Jack Mattison

Managing Partner with early-stage innovator teams, builders, founders, investors.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🚨 I told you all this yesterday. 🚨

SIGNAL cannot be downloaded on government phones with SIPRnet and JWICS secure networks.

These idiots were using THEIR OWN UNSECURED PHONES, which are hackable with keystrokes monitored by foreign intel services.

https://t.co/PMwUqB0Dar

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Here’s the first page of the OPSEC Special Bulletin obtained by @CBSNews

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

This is unbearable. russia killed today a mom and her 3yo daughter at the playground in the Kurtivka village of the Donetsk region. The older daughter was injured. This is whom the US is now appeasing at full swing.
Photos Vadym Filashkin.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. https://t.co/wuG7jH0Kka

[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

It’s Tuesday, it’s newsletter day. But this time it’s very different. I am telling a story about my family, about Europe, about third time lucky and why @RFERL means so much to me and so many others. The fight for its survival continues

https://t.co/VWgcCoxr2y

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

On this day in history, Russians began a three day operation that would be the largest mass deportation operation of the dark Soviet era, with the forced deportations of over 90,000 people from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to the far reaches of Siberia, where many eventually died in labor camps.

Russians even gave the operation a colorful name - Operation "Priboi" (Operation "Tidal Wave").

Moscow's intent in the Baltics in 1949 was the same as we see today in Ukraine—the destruction of national identity, the severing of family bonds and centuries of tradition, replacing it with "Russia".

Only this week, the Russian dictator signed a decree mandating that residents of the occupied areas of Ukraine must accept Russian passports or face deportation.

Different century. Same crimes. Same Russia.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: Newly unearthed video of Pete Hegseth criticizing Hillary Clinton on Fox News over security concerns for her emails have been compiled into a supercut, exposing a towering mountain of hypocrisy for the Secretary of Defense.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Correction: they’re all fucking idiots. Every single one of the people on that Signal chat broke federal law, and they’re all guilty. This cannot be a fall guy situation, we must investigate the prevalence of Signal usage and deleting records across the whole administration.

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

New from Gallup: The % who say the US is NOT doing enough to help Ukraine hits a new high.
It's a sharp contrast to the belief of our president and VP...
https://t.co/Zbie2fRBBP

[Jack Mattison @crankcode]

@RikardJozwiak @RFERL Essential organization, great reporting. Please amplify how and where we can support and advocate for this funding for @RFERL staff to sustain operations.

[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

Adding two more countries 🇩🇰🇫🇮 to the 🇨🇿 initiative about exploring 🇪🇺 funding for @RFERL.
Next week the 🇪🇺parliament is likely to debate the situation as well

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

Experts estimate that at least 40% of the parts and materials in Teslas sold in the U.S. come from China.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

If you listen to nothing else today, listen to this. @mccaffreyr3 explains we must assume Signal had been penetrated by foreign intelligence services, that everyone on that chat knew it was wrong, and the risks imposed on our soldiers by this egregious arrogance.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: There can be no true peace in Ukraine without the return of the children that Putin has stolen, writes @KarolinaAHird.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine over three years ago with the intent, among other things, of stealing its children. ⬇️(1/3)

▪️ Putin launched his imperial conquest to first and foremost dominate the Ukrainian people, and he recognized that to deprive Ukraine of its children would be to deprive it of its multigenerational potential.

▪️ When Russian troops rolled across the border into Ukraine on the night of February 24, 2022, the groundwork for the massive deportation of Ukraine’s children was already in place.

▪️ Ukrainian human rights activists uncovered Kremlin documents dated February 18, 2022, which laid out plans to remove Ukrainian children from orphanages in occupied Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and bring them to Russia under the guise of “humanitarian evacuations.”

▪️ These documents revealed that Russia planned to target vulnerable Ukrainian children, especially those without parental care before the full-scale invasion had even begun. In the subsequent three years, Russia has embarked on a Kremlin-directed, deeply institutionalized project to abduct Ukrainian children and forcibly turn them into the next generation of Russians.

[Matt Castelli @CastelliMatt]

Former CIA officer here. This is more than “loose lips sink ships”, this is a criminally negligent breach of classified information and war planning involving VP, SecDef, DCIA, National Security Advisor - all putting troops at risk.

America is not safe.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Meanwhile, as the war goes on, Ukrainian special operations forces track down on the ground and destroy 4 Russian military helicopters in Belgorod.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[Jack Mattison @crankcode]

@anders_aslund Greenland knows: “If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” -Cicero

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Ruth Marcus spent 40 years at the Washington Post and witnessed the newspaper’s editorial principles erode under the ownership of Jeff Bezos. In a new essay, she writes about why she finally made the decision to quit. https://t.co/u4ozqlnysU