Wayne Clark

Secretly rewriting rules is not how the nuclear industry builds trust. Allowing microreactor developers to employ a move fast and break things ethos is not good for anyone except their investors short term pocketbooks. Not good for the environment, the public, even the nuclear industry

Sounds like 19th Century China.

We ALREADY have all the military access we want, if we just ask nicely.

RIP to an Order that was never fully Liberal, never fully International, and never fully Orderly.

1) Trump announces tariffs.

2) Countries offer something that basically already existed but that Trump is too stupid to understand.

3) Trump declares victory and cancels tariffs.

4) Trump’s sycophants tell him what a big boy he is.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

1. He wants to
2. It’s plausible he’ll try
3. His people would support it
4. But it’s vastly harder and more complicated than people are suggesting and can’t be done by his fiat

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

Trump Battleship Will be Largest Surface Combatant Since WWII - USNI News The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of th...

USNI out with some actual details. Contrary to what I think Trump promised (I might be wrong?), USNI citing Navy says construction to begin in 2030, not ships in the water in 2028.

>30 knots and power for railguns and lasers, but gas turbines not nuclear powered

news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...

John Phelan just re-nuclearized the surface navy by saying the Trump class will carry nukes

That's utterly bonkers.

We have to be committed to a total rebuilding of our government when these ghouls are out of power. We can build agencies and institutions fitted for a new century of progress.

For inspiration, read @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.

Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally

Der FIFA-Physikpreis geht an Friedrich Merz, für seine Grundlagenforschung auf dem Gebiet hocheffizienter Verbrenner.

Si après ça on ne comprend pas l'importance de soutenir et renforcer l'UE...

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Pete Hegseth Chapter 10 More Lethality, Less Lawyers

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.

The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

Mamdate of heaven confirmed

The Myth of Allied Technological Inferiority World War II, The Free Press, and the Problematic Use of History in Contemporary Media

America didn’t win WWII through “inferior tech," it won through organization, integration, and strategy, as well as the myth that Nazi Germany’s “exquisite” weapons outclassed the Allies, and critiques how the media keeps misusing history to sound profound. My latest⬇️

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Virginia Dems are going to get Saddam Hussein style election numbers

The key to this argument is near the end of the piece: politicians are not supposed to be entertainment. Yet Trump got elected twice in part because of his entertainment value. Arguably this is a larger cultural issue: not the swearing per se but our constant need to be entertained.

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

It tends to get underplayed in American historical imagination, but our Revolution was in a direct, conscious lineage from the Glorious Revolution and before that the English Civil Wars. The road to 1776 began outside the Banqueting House in 1649. We are, in that real sense, still Anglo-Americans.

Yeah what’s remarkable about Trump’s tariffs is that he’s both implementing them by executive fiat and then spending them by executive fiat, both of which are profoundly, extremely, couldn’t-be-more unconstitutional

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß