Brian Nussbaum
@ilnuttree.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher on security issues at UAlbany.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
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Someone had fun in the snow
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Someone had fun in the snow
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Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war.
archives.albany.edu/description/...
archives.albany.edu/description/...
Verification Required | M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
archives.albany.edu
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war.
archives.albany.edu/description/...
archives.albany.edu/description/...
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Seamus Hughes is a national treasure you've probably never heard of. Read this interview to find out why, and then if you can, PLEASE give him some money so he can keep doing it.
(A: He's a genius at discovering obscure but important court filings. But the interview is worth reading.)
(A: He's a genius at discovering obscure but important court filings. But the interview is worth reading.)
“I don’t have a dog in the fight of a city council member in Sacramento who’s on the take. But it is mental floss to forget about the fact that I just watched an 8-year-old kid learn how to build a bomb in Raqqa.”
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/seamus-hug...
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/seamus-hug...
Terrorism professor by day, legal reporter by night, Seamus Hughes is the journalist America needs right now
The Court Watch founder has been called the “the no shit, uncontested expert” on federal court filings, and his discoveries have broken hundreds of big stories. But can he make covering crime pay?
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Seamus Hughes is a national treasure you've probably never heard of. Read this interview to find out why, and then if you can, PLEASE give him some money so he can keep doing it.
(A: He's a genius at discovering obscure but important court filings. But the interview is worth reading.)
(A: He's a genius at discovering obscure but important court filings. But the interview is worth reading.)
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"We're clearly in a moment of pretty serious social, political [and] economic transformation and nonprofits are being strongly impacted."
@jenniferdodge.bsky.social and Susan Appe spotlight the Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Accelerator (ENLA) program on this UAlbany podcast: tinyurl.com/3wftd629
@jenniferdodge.bsky.social and Susan Appe spotlight the Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Accelerator (ENLA) program on this UAlbany podcast: tinyurl.com/3wftd629
Creating a Pipeline and Action Plan for Nonprofit Leaders | The Engagement Ring
Professors Susan Appe and Jennifer Dodge discuss the Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Accelerator (ENLA) program created and taught by faculty at the UAlbany's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Pol...
the-engagement-ring.simplecast.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"We're clearly in a moment of pretty serious social, political [and] economic transformation and nonprofits are being strongly impacted."
@jenniferdodge.bsky.social and Susan Appe spotlight the Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Accelerator (ENLA) program on this UAlbany podcast: tinyurl.com/3wftd629
@jenniferdodge.bsky.social and Susan Appe spotlight the Emerging Nonprofit Leadership Accelerator (ENLA) program on this UAlbany podcast: tinyurl.com/3wftd629
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It occurred to me that x’s new location feature reveals a lot about the international networks of those who posted during the campaign.
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It occurred to me that x’s new location feature reveals a lot about the international networks of those who posted during the campaign.
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
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🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education.
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education.
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
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I have re-upped my paid subscription to Court Watch. And, if you have the means, you should too.
Today, we make the case why you should support Court Watch. Here’s our deeply transparent look at what it takes to make news.
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I have re-upped my paid subscription to Court Watch. And, if you have the means, you should too.
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Today, we make the case why you should support Court Watch. Here’s our deeply transparent look at what it takes to make news.
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today, we make the case why you should support Court Watch. Here’s our deeply transparent look at what it takes to make news.
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
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I've re-upped my paid subscription to Court Watch, and I think everybody who cares at all about the many legal cases of consequence afoot these days should too. I get subscription fatigue -- I only pay for a handful of outlets, and I'm a journalism dork -- but at $9/mo this is supremely worthwhile.
Today, we make the case why you should support Court Watch. Here’s our deeply transparent look at what it takes to make news.
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I've re-upped my paid subscription to Court Watch, and I think everybody who cares at all about the many legal cases of consequence afoot these days should too. I get subscription fatigue -- I only pay for a handful of outlets, and I'm a journalism dork -- but at $9/mo this is supremely worthwhile.
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I worked for the CIA. Counterterrorism. I disobeyed illegal orders. Anyone else?
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I worked for the CIA. Counterterrorism. I disobeyed illegal orders. Anyone else?
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Your Tuesday reminder that it’s criminal that @courtwatch.bsky.social doesn’t have at least 2,000 followers
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Your Tuesday reminder that it’s criminal that @courtwatch.bsky.social doesn’t have at least 2,000 followers
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Dan Geer has a new essay on the shift toward indeterminism in computing and implications for security.
“The limiting factor in offensive capability is not finding vulnerabilities, it is having the talent to turn them into dependable tools”. @daveaitel.bsky.social
www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...
“The limiting factor in offensive capability is not finding vulnerabilities, it is having the talent to turn them into dependable tools”. @daveaitel.bsky.social
www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...
CSDL | IEEE Computer Society
www.computer.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Dan Geer has a new essay on the shift toward indeterminism in computing and implications for security.
“The limiting factor in offensive capability is not finding vulnerabilities, it is having the talent to turn them into dependable tools”. @daveaitel.bsky.social
www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...
“The limiting factor in offensive capability is not finding vulnerabilities, it is having the talent to turn them into dependable tools”. @daveaitel.bsky.social
www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...
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It is my long held belief that Top Secret! is the better ZAZ movie than Airplane! even as so many people I know disagree.
Tonight’s movie with the kids: TOP SECRET!
a man is laying on his back in the grass with a fence in the background .
ALT: a man is laying on his back in the grass with a fence in the background .
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It is my long held belief that Top Secret! is the better ZAZ movie than Airplane! even as so many people I know disagree.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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ICYMI: Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the Air Force officer whose return home after 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam was captured in the iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph "Burst of Joy," reportedly died this week at the age of 92.
Read more about Stirm here: bit.ly/4peSiBk
Read more about Stirm here: bit.ly/4peSiBk
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
ICYMI: Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the Air Force officer whose return home after 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam was captured in the iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph "Burst of Joy," reportedly died this week at the age of 92.
Read more about Stirm here: bit.ly/4peSiBk
Read more about Stirm here: bit.ly/4peSiBk
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In case I’m wrong, go buy my book so you know what they were like the first time around.
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In case I’m wrong, go buy my book so you know what they were like the first time around.
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
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Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Campanile or Bell Tower
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
Duomo di Siena - 1264
The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles.
On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top.
#SteepleSaturday
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My step-grandfather was one of the lead financial forensic investigators who gathered documentary evidence used in those trials. I wish he'd lived to participate in that conversation. But he did leave us a book.
![Rathenau wrote shortly after World War I: shortly after World War I:
“We are are confronted confronted by by significant significant upheavals upheavals in economic in economic was structure structure and and thought. thought. The The war, war, which which since since 'in in its its nature nature was political, was an event of world revolutionary character, political, was an event of world revolutionary character, Eur[which] [which] shattered shattered the-economic theeconomic and and social social order order of of Europe. . . From the ruins will arise neither a Communist State ruins will arise neither a Communist State
nor a system allowing free play to the economic forces. In nor a system allowing free play to the economic forces. In enterprise the individual will not be given greater latitude; enterprise the individual Will not be given greater latitude; on the other hand, individualistic activity will be consciously on the other hand, individualistic activity will be consciously accorded a part in an economic structure working for Society accorded a part in an economic structure working for Society .” as as a a Whole. whole. . . .”
What Rathenau is talking about, under a light mist of verbiage, is a completely cartelized State. Given further development with a strong dose of police brutality and creation velopment with a strong dose of police brutality and creation of of a a phony phony “race “race science,”science,” it it is is a a Nazi State. ' Shrewd business leaders in later years praised Rathenau for his foresight. But he himself did not live to observe the for his Eoresight. But he himself did not live to observe the outcome of his predictions. As such he became a target for the terrorist gangs Minister. As such he became a target for the terrorist gangs
of free-hooters, fore-runners of Hitler’s Storm Troops, who of free-booters, fore-runners of Hitler’s Storm Troops, who roamed Germany after World War I, and he was assassinated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q25tg5qy6kzwtuecpe6b4shw/bafkreidu2i7ce225myt6p7ypy6twuxhop3ym5fecu4nbldlav6bb6tiiwi@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My step-grandfather was one of the lead financial forensic investigators who gathered documentary evidence used in those trials. I wish he'd lived to participate in that conversation. But he did leave us a book.
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Let's have some fun today and announce the 6th Annual Layer 8 Conference!
It will be TWO days!!
June 5-6, 2026 in Boston
Social engineering, OSINT, CTF, training, fun!
It will be TWO days!!
June 5-6, 2026 in Boston
Social engineering, OSINT, CTF, training, fun!
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Let's have some fun today and announce the 6th Annual Layer 8 Conference!
It will be TWO days!!
June 5-6, 2026 in Boston
Social engineering, OSINT, CTF, training, fun!
It will be TWO days!!
June 5-6, 2026 in Boston
Social engineering, OSINT, CTF, training, fun!
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There is a really interesting section in Jonathan Haslam's book "Near and Distant Neighbors" where he talks about a KGB officer who put together the methodology, which Haslam lays out, by which the KGB figured out who at the US embassy was CIA.
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
There is a really interesting section in Jonathan Haslam's book "Near and Distant Neighbors" where he talks about a KGB officer who put together the methodology, which Haslam lays out, by which the KGB figured out who at the US embassy was CIA.
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Wrote a piece this week on the late David Rapoport's impact on me as a terrorism researcher and teacher. Will push out when released.
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Wrote a piece this week on the late David Rapoport's impact on me as a terrorism researcher and teacher. Will push out when released.
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For a 70s/80s latchkey kid it was always on in reruns on the teevee after school. Radicalizing, in a good way. Also: Barbara Feldon. bsky.app/profile/carl...
“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC.
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
For a 70s/80s latchkey kid it was always on in reruns on the teevee after school. Radicalizing, in a good way. Also: Barbara Feldon. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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If you are looking for informed voices on far-right (violence) in the U.S., here are some great follows:
@milleridriss.bsky.social
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
@sjacks26.bsky.social
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
@jmberger.com
@milleridriss.bsky.social
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
@sjacks26.bsky.social
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
@jmberger.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you are looking for informed voices on far-right (violence) in the U.S., here are some great follows:
@milleridriss.bsky.social
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
@sjacks26.bsky.social
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
@jmberger.com
@milleridriss.bsky.social
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
@sjacks26.bsky.social
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
@jmberger.com