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Read to the end for the part where Pope Leo says the Vatican has been targeted by foreign intelligence blackmail operations

"Increasing plans to build mosques draw opposition across Japan" I'm reminded of the ugly response when an Islamic community center and mosque were planned near the ruins of the World Trade Center. This is ugly too. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I'll be live on the @majorityreport.bsky.social in a few minutes, talking Palantir Fascism. Join!

"210 tons of spent nuclear fuel are now stored at Bushehr [nuclear plant]...all reactor-grade plutonium is usable for weapons...enough to make >200 bombs" Mmm - Sizewell C will leave 3,900 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel on the eroding Suffolk coast till the late 2100s! thebulletin.org/2026/04/miss...

Palantir must be destroyed. My interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social of the @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reading-pala...

'The chemical reaction created hydrogen sulfide.' Paging the 👩‍🔬🧪 Chemical Safety Board. Oh, yeah. (Article is old. Anybody know status of CSB?)

Declassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.

“Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone” Written after the start of the war. Still a whole lot of "nature heals radiation" bull*hit out there. #Chornobyl #nuclear www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/four...

Forty years after Chornobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

by the state in a stupid, cruel, unnecessary war.

Okinawa's main airport is latest controversy in US military base relocation Gov. Tamaki: "Naha Airport is a lifeline for the Okinawan economy. The idea that we can provide it in response to US demands is not a valid one." asia.nikkei.com/politics/def... via @NikkeiAsia

"The draft PEIS highlights increased risk of radiation in the environment and across communities near facilities and workers. The NNSA attempts to write these off as negligible increases and selects the most harmful and risky option of continued multi-site operations." www.ucs.org/about/news/n....

LDP played the long game against the #Peace restrictions of the constitution.

🌎 This is how we’re entering Earth week. Nuclear weapons are an environmental issue. Learn more: preventnuclearwar.org/beginners-gu... #NoNukes #nucleardisarmament #BackFromTheBrink #climatechange #EarthWeek

Due to underwhelming demand, I uploaded the complete 1954 EATOMIC SECRETS cookbook from Sandia Base. Bon appétit! archive.org/details/sand...

Nothing to see here at all www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

"A sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the U.K. is gathering momentum ... This sustained attack on our community's ability to worship and live in safety is an attack on the values that bind us all together."

Authorities have warned of an even larger earthquake hitting northeastern Japan, after a magnitude 7.7 quake struck off the coast of Iwate on Monday, triggering tsunami across a broad swath of the area.

Happy #Bicycle Day

When you’re desperate to keep your job….

Batteries won the war.

"The wider impact of the disaster is contested and difficult to determine....In 2005, a study by several UN agencies concluded 4,000 people could die as a result of the [Chernobyl] accident. Other estimates suggest the number could be tens of thousands." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

When Americans realize Will Farrell was never funny, the healing can begin

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Trump administration is actively weakening existing nuclear safety regulations, including a May 2025 executive order directing the NRC to reconsider core radiation exposure standards — raising serious public safety concerns. oilprice.com/Alternative-...

The Zaporizhzhia NPP has temporarily lost all external power for the fourteenth time since the start of the war. The IAEA is conducting an investigation due to critical nuclear safety risks. unn.ua/en/news/zapo...

Talk about a Good Friday news dump: the NRC has quietly voted to phase out the crucial, force-on-force security inspections that have helped ensure #nuclear plants remain protected against terrorist attacks since the aftermath of 9/11. Worst NRC ever. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2609/...

All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans We've got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I'm sure it would go back even…

I'll be in Washington State at Whitman College to discuss my forthcoming paper with the @transitionsec.bsky.social and our reporting at @inkstickmedia.com on dwindling job creation and economic mobility in the military-industrial complex. Anyone in and around Walla Walla welcome to join!

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

In Gaza, the effects of war do not end when the bombing stops. A silent health crisis is emerging among pregnant women and their children. Since the start of Israel’s assault, maternity wards have reported alarming increases in miscarriages, premature births, and rare congenital disabilities.

Inside the Degenerate Culture of the Trumper Paramilitaries

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Ryan and Leah have started their own, 2-person media outlet that is already breaking significant local stories. My town of Salem has an outlet called Salem Reporter that does good work with a staff of maybe 3 people. These are promising developments, but drops in a bucket. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

thronging to the new american pontiff

Someone had fun with this headline.

Wooo! 25% of the way to compliance! Wooo!

Another four episodes of Top Cat done. Let's recap: In today's episodes, I've witnessed illegal phone tapping, references to suicide and actual animal trafficking when Top Cat trades Brain to buy a car. Oh, and human sacrifice!! I gotta get this show on Blu-Ray at some point. This is insane...

Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.

“A man linked to white supremacist movements pleaded guilty to setting a fire that destroyed an office at a historic social justice center in Tennessee… Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market…” www.newschannel5.com/news/alleged...

I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

"That line from the Times about Orbán—“increasingly cocooned in the flattery of sycophants and the praise of a sprawling propaganda machine“—could just as easily have been written about Trump."

Putting nuclear reactors in military crosshairs: USAF says it selected a missile warning site and an ICBM base as the first to possibly get small nuclear reactors. www.af.mil/News/Article... The two sites, and many others expected to get reactors, would be prominent targets in war.

"since America’s problems with Iran are inherently political, military objectives cannot be proper war aims. And proper war aims are what’s missing: a desired end state that can be served by a ledger of destruction but must be more than the ledger itself.” @ryanevans.bsky.social