Excited to have our new campaign and Homefront Sentinel program picked up by @militarytimes.bsky.social this morning:

I've written about threats of AI exploitation in the past, and now I'm running a new program @ We the Veterans that protects veterans and milfamily members from bad actors' use of these tools, especially those that co-opt and impersonate the veteran and military motif. Check it: tinyurl.com/4mt8e8u2

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres

Sweet Jesus

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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if there are reprisal terrorist attacks in the U.S. they are less likely to backed by Iran than they are to be independent actions by individuals unconnected to any state. think the San Bernardino ISIS shooting

this is just how political violence works today, it's nothing specific to this conflict

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#OPINION: When public figures are found to have even slight discrepancies in their military records, the backlash is swift and fierce.

But a far more damaging trend has emerged: the mass impersonation of military figures and institutions online, often by foreign actors or scammers.

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Bill Braniff is a dedicated public servant dedicated to preventing terrorism with means-tested tools that respect and protect the liberties of all Americans. He built a program that has delivered real results.

I don't know anything about Fugate, but I know he could have learned a lot from Bill.

Miss working on this piece and collaborating w/ @dhsiegel74.bsky.social for @vox-pol.bsky.social – BLUF: the sophistication of terrorist propaganda is not just a tactic used in information warfare, but a metric for understanding insurgent success. Might be time for a pt 2?

voxpol.eu/terror-terri...

Figured it was time to dust off the ole publication portfolio...

“That the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag is being flown on a government building alongside the American flag should be shocking to anyone who doesn't wish to live in a theocracy,” says Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

Figured it was about time I joined the party. A few quick things about me 🤙
+ Huge dataset gal
+ Native North Carolinian (ENC baby)
+ Researcher of rhetoric and visual propaganda
+ Petitioner to outlaw ice cream truck jingles