MAGIC JOHNSON WAS THE GREATEST 6β9β POINT GUARD AND DUDE WAS AN NBA STARTER! FOR A PLAYOFF TEAM IN FACT! MULTIPLE YEARS EVEN! MANY PEOPLE RATE HIM AS ABOVE AVERAGE! I HAVE MANY HOT TAKES TONIGHT π₯
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LEBRON JAMES IS THE GREATEST PLAYER TO PLAY 23 SEASONS IN THE NBA! DUDE WAS A STARTER AND ALL STAR (FOR MULTIPLE YEARS EVEN), PLUS HE WAS AN MVP, PLUS HE WON SOME RINGS, OH AND HE BROKE KAREEMS SCORING RECORD WHICH WAS CRAY CRAY
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I SEE YOUR MUGSY BOUGES ARGUMENT AND RAISE YOU MANUTE BOL AS THE GREATEST 7β 7β PLAYER OF ALL TIME!
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Interview: My Dad Moved the Mormon Church on Nukes - Ploughshares
A charismatic Mormon attorney lobbied Latter-day Saints leadership to oppose nuclear weapons. His son shares behind-the-scenes details on the campaign.
A charismatic Mormon attorney lobbied LDS leadership to oppose nuclear weapons during the Cold War. In this interview by @inkstickmedia.com's @tkbarnes.bsky.social, his son reflects on that legacy.
https://loom.ly/wnPulYs
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Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising
Jefferson Cowie, Stayinβ Alive
Perlstein, Reaganland
Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade
Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump
Salim Yaqub, Imperfect Strangers
(Just a few 70βs histories that spring to mind.)
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I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.
It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.
Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
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VALKS MALKS, LAKERS IN 5!
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These Are Still Nuclear Times
Historian Henry Richard Maar III for Nuclear Times: βThe entwined history of arms control and peace activism should remind usβwe can stop and turn the clock back.β
Nuclear Timesβthe voice of the 1980βs peace and antinuclear movementβis back. I wrote a short piece for it, talking about its history and relevancy both for contemporary peace activists and policymakers, as well as its usefulness for Cold War history scholars.
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Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.
Eighty years is a lifetime and weβre losing the most compelling messengers about nuclear war.
Frank Von Hippel also reminded me that because itβs been a lifetime since nuclear weapons were used that people think it canβt happen again. But disarming is as urgent as ever. apnews.com/article/japa...
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80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs βCourage to Be Afraidβ
Eighty years after the cityβs destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover βthe courage to be afraid.β
80 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world has blundered into a new age of nuclear perils, Jason Farago writes. βTo survive this second nuclear age we are going to need models from the first one: artists who faced up to what the bomb did, and what the bomb made of us.β
03.08.2025 19:17 β π 550 π 161 π¬ 43 π 11
Sen. Markey, Rep. Khanna Introduce Legislation to Pause Sentinel Nuclear Missile Program | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts
Bill Text (PDF)
Washington (July 23, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative...
βThe Sentinel ICBM is completely unnecessary, wildly expensive, and so far behind schedule the Pentagon has only a vague idea of when it will be deployed. Given that ICBMs are vulnerable to attack, and therefore kept on hair trigger alert, they create pointless risk."β UCS's @atomicwonk.bsky.social
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Williamsβ Empire was published nearly 50 years ago, but I find the wisdom worth returning to regularly: βempire as a way of life only leads to war and more war.β More pessimistically he warns, βempire a a way of life will lead to nuclear death.β
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Empire is a bipartisan affair, and the Dems are just as committed to the warfare state as the Republicans
#seealsoFreeze!
22.06.2025 01:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Donβt even get me started on the fucking Democrats, Christ!
22.06.2025 01:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera
@jlrmarin.bsky.social best case scenario MAGA implodes over thisβthis assuming the country still has a fucking future. This is such a god damn disaster.
More at 11!
22.06.2025 00:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.
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Peace president my ass
22.06.2025 00:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The JCPOA was very good, actually.
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Cover of the 2022 book "FREEZE: The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and end the Cold War," by Henry Richard Maar III - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760884/freeze/.
Cover of the 2023 book "Saving the World From Nuclear War: The June 12, 1983 Disarmament Rally and Beyond," by Vincent J. Intondi. - https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12923/saving-world-nuclear-war?srsltid=AfmBOooy4sQpH9sFDfWWxxFQQAsNeTmRlwZecD059CerQMtBvDZz9jLa.
To learn more about the nuclear freeze movement and the unprecedented June 12th march and rally and its impact, check out these recent books by @hmaar.bsky.social and @vincentintondi.bsky.social.
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A colorful poster promoting the June 12 March for Peace & Justice in New York City. The main image features a large dove in profile above a road or walkway, facing to the right. Coming out of the bottom of the dove are five different human legs (male and female) wearing different kinds of clothing and shoes, representing the diverse attendees the organizers hoped to attract.
A black and white photograph of the some of the tightly-packed crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Near the center, a woman stands up holding an American flag whose stars have been replaced with the peace symbol.
A color photograph of the some of the massive crowd at the rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. People are facing forward, watching either a speech or a musical performance on the stage.
An aerial color photograph showing the Great Lawn in Central Park almost completely filled with people.
Today in 1982, an estimated 750,000-1,000,000 people marched through New York City from the United Nations to Central Park to demand a US-Soviet freeze on testing, production, and deployment of new, dangerous, and expensive nuclear weaponsβat the time, the largest political protest in US history.
12.06.2025 14:04 β π 25 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Hearing more reports from people I know of ICE chasing down farm workers in fields in Oxnard. This is all not very good, for countless reasons, but mostly for snatching hardworking citizens of this county for no reason but racists in the WH. #VenturaCounty #ICE #politics #agriculture
11.06.2025 03:31 β π 59 π 19 π¬ 4 π 0
I attempted to get ChatGPT to help me ChatGPT proof part of an assignment. Iβm not so convinced of its βsubtleβ blending of text into a political cartoon π€·ββοΈ
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