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nuclear weapons, foreign policy, Korea, the left - occasional antiquity and cocktail posts Words: Nation, NK News, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jacobin, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere seniores tollunt omnia
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This is great - always read @maxsoeunkim.bsky.social

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This is bad

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The White House response to SK's election of a left-leaning president: “The US-ROK Alliance remains ironclad. While South Korea had a free and fair election, the United States remains concerned and opposed to Chinese interference and influence in democracies around the world.”

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"They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making “traditional milestones,” like buying a home or saving for kids’ college, “feel impossible,” an analysis of the research said." what gets me: no one pretends to have or want solutions to these www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Our latest is the first of two parts on the US role in Greenland during the Cold War, focusing on the secret deployment of nuclear weapons there and the events leading up to the January 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 near Thule Air Base. (Click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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How’s that Ukraine peace deal coming by the way? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Guess who’s back/back again www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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You’d think that with all of this administration’s FL connections this is one thing they actually would know

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In a soft-ball interview with the Telegraph, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom says that the two state solution will never happen

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I know we're all depressed about AI nonsense in schools - but cell phone bans are moving forward, which is great news. "The cellphone ban eventually passed with unanimous support from the Virginia Senate (40-0) and overwhelming support in the House (91-2.)" www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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Do not let this guy launder his reputation - he could have resigned, but he didn’t. Instead, he got up in front of the world and lied with a smile as tens of thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered by the Israeli government. news.sky.com/story/former...

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“Our adversaries hate it, so it must be good” - what could possibly go wrong? www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

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Love to expand my independent deterrent by becoming even more reliant on the US www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

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Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.

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Lost Byzantine City Rediscovered in Jordanian Desert. archaeology.org/news/2025/05...

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Dems’ main talking point on immigration after he killed the bipartisan border security bill was to attack him for being soft on the border, undermining any effort to get people to take Trump’s mass deportation threats seriously

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People always talk about how DC freaks out over minor snow but this Floridian thinks that reaction pales in comparison to DC drivers becoming utterly confused by the rare weather phenomenon called “rain”

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Illuminating look at the factions of capital backing Trump - and the contradictions between them that may or may not be mediated by the Trumpist state. Always learn a lot reading @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

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#FindsFriday An amazing piece of beautiful Roman glass (C3rd AD), incongruously decorated with the blood & slaughter of the arena. We see a retiarius, Pulcher, fighting a secutor, Auriga. The other side shows a leopard in a venatio, or wild beast hunt 🏛️📷 Trier’s Landesmuseum

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Spartacus is better known, but Eunus—leader of the First Servile Revolt in Sicily—was successful enough to mint coins with his kingly name, Antiochus. That’s about as overtly “political” as slave revolts got in antiquity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunus?w...

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Need a poster of this Dubonnet ad

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*gasps* www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This should be a huge scandal - if any program needs oversight, it’s Golden Dome.

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"We also have to counter the grim, potentially imminent, possibility of another wave of global nuclear proliferation as states seek security in a new age of imperial ambition" www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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