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Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.

Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.

The State Department had deleted history.

(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal.

Here we go.

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"

Cover of "Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 14" depicts a military pilot wearing woodland camoflage, making adjustments and flipping switches. Text reads: "Look what just landed!"

Proud to have new stuff in this year's "Proud to Be" anthology! One is a poem involving a military retirement and a urinal. The other is a micro-essay about recovering my old 12-inch G.I. Joe action figure!

Purchase on-line via Submittable:
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Being a poet is tough work, and being a war poet is even tougher. People often don't want to listen, or feel confused by anything more complicated that "support the troopz"! Even around Veterans Day. Especially around Veterans Day.

I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.

YouTube video by hueylewisofficial Huey Lewis & The News - Walking On A Thin Line - Live

As we close out another Veterans Day, let’s not forget that one of the greatest rock & roll anthems for/by veterans wasn’t Drowning Pool, but Huey Lewis & The News. Look up the lyrics, they’ll blow your damn mind like they did mine 30+ years ago. youtu.be/aL6NdKvVkkQ?...

NOAA cuts stations used for West Coast tsunami monitoring

NOAA did not renew a contract that supported a handful of seismic stations in Alaska. This could hamper tsunami warnings for Alaska, Hawaiʻi and the West Coast.

Those of us who remember the Afghanistan War will recognize this as the Fighting Season having Ended

On this Veterans Day, I'm reflecting on the fact that our Commander-in-Chief is a lying draft dodger who kicked out 5,000 trans service members who, unlike him, were serving ably and honorably, after hiring a white supremacist, alcoholic TV chatterbox to run our military.

Text reads: "Hit 'em with ... both volumes !!!" Book covers of "Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry & Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards" appear over a notional modern battlefield scene. The image includes jet fighters flying overhead, with ground troops and armored wheeled vehicles below on a desert landscape.

From "Line of Advance" & the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards: The best new and established voices from modern wars & eras! NOW IN TWO VOLUMES !!

Series link here:
amzn.to/4oZPwPZ

Editor: Christopher Lyke
Covers: @battlefieldgd.bsky.social
Publisher: @middlewestpress.bsky.social

"All this has happened before; all this will happen again."

Hope to live long enough to see the pendulum change direction.

Be well!

Brandon Silverman explains how many social media platforms have made their data — and therefore their role in any number of societal concerns within the public interest — increasingly opaque by limiting access to researchers, even as they sell that same data to companies.

therapy group for monsters/aliens/killer androids impressed into the U.S. military during the war on terror

These fake history AI videos are a real danger. My feed has filled with "interesting" takes on the Hawker Typhoon and they get tens of thousands of views.

Makes you feel great about the hours of work you put into your own real videos...

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?

Of course.

Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.

Here she is:

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."

“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

Words to live by

Photo of humorous-but-real yellow-diamond "Bigfoot XING" sign is paired with a book cover shot of "Cyptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters". Text reads "Midwest Traffic Safety Advisory."

“It’s not the Deer XING that’ll get ya!”

The book "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" collects more than 70 short poems and 300-word narratives of mythic beasts that illuminate, celebrate, or challenge stereotypes of Midwestern identity.

Buy it here:
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0

Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries

Today in the New York Times: How federal funding cuts are hurting rural library budgets. "The financial margins were tight even before Mr. Trump tried to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services." More: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/rural-libraries.html #ForOurLibraries

Marine corps recruiting poster says “U.S. marines. Be a sea soldier”

“Do you like bananas? Because we are going to fight a war for it”

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

How A Former Ukrainian TV Producer Built A Drone Unit That Destroyed $12 Billion Of Russian Equipment The exclusive story of how Pavlo Yelizarov went from TV talk-show producer to the creator of Ukraine’s premier military drone unit.

Article on the drone unit mentioned in the discussion

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@fobhaiku.bsky.social
Every #Remembrance Im drawn to this poem by RB. Encapsulates so much. One day I'll stop being angry.

Dutch province wants to honour African-American WWII soldiers after the US removed a plaque at the militairy cemetery in Margraten highlighting their contributions.
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social

I appreciate your words. A lot. Particularly today.

I share your anger.
Am looking for useful & constructive ways to act. Ideas always welcome.

Be well!

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.

The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

"[...] I was minding my own business, safely on the sidewalk across the median from him. But I was wearing this weighted training vest … At a glance, or if you aren’t using all of your common sense—it does make me look like an ICE agent. [...]"

About Face Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

“About Face” by @natepowell.bsky.social Same writer-artist who did the “March” biographical series of civil rights leader John Lewis. A must-read for creators and citizens engaged in military- and war-writing.

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Serving All Who Served: State Leadership for Transgender Veterans Join CAP and Out in National Security for a virtual event launching the Transgender Veterans Toolkit for governors and state legislatures.

Join us Monday!
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