It sounds like a binary choice - either the US gives up on denuclearization or it doesn't. But as I've written, there are ways around this dilemma. And in the near-term, we would all benefit from the US dialing back its laser focus on disarmament. www.usip.org/publications...

Kim Jong Un: "If the United States drops the absurd obsession with denuclearizing us and accepts reality, and wants genuine peaceful coexistence, there is no reason for us not to sit down with the United States" www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"[ICBMs are] there to launch in a crisis and have this damage limitation mission, but they're also there to be shot at with nuclear weapons. So if you are someone who lives in the state of Wyoming, whether you like it or not, you are a target" www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/...

This Kimmel thing is one of the first important blinks of the second Trump term. They have a tendency to breed others - so keep pushing.

also note that he's net 11 points underwater on Immigration, the issue that was supposed to be his reigning trump card over Democrats for years and years.

Very good stuff from President Lee of South Korea: "The question is whether we persist with fruitless attempts towards the ultimate goal [of denuclearization] or we set more realistic goals and achieve some of them" www.bbc.com/news/article...

"[ICBMs are] there to launch in a crisis and have this damage limitation mission, but they're also there to be shot at with nuclear weapons. So if you are someone who lives in the state of Wyoming, whether you like it or not, you are a target" www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/...

Kim Jong Un: "If the United States drops the absurd obsession with denuclearizing us and accepts reality, and wants genuine peaceful coexistence, there is no reason for us not to sit down with the United States" www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Interesting that South Korea, a US ally, tried to prevent the reimposition of sanctions on Iran www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"The capabilities Trump promised for Golden Dome are fundamentally misaligned with the cost and schedule he asserted." This is from a fairly sympathetic analyst! warontherocks.com/2025/09/gold...

Sign of the times that a bipartisan task force came together to release a report entitled "Preventing an Era of Nuclear Anarchy" - it sounds like hyperbole but things are regressing quickly out there www.belfercenter.org/preventing-e...

Bailing out the anarcho-capitalist - sounds like someone needs a lesson in personal responsibility

One could speculate that one thing driving the global shift to the Right, is business leaders recognizing that any rational, democratic government is going to respond to climate in a way that significantly curtails their privileges.

This is good news - creates a longer window for discussions about a replacement agreement

Have you ever read the passage where Spinoza explains the Internet?

no i don't think contemporary cancellation is the same as Spinoza's life

Apparently the Trident SLBM launch happened last night and was filmed by people in Puerto Rico. @marcolangbroek.bsky.social set the time at 23:25 UTC (6:25 EST). bsky.app/profile/marc... @adamonzon posted video on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/navy/comme...

Here we go en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

Don’t use “peasant” as a pejorative.

This is wild punchdrink.com/articles/foh...

People should return to X, where they can make left arguments that won’t ever be seen except when Karen1970 reports you to the FBI.

God those answers are insane

They’re all corrupt www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“Long stretches of the book have the feel of a first year undergraduate essay in political theory destined to climax in the inevitable end of the semester “professor, is there a way???” email.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...

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Is this…isolationism? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Having a wonderful time at Hopkins at the “Oratory and Rhetoric in the Generation before Cicero” conference. And met this very cool Etruscan duck decanter.

Hoo boy: “The move is seen by analysts as a signal to Israel, long believed to be the Middle East’s only nuclear-armed nation. It comes after Israel’s attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar last week killed six people” apnews.com/article/paki...

Online gambling and sports betting are a scourge and, if they’re allowed to exist at all, should be taxed at confiscatory levels

Too many parking apps, when I rock up to a car park I've never been to before I don't want to download a new app, I want to pay and leave.

Streaming has let us control what we watch and when we watch it but the fact that young people nowadays will never channel surf and find Godzilla vs Monster Zero at 1 AM is a tangible loss to the human experience.

I miss Winamp skins.

You’re in a public place, use some fucking headphones.

Netflix was better when they sent you movies in the mail

I don’t want instructions in video form. Write it out so I can skim to the info I need and be on my way.

The pivot to video was an absolute disaster for literacy, internet culture, and social relations broadly. I also think you have a personal responsibility to keep it at arm’s length.

This is the sort of result that some people will interpret as evidence that the far-right is overreaching, with another fair reading being, is there anything that a fourth of the country won't enthusiastically support?

Today in “isolationism”

Pretty good from Lee: "In world affairs, there are sometimes conflicts between what is right and what is beneficial. And for the North Korean nuclear issue, we often think of this as a choice between all or nothing...But I believe that there is a middle ground" time.com/7317903/lee-...

"The Virginia-based tech firm BWX Technologies plans to build two new plants in East Tennessee to enrich uranium for the US military, marking a generational shift as the first American company to produce enriched uranium for national defense since the Cold War ended" www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l...

"The sources said Guetlein's briefing on the architecture was not expected to include details on the number of satellites or interceptors needed for Golden Dome." Gosh, I wonder why? www.reuters.com/business/aer...

This whole situation is absurd. They're going to reimpose sanctions on Iran for not pursuing a deal in good faith despite the US--*which pulled out of the deal in question in 2018*--bombing it while negotiations were ongoing. www.axios.com/2025/09/18/s...

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Part of what’s going on here is just that many Teamsters are pro-Trump - but another part is that segments of organized labor are making peace with the regime in the hope that they won’t be destroyed (they will be)

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Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine. They are: Sen. Jeff Merkley Chris Van Hollen Tim Kaine Bernie Sanders Peter Welch Tina Smith Tammy Baldwin Mazie Huron

How can I live in the SUSPIRIA (1977) house but without the whole murderous witches coven thing?

I think you could totally send the Trump administration on a wild goose chase by convincing them antifa has an executive director, a CFO, and various mid-level staffers.

one of the fine distinguishing features of Bouie as a columnist is that he very much Does The Reading

I guess the good news here is this will probably kill McGurk's dream of a normalization/US-Saudi deal www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...