WMD Prof

North Korea deployed or made significant progress on deploying at least 9 of the 13 nuclear and missile systems that Kim Jong Un described as part of his 5-year plan in 2021. That's 75% progress. Maybe the Pentagon should take some notes on how to do nuclear modernization.

Assessing North Korea’s Five-Year Effort to Develop 13 New Nuclear and Missile Systems - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea In his January 2021 report to the Eighth Party Congress of the Korean Workers’ Party, Kim Jong ...

Assessing North Korea’s Five-Year Effort to Develop 13 New Nuclear and Missile Systems

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Crypto=Corruption

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Getting ready to watch Furlough 2: Electric Boogaloo.

The only one of these that is a real threat which has gotten worse in the last year is the gutting of US public health, undermining of biomedical research, and crippling of global health. Don't let hypothetical future threats distract you from the real harm being done today.
#SaveScience #SaveHHS

Does DNI now stand for Director of National Inquisition?

Exclusive | Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud The director of national intelligence earlier this week joined the FBI search of an election center in Georgia.

New via WSJ:

Tulsi Gabbard has spent months investigating the results of the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost.

Gabbard is leading the administration's effort to re-examine the election and look for potential crimes.

Widespread fraud does not exist. Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

USG: We must occupy Greenland, even though it is 85% covered by ice that is up to 11,000 feet thick.

USG: We are closed because of 7 inches of snow.

In what post-apocalyptic world does being a "sales manager" make you more qualified to run a fallout shelter than having experience as a "supervisor of at least 30 people"?

Trump weighs Iran strikes to inspire renewed protests, sources say Trump wants to create conditions for "regime change" after a crackdown crushed a nationwide protest movement earlier this month, sources said. But he has not yet made a final decision on a course of a...

Gabbard's priorities are clear: oversee fake investigation into fake election fraud, not oversee collection and analysis of intelligence on Iran and advice the president on benefits and risks of military action

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Gabbard is now Director of National Conspiracies.

A little late to jump on the MCU bandwagon but a Helicarrier would be huge boost to public health emergency preparedness.

Navy's Avenger Class Mine Hunters Have Left The Middle East For Good The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play.

Pentagon's timing is impeccable: advertising our lack of mine countermeasure capability in the Persian Gulf on the brink of another military conflict with Iran.

Navy’s Avenger Class Mine Hunters Have Left The Middle East For Good

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Trump’s new national defense strategy downgrades China threat The Pentagon declared on Friday that the U.S. military’s top priority is to defend the homeland and Western Hemisphere.

Bridge Colby must be having a conniption.

Trump’s new national defense strategy downgrades China threat
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2025: Losers
2026: Trad Sons
2027: Losers

The first Trump-class battleship should be called the USS Dotard.

Why does it feel like US foreign policy can now be best explained by board games: Battleship, Monopoly, Risk

I have an even bolder strategy for the US to regain global S&T leadership: stop attacking universities, stop cutting science funding, stop politicizing NIH, stop scaring away international students, & stop spreading disinformation.

John Bolton never met a country he didn't want to bomb or invade.

Hangover 4 should just be about a bunch of raccoons. Live action, not that CGI shit.

He can hang that on the wall in the Oval Office next to the birthday letter he wrote to Epstein.

But's let ignore the thousands of unarmed protestors who were shot to death.

Glad to see Rubio has a five-year plan to alienate our allies, suck up to autocrats, appease Russia, cede global leadership to China, undermine global norms, jack up prices for Americans, and destroy 60+ years of US soft power.

Why are we wringing our hands about a biotechnology that won't pose a risk for at least a decade when our entire biomedical research enterprise is being gutting as we speak, the pipeline of new talent (US and foreign) is being destroyed, scientists are being silenced, & NIH is politicizing science?

Can everyone stop calling it the Donroe Doctrine? That makes it sound like its part of some well thought out grand strategy. Instead, we should be calling it the Dumbass Doctrine.

January 3, 1990: Operation Just Cause
January 3, 2026: Operation Just Because

Sweden joined NATO in 2024 to defend against Russia and now its deploying troops to Greenland to defend against the United States. Heads must be spinning in Stockholm.