This pop culture turn is not mysterious and to me not that scary. Nuclear war is coming back as a plot device because post Cold War artists and audiences are starting to think about it for the first time. But the risk is not severe enough that people are gripped by fear of the event like in the 80s.

It is difficult to know what a just priority of punishment should be. The faceless inhuman mass of the regime gives us the illusion that we can't possibly get them all so we'll have to be picky. Perhaps it is true - many Nazis made it to Argentina. If we must prioritize: my vote is their lawyers.

NNSA finally has a Senate confirmed Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs (late December, but getting a new NA-10 settled takes a minute). That means new directives, new priorities etc for the weapons complex, within the Congressionally funded Program of Record ofc. Watch this space.

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

I really don't have any extreme political views. I simply think that if you abuse the power of a US Attorney's office to try to indict sitting opposition party members of Congress on bogus charges, you should live to die of old age in solitary.3 Common sense kitchen table politics.

It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

NATO homies I love you too but tonight I'm NewWorldmaxxing you might even say I'm dreaming of a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere

I've been the victim of a terrible crime. Someone sent me this hateful meme.

one of the mind traps of late 2010s-early 2020s left of center online political keyboard warrioring was giving stalinists, maoists, most anarchists the time of day they have reach parity w/liberals on twitter and bluesky and *some* academia settings, nowhere else, you seriously can just ignore them

URGENT question for natsec bluesky is NOFORN an acceptable scrabble word send help soon or i am sleeping on the couch

You guys have GOT to stop being so impressed by Canadians with thirst trap profile pics who activate your American self-loathing. Stand up for yourselves Jesus

Especially on a day when State makes headline grabbing announcements about adversary nuclear capabilities, let us meditate not only on the sacred No Comment Policy and the counterintelligence cult of James Jesus Angleton Thought, but also on Casey Affleck as CI spook Boris Pash in Oppenheimer.

Conduct deeply unbecoming the Bureau.

Regardless of your views on arms control, the proper role of nuclear weapons in American and European security, arsenal size and character, whatever - A secretive handshake agreement is simply not an acceptable substitute for a treaty with verification protocols and public knowledge.

Okay, today in #nukesky discussion that is maybe a bit more productive... Was anyone asking for this? I agree that it's always seemed odd at surface level for Energy to own the nukes mission, but does splitting NNSA off solve any of the NSE's problems? I would say no, and it breaks some advantages.

If you read under a lot of the these claims, it’s the same thing: “Ignore the newcomers, they have no insights, pay attention to us instead.” Most of them don’t even live here. They are DESPERATE to remove the challengers, even if it means MN anti-ICE activists have to be expelled as threats.

Avi Loeb this, Stephen Hawking that - you know which great modern physicists aren't in the Epstein files?

College free speech principles do not require universities to host student orgs which advocate murder. I'm wishcasting, but a university that expelled the members of conservative student orgs en masse would be a meaningfully safer university.

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

Ammon Bundy figured it out? Ammon Bundy?? This is a real low point. Yeah this one hurts. Fuck it welcome to the resistance, Crazy Rancher Guy I Thought The FBI Should Have Drone Striked

Homeland Security will gas your kids in broad daylight in the middle of a peaceful march. Shred this useless fascist agency and immiserate its armed goons for life. This is the moderate position. Hell, I was a registered Republican at one point. I'm no crazy left winger. This is common sense.

this whole chud chekist administration wanted to be in a taylor sheridan movie so bad, specifically Sicario, but instead of getting the cool bridge gunfight from Sicario maybe they're getting the trailer gunfight at the end of Wind River 🤷‍♂️

"...to resist or prevent what the individual reasonably believes is an offense or an attempted offense that imminently exposes the individual or another person to substantial or great bodily harm or death..."

when chomsky wrote about manufacturing consent, he was talking from experience

The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.

30 January 1649 Charles Stuart, King of England, will walk through the Banqueting House. A cold day, he has put on two shirts, so he won’t shiver. At 2pm, for high treason, he will be “putt to death by the severinge of his head from his body.” “I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown.”

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

>in theater The Limited Contingent of DHS Forces in Minnesota is conducting anti-banditry operations. Morale is high.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Why the fuck is DNI here, this is beyond shady even for this administration

BBC's exact claim is that "a facial recognition tool suggests a 97% match" for Pretti's face. I don't claim to have magic deepfake detecting eyes (nobody does) but this video is very fishy. Same exact outfit as when he was killed? The gun in his waistband fully visible, but no fuss from the cops?

for all my cold sober realist natsec & China hawk GOPers (I know you're here somewhere), this is also roughly enough to replace all the SM-3s we shot in defense of Israel or about 5 more F-35s or about 6 months of operations at Pantex etc etc , all of which would make the country safer than this

broke: women hold up half the sky woke: women will secure air superiority

The iron triangle of NATO since 1949 has been to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down. With the Americans looking like they are tiptoeing towards the door, but the Russians being too actively hostile not to keep out, the system equilibrates itself by letting the Germans up.

Auschwitz was liberated 81 years ago today. Last year I published a story about the remaining survivors, fewer each year, and the importance of telling and retelling their stories. I hope you'll read it if you haven't. Here's a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

If the position of the lunatic right is that civic organizers and ordinary community members in Minneapolis are some kind of left wing al Qaeda (and we've all seen the posts saying this) then, well, أتيتكم برجال يحبون الموت كما تحبون أنتم الحياة sorry chud i don't make the rules

if I’m being honest, I’ve never really liked the “descendants of slave catchers” narrative about cops/ICE/etc., because even shaky historical analysis aside, it ignores relatively recent systemic issues with policing and makes it out to be some Darwinian origin story of “policus Americanus”

oh there absolutely is. richard hanania is amero-girkin.

there's some kind of slow motion freaky Friday exchange happening between Will and Ahmad Al-Sharaa. Will, the onetime sensible center left policy lawyer, is being memeified as a Syrian warlord. Al-Sharaa, the onetime Syrian warlord, is being memeified as a sensible centrist. signs & wonders

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me in World of Warcraft auction house chat (iykyk)

It has grown gauche and cliche to quote American Revolutionary personalities, but sometimes it is simply the truth. As it turned out the tree of liberty did have to be watered with the blood of patriots. So far the honor and discipline of Minnesotans has stayed the other half of the quote.