Video: What to know about nuclear weapons In this video, Jeffrey Lewis explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear weapons.

The film #AHouseOfDynamite ends before the bomb hits Chicago, where @bulletinatomic.bsky.social is based. They asked me to describe what it would happen to the Windy City, so I dropped 20 KT and 4 MT bombs using @wellerstein.bsky.social's Nuke Map. (Hint: it's bad.)
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

NATO will increase its presence in the Baltic Sea with “new assets,” including at least one frigate, in response to recent drone incidents over Denmark - Reuters

Japan’s navy spots newest Chinese aircraft carrier sailing for first time in East China Sea The Fujian, China’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, passed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to the South China Sea for tests and training.

The Fujian, China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier expected to be commissioned in 2025, was spotted this week by Japan sailing for the first time in the East China Sea. (from @brianmcelhiney.bsky.social & @keishirkoja.bsky.social)

📖 Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Weiner joins NPR’s Greg Myre to talk "The Mission: CIA in the 21st Century"

🗓 Sept 9, 7pm ET
📍 Hayden Center, Arlington, VA, or on YouTube
➡️ Reception + book signing after!

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Seats are limited—don’t miss it!

Timing

The economic historian in me is thinking about hobos and boxcars

I hate to ask but is that because there are no plans to continue having elections?

The AP must refuse this but more importantly the rest of the White House Correspondents Association should back them.

Boycott the press briefings until they relent, and if they refuse, walk out. There is no real use to them in any case.

Trump craves attention. Deny him that and he’ll cave.

Kash Patel secretly directs the gutting of the FBI -- before the Senate acts to confirm him. The votes of four GOP senators could stop him. Will they protect and defend the FBI national-security and intelligence divisions Patel has vowed to destroy? Don't bet on it. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle Senators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week.

Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

In strongly worded statement, the American Bar Association calls on attorneys to defend the rule of law against a barrage of illegal acts by the Trump administration. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I teach students whose life goal is to work at CIA one day.

It’s been difficult explaining the events of the last three weeks.

Explaining that they could one day be outed by a bunch of traitorous incompetents is not something I ever imagined needing to cover.

C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.

Amateur hour

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover The spy agency’s workforce received a buyout-style offer on Tuesday.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Trump appoints Michael Ellis deputy director of the CIA President Donald Trump appointed Michael Ellis, previously a National Security Council official, to the No. 2 position at the CIA.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency James E. Dennehy, the highly-respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”

The FBI special agent in charge of the New York field office joins the Resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

How is there not a single Democrat Senator or Representative who has stepped up over an entire weekend where Elon Musk is clearly unwinding American democracy inside US govt buildings???

YouTube video by cpac Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Canada's response to U.S. tariffs – February 1, 2025

Trudeau makes the best case against Trump and MAGA (and of course tariffs) that I've heard since the election. I don't know if we can pretend at this point that our countries have the same values. youtu.be/PnvyrKvo-2w

1/I understand legit debate re: #DEI & whether pendulum swung too far, too quickly.

But what happened today at @NSAGov's @NatCryptoMuseum is unacceptable. Trump Admin new DEI policy disgraces cryptological historical trailblazers & icons in community.

See two covered areas? https://

What comes next? Purges of the intelligence community.

lol

@tim-weiner.bsky.social on Kash Patel: “I would anticipate a direct attack on journalists and their sources… [Patel] to ransack the intelligence files of this country for information… And use the power of investigation as a tool of intimidation and ultimately, political repression.”