Headlines from just another day under the Trump regime. It’s a freak-show here, world! Utter corruption, incompetence, and recklessness.

Wanna-be dictator Trump wants to take away licenses from broadcasters if their hosts criticize him www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... And he wants to designate far-left movement as terrorists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u... Every day he tries to take the country closer to tyranny.

GAO report on new Uranium Processing Facility for production of nuke warhead components and naval nuclear reactor fuel: 8 years behind schedule, $4 billion over projected cost. Planning began 2004, full operations not until 2034. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2... 30 years for one factory.

Beyond the fact that Trump is stupid, hates facts, and easily swayed by fossile fuel interests, other countries and businesses are wondering why the United States will so disadvantage itself on renewable energy use, technology, jobs, and trade.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan signs Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia to “strengthen joint deterrence.” The agreement states that “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both.” mofa.gov.pk/press-releas...

Long-range missiles are proliferating rapidly. Denmark has decided that it too needs long-range precision weapons. www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2... Preliminary talks to acquire JASSM-ER ALCM were held in 2023. aviationweek.com/defense/miss... and Tomahawk SLCM are being considered.

While the Trump regime is trying to miss-use assassination of Kirk to claim - even before investigation is complete - that “the left” is responsible, a study showing domestic terrorists are most often right wing has disappeared from DOJ web site. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Both the Left and the Right are Targeted by Political Violence. Who Perpetrates It? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Redford. A great actor and activist with his heart in the right place. His performance in All The President’s Men affected me deeply as a kid. apnews.com/article/robe... Wonder who will act in the movie about Trump corruption. 🧐

A test launch of a US Trident II D5LE nuclear (unarmed) submarine-launched ballistic missile appears to be scheduled next days. @marcolangbroek.bsky.social has the plot. 👇 More about this missile and US nukes here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

US Army has deployed Typhon missile launchers to Japan for the first time as part of an exercise. www.stripes.com/branches/arm... Preciously also deployed to Philippines, Typhon can launch 1600-km range Tomahawk missile, which is already deployed in region on ships and submarines.

The Trump regime is shutting down the war on cancer that could save millions of lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Sure sounds like Musk is trying fuel the flame here. “Fight back” how? And who are “they”?

Kirk’s body is barely cold, but the Trump regime is already busy trying to capitalize on the murder. Here is Stephen “Goebbels” Miller, with no evidence but sprinkled with a little religion, going after political opponents.

Israel reportedly used ALBM fired from Red Sea area against Qatar. www.wsj.com/world/middle... That shows range of over 1,600 km (1,000 miles). Israel also used ALBM against Iran last year. Wonder what new Drakon sub will have in its enlarged sail. www.kn-online.de/lokales/kiel...

The Air Force has announced the arrival of the second B-21 test aircraft at Edwards AFB. www.dvidshub.net/image/930982... The B-21 will increase number of U.S. nuclear bomber bases. Construction of storage facility is well underway at Ellsworth AFB, the first to receive B-21.

Two B-52 Bombers (61-0014, 61-0029) from Barksdale AFB have deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK for exercise Cobra Warrior 25-2.

Highly recommend this presentation by my colleague @mattkorda on US nuclear modernization program with focus on troubled Sentinel ICBM modernization. The event was sponsored by the North Dakota Monitor. youtu.be/2Q_Btv8jGrU?...

The horrific gunning down of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is the latest political violence in hyper-polarized USA awash with guns. Another idiot with one has given the Trump regime the opportunity to further demonize political opponents. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Secretary of War, the head of the Department of War, says he doesn’t seek conflict with China. www.war.gov/News/Release... That somehow sounds less reassuring than when he was Secretary of Defense. 🧐

GAO has published unclassified version of report on US ICBM modernization plan. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2... After misinforming Congress about cost & potential Minuteman extension, costs continue to increase, test-launch is delayed, USAF still has no transition risk management plan.

Two weeks after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska and months of creating doubts about US commitment to Europe, Russia flies numerous drones into Polish air space, causing NATO forces to shoot several down and Poland invoking Article 4. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

What a surprise! 🙄 This is what narcissistic strongmen never seem to understand. Trump is essentially doing the work for the adversaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

And there it is, the Trump Regime has implemented the whim of the Orange Leader and renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. At least it’s clear what their goal is. And it comes with a new logo and link: war.gov Let that sink in.

With deranged chest-thumper in Oval Office, what to think about president having sole authority to order launch of US nukes? My colleague @mknight.bsky.social does deep dive on history, mechanics, and proposed changes to this arrangement. It’s not a black and white as you might think.👇

🥁Our latest Nuclear Notebook is public: Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, 2025. It describes developments for missile launchers, cruise missiles, and aircraft. Published in the @BulletinAtomic and available for free in PDF www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... and web format thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Trump regime’s next step of theatrical grandstanding is to change name of Department of Defense to Department of War. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... So that will make Hegseth the Secretary of War? And STRATCOM will have to change Peace is Our Profession motto to War is Our Profession?

America is its own worst enemy. Florida plans to no longer require kids get vaccinated, tinfoil-hat JFK Jr destroys CDC and lies to Congress that COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID, new poll finds support for mandated vaccination has dropped. apnews.com/article/vacc...

My colleagues and I here at the FAS Nuclear Information Project have posted this analysis of the nukes at the Chinese victory day parade. If you have corrections/suggestions, please let us know. fas.org/publication/...

I spoke with The Guardian about the Chinese military parade earlier today. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

1/n - China’s military parade as expected was an extreme display off military equipment. This included display of several new nuclear weapons systems, including some modified or entirely new. www.youtube.com/live/-aH6rGs... This thread includes preliminary descriptions; more later: 👇

“Nuclear sniffer” WC-135R Constant Phoenix on its way to the Barents Sea. Calibration flight, Russian Burevestnik test, other?

Business tycoon residing in the White House has stripped nearly half a million federal workers of their union rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u... Yep, it’s exactly what it sounds like.

After Trump fires head of Center for Disease Control for not accepting to politicize science under tinfoil-hat Kennedy Jr., the new acting director is a former investment executive who does not have a medical background. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Inside Pete Hegseth’s Civilian Purge at West Point www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Just the latest developments of the Trump regime’s sabotage of the United States: CIA top Russia expert fired, head of Center for Decease Control forced out (several other top health officials resign in protest), DIA director fired. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Today the Trump regime held a dog & pony show where cabinet members put in their position because of allegiance, not skills, spent over three hours praising the Orange King to ensure he continues to grant them power & riches. Remind me again why the US kicked King George out?

The Trump regime hates facts because they often challenge or contradict what Trump and his loyalists claim (even believe). @MaxBoot does a great job reviewing recent cases and reminds us of the consequences of manipulating intelligence. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

When Musk is not supporting coup-makers and destroying US government agencies, he’s promoting nuking Mars. The t-shirt logo NUKE MARS is as crazy as it sounds: detonate nukes over Mars poles to vaporize ice and gases to create greenhouse effect to warm up planet for people. 🤪

Less than a week after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on US soil, the Russian military fires 574 drones and 40 missiles against Ukraine in one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Corruption of U.S. democracy: State redraws voting districts so governor’s party can get more seats. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Trump continues his false and misleading claims about US elections. @factcheck.org published this review: www.factcheck.org/2025/08/fact... There’s a saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…

Unusual E-6B nuclear command and control TACAMO flight over Baffin Bay along Greenland west coast. North end of track near Pitufffik Space base (formerly Thule Air Base) with early-warning radar. Trump wants Greenland, but still. Communicating with SSBN or part of other exercise?

Indian MOD says it has test launched an Agni V intermediate-range ballistic missile. www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease... The missile was launched into the Indian Ocean (h/t @detresfa.bsky.social _) Agni V was test flown with multiple warhead technology last year. fas.org/publication/...

After three and a half years of the US and NATO warning against and condemning Putin’s nuclear threats over Ukraine, it is surreal to read a piece advocating the US do that same. 👀 “To Get Peace in Ukraine, Trump Should Play the Nuclear Card” foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/t...

In the United States, politicians and bureaucrats are deliberately and publicly messing with voting districts to disadvantage political opponents and empower themselves. “Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

First, thanks to David Ignatius from the @postopinions.bsky.social for this great piece. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202.... An thanks to James Graham Wilson for his tireless historical work on nuclear issues and the end of the Cold War. 1/

Ironi is dead. The Trump regime - headed by one of the most amoral presidents ever - is expanding “good moral character” test to become a U.S. citizen. www.msn.com/en-ie/news/w... Sounds like another scheme to errect vague barriers against people they don’t like.

Russian (unarmed) nuclear sea-launched ballistic missile rumored to be pending. x.com/menmyrc1/sta... The sub (Tula) last fired missile in 2023. russianforces.org/blog/2023/08... More on Russian nuke forces here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....