OUR PICKS LAST WEEKOklahoma City 30 Years On | Cartels as Terrorists: New Defensive Tools in Play | Intelligence Purge: National Security Nightmare | Fearing Paper on Evolution Might Get Them Deported, Scientists Withdrew It, and more
EXTREMISM
· Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It
· The Shapiro Attack and the Growing Risk of Partisan Extremism
· Targeting of Cartels as Terrorists Puts New Defensive Tools in Play
· Dozens Sue Iran and North Korea, Saying They Sponsored Terrorists
· DHS to Begin Screening Aliens/ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism
· Anti-Vaxxers Should Be Forced to Visit Graveyards
· RFK’s Anti-Vax Flock Turns on Him
THE LONG VIEW
· 30 Years Since Oklahoma City: How One Tragedy Shaped Our Nation’s Future Security
· “One Million.” The Private Goal Driving Trump’s Push for Mass Deportations.
· Nuclear Testing Is a Relic. Resuming It Would Be Reckless.
· Beyond Strategy: Executing Economic Security Policy
· America’s Universities Could End up Zombies
· Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose
· The Dangerous New Civil-Military Bargain
· The Dangers of AI Sovereignty
· AI Isn’t What We Should Be Worried About –It’s the Humans Controlling It
DEMOCRACY WATCH
· This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
· Trump Escalates Use of Official Power to Intimidate and Punish His Perceived Foes
· YouTube Admits Error in “Misinformation” Removal of Trump Watchdog Group
· Trump Finally Slapped His Brand on a Quality Product: America
· Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Probe Officials Who Opposed Him in First Term
· Trump Told People to Buy. Hours Later, His Tariff Pause Sent Markets Soaring.
· Trump Says He Is Serious About Staying in Office Past 2028
· Marine Le Pen’s “Witch Hunt” Talk Echoes Trump. Will It Work in France?
· These Tariffs Are a Democratic Crisis, Not Just an Economic One
· Trump Is Gaslighting Us
· In Trump’s Second Term, Retribution Comes in Many Forms
· List: Who Trump Has Targeted for Retribution
· Trump’s Retribution
· I Should Have Seen This Coming
· Former Wisconsin Justice to Give Up Law License Over 2020 Election Review
· American Liberators of Nazi Camps Got “a Lifelong Vaccine Against Extremism” − Their Wartime Experiences Are a Warning for Today
· Why a Presidential Term Limit Got Written into the Constitution –the Story of the 22nd Amendment
· How Trump Could Try to Stay in Power After His Second Term Ends
· Marine Le Pen Ruling Is Fuel for the Global Right’s Attacks on Court Authority
NEW THREATS
· HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
· The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
· Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance
· China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies
· Trump’s Chaos Has Shattered Confidence in America
· The Trump Administration Is Turning Science Against Itself
· Fearing Paper on Evolution Might Get Them Deported, Scientists Withdrew It
· MAGA’s Remaking of Universities Could Have Dire Consequences
· Trump’s Intelligence Purge Is a Nightmare for National Security
· An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter
· The Art of the Delay
· Trump’s Trade War Threatens a Global Recession
· If You Think It’s Alarming Now, Just Wait for Trump to Wreck the Bond Market
· Where Real Danger Might Lurk in Chaotic Markets
· Even Americans Don’t Want Trump’s Barmy Tariffs
· America Is a Powder Keg
· Fake Calculations and Fake Economics
· Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.
· We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid
· Kari Lake to Be Detailed to State Department to Dismantle VOA Parent Agency
· Gabbard Sets Up DOGE-Style Team to Cut Costs, Uncover Intel “Weaponization”
MORE PICKS
· Pressuring Migrants to “Self-Deport,” White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
· Trump Wants to Send U.S. Citizens to Foreign Prisons. Experts Say There’s No Legal Way.
· Trump Wants to Send U.S. Citizens to Foreign Prisons. Experts Say There’s No Legal Way.
· Unpacking the White House’s Executive Order on Restoring the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry
· What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different
· Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late
· Five Takeaways from Trump’s Plan to Rescue Coal
· Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry
· Justice Dept. Says It Will Pull Back on Litigating Cryptocurrency Fraud
· How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Battlefield Operations?
· Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
· Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
EXTREMISM
Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It (David Gilbert, Wired)
Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI.
The Shapiro Attack and the Growing Risk of Partisan Extremism (Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe, Lawfare)
The arson attack on the governor’s residence is the latest in a growing wave of violence directed at politicians and other government figures.
Targeting of Cartels as Terrorists Puts New Defensive Tools in Play (Stavan Singh and David Luckey, The Hill)
In February, eight organizations, drug cartels and other groups responsible for mass violence, kidnappings, bribery and more, were added to the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
The Trump administration said combating transnational criminal organizations is a priority; this could shape U.S. foreign security policy in the coming years.
The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, in particular, have become powerful non-state actors beyond Latin America, establishing a presence in over 100 countries, where they are involved in the production and trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
These groups form partnerships and agreements with local criminal outfits. In some extreme cases, they carve out satellite “narco-states” where they tyrannize residents and move contraband and cash with impunity.
Designating these groups as terrorists makes new legal and policy tools available that could be the key to stopping transnational criminal organizations’ ambitions for global expansion.
Dozens Sue Iran and North Korea, Saying They Sponsored Terrorists (Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post)
Forty-eight U.S. service members, contractors, civilians and relatives say the two countries funded and armed groups such as al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah.
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens/ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism (DHS)
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity.
Anti-Vaxxers Should Be Forced to Visit Graveyards (Suzanne Moore, The Telegraph)
The number of tiny graves is a reminder that cholera, smallpox and measles used to kill millions of children – and could do again.
