Sam Fellman
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The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Air Force Academy’s accreditation under review after cuts to civilian faculty
Concerned alumni and former faculty told The Denver Post they believe the academy is losing too many civilian Ph.D.-level instructors without the ability to replace them with qualified military mem…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Air traffic controllers are in their 41st day of working without pay via @trainsonplanes.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/private-jets...
Private jets can't fly to these 12 major US airports during shutdown
The impacts of the ongoing government shutdown have reached the wealthiest fliers, with 12 major US airports now closed to private jets.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Air traffic controllers are in their 41st day of working without pay via @trainsonplanes.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/private-jets...
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The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
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U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Deep State still alive and kicking, ODNI says. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... New w/ @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control
A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her office’s reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Deep State still alive and kicking, ODNI says. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... New w/ @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Insightful assessment of the Pokrovsk battle and Ukraine's need to withdraw its forces earlier due to the expanded reach of Russian attack drones
As the situation in Pokrovsk becomes critical, and AFU reinforces the pocket to stabilize the flanks, there's considerable attention now to how this battle is unfolding. A few thoughts on the situation. 1/ (DeepStateMap)
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Insightful assessment of the Pokrovsk battle and Ukraine's need to withdraw its forces earlier due to the expanded reach of Russian attack drones
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The challenge is that drones now effect fire control in 15-20km depths such that it is not possible to withdraw equipment, and much harder to extract people from the pocket (especially from any forward positions). It is no longer possible to wait to the last minute. 9/
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The challenge is that drones now effect fire control in 15-20km depths such that it is not possible to withdraw equipment, and much harder to extract people from the pocket (especially from any forward positions). It is no longer possible to wait to the last minute. 9/
Gen. CQ Brown argues the US needs reduced red tape & consistent budgets.
It's a sign of the times that his urgent plea falls during the US's longest government shutdown, driven by hyperpartisan politics:
warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...
It's a sign of the times that his urgent plea falls during the US's longest government shutdown, driven by hyperpartisan politics:
warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Editor's Note: The topics covered in this article were discussed further in a recent episode of the War on the Rocks podcast with Gen. (ret.) Brown, Jr.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Gen. CQ Brown argues the US needs reduced red tape & consistent budgets.
It's a sign of the times that his urgent plea falls during the US's longest government shutdown, driven by hyperpartisan politics:
warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...
It's a sign of the times that his urgent plea falls during the US's longest government shutdown, driven by hyperpartisan politics:
warontherocks.com/2025/11/raci...
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Pretty rare for General Brown to write something, so probably a good idea to read it. And not surprisingly, he’s spot on…we need a revolution in the way we develop and procure munitions
“The time for more studies has passed. The time to build, together and at speed, is now,” argues Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Editor's Note: The topics covered in this article were discussed further in a recent episode of the War on the Rocks podcast with Gen. (ret.) Brown, Jr.
warontherocks.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Pretty rare for General Brown to write something, so probably a good idea to read it. And not surprisingly, he’s spot on…we need a revolution in the way we develop and procure munitions
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The loud part out loud
Trump on ending the filibuster: "If we do it, we will never lose the midterms and we will never lose a general election ... it would be impossible to lose an election."
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The loud part out loud
Good point. Guilt-by-association is more about power than accuracy because officers may (and often do) carry out orders they advised against.
Many officers accused of being DEI cheerleaders were privately against it, but still executed the orders they were given under previous administrations
Many officers accused of being DEI cheerleaders were privately against it, but still executed the orders they were given under previous administrations
The “too close to Milley” cudgel is one that Hegseth can wield against a huge proportion of senior Army officers, since so many worked for him at one time or another
Here (first pic, no helmet) is Woke Pat Work on the hike in to the Turbine 33 crash site in the Korengal in 2005
Here (first pic, no helmet) is Woke Pat Work on the hike in to the Turbine 33 crash site in the Korengal in 2005
Recovering the 19 dead and 1 surviving SEAL was the biggest CSAR mission since Vietnam, pausing most other US ops in Afg and pulling in JSOC, CIA, CJSOTF, and conventional forces.
The first troops to reach the crash were Rangers. First pic shows C 2/75 CO (and now 82nd ABN CG) Pat Work (no helmet).
The first troops to reach the crash were Rangers. First pic shows C 2/75 CO (and now 82nd ABN CG) Pat Work (no helmet).
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Good point. Guilt-by-association is more about power than accuracy because officers may (and often do) carry out orders they advised against.
Many officers accused of being DEI cheerleaders were privately against it, but still executed the orders they were given under previous administrations
Many officers accused of being DEI cheerleaders were privately against it, but still executed the orders they were given under previous administrations
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Fucking PW, man.
Classmate. Leader and no shit hero.
A legend since he was a cadet.
An intense human, friend, husband, and dad.
And another American who does not deserve this.
Classmate. Leader and no shit hero.
A legend since he was a cadet.
An intense human, friend, husband, and dad.
And another American who does not deserve this.
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fucking PW, man.
Classmate. Leader and no shit hero.
A legend since he was a cadet.
An intense human, friend, husband, and dad.
And another American who does not deserve this.
Classmate. Leader and no shit hero.
A legend since he was a cadet.
An intense human, friend, husband, and dad.
And another American who does not deserve this.
"The future will be won and lost in the synthetic environment." www.businessinsider.com/future-wars-...
Future wars may be fought and won in virtual worlds and only proven on the battlefield, Royal Air Force officer says
A Royal Air Force officer suggested that victory in future wars may go to the side that puts its tactics to the test in synthetic training spaces.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"The future will be won and lost in the synthetic environment." www.businessinsider.com/future-wars-...
In my reporting, I found this sentiment goes much deeper than the general officer corps — especially among the field grade officers who choose the military as their career
As the military saying goes: S--t rolls downhill
As the military saying goes: S--t rolls downhill
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In my reporting, I found this sentiment goes much deeper than the general officer corps — especially among the field grade officers who choose the military as their career
As the military saying goes: S--t rolls downhill
As the military saying goes: S--t rolls downhill
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Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Two of the 3 slain Venezuelans the AP profiled were low-level hands on boats smuggling cocaine, likely to Europe. The US administration categorizes them, without evidence, as "narco-terrorists" apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Two of the 3 slain Venezuelans the AP profiled were low-level hands on boats smuggling cocaine, likely to Europe. The US administration categorizes them, without evidence, as "narco-terrorists" apnews.com/article/trum...
Great read from @atomicanalyst.bsky.social about a shocking close call with a nuclear-armed missile and the US Navy's effort to cover it up
Today in 2003 at Bangor Naval Submarine Base, Washington State, a Trident I C4 SLBM being hoisted from launch tube 16 on the USS Georgia struck an access ladder mistakenly left in the tube, tearing a 9-inch gash in the nose cone and nearly hitting the third-stage motor and a 100-kiloton W76 warhead.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great read from @atomicanalyst.bsky.social about a shocking close call with a nuclear-armed missile and the US Navy's effort to cover it up
Under the Defense Department's press restrictions now, that whistleblower and those journalists informing the public could be accused of crimes for revealing controlled unclassified information
The accident only became public four months later, after Lt. Cdr. Walt Fitzpatrick, a Navy whistleblower, posted the details on his web site, at which point the Washington State congressional delegation, and even a member of the Canadian parliament, began demanding answers.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Under the Defense Department's press restrictions now, that whistleblower and those journalists informing the public could be accused of crimes for revealing controlled unclassified information
"If Fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads, instead of 60,000 working class people, we'd be dropping a nuclear bomb." -Palantir's Alex Karp
Casual discussion of nuclear weapons use was, until recently, limited to propaganda like Russian state-run TV
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Casual discussion of nuclear weapons use was, until recently, limited to propaganda like Russian state-run TV
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
Palantir sees "accelerating and otherworldly growth" as CEO Alex Karp highlights working with ICE and supporting Israel on an earnings call.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"If Fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads, instead of 60,000 working class people, we'd be dropping a nuclear bomb." -Palantir's Alex Karp
Casual discussion of nuclear weapons use was, until recently, limited to propaganda like Russian state-run TV
www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo...
Casual discussion of nuclear weapons use was, until recently, limited to propaganda like Russian state-run TV
www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo...
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
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Last year we got a tip about a children's pastor who'd managed to stay in ministry for decades even as allegations of sex abuse trailed him across four states.
I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/
I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Every single day journalists are recording the episodes that some people would now rather ignore." Powerful words from Samuel Freedman: ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2025/11/06/q...
Q: What’s the point of journalism now? A: History
By Samuel G. Freedman Eight months into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, POLITICO broke an explosive story about the president’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. The scoop ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Every single day journalists are recording the episodes that some people would now rather ignore." Powerful words from Samuel Freedman: ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2025/11/06/q...
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Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted.
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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The former DoJ employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s law enforcement surge in DC has been found not guilty of assault. wtop.com/dc/2025/11/m...
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge - WTOP News
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The former DoJ employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s law enforcement surge in DC has been found not guilty of assault. wtop.com/dc/2025/11/m...