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📢Is this thing on? 🎤🎙️ We’re back online! www.usip.org

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

🧵 I've been exploring more ideas around disordered discourse, one of them is how communities use doubt as a weapon to deny anything that threatens their group-think. It’s not about serious inquiry. This isn’t healthy scepticism. It’s about reaffirming identity and loyalty.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

DIA’s Annual Threat Assessment: armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

After Luigi Mangione allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson with a partially 3D-printed "ghost gun," I wanted to know how far these DIY firearms have come. So I 3D-printed and assembled the same exact model of gun—and test-fired it. Our story and video: www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

How many nuclear weapons does Russia have today? What's the current status of their multi-decade-long modernization program? Read the latest Nuclear Notebook from @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @elianajjohns.bsky.social, and @mknight.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. ⬇️

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

if anyone leaves a “coal bad tho” reply on my new story about the coal miner with black lung who just took on the federal govt and won, I will eat your fuckin head

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

"The appointments of Blanche, Perkins, and Nieves are the result of furious lobbying over the weekend by the conservative content industry — as jealously protective of its copyrighted works as any other media companies — as well as populist Republican lawmakers and lawyers..."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

you could solve a lot of problems just by doubling the number of places at medical schools, breaking the cartel of artificial scarcity that has left the US with one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in the developed world

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

🇮🇳🇵🇰L’Inde a accusé le Pakistan de violation de cessez-le-feu conclu plus tôt samedi après quatre jours de confrontation militaire entre les deux pays à leur frontière, selon une une source gouvernementale indienne à l'AFP #AFP ⬇️

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

New from Bellingcat - How deepfake videos are getting mainstream coverage in the conflict between India and Pakistan www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments

Would love to be wrong, but really getting a sense that mainstream Western media does not appreciate just how bad this India-Pakistan crisis has gotten.

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

🧵Geolocations of ALL sites that the Indian Army has claimed to have hit in Pakistan and Kashmir. 1. Masjid Syedna Bilal/Hazrat Bilal 34.385846°N 73.456974°E It appears to have been a direct hit, according to after-strike ground photos. google.com/maps/place/3...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

We now have: - NYT citing an Indian official on three downed planes - Reuters citing local gov't sources on three crashed jets, pilots in hospital - The Hindu citing an Indian gov't official saying at least three crashed jets These would represent heavy losses for the Indian air force.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

How we "shuffled" songs back in the day... Right?

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

"The complete picture that emerges is one of systematic deception orchestrated at the highest levels of the Syrian government, with direct oversight from the Presidential Palace." www.meforum.org/mef-reports/...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

For the risk of escalation in the India-Pakistan crisis, see: thebulletin.org/2025/05/indi...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

New article below with my former colleague Ola Craft, taking a look at Pres. Biden's MTCR reforms, Pres. Trump's new E.O. on streamlining defense trade, and how adjusting missile controls can help with extended deterrence and nonproliferation (and space cooperation). Thank you @poni.csis.org !

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

the only realistic way to run Journalism in the Kentucky Derby would have been for the owner to break two of its legs, scream at it to run faster, and act absolutely baffled when it couldn’t even get up

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

“Insurance”: emphasis is on the second syllable.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote this a little less than 21 years ago: www.armscontrol.org/act/2004-06/...

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submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Choose Bikes.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Over the last decade or so I have occasionally been able to restore redacted pieces of the Manhattan District History, esp. the Los Alamos – Technical volume, as I found excerpts in other misc. places. I've recently updated the copy of it that I put up at Archive.org: archive.org/details/Manh...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

FYI, #NukeSky: James Acton is now on this app: @nuclear-jim.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

The important thing to note is that Gorka calls the diagram on the right a Venn-diagram like diagram. @drfarls.bsky.social had to purge images at LGM since some of the bloggers — who shall remain unnamed — were... lax about using material. So I had to remake my own diagram of Gorka diagrams

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

“Impossible by bike,” they said. So this legend strapped a whole couch to their cargo bike and hit the road.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

Just announced: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will deliver a keynote (virtually) at our Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference on Monday morning. carnegieendowment.org/events/2024/...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments