It is very much like CIA public affairs to not know what kind of helicopter their own extremely historic helicopter that they display at HQ is (The quote-tweeter who’s corrected them was a paramilitary officer in CIA SAD’s Air Branch at the time, and that’s him posing with it in Afg in early 2002)

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Both Trump and Putin believed their own propaganda and convinced themselves that their wars would be concluded swiftly with no meaningful resistance. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/k...

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“Punk enabled you to say, ‘fuck you.’ But somehow it couldn’t go any further… Someone was going to want to say, ‘I’m fucked.’ And it was Joy Division who were the first band to do that, to use the energy and simplicity of punk to express more complex emotions.”

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For those who’ve asked where one can be purchased…

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Thrilled to announce that I’m joining the extraordinary national security team at the @washingtonpost.com, helping out as @ellenwapo.bsky.social is at her Harvard fellowship. I’ll be reporting—big shocker—on the intelligence community. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at zsd.19.

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