Murmurs from this admin about nuclear testing are not new, which is why earlier this year, we published this piece in the @thebulletin.org on why a rapid test as a show of force is a BAD, BAD idea.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

New START is the last remaining arms control agreement between the US and Russia. Extending it would keep sensible limits on nuclear weapons while further reductions and limits are negotiated. The US should reciprocate and get to work on a follow up to New START.

seeing too many headlines that New Mexico is about to make child care universal and free. that's not what it's doing. the gov. announced that as of November 1 all families can compete for the same limited # of child care slots and subsidies. the goal of universal is commendable, but NM isn't there

Industrial meat & poultry plants dump tons of pollution into our waters—our research shows how much Tyson alone released in just 5 years. Yet the Trump #EPA won’t update weak, outdated effluent rules, again putting Industrial Ag profits over your right to #cleanwater 🧪 bit.ly/4p19Lh0

Drivers are not being "slammed." They are speeding and they are being fined for breaking the law.

Thanks, @winkie.bsky.social at @usatoday.com for reporting on our analysis of plutonium pit production. Lots to unpack here, so here's a short thread (1/n)

@dkspaulding.bsky.social, 'a nuclear security expert for the @ucs.org, argued in a May report that NNSA's two-site approach for pit production is "questionable" and has unnecessarily driven up costs for reasons that are "likely more political than technical."'

Longstanding contamination at a nuclear weapons site has produced a radioactive wasp nest. Now DOE wants to repurpose the site to produce new nuclear bomb cores without dealing with this legacy waste first. Sounds like they have their priorities in order…

Most of these jobs are driven by LANL's new production mission to make plutonium pits while funding is eliminated from exploratory science that has historically drawn young talent into the labs. Despite the growth, this doesn't bode well for the future of innovation in national security.

"The discovery of additional radioactive nests, he added, “indicate that much greater effort must be made to assess the possible risks and hazards of what appears to be a significant source of radioactive pollutants."

"Though large family farms — those making $1 million or more annually — and corporate farms amounted to less than 8 percent of all farms in the United States, they received about 47 percent of subsidy payments and 67 percent of crop insurance payments in 2024" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

"...the threat of deportation by abusive spouses is louder than ever and allows abusers to wield greater power and control over their victims." www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged...

Here we go. As if the inhumanity of ICE raids (and treatment of people protesting them) weren't bad enough, now we may face food system disruption because of them. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Laura Grego of @ucs.org on Golden Dome: "I can hardly imagine potential adversaries just sitting still, not developing the ways to counter such a system." www.axios.com/2025/05/28/t...

"Nuclear weapons workers don’t grow on trees, nor do the federal experts who oversee them." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

what i mean is: most people who utilize medicaid — who are not children, the elderly or americans with severe disabilities — work! you can’t live off of medicaid because it is health insurance! these people are just mindlessly repeating anti-welfare language from the 1990s

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Great blog by my colleague Dr. Chanese Forté on severe harm done to the Navajo Nation by the US nuclear weapons program. While the current admin seeks to accelerate uranium mining, frontline communities are still undercompensated and under-supported by the government. blog.ucs.org/chanese-fort...

"A concerted and well-funded effort is needed to mediate the harms caused by the nuclear weapons life cycle."

“...at best it comes down to mismanagement and incompetence, and at worst, an intentional effort to downplay the complexities and challenges of the Sentinel program to make it appear like it would be the cheaper, easier option," www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

“The past 100 days have been devastating but also clarifying,” writes Kate Anderson, director of the Food & Environment Program at the @ucsusa.bsky.social. “We have to move boldly toward the food and farm future we know is possible.”

My colleague Dr. Chanese Forté appeared on the Travis Smiley show discussing her work on the impacts of nuclear weapons production, testing & development all too easily lead to exposure to harmful radiation, which happens all to often to indigenous communities. Listen here: youtu.be/zH3DWGv2D9s?...

Shocked. Just shocked. "All three companies were founded by entrepreneurs who have been major political supporters of Trump. Musk has donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump, and now serves as a special adviser," www.reuters.com/business/aer...

“The weather is getting stranger and more challenging to deal with every year, while big monopoly corporations are allowed to manipulate the system and squeeze us at every part of the supply chain...The tariffs are like adding salt on the wound.”

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“'I would not advise testing, and I think we should rely on the scientific information,' Mr. Williams said, referring to data gathered from nonnuclear explosive testing and supercomputer modeling carried out by physicists at N.N.S.A. labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

"Lehman worries that if his upstream neighbors destroy their wetlands, his farm will experience erosion, flooding and water pollution." "Protecting our soil and water is reasonable criteria if we’re going to receive government assistance."

"The U.S. needs more publicly funded research and development on agriculture to offset the effects of climate change...But instead the U.S. has been investing less." Great reporting by @melinawalling.bsky.social

“Trump has got it all wrong. Climate is a real issue and it’s hitting us right in the face,” he said. “If we don’t become sustainable real quick, we’re dead in the water.” Great reporting from @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/food-and-agr...

When masked men in plain clothes approach you as you are walking down the street, take your belongings, surround and touch and cuff you, this is how this works now? They say "we're police" and you're supposed to go with them?

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

The #Signalgate debacle affirms our take when Hegseth was first nominated: "Given the enormity of the challenges facing the next [defense] secretary, the US deserves someone with the experience, expertise, and judgment to deal with them wisely." Hegseth has clearly failed on all three fronts.

"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.

Fellas, it is DEI to help win WWII?

Translation: it's easier to force women to have more babies if we make it harder for them to go to college.

Should we be vaccinating chickens? Upping biosecurity at 30,000 hen farms? Cutting regulations that improve animal quality of life? Start building backyard chicken coops? @karenstillerman.bsky.social breaks down the federal bird flu plan.

🚨Today Trump's #EPA issued guidance that reinterprets the Clean Water Act & puts wetlands & rural communities at risk. Backed by industrial ag, this move prioritizes corporate profit over the environment, farmers, and communities that benefit from #wetlands. 📢 Read more: www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

One of the key ingredients in synthetic fertilizer will be impacted by Trump's tariffs and farmers will bear the costs. In 2023, Canada exported ~$4.9 billion of potash to the United States. A 25% increase would mean an increase of more than $100 per ton, on top of a floor price of >$400/ton.

New @rrucs.bsky.social on how Chinese nuclear experts are thinking about the new Trump administration and the future of arms control.

How might tariffs impact your grocery bill? For starters, the US imports more than a third of fruit & veg, much of it from Mexico. And retaliatory tariffs cost US farmers: between 2018 and 2019 tariffs resulted in ~$27 billion in lost exports for US agricultural producers.

"Despite spending $20 billion a year of our tax dollars on farm subsidies, Americans never see most U.S. agriculture products. We only eat about 37 percent of major crops produced. The remainder are feeding the pockets of large agriculture corporations" thehill.com/opinion/5152...

"For years, Livingstone considered herself a success story in Black farming. She credits USDA grants with her ability to own her land, rather than rent it as she used to, and make farming her primary livelihood."

"We bombed ourselves. We did this to our own people."

Behind the scenes, Trump admin advisors are making the case to re-start explosive nuclear testing. Not only is it totally unnecessary, it's actually bad security strategy, opening the door for Russia & China to resume testing. More from @dkspaulding.bsky.social & co at @thebulletin.org

“[T]he current rush to produce pits is unnecessary,” Spaulding said. “The Lab’s plans outlined in the Environmental Impact Statement only serve to increase risk for workers and insufficiently consider protection of the public in the event of a severe accident.”

THRILLED to see the Times supporting @aliciaguzman.bsky.social's great reporting in New Mexico. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

This week, both the House and Senate ag committees will hold hearings to examine the state of the farm economy. Will they address the harm being done *right now* by the Trump administration’s unlawful federal funding freeze? /1 www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...