Here’s what to know about US claims of a secret Chinese nuclear test (featuring @nktpnd.bsky.social and @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social ) What to know about the U.S. claims of Chinese nuclear tests www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

NEW: Just got a statement form the State Department on Under Secretary DiNanno's claim that China is preparing covert nuclear tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons. A lot depends on what is meant by "more" and "soon" but certainly interesting! 👀

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

Who's going to tell them this isn't underground and not the Operation Teapot ESS shot from 1955? It's an airburst shot: Buster-Jangle Charlie from 1951. Ask me how I know...

Jake Paul has been on a journey over on X. (h/t @shannonbond.bsky.social)

A friend commented that this years tech ads feel particularly dystopian and I’m inclined to agree. Anyone else miss the good old days when tech and the internet seemed… fun? youtu.be/Muyq2kMDFoA?...

Uhoh AI dot com.

I can’t decide which was the funniest ad of the night so far: A) The Liquid IV ad with the singing toilets… B) Mike Tyson talking earnestly about nutrition.

what a shot

That was pretty amazing.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals wins for the most unintentionally sinister ad.

“The B1-b is not nuclear capable.” @oriana0214.bsky.social wherever she is.

So @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, @wslafoy.bsky.social and @aaronstein1.bsky.social, I ASSUME the rule is also “Test a nuke, get a pod!” Right? Just checking.

Good summary/analysis by Ankit of US accusations over Chinese nuclear testing.

Epstein's ties to the scientific community were no joke.

The team behind Post Reports is utterly brilliant, truly just magnificent. I've absolutely loved working with them, and I am so stunned and heartbroken to see this important, illuminating work go dark. Please listen to their farewell. Please hire them. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Ok, I am not one easily impressed with AI products. But I gotta say Claude Code just kind of BLEW. MY. MIND. I used it to build a full personal website, published it, and bought a domain to host it... in less than 24 hours. 🤯 It's even got blimps. geoffbrumfiel.net

Today, for the first time and decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on the number of nuclear weapons they can point at each other. www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Post: apocalyptic

The @washingtonpost.com is facing massive layoffs today. It keeps getting harder and harder out there for professional journalists. Solidarity.

Welp, that's all the reporting we're doing today then folks.

Just got onto Moltbook and uh... guys are we sure this is a good idea?

NEW: The Trump Administration is exempting new experimental nuclear reactors from environmental reviews. The exclusion comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten environmental and safety standards at the Department of Energy. www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

Interesting follow up to my reporting earlier this week on the Department of Energy's heavy revisions to its internal nuclear safety rules. Holtec and others going through licensing activities with NRC want to distance themselves from the approval process outlined in my story.

UPDATED: The Department of Energy has responded to our exclusive story on nuclear safety rules. It says it anticipates making the rules public "later this year." www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social! For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.

NPR has obtained the new experimental nuclear reactor safety rules from DOE -- revised in secret, a pretty abnormal process not likely to help buy-in. I defer to nuke experts on the details, but apparently they are greately relaxed www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

There are no penguins in Greenland.

This is a very credible analysis and shows an ICE agent apparently removing Alex Pretti's gun before any shots were fired.

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

What a week. Time to curl up with a book.

This work by @godin.bsky.social is a great synch of all the video we currently have.

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

NEW: Here is the alleged video from Jonathan Ross's cell phone synched with the main eyewitness video we've all seen. As you can see it synchs perfectly. I don't think any internal cuts were made. I have left audio for both videos in this synch so that you can hear them aligned.

This appears to be authentic video posted on X from ICE agent Jonathan Ross's cell phone. He was filming throughout the encounter. Numerous details match video from other bystanders. Original source @alphanewsmn.bsky.social: x.com/AlphaNews/st...

And via Zvesda, here’s unconfirmed video of the Oreshnik IRBM attack from Lviv. Looks like maybe 6 RVs?

New Oreshnik photos just dropped. Along with the RVs….

NEW: AI-altered images and internet rumors have spread confusion about the identity of the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. www.npr.org/2026/01/08/n...

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Speculation now swirling over who recently opened a Polymarket account, bet $32k on Maduro being out before Jan 31 before he was captured, and made $436k in a matter of hours. If they didn't have insider info, this is quite the premonition... polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Wow.

"AI will soon replace journalists."

Well this is getting 2026 off on a great foot.

☢️‼️OK, this is actually a big one that didn't get into the story at all but DOE believes has the authority to allow companies to SELL "incidental" power from these pilot reactors on the grid! Several people I spoke to with knowledge of nuclear regulation questioned the legal basis for this opinion.

NEW NUGGETS: So that's the very quick overview of the story. Here are the NEW NUCLEAR NUGGETS about the Reactor Pilot Program for the real nerds. This is stuff I haven't seen reported elsewhere... ☢️🤓🧵 www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...