Jacob Bogle
@jacobbogle.bsky.social
Curator of AccessDPRK, OSINT, and satellite archeology wonk. 🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Open to collaborations. 🌐 JacobBogle.com
A Korean king ordered a bunch of linguists to come up with a written language to increase literacy due to the difficulty of chinese and they came up with one of the easiest to read languages in existence.
Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 2y agoHappy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
So army regulation 190-55 states clearly that no recording device may be present at an execution, and no person under age 18 may witness it. The constitution bans cruel and inhumane punishment. What Hegseth wants to do is clearly illegal. Bureau of Prisons ban public executions. 1/2
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 3d agoPresident Trump publicly endorsed the Pentagon's planned firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 soldiers during a 2009 rampage at Fort Hood, though the president did not weigh in on controversial plans to livestream it. 📸: Evan Vucci, REUTERS Read more: bit.ly/4yFOy0y
You can express power by commanding armies or by getting people to wear your shitty shoes and change their vocabulary to fit your whims. Trump is demonstrating how much power he has and just how emasculated those who comply are. It's very Louis XIV at Versailles
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4d agoa sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it
okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 7d ago“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Suddenly the "MAGA Mike Beltran" ads where he pledges undying loyalty to Trump have switched to ads promoting his alleged bipartisan efforts & claiming "I'll work with both parties". I guess things are getting tight here in Florida.
My latest with Radio Free Asia, a month after opening, the new Tumen River bridge connecting Russia & North Korea remains a symbolic victory rather than an economic one as traffic stays to almost zero and Russia struggles to complete facilities on its side of the river www.rfa.org/korean/in-fo...
개통 한 달 ‘두만강 다리’, 차량 통행 ‘한산’
지난 9월 7일, 북러 두만강 자동차 다리가 공식 개통한 이후 북한과 러시아 측 모두 대형 상업용 차량의 통행 움직임은 확인되지 않았습니다. 개통 이후 한 달 가까이 활발한 모습은 포착되지 않고 있습니다.
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We're not really listening unless we're willing to be changed by the other person. - Alan Alda
After having abandoned an unfinished retractable radar site decades ago (the big hole), North Korea finally put up an early-warning radar system in 2019-21 west of Nampo. @ 38.739778° 125.260981° #AccessDPRK
To be fair, I also stand at awkward angles from time to time. Then again, I'm both gay and have nerve damage 🤔
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump is standing like no human has ever stood before
I couldn't think of a better use for golf courses
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoIn one of the world’s most densely populated and mountainous countries, developers are running out of sites big enough to host major solar projects. Golf courses are some of the last tracts of open land available. bloom.bg/4iSzuaV 📷️: EDP S.A.
He's seriously taking time in his UNGA speech to go over his "super intelligence" v "artificial intelligence" preference. We are not a serious country.
A quick update on what's been happening with #AccessDPRK lately and a progress report on one of the most involved projects to (soon) come out from it. A Patreon exclusive: www.patreon.com/accessdprk/p...
AccessDPRK September 2026 Update | AccessDPRK
AccessDPRK September 2026 Update by AccessDPRK on Patreon. Join AccessDPRK's community for exclusive content and updates.
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This needs to apply to all of the "yes men" who enable blatant lawlessness. (They're the only reason any of Trump's BS happens) From the janitors, painters, social media managers to agency heads, their ability to serve in office or to ever get tax dollars/contracts again should be over.
Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · 3w agoAnyone associated with trying to tear down the Center—workers included—should be held legally liable. Whether or not he’s immune—no one else is. Make it hard to “play along.” Make it hard for “yes men.” Add a price.
Travelers entering the U.S. through New York, Vermont, or Connecticut should be aware: The government can search your cellphone even if it doesn't suspect you of criminal activity. buff.ly/S8KEqD5
Court upholds suspicionless cellphone searches at the border
A federal appeals court says it's legal for federal agents to scroll through your phone and take pictures of its contents without a warrant or suspicion of criminal activity.
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There were NO major financial problems facing the Kennedy Center prior to 2025 that would require them to close. The only thing that changed, Trump. They're closing out of spite
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4w agoBREAKING: The Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes and branding dispute with President Trump, AP sources say.
Elected officials blatantly lying to the public really should be a crime. Even the Trump propaganda rag CBS is willing to post this Pentagon IG report on the substantial munitions shortage caused by the illegal Iran war www.cbsnews.com/news/us-iran...
Pentagon inspector general says $22.3B spent on Iran war munitions has caused "strategic inventory shortfalls"
The first-of-its-kind report acknowledges the military's munition shortfall and details some of the losses of American assets so far as part of Operation Epic Fury.
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Trump really doesn't care that Americans die
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4w agoReporter: "Chinese entities may have provided the Iranians with satellite imagery at the air base in Jordan [where 3 soldier were killed]." Trump: "They do what we do. They basically do what we do." Reporter: "Are you going to raise that with Xi?" Trump: "I think he's behaved reasonably well."
In 1801, Jefferson issued an order to executive branch officers "not [to] attempt to influence the votes of others, nor take any part in the business of electioneering, that being deemed inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution."
If anyone wants to buy the database & rights to AccessDPRK, Square can facilitate that lol
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. attempted to enlist its NATO allies in a campaign to “systematically dismantle” the International Criminal Court, straining already fraught transatlantic relations.
US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court
Washington said it “would be watching closely” to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.
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1) admits it's a war 2) admits we haven't, in fact, won it 17 times already
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Trump: "Food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down, and by the way oil will be going down as soon as we win the war with Iran."
In honor of Star Trek's 60th anniversary, I would like to pay homage to the woman who made it possible. The woman who took a chance on a little show with endless possibilities that we enjoy to this day. A shrewd businesswoman and America's Favorite Redhead. The one, the only, Lucille Ball.
🆕 Nothing New Under the Golden Dome by Sam Lair, Jeffrey Lewis, and Aaron Stein. The authors developed a model to tailor interceptor satellite constellation size to various adversary missile threats and estimate the cost of those constellations. Click below to read their conclusions.
Nothing New Under the Golden Dome: Space-Based Interceptors in the Trump Administration - Foreign Policy Research Institute
Golden Dome has quickly become the signature defense program of President Trump’s second term. The most contentious element of this ambitious missile defense
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Chilling in even a suburban backyard is something that holds so much. Watching the bees hang out a few inches above the ground, going after white and blue and pink flowers, with dragonflies overhead; their shadows zipping along the ground. Squirrels chattering with each other, the birds in trees.
The core of the Appalachian Mountains is older than bones.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.Tell me a fun fact.
Considering I grew up & lived around Nashville nearly my whole life, and only moved to Florida 5 years ago, my dialect map is interesting
