The US is refusing to pay its annual dues to the OPCW. A bipartisan group of nonpro and natsec experts have called upon @state-department.bsky.social to fund the global CW watchdog immediately. @armscontrolnow.bsky.social @nukesofhazard.bsky.social armscontrolcenter.org/time-to-fund...

Time To Fund the OPCW - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

By John Erath Since 1993, chemical weapons have killed thousands, with many times more affected, often suffering for years. This despite the Chemical Weapons Convention ban on such activity and a gene...

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(And of course veterans getting education post service). Most political scientists I know really like teaching officers. They are great, dedicated students. Officers become better at their mission through rigorous education. There is no tension i’ve seen.

As an international relations professor in NYC, let me say that regular interaction btw civilian academics and the US Army is routine. Civilians teaching at West Point. Active duty officers getting graduate education in civilian universities. Retiring officers getting PhDs so they can teach at WP.

North Pack Monadnock yesterday.

Fantastic question and the answer is Cajun Bobby

Bobby Hill: This Flower Is Wilting - King Of The Hill

ALT: Bobby Hill: This Flower Is Wilting - King Of The Hill

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Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?

Below is my syllabus "AI Statement". Reliance on LLMs is incompatible with "cultivating the embrace of geeking out"

It 100% happened and was real to the point it quickly felt weirdly oppressive on its own terms, but we have literal numbers for this! Dubya had approval ratings in the 90s!

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3w ago

this is a lie. I'm not gonna provoke this person and their followers, but it absolutely did happen, including at the same time as pushback against Islamophobia, some of said pushback coming from very high up. Both things happened but the shared bond was real and existed & it's wrong to deny

I can now claim that a Detroit Lion once liked a dumb joke I made about Conrad's on Twitter. www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...

Lions sign Joe Bachie from practice squad; one 53-man spot remains open

The Detroit Lions entered Monday, Sept. 7, with two openings on their 53-man roster. After promoting former MSU LB Joe Bachie, only one remains.

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Russia apparently planned to launch an ICBM from Dombarovskiy during the 3-5 September window. By all indications it was the Avangard glider. The test appears to have been cancelled. Website: russianforces.org/blog/2026/09..., Substack: russianforces.substack.com/p/attempted-...

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

Parton ("9 to 5," 1980) provides a more trenchant critique of capital than does Marx ("Das Kapital," 1867) because as a researcher, Parton correctly frames the problem of capital as exacerbating but not supplanting other pre-existing human dynamics such as gender roles. In this essay, I will

I used to walk past a quote from her every day in one of the most unlikely places — the Office of Naval Intelligence. The quote: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and become more, you are a leader.” She did and she was. The story of how it got there is kinda surreal.

Dolly Parton’s Words to Receive a Biblical Level of Reverence from Naval Intelligence Facility

See how a Dolly Parton quote got mistaken for John Quincy Adams before being set straight at a military site. Learn more inside!

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“For thinkers on the New Right, the West is defined by a specific geographic territory, a shared ancestry, and Christianity.” Read Leonard Schuette on the New Right’s logic of civilizationism—and how it could inform Washington’s next grand strategy:

The New Right’s Grand Strategy After Trump

Civilizationism would upend America’s role in the world.

foreignaffairs.com

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

My thesis on every South Asian crisis of note is that we learn almost nothing contemporaneously and much after the fact. This little disclosure from India that a loitering munition hit Kirana Hills seems to keep with that: www.ndtv.com/india-news/o...

This is a great idea—a weekly gov’t/industry risk assessment meeting developing actionable ideas, reporting to a White House official with power to act on them. Things are moving fast and the response has to keep up.

Opinion | We Know the Risks of A.I. We Need to Act. (Gift Article)

A.I. could turn one of our country’s worst habits into a national security crisis.

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Check out this highly relevant WarOnTheRocks article on the Russian military promotions from my CNA colleagues @russmil.bsky.social @gabrielairosa.bsky.social Julian Waller and Cornell Overfield. warontherocks.com/russias-next...

Russia’s Next Top General: Promotions in Russian Military Leadership

Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet

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If this happens then RIP Forward Deterrence, I guess.

Sophie Pedder@sophiepedder.bsky.social · last mo.

If the broad centre doesn’t get its act together, France could be heading for a final run-off next May between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen (Notwithstanding all the usual caveats about polls eight months ahead of 🇫🇷 presidential elections) Source: Harris Interactive

On April 11, 2024, soon after Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” was published, I replied to her tweet about an excerpt of it in TIME, pointing out several significant factual errors (including about the origin of the “Football”). She DM’d me, asking for “a brief discussion,” adding …

This is appalling. Records from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs are posted online via the DTIC. Records include clinical trial awards and annual and final reports. These records are crucial for oversight of research w/vulnerable subjects, e.g. autistic kids.

SMH Historians@smh-historians.bsky.social · last mo.

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

Here's a fun update on my attempts to get papers ready for APSA... Paper 1 that draws heavily from unclassified reports from across DOD? Yeah those were mostly on DTIC. Paper 2 that relies on FRUS? Yeah that's supposed to have a Reagan case study but most of those volumes still aren't cleared.

SMH Historians@smh-historians.bsky.social · last mo.

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

The closure of public access to DTIC is actually very bad for people working in defence and military affairs in many different disciplines.

SMH Historians@smh-historians.bsky.social · last mo.

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

Trump says North Korea has "57 very powerful nuclear weapons." 57 is an oddly specific number. A short 🧵on why the real number is almost certainly higher.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Q: Are you exchanging written letters with Kim Jong Un? TRUMP: I can't tell you that. But I get along with him great. He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. He's gonna be fine.

Fun story: Tax cuts that benefit the wealthy are the major driver of our ballooning debt. \https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/compsc/v36y2019i3p227-247.html

In case you missed it from earlier this summer!🌞

Jamie Withorne@jamiewithorne.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The first article of my PhD has been published!!! In it, I offer a framework for understanding situational awareness today. Using a Norwegian case study, I show how situational awareness has adapted to AI, hybrid competition, and shifting alliances. Open access link here: sjms.nu/articles/10....

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Happy for our Solo Instrumental Music win, but how on earth did we not only lose the Turf Bowl, but didn't even break into the top ten?

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 2mo ago

STILL NOT DONE YET The 2025-2026 Non-NCAA National Championships (Part 7) presented by the Sickos Committee! Check out all the Non-NCAA Champions from the past year! We will have a sailing only part and others to come.

Dabo doing his best impression of Clemson football in the transfer portal era.

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 2mo ago

Sliding into your DMs like Dabo Swinney

I'm supposed to be getting around and getting on with my day, but I am pinned under an immovable object.