Caroline Houck
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Psyched to join the
@nytimes
International desk as an editor, starting this week!
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My favorite thing about the Cotton-Romney $10 minimum wage counteroffer is that it is literally less than the minimum wage in Cotton's *home state of Arkansas*
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I feel like
@rtraister
*just* pointed out how
@thehill
(and tons of other publications, tbf) use photos of AOC/other female politicians that implicitly reinforce cultural fears about women (especially WOC) with power: open mouth, eyes wide, aggresive gesture, etc
Tomi Lahren suggests Ocasio-Cortez is successful on Twitter but not "in real life"
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Got some ~personal news~ to share: After almost two years of covering nat-sec politics, policy and tech with the incomparable team at
@DefenseOne
, today's my last day. Later this month, I'll be joining
@voxdotcom
as Weekend Editor! Keep an eye out for bylines from abroad, too!
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Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe is just a draft. But if it holds, there are 22 states that already have laws on the books banning all or almost all abortions, via
@imillhiser
for
@voxdotcom
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Are you a freelancer who wants to explain something interesting or important happening around the globe? Vox's World section is taking pitches!
Peep the pitch guide here:
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You feel it, I feel it, nearly everyone feels it: Eight in 10 Americans are frustrated that some corporations and the wealthy don't pay their fair share in taxes.
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Some news: I'm hanging up my freelance hat for now and joining
@voxdotcom
full time as the Deputy Washington Editor! There's no better place to be to cover the policy issues and political stakes that are going to define America through 2020 and beyond. Psyched to join the team!
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Pence promises a vaccine "before the end of this year."
Reality: The farthest-along vaccine maker says spring 2021 at the earliest.
Operation Warp Speed is doing good work, but overpromising like this undermines those successes,
@dylanlscott
reports:
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Fewer of my colleagues are losing their jobs today because our 300+ members' repeated demands that management work with the committee to find better options resonated.
Unionize your workplace (DM me if you wanna)
A statement from the Vox Media Union committees on today's layoffs
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last week
@DataProgress
found that a full 51% of Missouri voters (and 20% of Republicans!) thought Hawley should resign over his role in inciting the insurrection
Hawley approval rating in solidly-red Missouri: 36% approve, 49% disapprove.
Just 63% approval (and 21%) disapproval among REPUBLICANS. Via Morning Consult.
Big red flags.
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me: thanksgiving was a lot of wine. i'm gonna detox this week
this week:
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my
@WGAEast
contract gave me:
-the only raises I've ever gotten at vox media
-guaranteed comp time after excessive work weeks and
-a more diverse newsroom
I want this for everyone who tells stories — screenwriters, podcasters, writers, editors, designers. Vote solidarity slate
thankfully, most screenwriters i talk to don't feel this way & know we have to have each other's backs—regardless of what leadership says
if you're a wgae tv/film writer & wanna get involved or ask questions, the solidarity slate is having an open forum on monday, DM me for info
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While African soccer players were often called up to play for their colonizer in the
#FIFAWorldCup
before their countries’ independence (since FIFA refused to recognize their homelands), today, the trend is reversed.
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No matter how the Ginni Thomas scandal shakes out, it's worth remembering that Clarence Thomas's jurisprudence is a bigger threat to democracy. via
@imillhiser
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a quote I can't get out of my mind: "It is not going to be clean war. Russia has, at best, I would say, an early-1990s level of precision guided-strike capability compared to the West."
--
@RANDCorporation
's Scott Boston to
@j_kirby1
last week.
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I spent several days ducking behind barricades last week, because the two-month-old uprising in
#Nicaragua
is becoming more than marches & dialogue. Cities are declaring autonomy, and fighting for it. Really proud of this story in
@PostWorldNews
:
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Catching back up on the news cycle after a weeklong vacation like
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Earlier this month I traipsed around Norway for
@DefenseOne
, visiting Oslo, US Marines dispatched there, and NATO's northernmost border with Russia. Here's what I saw and heard:
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Add another top general to the 'Yes of course we need soft power' list.
@ArmyChiefStaff
at
#FutureofWar
. Others:
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Just realized yesterday marked 3 years of being
@voxdotcom
full time. That's the longest I've ever worked at one place, and it's fully thanks to: 1) the important work we do, 2)
@vox_union
, and 3) my colleagues. To celebrate, a 🧵 of some journalism I'm proud to have worked on:
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Some professional news: Thrilled to be sticking around
@DefenseOne
post-fellowship as a full time staff correspondent!
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How did all of Ukraine — including office workers, researchers, and artists — mobilize so quickly? The 2014 Euromaidan protests and their response to Russia's incursion into Crimea provided "a template" to be "used again," one Kyiv resident told
@j_kirby1
:
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If I could go back and tell January 2020 Caroline that joining the
@vox_union
committee meant a grueling 4-day bargaining session was in her future, I would. And I'd tell her: Fucking do it; fighting for your colleagues' jobs will be the most important thing you do all year.
We organized a union with
@WGAEast
to have a seat at the table, especially during rainy days. Well, now it’s pouring.
Together, we were able to avert layoffs, save jobs, enhance severance, and more for our members. (THREAD)
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"Do it Lindsey, just do it!" — me, drunk on a zoom happy hour, encouraging my friend to shave her head in quarantine, or the president of the united states encouraging an ally to conduct sham political trials
If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it
@LindseyGrahamSC
, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!
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If everyone could stop writing really cool features for like two years, I might finally be able to close all my Chrome tabs
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It's no 2020, but there are some big things at stake tonight in
#Election2019
: Medicaid expansion, new voting styles for America's largest city, gun control in VA, and more!
@voxdotcom
has you covered (thread)
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Saab’s candy at their booth at today’s naval conference.
Try harder, all you purveyors of white lifesaver mints.
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A thousand thanks to the
@vox_union
team for fighting for a fair contract for us all.
(And an extra shoutout to the universe for this serendipitous book placed atop our bookshelf just in time to join my solidarity shirt pic)
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Mike Bloomberg won American Samoa, his first win in the Democratic Primary. He'll get most of the territory's 6 delegates .... fewer than the 7 staffers he employed there
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The US has already sent $3.8 billion in weapons to Ukraine since Russia invaded. The new aid package Congress will pass this week includes $6 billion more in direct security assistance to Kyiv.
And that's not even the whole picture:
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if i buy one of these do i immediately start plotting the murder of a man who's wronged me or do i have to wear the robe for a few weeks for that thirst to set in?
If I gotta be cooped up in the house...
All robes by Velvet Zephyr:
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Ways you can learn this:
-read the 37-page indictment
-open your grandfather's emails with a Nigerian prince
-use Tinder
“This indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the Internet,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
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Nicaragua’s slightly improved media climate, explained by the end of an 18-month blockade on newsprint and ink
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Pompeo at State?
@SenGaryPeters
: "I have serious concerns about [the top intel officer becoming the top diplomat] and his background...I keep an open mind, but I have serious reservations."
#StateofDefense
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Right after the election, I spent a couple weeks combing through Trump's financial disclosures and the open-source reporting on his businesses overseas. I've kept it up-to-date in the year and a half since. Latest one ⬇️
China will invest $500 million in an Indonesian development project where the Trump Org. is building a golf course. This, days after Trump vowed to help Chinese firm ZTE.
More on all the president's possible national-security conflicts of interest here:
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One week ago yesterday:
The photo editors are making this too easy. Attn, everyone I’ve spoken to in the past five months: here’s a textbook example of how to illustrate your story about a woman who terrifies you—mouth open, aggressive gesture.
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Look if you're tired of having to hear how your faves are problematic predators, just imagine how tired women are of having to live it.
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Investigators, if allowed in, will only be able to say whether CW were used in
#Syria
, not who used them, Mattis cautions.
No mention so far of US ally France's statement saying they have proof it was Assad.
Mattis confronts the challenge in responding to alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Assad regime: "In many cases, we don't have proof...even though we have indicators that either chlorine or Sarin was used?"
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What do Mussolini's Italy, former French colonies in Africa, and Qatar have in common? All of them have looked outside their borders for soccer players to represent them in the
#WorldCup
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I asked Mattis about this just now: What countries should get waivers so they could buy US arms even if they'd bought Russian? Would
#Turkey
qualify if it follows through on the S-400 buy?
"Each country would be an individual case. So I rly don't even want to speculate on that."
No good deed goes unpunished: SecDef Mattis said the Russia sanctions bill — meant to punish America's adversaries — is now hurting its partners. |
@carolinehouck
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"ISIS is now having a higher desertion rate than recruitment rate," which Mattis attributes to deliberate erosion of its physical caliphate.
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To be clear: Victor is a v good doggo. Laying down and being calm in crowded, high-stress enviros like
#AUSA2017
is part of his training.
Victor, currently napping, I mean... in training with
@MediServiceDogs
, will one day be paired with a vet with PTSD.
#AUSA2017
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this is one of the coolest most ambitious things we've done at the
@voxdotcom
world team in a minute
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Oklahoma's governor just signed a bill making it a felony to perform an abortion. The odd thing about this? Oklahoma already has a law on its books banning nearly all abortions.
@imillhiser
on what this tells us about a post-Roe future:
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Most people who think of Boeing don't think of yellow submarines, "but you will."
#D1GlobalBriefing
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Having trouble keeping track of all of Trump's businesses abroad? I did it for you:
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we did it, ladies. we figured out how to make freelancing financially viable
A friend wrote a well-performing tech article on Medium. It's a good article with one small error - its click success has come from dudes clicking and sharing and explaining how she's wrong. So she keeps the error in and makes roughly $100/month off of mansplaining.
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I don’t know who needs to see this but this kitty has fallen asleep using my hand as her pillow 🥺🥺
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I say this as a weekend editor running a damn-near ghost ship most days: I don't care how thin-staffed the newsroom is on a Saturday, surely there was someone around who thought calling this
#UToo
wasn't a good idea?
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At this rate, the number of women writing about foreign policy/natsec in major papers' op/ed sections won't match men until 2056 — "a full professional generation from now."
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At which point, I'm p sure Macron WINKED back at Trump.
Guys, there is Sherlock-John Watson fan fiction written with less of a bromance between the two leading men.
“Nobody knows what I’m going to do on the 12th....Though Mr President you have a pretty good idea”. Has Trump hinted to Macron he will keep US in the
#IranDeal
?
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Natali's birthday call to her father, a local leader in a southern Ukrainian village, was cut short. Russian troops now occupied the town, he said. She told him, "I will wait for you, please call me back."
He never did.
Superb reporting from
@j_kirby1
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'Is Mattis headed to Mexico to pick up bags of $$ for a border wall?' I asked.
@SenJohnMcCain
counters w/ something equally likely:
McCain says Mattis had "always had a proclivity for marijuana"
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Two days ago:
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@VivienneMachi
@michaelfriedman
@laraseligman
@mchorowitz
@Oriana0214
@StephenLosey
@reporterjoe
@ValerieInsinna
@LeighGiangreco
@TotherChris
@thinkdefence
@ianmac67_SE
@Domicima
@Holly_WrightUK
@09EA63
@sallyacb275
@northumbriana
@EngageStrategy1
@MrSnaplegs
@GazTheJourno
@darksecretplace
@LandSharkUK
@Verdigris_blog
@haynesdeborah
@RAF_Simmer
@iAmTheWarax
@CavasShips
@LorenRaeDeJ
@htranbui
@WilloughbyDobbs
@rocbelushi
@coffeeshopjihad
@dhealy3154
@connorobrienNH
@thbransfield
@DavidLarter
@GregoryDraws
@pptsapper
@TaraCopp
@thejcoop
@dave_brown24
@LeoShane
@DefenseBaron
@frankrebecca
@jacqklimas
I've gotten like five flood alerts today, so I'll hop in this Twitter canoe.
Post a gif from your favorite movie and invite five others to do the same,
@wesleysmorgan
,
@DefTechPat
,
@navybook
,
@AndrewBHanna
&
@andrewc_elliott
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2018 was a year of major upheaval in
#Nicaragua
. Civil revolt paralyzed the country, leaving >300 dead. Through it all, Nicaragua's been fighting for its future as much online as in the streets. I looked at that online battle for Overture w/
@CDGoetteLuciak
. Here’s what we found:
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so loved reading
@malindalo
's sweet story of sapphic self-discovery, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and look, now it's won the
#NBAwards
for YA lit! Other winners and nominees here:
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Yesterday, the US officially blamed Russia for 2 years of trying to hack our energy grid.
Say tmrw they succeed & take down a power station in Ohio. What next? How far does it spread? I looked at this in Dec. & BLUF: "Right now, there’s not really any good ways to answer that.”
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In DC tonight, George W. Bush quotes Churchill: "The people of the United States cannot escape world responsibility."
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when your troll game's on point
D.C. leaders want to rename the street in front of the Russian Embassy after an assassinated, anti-Putin dissident
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Yes, nuclear weapons are a deterrent,
@Cirincione
says. But so is NATO, so are the rest of the US's alliances.
#DefOneSummit
"Nuclear weapons save lives. Think about it. There hasn't been a major power war since 1945...nuclear deterrence stops that." - Brig Gen. Bowen
#DefOneSummit
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Why does Georgia even have runoffs? And 8 other Qs about the two January Senate runoffs you were too embarrassed to ask:
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Victor, currently napping, I mean... in training with
@MediServiceDogs
, will one day be paired with a vet with PTSD.
#AUSA2017
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starting my professional journalism career in 2016 has really ruined me for normal political scandals
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Fewer than Bush sent in 2006, more than Obama in 2010.
Also ≥ the number of troops the US has in Syria right now.
Trump says he wants to send 2,000 - 4,000 troops to the border. The Pentagon still says it doesn’t know how many it can send, or where the money will come from.
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I went to Beijing, asked a bunch of people about the future of the US-China bilateral relationship. Every single person talked first about the past.
The message? Beijing’s in this for the long haul. More in my dispatch with
@ForeignPolicy
here!
With few good options for responding to a trade war, Xi is banking on simply outlasting Trump.
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At military bases around the US, 53,000+ Afghan evacuees wait. There's BBQs with "kebabs for 10,000," work to counter the Taliban, calls home, visits to the eye doctor for glasses broken while fleeing, and always, always, the wait.
@j_kirby1
reports:
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ISIS ✔️
A2AD ❌
Should be a rule: If there's an acronym in a headline that less than 100 people in a trade know off the top of their head, don't use it.
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Tulsi Gabbard was like 50 American Samoan votes away from that being *delegate* — singular — but okay go off
They completely shut out Tulsi from this convention even though she won delegates in the primaries and was consistently the most-Googled candidate
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What does the Israel-Hamas deal mean?
@mideastXmidwest
has got you covered: It's an important humanitarian achievement, but "only the beginning of a set of complex negotiations that will be needed to address the ongoing war [and] the humanitarian crisis."
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"We will put an algorithm in a combat zone by the end of the year" Col Cukor at the
#D1TechSummit
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Spent last week talking to the Three Musketeers of NATO's eastern flank: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania's MODs. Story here:
A Giant Russian Exercise Will Soon Put 100,000 Troops on NATO’s Border. Then What? by
@carolinehouck
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Guess who's back, back again. Regime change's back, tell a friend.
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The man wants details.
You mention six pilot programs? You better be ready to say exactly what each of those are.
McCain interrupted Ellen Lord several times during her opening statement with questions. He's been doing more of that lately.
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Me: "I'm filing in 10. ...Also, is 2,000 words too many?"
Editor, slightly aghast: "I guess we'll see what words they are."
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As Mattis heads to Brussels to meet his 27 NATO counterparts, a quick check on which ones met defense spending goals
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Mosul free. Raqqa won. Where does the fight against violent extremism go now?
@thejointstaff
and 70 defense chiefs met today to figure out
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When
@MSNBC
runs a ticker of the presidents in historical order, the
@defenseone
newsroom ticks off who has aircraft carriers named for them
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Who said, “America needs a champion right now, and I’m that champion.” A
#MissAmerica
candidate, or a Democrat on the debate stage last night?
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Okay if we're going to talk about whether veterans want Trump's
#MilitaryParade
, let's talk stats.
@MilitaryTimes
polled their readers and idk how much of their readership currently serve or are vets, but I assume a good share
#FY19NDAA
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ISIS drones: They're really just an airborne IED. At least that's how JIDO's thinking about them.
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@AlexWardVox
You and the infrastructure reporters and climate reporters and gender politics reporters and housing policy reporters can all hang out!
policy reporters! this is your chance to tweet out that there’s been no questions on your area of expertise yet.
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Always read
@constancegrady
on cultural controversies that touch on gender, like the
#JohnnyDeppAmberHeard
trial
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.
@imillhiser
raises a scary possibility about the two internet speech cases SCOTUS hears next week: What if, faced with massive liability, companies like Google don't stop working — they keep working, just with panoptic surveillance+moderation?
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“Do my cats do anything other than sleep, stretch, and lay down somewhere else?” I say on day 20 of working from bed
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Here's all of
@DefenseOne
's terrorism coverage, including why things like
#BarcelonaAttacks
are so hard to prevent:
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Two months ago I visited Norway, including this town along NATO's northernmost border w/ Russia. At the time, I wrote about that complicated relationship for
@DefenseOne
:
Looks like it's getting a little more thorny ↓
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Reading list from Mattis at
#AUSA2017
includes: 'Future of Strategy' by Colin Gray and
@ArmyChiefStaff
's AUSA remarks from last year
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I'll never be able to thank
@DefenseBaron
,
@navybook
,
@MarcusReports
,
@DefTechPat
&
@natsecwatson
enough. Not to mention the wider
@GovExec
team, like
@tshoop
,
@hmKuldell
,
@DanielaFayer
& many, many others.
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