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15 Jan, 17 tweets, 4 min read
8’ tall metal barricades going up on 18th Ave tonight just north of Constitution Hall to block pedestrian traffic. Worker tells me the exclusion area for the inauguration will be at least 1/3 larger than he’s seen for any other govt event, w/ 2 and 3 layers of fencing in parts Image
Along Constitution Avenue Image
Peeking between the bars in the steel fence
Otherwise, it looks like this Image
FBI looking for info near the scene of the crime. Pennsylvania Ave & 7th St
They’re looking for *a lot* of people
#1A
End of the line: Pennsylvania Ave & 3rd St. Can’t get any closer
Seeing lots of white tents like this all over. NG soldier said he can’t tell me what it’s being used for, but said it wasn’t for vehicle inspections This one at First St & D has a robust vehicle barrier protecting it from being rammed
Soldiers bullshittin’ and having some smokes in the rain — a time-honored tradition
One after another after another
FBI mobile setup on 4th & F St. Guy in SUV shined his spotlight on me when I took the pic Image
Correction: 18th *Street
Farmers & Distillers & Trucks & Soldiers Image
That’s it for the night, folks. Heading home. Bottom line is that the physical security posture down near the Mall is no joke right now, and they’re only adding *more* barriers
Every intersection I saw walking along L St. had at least one N.Guard truck and armed soldiers. And there are plenty more Guard vehicles and soldiers posted elsewhere

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17 Jan
For everyone tweeting on the 30th anniversary of Desert Storm about how brilliant the air campaign was, know that the U.S. did a lot of incredibly stupid things like drop high explosive bombs on chemical weapons depots, such as the one at Al Muthanna
They thought that the explosives in Mk-84s would destroy chemical agent, when all they did was create a giant mess that, today, still has not been cleaned up
They compounded the idiocy by following up the Mk-84s with CBU-87s, thinking that the (very) limited incendiary effects of BLU-97 submunitions would burn up liquid chemical agents. (they did not.)
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7 Jan
The videos I shot last night got more attention that I expected. I’ll post more from earlier in the day now, and in chronological order
1:27pm: crowd is leaving the Washington Monument following the president’s address. They’re all headed towards the Capitol. Lots of street preachers and buskers, like this guy, among them
2:02pm: I passed by these on Constitution Ave. Someone went to the trouble of printing actual fake news and left bundles on the street free for people to read
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7 Jan
Police just shut down the post-curfew protest at Capitol Hill. Protesters shouted ‘pigs’ at police, called them ‘traitors’ and said ‘you’ll get the noose too’
Protester to police: ‘Traitors get the rope, traitors get the fucking rope. Wait til we come back with rifles, motherfucker. You think that’s an idle threat?’
We saw this guy with the gray helmet a little earlier
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5 Aug 20
Some quick math on #BeirutBlast: though it's difficult to precisely measure the explosive yield of 2,750 tons of AN due to age/deterioration, the publications I have say in a worst-case scenario it could have had as high as 42% the power of TNT nytimes.com/2020/08/05/wor…
That would mean the explosion could have had the force of 2.3M lbs or 1,155 tons of TNT. You can then use U.S. military publications to determine the resultant blast overpressure in pounds per square inch (psi) at various ranges
The pubs I used as an EOD Tech rely on something called "k-factors," which give you a number to plug into a simple equation:

d = k (NEW)^(1/3)

d = distance
k = k-factor
NEW = net explosive weight, as measured in TNT
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20 Jul 20
Remember the video of a guy getting beat on by feds in Portland and responding with double-birds? He's Chris David, a 6'2" 280-lb 53 yr old fmr SeaBee and varsity wrestler from USNA '88 nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/…
“I’m appalled and disappointed at the feds’ behavior — that whoever led them and trained them allowed them to become this way,” Mr. David said. “This is a failure of leadership more than it is a failure of their own individual behavior towards me.”
He wasn't paying close attention to the protests until he saw the video of feds in cammies grabbing protesters off the street and tossing them in rented minivans. That made him get on the bus and head down to the protests himself last night
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28 Feb 20
Kate Wilder passed every test at the Special Forces Officer School in 1980 but was prevented from graduating. An investigation determined she had been discriminated against and she was awarded a backdated diploma nytimes.com/2020/02/28/mag…
Years later, when the SF tab was created, she rated one. “I was the real McCoy,” Wilder told me. “I was not the Ladies Auxiliary Special Forces”
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