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Event: "Does Europe need an alternative to the US nuclear umbrella?" 0900-1015, 18 June, Sentralen, Oslo. I am looking forward to discussing this question with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, and organizer Henrik Hiim (IFS). Please find more information and registration below:

From @clary_co: India-Pakistan “crisis underscores that South Asia is one of the most likely theaters for nuclear war, even if that prospect was not imminent in this instance…. overt nuclear signaling was lower than in many prior India-Pakistan crises.” www.stimson.org/2025/four-da...

What is rotational impact? When do you have to replace your helmet? Here’s what to look for when shopping for a bike helmet. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

When the boys are fighting, you know where to find me 👇

Check out Bulletpicker - an online database with technical manuals, schematics, and detailed guidebooks of ordnance and explosive items from various armed forces around the world. More in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit by @afko.bsky.social: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today). The times they are a-changin’.

45 years ago this morning at 2:26 A.M. EDT, warning displays at the Strategic Air Command suddenly indicated a Soviet SLBM attack on the United States was underway, first showing 2 and then, 18 seconds later, 200 inbound ballistic missiles. SAC ordered all alert bomber crews to start their engines.

Can robot clones get prostate cancer? We asked a collection of incels in an 8chan comment thread.

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

🧵 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.

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

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-...

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. ⬇️

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

"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..."

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

🇮🇳🇵🇰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 ⬇️

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

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

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.

🧵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...

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.

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

"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/...

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

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 !

“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

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