In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
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Benjamin S. Weiss
The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.
I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵
I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵
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As we speak 😳
“Move Fast. Break Things”
“Contracts for Friends & Family”
“American Chernobyl”
Break everything; fix nothing
#HoldTrumpAccountable
Here in FL desantis/republicans already made it possible to
Chaos, cruelty, and metastatic corruption.
Peter Theil and Sam Altman already funded the building of a small one in El Segundo, CA.
Why bother? AI will save us…
The ones who disregard that nuclear
power is used beyond power plants & to
power some hydrocrackers in oil refineries.
One of these got stuck in Duluth yrs ago & received little attention.
Made in Spain by 1 Comp..
the deconstruction the social safety net for the poor
& gave the money to tax cuts for the rich
is the fault of the 77 million voters,
the fault of Christian hypocrites,
the fault of old white nationalists
voted for this nightmare .
I should have clarified that I meant “for the stupid person,” not for folks living near the stupid person.
What could possibly go wrong
We are fucked.
HOW?
I keep thinking about those who would sort of "jokingly" say things along the lines of: and to think, this is the guy who has the nuclear codes.
Yeah. To think. Our absolute worst nightmare has arrived.
Republicans in Congress say nothing because they're all just sycophantic lickspittles.
Other than the fundamental errors in Health Physics and risk modeling in the nuclear industry, their subject-verb agreement and punctuation seem adequate.
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But Americans die earlier, they require less retirement savings than citizens of other nations."
@benusa.bsky.soc
OTOH, at this rate, none of us may survive to retire...
If he wants to hand over the weapons of mass destruction to children, he should have target written on his own ass not on US!
The reality show We're Living is like a horror genre.
Does Big Balls the nuclear codes now?
….e.v.e.r.y…d.a.y
🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
The rest of the world surely can’t stand by while big ballz introduces additional risk into our nuclear command and control systems.
This? I just can't even. Chernobyl was preventable. These jackasses just don't care.
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-temporarily-allows-trump-192625669.html
It's one of their signature moves.
Oh.
- 15 Chernobyls later -
"Why does this keep happening? Like, WTF?"
Let’s all take a stroll down Memory Lane!
Three Mile Island accident, accident in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station that was the most serious in the history of the American nuclear power industry.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Three-Mile-Island-accident
It’s no longer Exxon writing the rules.
It’s meme-lords with WiFi and a governance complex.
Musk has a hand in this, doesn't he?
I've seen a documentary on YT where he predicted the rise of an authoritarian leader.
i'm sure it's FINE.
https://bsky.app/profile/zebrafishevodevo.bsky.social/post/3lkipl2mlsk2r
Is this so that Trump and Musk can more easily take control of the agency, and enrich themselves and their rich friends?
@schumer.senate.gov caved.
Kirsten Gillibrand seems to have disconnected her phone.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/25/2318786/-A-Declaration-of-Opposition