Dr. Jonathan Schroden

Column | A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford it This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.

Column: The mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging. Meanwhile, folks in the highest-income areas are doing just fine.

It’s another reminder that the U.S. economy is largely benefiting people with means.

I’m old 😑

Trump-class battleships are ‘exactly’ what the Navy needs, SWO boss says - Breaking Defense The Navy ran into design challenges with its next-generation destroyer, emphasizing the need for a larger battleship, according to Vice Adm. Brendan McLane.

It’s easy to be excited about something that will never actually happen

breakingdefense.com/2026/02/trum...

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But, but they made a movie about it!

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

A fabulous essay about Anthropic's Claude

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

Breaking WSJ:

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S. interests and values. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Histo...

TLDR: The #1 worst foreign policy decision was the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Hard to argue with that.

www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten...

I watched these vertically land on an amphib early in my career as part of an exercise at sea and it’s still amazing to me that a jet could do that

A vestigial limb of the GWOT. Al-Tanf was always officially justified as part of the fight against ISIS (and sometimes, in budget documents, strangely, as leverage for helping force a peace settlement in the Syrian civil war). But its purpose kept evolving over time, like so many GWOT outposts.

Venezuelan leader Rodriguez says she was invited to US, NBC reports Venezuelan interim leader President Delcy Rodriguez said she has been invited to the United States, according an interview released Thursday by NBC News as U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited Caracas.

Venezuelan leader Rodriguez says she was invited to US, NBC reports reut.rs/4rFyqZc

Two US Navy ships collided during replenishment-at-sea, SOUTHCOM says Two people reported minor injuries after a U.S. Navy destroyer and a supply vessel collided during a replenishment-at-sea, U.S. Southern Command said.

Two U.S. Navy ships collide during replenishment-at-sea, SOUTHCOM says

Also, why would people who seem so serious about their sport allow something so central to it be named “Twizzles?”

Would be like the NFL calling forward passes “Tossies” 🙄

Activists say death toll in Iran’s crackdown on protests reaches at least 7,000

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said Thursday that the death toll from a crackdown over Iran's nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002, with many more people still feared dead.

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It'll be the perfect stocking stuffer for family and friends, just sayin

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Their desire for an "AGI-like" system at the edge

CIA, SOCOM gearing up for rapid capability assessment with an eye toward ‘field-forward’ ops Secretive arms of the U.S. government are trying to prepare for future operations in "data-dense" environments.

defensescoop.com/2026/02/10/c...

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Which apparently is, these days, the path to a cabinet level position.

Opinion | OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

If you intend to spiral up from there, I would add #5: Start a podcast

Excited to report that Barnes & Noble and Amazon have added the cover to their listings of my forthcoming book

You can pre-order it now 😉

I don’t think the pool is that limited overall—think tanks are chock full of policy people, after all. I would assert the limiting factor is more the fraction of those people willing to give up a good job/pay & subject themselves to the crushing BS & crappy salaries of government policy work

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I attended a conference today at which a senior administration CT official boasted about the jihadist body count of the past year

In case you were wondering how the GWOT was going

London counter terrorism police investigate stabbing of two teenagers London police said on Tuesday it arrested a 13-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed two other teenagers at a school, and that its counter terrorism unit was leading the investigation.

London counter terrorism police investigate stabbing of two teenagers reut.rs/4tv6o46

FBI cited debunked claims to obtain warrant for Fulton County vote records, documents show The FBI told a federal judge that it is investigating whether any “deficiencies” in Georgia officials’ handling of the 2020 presidential election were intentional.

Breaking news: The FBI relied heavily on previously debunked claims of widespread election irregularities in Georgia as it persuaded a federal judge to sign off on plans to seize 2020 voting records from Fulton County, court documents show.

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Maybe he is?! You’ll have to read the book to find out for sure 😉

Excited to report that Barnes & Noble and Amazon have added the cover to their listings of my forthcoming book

You can pre-order it now 😉

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