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Executive Editor, , | Pentagon reporter | Displaced Floridian 🌴| ...

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    Jun 20

    "...the only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure..." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823

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    19 hours ago

    I spoke to ⁦⁩ at ⁦⁩ about our open letter to FIFA calling for an end to the discriminatory stadium ban on women in .

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    55 minutes ago

    Alternative: The Saudi Crown Prince is the ultimate trust-fund tyrant just as corrupt as the family he detained and mugged. His modest attempts to diversify the Saudi economy = basic management. He is crushing dissent in his own country and possibly guilty of war crimes in Yemen.

    Muhammad bin Salman could transform the Arab and Islamic world for the better. Can he succeed? Our cover this week
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  4. 53 minutes ago

    You’re right, except you don’t even treat reporters respectfully in the briefing room, with digs and cheap shots for the cameras. We can all do better and break bread together. We are all Americans. Humans.

    Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
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  5. 1 hour ago

    Politics is a lot rougher in some countries...

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    Turkish police attack Kurdish men, women, & children after pro-HDP election rally in Van |
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  6. 1 hour ago

    Rise above this petulant, racist, trolling partisanship, America.

    Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House.
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    3 hours ago

    Turkey just got its first F-35. It may never get another. Analysis by and

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  8. 14 hours ago

    “Rock-em sock-em robots in space” was probably my best contribution this week.

    On this week's : • sits down with BAE Systems, Inc., CEO Jerry DeMuro (30:57); • The latest in North Korean "denuclearization," such as it is; • And Space Force! Overcast: iTunes:
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  9. 18 hours ago

    Wow. By ⁦⁩:

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  10. 18 hours ago

    BREAKING: Pentagon suspends additional military exercises after Mattis, Pompeo, Dunford, Bolton meeting, says.

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    18 hours ago

    After meeting with Pompeo, Mattis suspends MORE training exercises, per “This includes suspending FREEDOM GUARDIAN along with two Korean Marine Exchange Program training exercises scheduled to occur in the next three months.”

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  12. 20 hours ago

    I just got new tires.

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  13. 20 hours ago

    Heading home? Listen to brand new , Episode 9: Space Force!; Border; Trump, and how played the long game with his very specific degree - via

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  14. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Claiming DC is only now hip is so insulting and coded. Marvin Gaye had more hipness in his pinky than every gentrifier currently occupying DC. HR’s shortest dred is cooler than all y’all. Big Tony has forgotten more awesome than any of you trifflin bamas will ever know.

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  15. 21 hours ago

    No. No. No. Goodbye. I’m out. 👋

    Moving lump in woman's face was a worm, doctors say.
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  16. 21 hours ago

    I really don’t know what this tells us. Now let’s count African-Americans; Asians; Jewish; Seminoles fans...? I’m all for diversity but I’m not following Gator fans on Twitter, I don’t care if they’re Madeleine friggin Albright.

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  17. 21 hours ago

    My top 20 most recent RT'ed include 6 women, 12 men, and the . 6 women in next 20. 8 women in next 20. Noted.

    8/ Mull the results, change your ways, or don't. The top 20 accounts I've recently RT'd the most (which, of course, is just one way to look at the data) include four women, 15 men, and the news site I work for:
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  18. Jun 22

    NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to The Cloud via

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  19. Jun 22

    Good idea? Bad idea? // Army Corps of Engineers May Lose Its Domestic Missions via

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  20. Jun 22

    Remember Chelsea Manning’s Senate run? “It’s not clear, in fact, whether she’s currently campaigning at all.” Calls to campaign unreturned for weeks. ⁦⁩

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  21. Jun 22

    That’s what Donald Trump thinks of Central Park? Probably hasn’t walked through Central Park since... never.

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