Jeremiah Cushman
@jdcushman45.bsky.social
Defense journalist, Europeanist (🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪), metalhead, not necessarily in that order...
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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Close-up of a Stonechat snagging breakfast along England’s south coast. I’ve rarely captured a bird in flight where you can see the insect that it’s pursuing! 🥰🥰🥰 #stonechat #birding #birdsseenin2025
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Close-up of a Stonechat snagging breakfast along England’s south coast. I’ve rarely captured a bird in flight where you can see the insect that it’s pursuing! 🥰🥰🥰 #stonechat #birding #birdsseenin2025
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An interesting (and obscure) aviation subject: the Sopwith Scooter. This one-off aircraft was the personal aircraft of Harry Hawker (yes, that Hawker), Sopwith's chief test pilot.
It's a Sopwith Camel fuselage, with a parasol monoplane over the fuselage.
#HistScaleModels
It's a Sopwith Camel fuselage, with a parasol monoplane over the fuselage.
#HistScaleModels
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An interesting (and obscure) aviation subject: the Sopwith Scooter. This one-off aircraft was the personal aircraft of Harry Hawker (yes, that Hawker), Sopwith's chief test pilot.
It's a Sopwith Camel fuselage, with a parasol monoplane over the fuselage.
#HistScaleModels
It's a Sopwith Camel fuselage, with a parasol monoplane over the fuselage.
#HistScaleModels
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When writing about a battle or campaign, you can give credit to the enemy for its operational or tactical skill. You can even acknowledge their bravery and resourcefulness. It doesn’t mean you’re endorsing their war aims to do so. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When writing about a battle or campaign, you can give credit to the enemy for its operational or tactical skill. You can even acknowledge their bravery and resourcefulness. It doesn’t mean you’re endorsing their war aims to do so. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
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Stan Rogers became one of the most beloved Canadian musicians of the late-20th century.
His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.
📸 Stanrogers.net
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His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.
📸 Stanrogers.net
🧵 1/12
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Stan Rogers became one of the most beloved Canadian musicians of the late-20th century.
His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.
📸 Stanrogers.net
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His songs told the story of Canada, its culture, its people and its history.
Rogers was taken far too soon but his legacy endures.
This is his story.
📸 Stanrogers.net
🧵 1/12
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Yeah in other western hemisphere military news it hasn't exactly made the headlines but Marines at the embassy in Port-au-Prince have been swapping gunfire every couple of days for a while with random jabronis who decide to take a potshot at them
Additional U.S. Marines being sent to Haiti to defend the embassy from gang attacks face a grim reality: They're increasingly being targeted by American-made, military-grade firearms.
Gangs wielding American guns await US Marines heading to Haiti
www.stripes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Yeah in other western hemisphere military news it hasn't exactly made the headlines but Marines at the embassy in Port-au-Prince have been swapping gunfire every couple of days for a while with random jabronis who decide to take a potshot at them
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What is really missing from the DC shooter discussions on cable media is how little it likely had to do with the screening process that got him working with the CIA and eventually into the US, and how much it probably had to do with something (perhaps recently) that motivated him to do this.
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What is really missing from the DC shooter discussions on cable media is how little it likely had to do with the screening process that got him working with the CIA and eventually into the US, and how much it probably had to do with something (perhaps recently) that motivated him to do this.
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I hate how everyone acts as though me too was this big dominant successful movement rather than a quickly suppressed attempt to get people to even admit that abuse regularly happens in many places we like to imagine it doesn’t.
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I hate how everyone acts as though me too was this big dominant successful movement rather than a quickly suppressed attempt to get people to even admit that abuse regularly happens in many places we like to imagine it doesn’t.
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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Tom Stoppard, one of my favorite writers, has died. My mom took me to see the Real Inspector Hound when I was in junior high school and I was hooked. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tom Stoppard, one of my favorite writers, has died. My mom took me to see the Real Inspector Hound when I was in junior high school and I was hooked. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
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U.S. Air Force’s T-38 Inducted at Navy’s FRCSE for Overhaul and Repair Program
As part of the Talon Repair, Inspection and Maintenance program, T-38s will be inducted at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to extend their operational life.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/29/u...
As part of the Talon Repair, Inspection and Maintenance program, T-38s will be inducted at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to extend their operational life.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/29/u...
U.S. Air Force’s T-38 Inducted at Navy’s FRCSE for Overhaul and Repair Program
As part of the Talon Repair, Inspection and Maintenance program, T-38s will be inducted at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to extend their operational
theaviationist.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
U.S. Air Force’s T-38 Inducted at Navy’s FRCSE for Overhaul and Repair Program
As part of the Talon Repair, Inspection and Maintenance program, T-38s will be inducted at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to extend their operational life.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/29/u...
As part of the Talon Repair, Inspection and Maintenance program, T-38s will be inducted at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast to extend their operational life.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/29/u...
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This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.
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Just pointing out how grim the funding situation is. If an institution fights you have no idea where future grants are coming from. Harvard won in court and is still telling researchers to cut everything 20% because they don’t know what happens next. Somehow everybody has to make it to Jan 2029
Yes I agree with this. The problem for grant-dependent researchers is that even if they win in court to get their illegally withheld funds, they’re sure to be denied any new grants by these corrupted agencies. 2026-2028 will be a killing field as institutions hemorrhage their research apparatus
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just pointing out how grim the funding situation is. If an institution fights you have no idea where future grants are coming from. Harvard won in court and is still telling researchers to cut everything 20% because they don’t know what happens next. Somehow everybody has to make it to Jan 2029
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"We need to look at NATO as one people, one alliance and that’s why it’s so important for us to be here.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6aK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6aK...
NATO's presence in Estonia 🇪🇪
YouTube video by NATO
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"We need to look at NATO as one people, one alliance and that’s why it’s so important for us to be here.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6aK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6aK...
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Just want it to be clear to all the troops, sailors, pilots, Venezuelans who might be put in harm's way in the coming days. Trump's not sending you to war because Maduro deals drugs. He's sending you to war because Maduro didn't give him a percentage.
Trump does another Sicario bsky.app/profile/reic...
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just want it to be clear to all the troops, sailors, pilots, Venezuelans who might be put in harm's way in the coming days. Trump's not sending you to war because Maduro deals drugs. He's sending you to war because Maduro didn't give him a percentage.
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I know a lot has already been said on this, but as the only guy in my entire left-of-center friend group with any interest in natsec and defense - a lot of people on the left don't engage with this stuff bc they think these kind of things are essentially inevitable, regardless of who's in charge.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I know a lot has already been said on this, but as the only guy in my entire left-of-center friend group with any interest in natsec and defense - a lot of people on the left don't engage with this stuff bc they think these kind of things are essentially inevitable, regardless of who's in charge.
I suspect the 8 hours painstakingly digging and finding nothing eliminates a lot of these types
The whole "but Jurassic World is inspiring future paleontologists!" argument fails to mention that those are going to be the most insufferable dudes imaginable at conferences in about 15 years.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I suspect the 8 hours painstakingly digging and finding nothing eliminates a lot of these types
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My kids have whooping cough, there are no toys on the shelves, and my brother-in-law was deported despite being a US citizen. But at least I know there won't be black Santa Clauses this year.
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My kids have whooping cough, there are no toys on the shelves, and my brother-in-law was deported despite being a US citizen. But at least I know there won't be black Santa Clauses this year.
Eagles fans don't even know the meaning of suffering and yet...
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Eagles fans don't even know the meaning of suffering and yet...
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The Royal Australian Air Force will be the first foreign operator of the advanced AIM-260A JATM air-to-air missile, according to U.S. sources 🇦🇺
By @cjohnston.bsky.social
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
By @cjohnston.bsky.social
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
USA Approves First AIM-260A JATM Export to Australia - Naval News
The Royal Australian Air Force will be the first foreign operator of the advanced AIM-260A JATM air-to-air missile according to U.S. sources speaking to Naval News on condition of anonymity. The sale ...
www.navalnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Royal Australian Air Force will be the first foreign operator of the advanced AIM-260A JATM air-to-air missile, according to U.S. sources 🇦🇺
By @cjohnston.bsky.social
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
By @cjohnston.bsky.social
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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Regarding the latter, one could argue there is a level of seniority below which it is not reasonable to expect service members to exercise their own judgement about that.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
Refusing to follow a “kill the survivors of the previous strike who are clearly hors de combat” order SHOULD BE significantly more clear-cut than refusing one due to “this entire operation is unlawful because citing inherent Article II authority is insufficient.”
There must be accountability.
There must be accountability.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Regarding the latter, one could argue there is a level of seniority below which it is not reasonable to expect service members to exercise their own judgement about that.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.