Clint Watts

Thank you for the kind words
I may have a new direction for book 2

Hey thanks @thegrendel.bsky.social
Good to see you @lageneralista.ca I proposed a book #2 in 2021 but it didn’t get picked up

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

He Took On R. Kelly, Chinese Spies, and George Santos The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn went after big targets around the world. What happens when the Justice Department reports to Donald Trump?

There's an “organized” attempt by China at “infiltration” of the US “government at a bunch of different levels,” a top prosecutor and spyhunter warns in a rare interview. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Russian mercenary caught with drone on U.S.-Mexico border It is unclear why Timur Praliev, an ex-member of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group, was carrying a drone in a backpack as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally.

Russian Mercenary Caught With Drone On U.S.-Mexico Border www.newsweek.com/russian-merc...

#Severance

Film still #11

Dylan getting his tie straightened.

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Syrian mass graves expose "machinery of death" under Assad, top prosecutor says An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.

“We really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis," said Rapp, who led prosecutions at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes tribunals” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Tonight
4 drones over Hudson River

a man is dancing on a stage with a guitar . ALT: a man is dancing on a stage with a guitar .

Moonwalk
That’s the appropriate response

Update: I’ve seen a drone in the night sky

Photos of Birmingham DHL fire suggest device could have downed plane Images consistent with fire from magnesium-based device, suspected to be part of Russian sabotage plot

This is one of those stories that I keep thinking will get bigger and bigger but which no-one outside of small security circles is talking about much...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

True
Was your pick

One thing that did not get enough attention is how much roller skating occurred to Yacht rock

The guys that made the YouTube show YachtRock are spectacular

I did not realize how much I wanted to know about Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Chris Cross and Toto.

Music Box | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com The official website for Music Box on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.

I watched the Yacht Rock documentary and it was far better than I imagined and am now inundating myself with Yacht Rock and the @questlove.bsky.social Spotify playlist. Highly recommend www.hbo.com/music-box

Oh dear God….these are political prisoners who committed no crimes, sealed underground for who knows how long.

We've just released our Q3 Adversarial Threat Report. Being part of the team creating the threat disruption discipline has been the high point of my last 6 years at Meta. The report covers influence operations and adversarial ops we've detected and disrupted in the last quarter. Some key takeaways:

Since there's yet another round of "NATO expansion caused Russia to invade Ukraine in Feb 2022" on various platforms, I'll repeat: there was *no* prospect of Ukraine joining NATO after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its war in Eastern Ukraine. NATO, Ukraine, and Russia all knew that.

This is a big deal: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, FBI, and four other US agencies are jointly warning US defense companies to bolster security precautions in anticipation of possible Russian sabotage.

Not an alarm to hit snooze on.

Amazon.com: Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East: 9780190940980: Ostovar, Afshon: Books Amazon.com: Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East: 9780190940980: Ostovar, Afshon: Books

Thrilled to announce my new book is finally out! Centered on the clashing agendas of the U.S. and Iran from 9/11 to the Gaza war, it examines how we got here, where it's all headed, & why the Middle East will remain vital to global geopolitics. www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambitio...

Trump and Iran face off across a new Middle East Four years after his first term, Donald Trump returns to a Middle East transformed by war, where the United States and Iran face a pivotal choice between escalating conflict or pursuing compromise.

Trump’s focus on Iran will be tested. The Middle East has changed, Saudi and UAE have moved on, Palestine looms large, and Iran holds a weaker hand. Is that the recipe for war or could it portend a diplomatic opening? My latest engelsbergideas.com/notebook/tru...

Thank you for this @markstout.bsky.social

It’s amazing
And sorry to those who followed my other account. Forgot I had this one. Making the correction and hello 2012

@intelwire.bsky.social thanks for reminding me what my other username was!

Classified Document leaker background looks a lot like the background of mass shooters https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/13/jack-teixeira-discord-leaked-documents/

.@intelwire - are we going to do this again?

I like to sign up for a new micro blogging site every week.