What is SBIR? Four things to know about industry funding now frozen in Congress breakingdefense.com/2025/10/what...

“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist

"The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic." — Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in NYT Co. v. US. "The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government..."

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

After pledging to restore America’s maritime might, the president has gutted the very offices, funding streams, and foreign partnerships that could have made it possible.

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Jives with what I and quite a few others have been arguing, that drones can replace and supplement fires, not replace them altogether (nor does it really make sense too)…

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones.
The U.S. military had believed that drones would keep troops out of harm's way. Instead they are making war deadlier for everyone.
My story on how the Army is reckoning with this new kind of war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

"Veterans Lit" grows like a spider web, creeping into new genres & publishing opportunities ...

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This hitter followed up on LinkedIn to remind me of our discussion.

I’m telling you - in an age of AI slop and cameras off Zoom calls to nowhere, being a person who can keep track of basic asks and engages in reliable correspondence is a superpower.

“…the president of the U.S. wants to turn that heavily funded, extramilitary military into a force to be unleashed against the American people, to do war crimes against us. Who authorized and appropriated that funding? Was it Congress? (Spoiler alert: It was.)”

I have a bunch of these I stick in places

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Illinois sued President Donald Trump early Monday morning over the deployment of National Guard troops into the state against the wishes of Gov. JB Pritzker. The lawsuit names Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem among the defendants. trib.al/VdUdLr0

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

"One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material."
William Zinsser
(True!)

"No soldier should ever be led or covered by someone who has been promoted for reasons other than military effectiveness. That criterion is not bigoted."

Putting this to the Bouie test: Is this actually happening? No evidence presented. Just right wing vibes.

Dude continues to demonstrate his willful ignorance of American history and the Constitution he swore an oath to. Americans have birthright. THAT is what makes one different from a subject or a serf. FFS

First instance I’ve seen of CBP paramilitaries inserting for one of these urban operations by helicopter (fast-roped from Black Hawks, presumably CBP AMO ones).

Hard to imagine a plausible tactical rationale, but easy to guess another one: this is *great* content for CBP’s aggro recruiting videos.

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Spot-on framing, excellent headline.

The Gammon was reasonably popular as these things go.

For one thing it wasn't the infamous sticky bomb, whose many design flaws included a proclivity to stick unshiftably to the nearest object. Apparently it occurred to nobody involved that the nearest object was frequently the poor sod holding it.

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":