Josh Manning
Iraq War vet. Former secret 🐿️ on Russia, counterterrorism issues.
MI —> MT —> WA. Warren-Occupy core. Social justice warrior.
Opinions, quirks mine.
Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
- I spent a summer in St. Paul in 1998 and I absolutely adored it there.
- Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
- Midwest ranked: 1) Michigan 2) Michigan 3) Michigan 4) Minnesota 5) Wisconsin 6) Iowa 7) Illinois 8) Indiana 9) Kansas 10) Missouri 11) Nebraska 12) North Dakota 13) South Dakota … 1,013,597) Ohio
- Keep. Pushing.
- This is one of the more useful, and vanilla, things the agency produces. What a loss. For the IC, but also for everyone else who uses it to gain actual information.
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Congress isn’t doing any oversight. And she keeps voting for bills the “One Man” wants. Weak sauce, MGP. I’d say do better, but …
- My hometown! Way to go council and housing advocate galore, Mayor Davis.
- lolz
- It’s not a crime to be in a dinner club with Jeffrey Dahmer.
- This is a federal agency out of control.
- First day of an awesome new job, and working in one of the most important arenas right now. I made it. I’m so happy about it.
- Someone just found out everyone cancelled their shows and no one wants to replace them. Petulant toddler.
