And they say there's no progress: "Scientists sidestep Heisenberg uncertainty principle in precision sensing experiment" phys.org/news/2025-09...

I will be part of the keynote dialogue at the Archives as Witnesses conference at the #Wilmington #Peace Resource Center in #Ohio this weekend, with Lisa Yoneyama and Norma Fields. Details at the link: www.pageturnpro.com/Wilmington-C...

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands... And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

Who’s been working on amazing maritime scholarship this summer? Finish it up and submit it to us at Mainsheet! We could use some more submissions for our upcoming issue— it’s our first general issue, any topic in maritime studies. www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/post/3355-ca...

So the America First crowd is spending US taxpayer dollars to prop up a right-wing leader in Argentina until his election? Yep.

I'm happy to say that my book called "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan" will be out with New York University Press in January 2026. nyupress.org/978147983683... #nuclear #atomic #Japan #Fukushima #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #disaster #Chernobyl #governance

These demons have come against the house of Chastain!!!

This is a really great piece on the import of shame.

Today in 1979, a United States Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic Ocean. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the possibility, many speculated it was a clandestine Israeli test.

Tonight: Part 2 of tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco. Spoiler Alert: Biblical scripture + fascist philosophy = the roadmap for apocalyptic politics. Look around. See the pattern yet? Here's why it matters: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

“Libertarians” always fail because libertarianism does not exist—except in the minds of spoiled manchildren whose brains stopped maturing at puberty. Every. Single. Time.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

If you are one of the rapture people… you should be GIVING your stuff away…. Why are you selling your stuff? You don’t need money where you are going

It’s not just that the president doesn’t have the legal authority to ban mail-in voting or require voter ID. It’s that he doesn’t have the power to do either. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-...

"The capabilities Trump promised for Golden Dome are fundamentally misaligned with the cost and schedule he asserted." This is from a fairly sympathetic analyst! warontherocks.com/2025/09/gold...

Kirk memorial vibe: Billy Graham crusade meets Nuremberg rally.

"'Lost Shtetl': Lithuania opens museum commemorating pre-WWII Jewish life" www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

In #ScienceUnderSiege (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...), @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I criticize the NY Times for pushing unhelpful antiscience (like the "Lab Leak Theory" for COVID-19) or fossil fuel-friendly framing (e.g. in this case, "geoengineering" as a climate solution):

They like Trump and want to help him

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Hat tip to @aoc.bsky.social, this is pretty excellent

“As feds talk of changing course on #Hanford #nuclear cleanup, #WA officials get heated” https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/15/repub/as-feds-talk-of-changing-course-on-hanford-nuclear-cleanup-wa-officials-get-heated/#Hanford

Many people believe this is another test of Russia’s nuclear powered nuclear tipped cruise missile. What some have dubbed the flying Chernobyl.

"Nippon Ishin proposes a cap on share of foreign residents" #Okinawa has a population of 25,000 "foreign residents" that's responsible for many crimes, including rape & murder. But Ishin wouldn't dream of applying their cap to the US military. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Always listen to Marcy.

45 years ago today at about 3:00 AM, the highly-volatile liquid fuel of a nuclear-armed Titan II ICBM exploded inside underground launch complex 374-7, 3.3 miles north-northeast of Damascus, Arkansas, and approximately 50 miles north of the capital of Little Rock, destroying the missile and silo.

This is an impeachable offense. Textbook.

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

SCOOP: he’s been released jail He’s currently at a mosque

One point I try to make in here is that Trump and Stephen Miller are trying to eradicate the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. All prosecutions are just a power struggle, there's only winning and losing, there's no such thing as justice. It's all power all the way down.

The July scram of the Watts Bar-2 #nuclear plant in #Tennessee was caused when water dripping through a hole in the roof short-circuited a breaker, shutting down multiple coolant pumps and the main turbine. TVA, fix the darned roof before buying SMRs. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2525/...

What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power — and yet it’s nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities. I’ve been fighting the right as a journalist and now I’m running for Congress to do the same in DC. Because we deserve leaders who will actually stand up for us.

"Just as the East India Company's commercial success gradually justified new powers, today's AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions by default, implicitly assuming that the reallocation of power will serve human flourishing." ⬇️

I have some nice quotes in this CNN piece on the frenzy of conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk's death. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

Every D governor should be holding cabinet meetings where each cabinet member slobbers over complimenting them shamelessly, just to put the Royal ones in context.

"In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year. The #2 on the list, India, installed 24GW. The US at #3 installed 21GW. There is an order of magnitude difference." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

“Still, the advantages of appointing a bot over a human are obvious.” - said the BBC reporting on this last week, in a “fair and balanced” story about how the appointment of the “World’s first AI minister” could eliminate corruption:

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

"What really kept me strong was my anger." In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.

It is remarkable how few national Dems have been willing to put themselves on the front lines here.

If this is "doing politics the right way," what does the wrong way look like?

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

This is probably a lot more effective than cancelling your Hulu subscription tho of c you can do both.

I noticed some Republican politicians on Twitter flagging data from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute as a source of data saying more than half of people on the left thing assassinating Donald Trump is justified. They didn't list it as NCRI. They listed the source as ...

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

“Update: $30B nuclear waste plant can ‘finally’ start. WA leaders react - Tri-City Herald” Keep your eyes on this story as it continues to take weird reversals. #Hanford #nuclear #NuclearPOwer https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article312155051.html#Hanford