Rich Abott 🖖🏽

Navy/MissDef reporter.Grad of @GeorgetownCSS.Scifi/comics/IR/nuke nerd. NYC Food opinions.Listens to more podcasts than you.RT=interesting/funny, not endorsed

[Rich Abott 🖖🏽 @ReaderRabott]

A truer map has never been made https://t.co/XUWE7kK6Yq

[Duran Wolf 🔜 Anthrocon @Duran__Wolf]

Here's a map to help the world where to find the best American pizza.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

HUGE scoop from @AndrewDesiderio and @LauraEWeiss16

MARK WARNER has told JOHN THUNE to try to get @pulte removed as DNI.

If he's in the job, Democrats are threatening to withhold their votes for FISA, which expires in 9 days.

FISA is at real risk of expiring due to Trump's decision to put PULTE in as DNI.

Almost certain that JOHNSON cannot put the bill on suspension now. And can he get it out of rules?

https://t.co/UkGDVuWdvX

[Sarah Osment @sm_osment]

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

[Jory Heckman @jheckmanWFED]

Seeing a lot of BREAKING news alerts this afternoon on TSA rolling out its new 'Gold+' program. Which is interesting because @jdoubledayWFED broke the story like a month ago

[War on the Rocks @WarOnTheRocks]

A single flood at one Air Force base cost $1.2 billion to repair, the same amount being cut from the climate and geological programs that help prevent it. https://t.co/HUoPCg9ak0

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

No evidence ever has been presented of reporters obtaining classified information while roaming the halls of the Pentagon.

Those halls, I would add, are unclassified spaces routinely visited by tourists, foreign military personnel, etc.

Classified spaces at the Pentagon are locked -- as one would expect.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

DHS says it is "absurd" to compare their tweet on the left to the graphic on the right from Patriot Front, an openly fascist white supremacist organization. You be the judge!

[Cal Biesecker @calvinb21]

Red Cat Holdings on Wednesday said it has acquired Quaze Technologies, a developer of wireless power transfer technology for unmanned systems and https://t.co/Et7NwiNnEa

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees who spoke with the Washington Examiner.

Banks “bragged” to colleagues while in his previous management role at Border Patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand over the course of a decade. Banks’ behavior was said to have been investigated by Customs and Border Protection officials twice, including last year, but the investigation ended abruptly while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in office, leading to more questions.

https://t.co/VkFWTMoE87

[Cal Biesecker @calvinb21]

Anduril Industries on Wednesday said it has raised $5 billion in a late-stage venture capital round to continue investing in manufacturing capacity, https://t.co/KFoaTrggbX

[Jonathan Landay Reuters @JonathanLanday]

Federal employees accuse USDA of illegal Christian proselytizing https://t.co/mkATPjV4Z8 via @usatoday

[Cal Biesecker @calvinb21]

An increasing number of defense contractors have agreed to participate in an Army initiative that will unlock proprietary weapons, software, radar and https://t.co/7l0j1EoZAb

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

A second bombshell report on Border Patrol national chief Mike Banks is said to be coming out today, which prompted DHS Sec. Mullin to meet with Border Patrol's union chief yesterday, hours before Banks announced he's leaving.

We reported weeks ago that Banks had traveled abroad to have sex with prostitutes while an agent.

One source said Banks has been on thin ice since then. Banks was part of the Noem/Lewandowski/Bovino/Perez cohort.
https://t.co/VkFWTMoE87

[Cal Biesecker @calvinb21]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Monday night launched its 13th proliferated architecture mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space https://t.co/1EeDbZPmpA

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

Sen. Jack Reed, asked about possible military operations against Cuba, tells reporters just now the Defense Department does not brief members "frankly, on anything."

"I'm also, including my Republican colleagues, [DOD] just refuses to give us any meaningful data. And they refuse even to follow the law, which requires reporting to us in a certain number of days."

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://t.co/wZ204CKi32

[Ilan Goldenberg @ilangoldenberg]

“Iran retains about 75% of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said.”

That’s an insanely high number and if accurate further calls into question what the point of this war was.

https://t.co/G7YweCTvmz

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

This despite hostilities not being over. A naval blockade is broadly considered an act of war.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

I actually think it's useful to have a naif-like outlet start covering Washington and discover basic things like the Congressional calendar, which most reporters here take for granted and which many regular people would, in fact, find surprising/strange/bad.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.