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Radioactive wasp nests found near nuclear storage site in South Carolina One of the nests found near the Savannah River Site had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, according to a federal report.

And now - radioactive wasps.
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40 million Black Americans are eligible for Beninese citizenship How a recent law shows the promise and challenges of trying to right the wrongs of the past

Last year, Benin passed a law that made the vast majority of Black Americans eligible for citizenship.

This week Ciara became the highest profile person to do it.

I wrote about what it says about the promise and challenges of trying to right the wrongs of the past
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Is Global AI Cooperation Even Possible? Podcast Episode · The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · 07/29/2025 · 24m

August vacation = time for a deep dive into all things AI. Because life long learning is mandatory. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Motherfucking wind farms…

The DRS train of life.

The Gen Xers Who Waited Their Turn to Be CEO Are Getting Passed Over More companies are holding on to older leaders or passing over a generation in search of the next ones.

It’s always the flippin’ Boomers!🤣

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"The evangelical church has changed a lot since the days of PEPFAR. This used to be something evangelicals were incredibly proud of. Fast forward 20 years, that same church is like, PEPFAR? Why are we taking care of those people over there?" @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner

Balfour Declaration

YouTube video by Novara Media Farage's Heartland: The County Turning Against Westminster

Very interesting @novaramedia.com documentary on the “forgotten Britain.” The socioeconomic parallels with the U.S. on many issues are striking. youtu.be/I7dm3NZqXBs?...

Eric Ham: China’s record purchases of Canadian crude could be a harbinger of more deals to come Record purchases of Canadian crude by China could be a harbinger of more deals involving Beijing and Ottawa, as Canadian leaders seek viable alternatives to the U.S., says Washington political analyst...

#china making a play US biggest trading partner #Canada as #Trump bellicosity threatens relationship @ctv: www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams

Watching a WW I doc and always astonished at the mix of bravery, hubris, brutality and sheer destruction.

Clarence (@deindc) From England to the Carolinas. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMX4f87NB0y/?igsh=d3czeGN3NzJsaTJ1

Random thoughts on the trip between England and the Carolinas.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s FDI flows drying up: Report The region received around 5% of global cumulative FDI flows since 2005, due to “rising trade and investment barriers,” the report said.

Sub-Saharan Africa received the lowest share of foreign direct investment inflows of all developing economy regions during 2012-23, new World Bank research shows.

It’s amazing that some people are talking about “regime change” in the Middle East. Because that worked so well last time? Did this country learn nothing?? Madness

Clarence on Substack This U.S. Army Signal Corps photo was taken around 8:30 p.m. on the eve of D-Day, June 5, 1944.  It shows Eisenhower talking with First Lieutenant Wallace Strobel, Company E, 502nd Regiment, 101st Air...

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King Charles III visits Canada as show of support for country coveted by Trump King Charles III arrived in Canada for a symbolic visit showing support for the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to make it the 51st U.S. state.

In headlines from 1812, the King sends reassuring messages to Canadias vis-a-vis the Americans. www.foxnews.com/world/king-c...

This Photo got me thinking that we are in a liminal space between what was normal and what comes next.

This Photo
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US military tells allies in Africa to prepare to stand more on their own “There needs to be some burden sharing,” said Gen. Michael Langley, the U.S. military’s top official in Africa.

"Messaging about the interwoven work of defense, diplomacy and development once formed the core of Washington’s security pitch."
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“We need to make energy policy boring again” - Neil Chatterjee

Great quote from a day full of interesting conversations at the Climate Realism Initiative launch yesterday at @cfr.org

YouTube video by David Hoffman This Is When America Ruled The World - Not Long Ago

“It [the sixties] was the last fling of the isolated American economy.” From a 1989 interview with journalist Jack Beatty that still resonates today.
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Trump's Tariffs Set to Make History and Break a System MAGA Loathes His plans have sparked fears of a US recession and a global slowdown, as well as the end of a post-war order.

This brought back memories of sitting in my office at the State Department watching protesters riot over the World Trade Organization in 1999. Truly another era.

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Clarence on Substack It’s easy to overlook how much political, social, economic, and technological change my generation has dealt with during our professional careers. Careers spent confronting almost constant disruption....

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White South Africans reject idea they need to flee country for US "We have to state categorically: We don’t want to move elsewhere," said Kallie Kriel, the CEO of the Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum.

Sometime you read things and...🤯

"South Africa’s white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks."
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It was difficult, but the foreign assistance industry might have made a fatal mistake in not building a stronger domestic constituency for foreign assistance. There was a bipartisan consensus for most of the 21st century, but that began to erode during the Obama administration.

Watch The Boer War: 1899-1902 | Prime Video Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training.

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Surprising polling by @today.yougov.com that over a third of Republicans think that the US in a constitutional crisis. One-in-ten of them think the US is a dictatorship (thought it's not clear whether they think that's a good thing or not!).

Doing a Teams meeting over Greenland was easier than on Amtrak. 😆✈️

It’s still so strange to be in the UK 🇬🇧 and hear people say “woke” and refer to the “woke” agenda as US and UK politics cross-fertilize.

We must be living in a simulation.