Important article by @maxboot.bsky.social. I am hearing a great deal of both discomfort (from those still serving) and disbelief (from those now retired). Those who were sure the U.S. military would resist unlawful orders are now much less so.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Garrett Reisman Sees Fear And Uncertainty At NASA

"I’m a former astronaut: NASA workers are afraid, and safety is at risk" by Garrett Reisman www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh giving off ‘not entirely extinct volcano’ vibes yesterday.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

Rather than attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed on his watch, Trump will be dining with his Saudi golf buddies.

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

100 years ago Saturday the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all.
www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...

If anything, we’re probably under-imagining how disruptive and different the next decade or generation of America will be. I sketch out here two scenarios (not mutually exclusive) about the peril and challenge ahead: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/two-scenar...