Graeme Wood
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US student was allegedly building a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS
ZDNet - ZDNet 10h 1 tweets
Chicago student now faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
Navy Wants to Eject From SEALs a Sailor Cleared by Trump, Officials Say
Nytimes.com 36h 17 tweets
Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher is expected to be formally notified of the action on Wednesday.
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Graeme Wood Quiet professionalism 34h
DePaul student wrote computer code to help spread ISIS propaganda online, feds charge
chicagotribune.com 38h 2 tweets
Federal charges were unveiled Tuesday alleging a Chicago college student wrote computer code to help the Islamic State terrorist group spread online propaganda.
Graeme Wood Preparing to be underwhelmed by the underlying facts of this case of a 20-year-old Chicago student who “coded” for ISIS 38h
US citizen ISIS member wants to know why he can’t go home
The Defense Post 41h 2 tweets
Kosovar-American Lirim Sulejmani traveled with his family to Syria to live under ISIS. Now in an SDF prison, he recalled the allure of the group’s propaganda
Graeme Wood “ISIS was less bureaucratic than Saudi Arabia.” Not sure I’ve heard this excuse before. 38h
Treasury Designates ISIS Financial, Procurement, and Recruitment Networks in the Middle East and South Asia | U.S. Department of the Treasury
Home.treasury.gov 59h 1 tweets
Trump's Pardons of Soldiers Shows How Little He Knows About War
Time 3d 4 tweets
Veteran Elliot Ackerman on why President Trump's pardons undermines the military
Graeme Wood "A new way to defile the uniform." Clarity from 3d
Bacteria Behind Yet Another Disease
In the Pipeline 3d 3 tweets
There are a lot of things in human medicine that make sense broadly, but not in detail. We understand why a thing could happen, but not exactly how it happens. A case in point in alcoholic liver disease. It makes perfect sense that longterm alcohol...
Brief Adventures in Sensory Deprivation
National Review 3d 6 tweets
Into the dark.
Graeme Wood "[Sensory deprivation] feels like defragging the Human Biocomputer." , floating in warm saltwater 3d
Language Log » "Talking to someone"
Languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu 3d 1 tweets
Graeme Wood What would you think a 20-year-old meant, if she said she was “talking to” someone? 3d
Iran’s Quds Force and Muslim Brotherhood Considered Anti-Saudi Alliance
The Intercept 3d 4 tweets
An Iranian intelligence document describes a meeting between Iran’s Quds Force and the Muslim Brotherhood in a Turkish hotel. It didn’t go well.
Hellfire Trauma: Textbook Fear-mongering
Mukashafat 4d 1 tweets
“A lazy person who misses his or her prayers is like a rebel again Allah, and deserves to undergo the consequences of his or her disobedience. Therefore, anyone who claims to be a Muslim must realize that without Salah, his or her claim to Islam is...
Graeme Wood Other than point (1), this all sounds rather graphic for a children’s book: 4d
Trump’s Emerging Military Doctrine
Graeme Wood - The Atlantic 4d 3 tweets
The president’s latest pardons reveal that he wants his fighters unconstrained by modern laws of armed conflict.
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Graeme Wood Trump says US soldiers are overly constrained by DoD lawyers who second-guess their split-second decisions. Split-second decisions, like -ambushing a man and burning his corpse -Stabbing a prisoner -shooting 3 dudes on a motorcycle carrying cucumbers 4d
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Graeme Wood "But the crimes alleged do not involve close calls, legally. The decision to blow a hole the size of an apple into the torso of an unarmed teenage girl does not require legal evaluation so much as psychiatric evaluation.” 4d
There Will Be No Victory in Dishonor
David Frum - The Atlantic 4d 6 tweets
President Trump’s pardons for three service members accused of war crimes will have lasting consequences.
Graeme Wood See also: , on the long-term dividends of not being monstrous in our conduct of war 4d
New York Identifies Hospitals and Nursing Homes With Deadly Fungus
Andrew Jacobs - Nytimes.com 7d 5 tweets
The policy change, for the virulent drug-resistant germ Candida auris, came as the C.D.C. reported that more people are dying of drug-resistant infections than it previously estimated.
Graeme Wood Candida auris is a killer fungus so hardy that hospitals have had to rip out floor tiles and ceiling panels to get rid of it. What justification could there be for not releasing the names of hospitals that have C. auris cases? 4d
Reflections on Gandhi
The Orwell Prize 4d 1 tweets
This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of...
Graeme Wood Orwell edition: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.” 4d
Under the guise of humanitarian aid, high-profile paedophiles are abusing Nepali children
The Kathmandu Post - Kathmandupost.com 4d 1 tweets
Loose laws, illiteracy and poverty, along with an unsuspicious welcome of foreigners, have turned Nepal into a haven for Western paedophiles.
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Graeme Wood First law of sociopathic opportunism: If you assume a whole category of people is virtuous, some members of that category will exploit your assumption to do terrible things. (The category here: “humanitarians.”) Story by , via 4d
Arrest warrant issued for Texas lawmaker caught on video dropping envelope of cocaine
Dallas News 7d 2 tweets
Updated at 5 p.m. with arrest warrant being issued. AUSTIN — An influential state lawmaker admitted Thursday morning he’d recently decided against running...
Graeme Wood 'The envelope [full of cocaine] had the letterhead, “Office of the State of Texas House of Representatives Member Poncho Nevárez.” ' 5d
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Abortion
Caitlin Flanagan - The Atlantic 9d 37 tweets
Facing the best arguments on the other side
Grand Rapids Will Pay $190,000 to Veteran Detained by ICE
Nytimes.com 6d 1 tweets
A Michigan-born former Marine was detained for three days after a Grand Rapids police captain asked an ICE officer to check the man’s “status.”
What Warren’s Attack on Billionaires Reveals
Graeme Wood - The Atlantic 6d 8 tweets
The candidates who have tried to be as smart in public as they are in private have not fared well.
Graeme Wood My latest in , on the one quality that has separated Elizabeth Warren from being a great candidate 6d