW Harris & Harvard CAPS Poll shows Americans (Replicans + Democrats alike) want President Trump to punish Russia & support Ukraine.

77% of American voters support additional sanctions on Russia

68% believe the Trump administration should continue to arm Ukraine + impose sanctions

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

US is rethinking unilateral disarmament in the information domain
www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...

United States • State Department having second thoughts about disinformation fight

The prospect of reactivating certain programmes in order to counter Chinese, Iranian, North Korean and Russian propaganda is now being considered by Marco Rubio's teams within the US State Department.

www.intelligenceonline.com

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Head of Australian Office of National Intelligence on the collapse of the rules-based international order and the weaponisation of economic interdependence -- the "lucky country's" luck is running out

www.defenceconnect.com.au/geopolitics-...

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Red Hat breech posted online just after the government shut down
www.thecipherbrief.com/red-hat-breach

A Deniable Attack with Strategic Precision: Why the Red Hat Breach Looks More Like Statecraft Than Mere Crime

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The timing was no coincidence.As the U.S. federal government ground to a halt at 12:01 a.m. EDT on October 1, 2025, a cybercriminal group calling itself the Crimson Collective cho...

www.thecipherbrief.com

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Russia is engaged in a reflexive control campaign against the US to convince America not to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Like transfers of other systems (HIMARS, F16s), they allege it will cause escalation that has yet to materialize
understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 7, 2025

The Kremlin continues its reflexive control campaign aimed at preventing the US from selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

understandingwar.org

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

*shut down

Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Government hut down has led to lapses in American cyber defenses
www.thecipherbrief.com/cybersecurit...

Inside the Policy Failure Putting America’s Critical Infrastructure at Risk

OPINION — Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our critical infrastructure every day. Yet, tw...

www.thecipherbrief.com

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Whether or not they can is an empirical question we should have answered.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3d

😵‍💫 Kremlin: Russia knows how to shoot down Tomahawk missiles.

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Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · 3d

ISW: 'Russia appears to be accelerating the informational and psychological condition setting phase — “Phase 0” — of its campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Presence of Western parts in Russian drones and missiles speaks to the failure to effectively enforce sanctions -- the presence of Chinese parts speaks to their collaboration
kyivindependent.com/over-100-000...

Over 100,000 Western-made parts found in drones, missiles used in Russian recent mass attack, Zelensky says

The components were reportedly manufactured by companies based in the U.S., China, Taiwan, the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands.

kyivindependent.com

Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Dodging questions is a classic indicator of a deception motive.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 3d

“Moscow’s financial strategy for the fifth year of war is unmistakable ... the Kremlin will attempt to muddle through without major expenditure increases, instead passing the war’s costs to  the whole of society.” Alexander Kolyandr

https://cnb.cx/3IDrdYP

Russia's economy is creaking -- and the Kremlin wants Russians to pay more for the war

The Kremlin's commitment to the Ukraine war was in focus this week after the finance ministry released its 2026 draft budget.

www.cnbc.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

‼️According to calculations made by OSINT researchers, the amount of Russian tanks in decent condition remaining in storage is ZERO.

◾️1656 are in "poor" condition (about 60% of them probably cannot be restored).
◾️1231 Russian tanks are in "worse" condition, according to the researchers.

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 4d

They will be used to degraded Russian offensive capabilities.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4d

⚡️ Trump says he’s decided on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine but wants confirmation on how they’ll be used.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 5d

2024 was an anti-incumbent year around the globe largely because of forces beyond any one lawmaker's control and I feel like that's where all analyses should start and I don't really know how much more complicated it should get than that.

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 4d

The United States has unilaterally disarmed in the information wars. The Trump administration has ended key efforts to defend against Russian, Chinese and Iranian targeting of Americans with false claims.

How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans

Russia, China and Iran pay no price for spreading false claims about the U.S.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 4d

cepa.org/article/the-...

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 6d

This federal judge appointed by President Trump found his claims of “chaos“ in Portland, Oregon “untethered to the facts.“

Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 6d

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment