Avi

OIF Vet. Dad. Emerging/Frontier Market solar investor. @DEFCommunity Firestarter Fellowship Director. @TrumanProject Defense Council. Tweets my own.

[Shawn VanDiver @shawnjvandiver]

For #Afghans awaiting SIV and worried about the program.

There are a lot of questions about what it means if @SpeakerJohnson continues to block inclusion of SIV numbers, so I’m gonna do this 🧵 to explain the facts.

https://t.co/7Adrt2hT6j

[Amir Tibon אמיר תיבון @amirtibon]

A month ago, at this hour, I had to tell my two daughters - 3.5 years old and 20 months old - that they must remain completely silent. No word, no cry.
It was 7AM, they had just woken up in a dark room with no electricity or food, and five people were shouting outside the window.

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

"What [Hurricane] Michael did for us is, it wiped the slate clean," said Don Arias, a spokesman at @TeamTyndall's Natural Disaster Recovery Office. "It gave us the opportunity to reimagine."

https://t.co/WDPLGWelGG

[USSOCOM @USSOCOM]

It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Gen. James J. Lindsay, the first commander of USSOCOM. He was a distinguished combat leader,
recognized multiple times for his bravery and leadership on the battlefield, and earned our Nation’s second highest honor for valor,

[Gershom Gorenberg גרשום גורנברג @GershomG]

The size of the Israeli pro-democracy protests is astounding, and has lessons for political movements elsewhere.
Start with this: Don't demand that people marching together on one issue agree on every other issue.
https://t.co/GHcssoTqaj

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

@PeterLucier Want to make this my email signature

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

Isn't this the plot of The Hobbit?

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

Crazy story. Guy owns piece of land in his Connecticut hometown, originally bought by his parents. Returns after time away to find out someone impersonated him, sold the land and now there's a house being built on it.

https://t.co/JFuMbUekw2

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

Given that they found fragments, I'm confident they probably aren't Trisolaran droplets.

So we've got that going for us, which is nice

[Ryan Graves @uncertainvector]

“The most serious claims from the hearings survived unscathed: those about inexplicable phenomena and possible national-security threats…”

https://t.co/A3p4QdxiF1

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

He's right.

And yet I badly want to watch that.

[Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS]

The UK doc series industry is wild. They’ll send literally anyone but an actual journalist to host a series on like, ISIS or the international drug trade. “This week, one of the supporting cast in a Guy Ritchie movie from 8 years ago looks at the spread of Jihadism in the Sahel.”

[Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken]

I strongly welcome and support the leadership of ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments to defend constitutional order in Niger. The legitimate, democratically-elected government must be reinstated immediately.

[גלעד קריב @KarivGilad]

מפלגות המרכז - הגיע הזמן שתתעוררו.
אנחנו תחת מתקפה כהניסטית.
לצאת מהמליאה חוק אחרי חוק, כשאתם יודעים שמדובר בקמפיין חקיקה פופוליסטי, לאומני ומסוכן נגד אזרחי ישראל הערבים - זה לא מרכז.
זו פחדנות אידאולוגית.

[Noa Landau נעה לנדאו @noa_landau]

Israeli demonstrators are holding tonight photos of police officers caught using excessive force against protesters; In response, police said the signs are incitement to violence - and launched an investigation… @haaretzcom

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

The spice must flow

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Scientists revived a female microscopic roundworm that spent the last 46,000 years in suspended animation deep in the Siberian permafrost. It started having babies in a laboratory dish. https://t.co/4zkZGe05ws

[Shawn VanDiver @shawnjvandiver]

The latest on the #AfghanAdjustmentAct.

Tl;dr the amendment didn’t make it in today, but we are still in the fight.

Folks can stop the calls for now but have faith that the advocates working this have a strategy and a pathway to success.

We are closer than we’ve ever been!

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

It was even a gag on Nevsu.

However, given that Israel's ratio of doctors to population is near the bottom of the OECD, they clearly have better financial prospects in other countries, and many trained abroad, a small wave or even reduced MD immigration will have major effects.

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

A decade ago, there was a wave of stories about Israelis leaving the country, which turned out to be just hype https://t.co/f0KHPwXNIH

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

There's basically a formula now:
1. Do coup
2. Claim you did it for the people Promise elections... some day
3. Form "transitional" govt, appoint a civilian PM & cabinet
4. Maintain some CT & anti-trafficking coop. w/ US & Euros
5. Visit Gulf & Moscow
6. Keep calling the shots.

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

@wesleysmorgan @rjhintz So Planet of the Apes was actually a cautionary tale about the training of other species as proxy forces.

[Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 @alexplitsas]

I sat next to him for 45 minutes and had dinner in the basement of the Senate with the rest of the members before the State of the Union and talked about nothing but the need to pass the #AfghanAdjustmentAct

It’s infuriating

[Shawn VanDiver @shawnjvandiver]

Very frustrated that @TomCottonAR, or his team, are blocking the #AfghanAdjustmentAct from getting a vote on the senate floor.

You can help by calling his office and telling him to get out of the way.

We are down to crunch time and we need all hands on deck.

[Avi @Avi_Jacobson]

Struggling for the best metaphor here.
With part two of Dune coming out soon, will go with the Haredi parties as the Spacing Guild with their spice under threat.

[Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer]

מאמרי המערכת היום בהמודיע והדרך בעקבות זו שהופיעה שבוע שעבר ביתד נאמן משלימים את ניסיון ההתנערות של הפוליטיקה החרדית מההפיכה השלטונית שהם היו (והינם עוד) חלק מרכזי מיוזמיו, דוחפיו ושותפיו הנלהבים. הם הבינו לאן הרוח נושבת בעם ישראל ומנסים להנמיך פרופיל. אבל ההפיכה רשומה גם על שמם>