Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡 $LLY $NVO

The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury. My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.

Just your regular reminder that misinformed and confusing rants can have real consequences.

🚨 JUST IN: Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's "Zapad" strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it appears, write @gabrielairosa.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social. #nuclearweapons

Happy #Godzilla day! If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.

This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.

Allison Stanger talks about the similarities the US-tech company alliance has with the old, dark days of British colonialism. @erik-english.bsky.social @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/10/how-...

this is really bad

Seems like an appropriate time for this

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

🚨 JUST IN: To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner, @jackkennedy.ie writes in his first piece for @thebulletin.org. #nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky

🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary. #nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky

This is a great interview with Daniel Immerwahr that's currently free in @thebulletin.org "If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️

And in case you're wondering why you should trust my insights on Bigelow's latest film, I would just like to mention that my dog is named after Swayze's character, Bodhi, from her classic film, Point Break.

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Nolan’s biopic of Oppenheimer and the creation of the bomb was obviously fantastic, but Bigelow’s realistic look at the modern nuclear situation is much scarier because it highlights how quickly everything can go wrong and how little people really think about it.

Good lord. @apnews.com

Conflating personal, work, and global anxieties is my superpower.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

. @adamserwer.bsky.social is correct. A major difference between Trump I and II is that lots of people decided not to fight this time around. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

like i was saying

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

I'm curious how some of the major Survivor contestants would fare as political candidates...

Researchers are chipping away at the mountains of climate change evidence in Ireland's glacial geology. Read more from @francesmack.bsky.social and Cathy Ching. ⬇️

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

"Even now, after all of the stuff about Trump and Musk falling out, the simple fact is that DOGE was a complete flop. Not one dollar was saved, and probably hundreds of billions were lost. But you very rarely see news reports that acknowledge that." Great interview w/ Paul Krugman @thebulletin.org

"The coming mid-term elections, which will likely be viewed as incredibly consequential, will only make it harder to slow down any growth in support for political violence." @thebulletin.org

To quote David Roth's fantastic 2020 article about "How ‘Starship Troopers’ Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat”: “All that’s left to win is the chance to fight more, and to fight off the realization that the fighting itself has become the point.”

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

“I think Trump basically is motivated by whatever he thinks will be politically popular. Outside of his views on trade and alliances, I don’t think he has any hardcore beliefs. There’s no fundamental thinking there.”

ah, well

idk i read in the free press that the real risk to free speech is three oberlin undergraduates who say geometry is ableist. this is pretty confusing to me.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Orwell was the o.g. AntiFa.

BREAKING: TRUMP DESIGNATES “THOSE PEOPLE” AS AN OFFICIAL TERRORIST GROUP.

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

In 1600, the East India Company began as a trading venture with royal backing. Within decades, it was minting British currency and taxing millions. A similar pattern can be seen with government and Big Tech today. "The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power," by @allisonstanger.bsky.social.

There is a strong possibility that the United States may not be the world's dominant economic power for much longer. What could happen next? Nobel Prize-winning economist @pkrugman.bsky.social gives his take on this and other concerns in an interview with the Bulletin's Dan Drollette Jr.

Google recently launched a new feature that allows users to customize their search experience by selecting preferred news sources. If you're looking to stay up to date with news and expert analysis on existential risks, it's easy to add the Bulletin as a preferred news publisher.

"Just as the East India Company’s commercial success gradually justified new powers, today’s AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions by default...," writes @allisonstanger.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

My take on the bad takes on Charlie Kirk's death. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/terr...

Who could possibly have foreseen this? Shortly after Trump tells South Korean leader on camera, to his face, that ROK has to get over the WWII 'comfort women' issue.