Aaron Mehta

As Dems push for briefing on El Paso incident, experts warn it could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’ - Breaking Defense “I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the ...

For the second time within a month, El Paso airspace has been closed due to a miscommunication between DoD, DHS and the FAA. Analysts predicted earlier this month that the first incident wouldn't be the last. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/as-d...

Good thing they blew this up for the Process, which has gotten them exactly as far in the playoffs (2nd round) as this group did.

[watching hundreds of guests get maimed and eaten by some of history's most efficient predators] ok but i'm different tho

I feel like every other GM (except maybe Presti) is looking at the Celtics bench and going "they can't keep getting away with this!"

The Celtics are nearing Dodgers level of "just pull up a rando who will throw 99 mph," except its "find athletic wings and turn them into legit rotation pieces."

This is not a complaint.

A MASK comic is honestly the ultimate flex. Absolutely wild. I thought I was the only one who remembered that show existed. (Theme song slaps.)

As Dems push for briefing on El Paso incident, experts warn it could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’ - Breaking Defense “I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the ...

New from @breakingdefense.com by Michael Marrow & Val Insinna.

The El Paso shootdown highlights the hard work ahead to safely implement new counter-drone authorities for DoD, DHS, & local agencies.

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Would you ever consider going back and updating/redoing the Fall of Rome episodes? It would be interesting to hear them now with your podcast experience and various new topical focuses.

actual lol from me

Akazawa two thumbs up

tfw you spent the last year constantly flying to DC to negotiate tariffs

Within the first 10 minutes a character literally says "Somehow, Palpatine's returned" and it was then that I knew we were screwed.

I am here to support you in this time of crisis.

I felt kinda meh about it but it had fun stuff in it and I was optimistic about what was to come.

I left Rise of Skywalker infuriated.

'SCAF is Dead:' Sixth-gen Franco-German fighter is all but over, officials and analysts say - Breaking Defense New comments from Germany's chancellor seem to spell the end of the next-gen fighter jet for Germany, France and Spain.

NEW: It's not official yet, but the Franco-German-Spanish next-gen fighter? Sure seems dead now, with Merz signaling it doesn't meet Germany's needs and Belgium saying they're looking elsewhere.

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These world class athletes are barely alive crossing the line here and the dog is just running around having an absolute blast with them. Inspiring, really.

Staff Writer The Atlantic is hiring a Staff Writer to cover extreme weather and natural disasters. This is a position for a journalist of the highest ambition who is eager to report from the ground on the realitie...

Come work with me

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Germany joins Sweden in openly stating it is talking with non-American nuclear powers about deterrent options. breakingdefense.com/2026/01/swed...

"When he takes off, he's safe"

well, except for in the world series....

Well, this was..... quite something.

Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.

wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
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This was fascinating.

The worst way a flight can go. Extending a super long flight AND knowing it'll mess up your connection. Sorry dude.

I actually lol'd when I opened the Athletic yesterday afternoon and it served me a "Why the trade deadline will be a bust" story at the top

The Post's coverage of this is gonna be li- ah, shit.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

WaPo specifically making cuts to its most subscriber load-bearing sections like Sports and Metro while doubling down on commentary, which frequently does little for your bottom line, really underlines how much this is about what they want the Post to be, rather than what a good newspaper actually is

Does a dump of Tillman and Boucher get the Celtics under the tax?

a group of men are watching a basketball game between the chicago bulls and miami heat ALT: a group of men are watching a basketball game between the chicago bulls and miami heat

TFW you open your inbox and see you have 40 new emails since you last checked, but then you realize it's just every member of congress saying they got appropriations passed and you can delete them.