This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...

#ChemicalWeapons #Fentanyl #USA #Trump Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent... [...] For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...

Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...

ok omg was going to tweet something VERY SERIOUS about how this is the best fentanyl as "WMD" explainer but then i got to the kicker and i actually laughed out loud, millennial that i am no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself

Here we go again. thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...

@progmil.bsky.social has the best arguments why this is a very bad idea almauroni.substack.com/p/fentanyl-i... mwi.westpoint.edu/fentanyl-sho...

The ASD (ND-CBD) should not be a joint policy-acquisition position, but there it is. almauroni.substack.com/p/defense-po...

My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...

The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/12/curi...

Some nuclear professional reading, if you're looking for recommendations almauroni.substack.com/p/nuclear-pr...

Watching “Jurassic Park Rebirth” and I think I can feel my brain cells dying. What an incredibly poorly written show.

Some comments as I read the National Security Strategy, released last night in an attempt to divert attention from, or perhaps to justify, killing fishermen on the high seas. What *Should* The United States Want? This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

Funny how the @postopinions.bsky.social didn’t post its op-ed on (checks notes) extolling Charlie Kirk’s great humanitarian acts on BlueSky

Looking for some reading recommendations for WMD books? almauroni.substack.com/p/the-nation...

I have taken the knowledge of the nuclear weaponry which you were probably saving for MAD forgive me the nuclei are so fast war so cold

Collective, racist punishment.

It’s time to ratify the CTBT before this idea about nuclear testing takes off. open.substack.com/pub/almauron...

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Our future ASD(ND-CBD) has had his confirmation hearing, but it doesn't reveal much. almauroni.substack.com/p/bob-kadlec...

If I'm going to watch a drama about nuclear weapons, I expect a better script almauroni.substack.com/p/could-we-w...

Pluribus is a sci-fi series that starts with a scene at US Army Medical Institute for Infectious Diseases. How cool is that?

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

on desktop, the path is gear icon--moderation--advanced--bluesky moderation, where I found that I was "helpfully" being shielded from "rude" content without having opted in to that

A peacekeeping operation?? Was he awake between 2007 and 2011?

"I could smell the onions and mustard"

How seriously do we examine the future threat of biological weapons? Not biological "threats," but actual nation-states developing biological weapons? almauroni.substack.com/p/weighing-t...

WaPo columnist thinks “A House of Dynamite” was just great open.substack.com/pub/almauron...

Narrator’s voice: “In fact, we know exactly how they work and whether they will work.”

Finally had time to watch House of Dynamite. Honestly, I expected worse. But it's frustrating, because with even a bit of research, they could have come up with a scenario that was both exciting enough for a movie and realistic. Instead, they went with one that makes no sense at all. 1/3

The Oxford comma would have made it clear that it is not “the law” that is being injured and sickened. “Injured, sickens people, and tests the law” #FIFY

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”

1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong. 1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.

I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post

I really didn't like the "A House of Dynamite" movie almauroni.substack.com/p/the-horrib...

The Atlantic Council released an interesting report on CBRN defense in Europe, but I suggest it has some significant flaws. almauroni.substack.com/p/talking-ab...

New Steeler uniform? Not great, guys. Not great.

And here it is!

OKAY FIRST OF ALL HE’S THE VILNIUS SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS WIFE DIDN’T LEAVE HIM, SHE DIED.

Watched #AHouseofDynamite. Without spoilers, just going to say that I was underwhelmed and the ending was really disappointing. Great cast, lousy script. Will review next week.

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

I have a book review to offer this week. almauroni.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...