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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Space Force ‘ark’ nothing to be concerned about, commander tweets from orbit

Space Force ‘ark’ nothing to be concerned about, commander tweets from orbit

WASHINGTON — A recent tweet from the commander of a program dubbed “The Ark” has increased national concerns over the project nobody outside the Department of Defense had ever heard of before.

The tweet in question came from the account of Capt. Noah Richardson, and it includes a photograph, which appears to have been taken from orbit.

News of the tweet raised some alarm among members of the United States Government who noticed several of their colleagues hadn’t shown up for work.

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