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Edwin Herdman retweeted
We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.
So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.
What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)
Edwin Herdman retweeted
Stunning report. At this point it seems like Howard Lutnick and Jeff Kessler are just outright defying the President's orders on export controls. The President apparently ordered Secretary Lutnick to crack down on China's access to controlled AI chips in Southeast Asia--and reportedly has ordered this three separate times--and they're just...not doing it.
Why is Lutnick refusing to act? Why is he allowing China to continue to get AI chips via Southeast Asia? At this point, Lutnick isn't just protecting Nvidia, he's straight up protecting Chinese companies--reportedly against the wishes of the President and the entire rest of the Cabinet. Is Lutnick personally benefitting from China getting access to AI chips?
This is a total breakdown inside the administration on a major national security issue. There has to be accountability for this. Congress obviously will investigate, but how is it that the President's own appointees are just refusing to execute the President's orders? I've never seen anything like this.
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-l…
Edwin Herdman retweeted
MORE: The scale of these deployments suggests that the PLA is conducting a major exercise that simulates isolating Taiwan. The number of vessels involved and the geographic range of their deployment are greater than the PLA’s most recent exercise around Taiwan — Justice Mission 2025.
The coordination of surface forces from the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Commands is rare. Major PLA exercises targeting Taiwan since 2022 have largely centered around the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command, the organization primarily responsible for Taiwan-focused operations.
The presence of four major surface groups beyond the first island chain from three separate theater commands could represent an effort to coordinate the principal surface combatants of all three coastal theater commands in a single far-seas operation.
The positioning of major PLAN combatants in the West Pacific, between Guam and Taiwan, and combined PLAN and CCG forces conducting a closer encirclement of Taiwan also follow patterns from previous PLA exercises. Strait Thunder 2025a, for instance, involved an “inner” encirclement of Taiwan alongside a carrier strike group operating between Taiwan and Guam.
The recent PLAN maneuvers could improve the PLA’s ability to effectively deter or prevent outside forces from reaching Taiwan during a contingency by preparing its coastal theater commands to coordinate their forces during such an operation.
NEW: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may be conducting a major, unannounced military exercise simulating surrounding and isolating Taiwan. This exercise is greater than the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s Justice Mission 2025 exercise around Taiwan and includes forces from the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Commands, possibly representing an effort to coordinate surface combatants from all three coastal theater commands into a single far-seas operation. (1/2)
Edwin Herdman retweeted
It seems the operators are covering their tracks. Starting today, over 120 of the accounts I identified have now been deleted.
So, by popular request, I decided to open-source the 100k+ tweets across 400+ accounts I used as the primary data source for this investigation. I believe this is a floor, and that there are many more out there I didn’t capture (every time I went looking for more, I found them, so I just had to stop the search somewhere).
In particular, I hope this helps journalists who want to look into the potential campaigns focused on Israel, Qatar, pharmacy benefit managers, and more that I didn’t really explore in my own investigation.
Note that, while I’m confident in the claims my article makes in terms of the existence and scale of the operation, I think it’s possible this full dataset contains minor classification errors at the level of individual accounts and tweets — these shouldn’t impact the overall conclusions, but it does mean this resource should be seen a starting point for further research, not an open-and-shut case when it comes to any individual example.
You can access the full data here:
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New to me: Grad student unions are now redefining the 'picket line' to include students who are trying to attend class and take tests. The classic analogy would be picking another brand of car to support the right union - but enrolled students are trying to finish a degree.
They chose to cross a picket line. Like it or not they knew what that meant. They learned a valuable lesson. Actions have consequences in the real world
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Edwin Herdman retweeted
Energy expert @wang_seaver on @algore’s tired “no” approach to BAAJA: As someone who credits @algore with initiating the trajectory of my entire life's work in environmental science and now clean energy policy, I am disappointed in him today….
Edwin Herdman retweeted
Commerce hasn’t added a single company to the Entity List in over a year.
That’s the longest stretch without using the trade blacklist in nearly two decades, possibly longer.
It’s not just Megaspeed. It’s a complete shutdown of all regular business. The lights are functionally off at BIS.
Wow, the Commerce Dept still hasn't banned the company tied to the suspected Chinese spy from buying advanced AI chips.
Before this was a news story, I guess there's some argument for not tipping anyone off by blocking the company, but not doing it now?
Nvidia also says it stopped selling to the company for over a year, but Megaspeed is STILL listed as an Nvidia Cloud Partner.
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Edwin Herdman retweeted
When I received the second report from our negotiating team after their meetings in Abu Dhabi, they told me that the Russians think and say they have already occupied half of Donbas, which remains under our control. These were military officers, Russian intelligence, and they were serious about it. Our team told them, “We don’t know how you can even say such things. We have video footage, images, other things proving that these areas are under our control.”
This is the problem. Putin lives in a different reality. Of course, he will be sharing with the Americans that he needs one or two months to fully occupy the east of Ukraine. I can draw a picture for him too where I fully occupy Russia. But it’s not true. What was good is that the American side confirmed the Ukrainian assessment of what is happening on the battlefield.
This is why we need to sit and speak at the level of leaders. There are a lot of questions. Like we spoke about the city of Kherson that is divided by the river today. The Russians control one bank, we control the other. But people want to live united on both banks. This is a Ukrainian city. Such issues are sensitive, but we have to speak about them. I think that tomorrow the teams will discuss the possibility of meeting at the level of leaders. I'm not sure that Russia is ready, but we will raise this topic.
From a conversation with journalists.
Edwin Herdman retweeted
Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)
All nations should understand they need to begin hardening strategically important sites NOW.
Good news for Ukraine and Israel. Bad news for Musk companies, which many of us predicted months ago would be hampered in sales by Musk's meddling. But that is of secondary importance.
Tagebuch eines Nachrichtendienstlers kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Trumps Starlink-Aktion dazu geführt hat, dass er seinen Einfluss auf die ukrainischen Langstreckenangriffe verloren hat.
"Wie israelische HiSKY-Terminals ukrainische Drohnen in einen "intelligenten Schwarm" über Russland verwandelten.
Laut unseren hochrangigen Quellen haben die jüngsten verheerenden Angriffe auf Raffinerien in Kstowo, Samara und Jaroslawl eine äußerst gefährliche taktische Anomalie aufgedeckt: Anstatt Angriffe auf eine oder zwei Anlagen zur Vorverarbeitung (AVT) zu fliegen, brachen die Fabriken gleichzeitig an Dutzenden verschiedener Stellen aus. Der Gegner hat eine technologische Alternative zu Starlink gefunden, die ihre Wirksamkeit bereits in der Praxis bewiesen hat.
Kiew begann, Langstrecken-Drohnen massenhaft mit satellitengestützten HiSKY SmartLight-Terminals auszustatten (eine Entwicklung eines israelischen Unternehmens, das von ehemaligen Führungskräften des Mossad gegründet wurde). Im Gegensatz zu dem Produkt von Elon Musk verwendet dieses militärische Modul standardmäßige europäische geosynchrone Satelliten und hat keinerlei geografische Beschränkungen über dem Territorium der Russischen Föderation. Der Hauptvorteil des Systems ist ein stabiles, militärisches Kommunikationsprotokoll, das von unseren Standard-Elektronischen-Kampf-Mitteln nicht unterdrückt werden kann.
In militärischen Kreisen wird anerkannt: Selbst die Existenz eines einzigen Kommunikationskanals (bis zu 2 Mbit/s) hat die Mathematik der Angriffe grundlegend verändert. Der Gegner muss die Drohne nicht mehr manuell steuern – die bidirektionale Telemetrie ermöglicht den Einsatz einer Taktik der dynamischen Zielumlenkung im Flug.
Wenn die ukrainischen Streitkräfte früher hundert "blinde" Drohnen auf eine einzelne AVT-Anlage schickten, in der Hoffnung, dass mindestens zwei ihr Ziel erreichen würden, sehen die Bediener in Kiew jetzt die Treffer in Echtzeit. Wenn das erste Paar von Drohnen sein Ziel erfolgreich getroffen hat, wird der dahinter fliegende Schwarm direkt in der Luft auf Tanks, Cracking-Anlagen oder Umspannwerke umgelenkt. Gleichzeitig erfassen die Bediener in Echtzeit die Einsatzorte unserer Luftverteidigung und mobilen Feuergruppen und leiten die verbleibenden Drohnen sofort auf sichere Umgehungspfade (nur Ufa hatte dieses Mal Glück aufgrund der maximalen Flugreichweite).
Die geheimen Beschränkungen der Nutzung von Starlink durch die USA haben zu einem völlig gegenteiligen Ergebnis geführt: Trump hat schlichtweg die Kontrolle über die Langstreckenangriffe Kiews verloren. Die Ukraine hat sich vom amerikanischen Leinen gelöst und eine kommerzielle Alternative gefunden, die das Weiße Haus nicht per Anruf abschalten kann. Für unseren Energiesektor ist dies eine enorme Herausforderung."
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Edwin Herdman retweeted
NOTABLE: Scharf's letter draws directly from a criminal statute that some MAGA allies (like @mrddmia) keep saying should be used against Trump adversaries: conspiracy against rights.
It's a charge Jack Smith used against Trump.
Left: 18 USC 241
Right: The Scharf letter
Edwin Herdman retweeted
Pulitzer and Hearst knew how to treat a story like this. Sulzberger? Can’t be bothered. Old news.
Jim Jordan and The Ohio State Student Athlete Sex Abuse Cover Up talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog… via @TPM
Edwin Herdman retweeted
People acting like the Dems were running Congress the minute they won the midterms as opposed to, y’know, January, are mostly bored, shitflinging geeks with ODD
Edwin Herdman retweeted
1/ By the time veteran John Falchetto made it to his VA hospital, he needed immediate surgery for a burst appendix.
But the OR was closed. A slew of workers had left amid Trump’s overhaul of the VA.
So Falchetto lay there, his life in the balance, for 7 hours… 🧵
ALT An ambulance rushing down a dark street filled with cars.
"Land is the foundation of the state" - from the Art of War.
Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.
This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”
“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”
“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”
They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)
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Edwin Herdman retweeted
Bloomberg: “Russia has effectively abandoned attempts to replace the dollar with China’s yuan under the pressure of US secondary sanctions, underlining the difficulties facing other nations looking for an alternative global currency.”
As I’ve long explained, surplus countries don’t acquire USD assets because Washington forces them to do so. It is their need to acquire USD assets that forces the US to accommodate.
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Edwin Herdman retweeted
The US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier admonished Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.” the sentinel called out, stopping his patrol to face the group as they departed.
Hegseth was standing and taking photos in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, Chief of Staff Ricky Buria, Deputy Chief of Staff Patrick Weaver, and senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh after the ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day.
cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/…
Edwin Herdman retweeted
A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony. cnn.it/3UMhe9p
