Truck carrying tank after Army's 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC usatoday.com/story/news/pol… by Davis Winkie @usatoday

Pentagon budget season 🥲 (hard truth courtesy of Jen Judson)

As a writer you sometimes have to sit back and marvel — with a bit of jealousy, I’ll admit — at someone else’s work. Y’all simply must read Ross Andersen’s dive into the RoK and Japan’s nuclear flirtations as the hibakusha generation enters its twilight. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Excellent read on the Tim Kennedy stolen valor affair from kelseybaker businessinsider.com/a-top-military…

Two top-notch reporters on the move!

Thoughtful discussion of accountability reporting and its timing from three of the best Texas journalists I know ~~

Microsoft has hired engineers from China to maintain DOD computer systems with minimal supervision. Incredible story by Renee Dudley @ProPublica propublica.org/article/micros…

Nobel laureates are pleading for diplomacy to prevent nuclear war. I discuss on USA TODAY’s The Excerpt podcast. art19.com/shows/5-things…

Northrop and the Air Force have reached an agreement to restructure the Sentinel program, CEO Kathy Warden says. Work is now continuing on "most aspects" of the command and launch part of the program, she said, which had been halted

New: Roughly 2,000 National Guardsmen expected to soon be put on Title 32 status across as many as 20 states to help ICE at detention facilities, putting them under governors' control & in a status not subject to Posse Comitatus Act From me + Priscilla Alvarez cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

Good story about the Army's direct commissions for tech/AI executives from Cybele Mayes-Osterman. In it: the revelation that these guys aren't even working on problems in their domain of expertise due to conflict of interest concerns. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

Longshot: do I know any members of the American Astronomical Society?

Excellent profile of perhaps the most important man in the Pentagon (and yet another testament to how badly defense journalism needed folks like The Atlantic//Jeffrey Goldberg to invest in reporters for longform work) theatlantic.com/national-secur…

New from me- National Guardsmen deployed to help out at ICE offices in red states will fingerprint, DNA swab detainees usatoday.com/story/news/pol…