Joe Cirincione

will the DC press ever admit that the Mad King’s brain has gone fuckity-bye? also: Donny gets an abysmal jobs report. hilarity ensues.

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‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

We have to rely on European major media to get an accurate assessment of Trump’s mental decline. The US mainstream press wont touch it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Pan-Mass Challenge - biking across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - is running today. Turns out, it easy to get a photo at the finish if you pose there the day before the race.

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‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

An ipdate to the Atomic Wasps story that i discussed in CNN on Thursday. You’ll be happy to know that my analysis was correct. Scientists agree that the main danger is that the radioactive wasps indicate a more pervasive contamination www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

Brianna Keilar on X: "What happens if you get stung by a radioactive wasp? Joe @Cirincione - Author of “Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late” - explains, after a radioactive wasp nest was found at a South Carolina site where the US once made nuclear bombs. https://t.co/YBQXIpcL8b" / X What happens if you get stung by a radioactive wasp? Joe @Cirincione - Author of “Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late” - explains, after a radioactive wasp nest was found at a South Carolina site where the US once made nuclear bombs. https://t.co/YBQXIpcL8b

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The Sunday Magazine for August 3, 2025 | CBC Radio Moshe Lander and Colin Robertson weigh Canada's options without a Trump trade deal in place, Setsuko Thurlow, Garrett Graff and Joe Cirincione reflect on the legacy of the atomic bombings of Japan, Jo...

In Canada?

Tune in this Sunday for a great discussion of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and where we are today with nuclear threats (Spoiler: Its not good.) www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...

I agree. It is a stunning historical development.

ADL web gone

Shortly after Trump’s election in November, the Internet Archive registered major changes to ADL’s website. Sections devoted to voting rights, racial justice, and other civil-rights issues were all gone. (3/x)

American Jews’ Support for Israel Is Near Its Breaking Point The big legacy groups remain mostly silent. But nearly everyone else now agrees: Netanyahu’s Gaza war is one of the great catastrophes in Jewish history.

Excellent new analysis by @ericalterman.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. American Jews now largely agree: "Netanyahu’s Gaza war is one of the great catastrophes in Jewish history." newrepublic.com/article/1986...

Part Two of my interview @cnn.com today. What lessons can we learn? And if a radioactive wasp stings you, do you get superpowers?

Part One of my interview on CNN today about the radioactive wasps discovered at the Savannah River nuclear site. Is this a Peter Parker moment?

Sorry!

Joining CNN at 2:45 to discuss the discovery of radioactive wasps at the former weapons production site in Georgia.

In Major Milestone, Dozens Of Senators Vote To Block U.S. Weapons To Israel Congress had never considered legislation to block America's billions in annual military aid until 9 months ago, and past efforts won 19 votes at most.

“Today’s vote was a new high water mark...It reflects the rising tide among voters against continuing to subsidize & arm Israel’s actions in Gaza & its other grave violations of Palestinian rights”

— @cipolicy.bsky.social Ari Tolany on vote to block arms to Israel:

www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Opinion: The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant A Cold War-era nuclear facility poisoned Georgians, and the federal government is doing little about it as it seeks to repurpose the site.

Here is an excellent oped summarizing the contamination and mismanagement problems at Savannah River. The radioactive wasps offer us a dramatic (and humorous) window into its controversial history. www.ajc.com/opinion/opin...

To learn more about the problems at this troubled nuclear weapons plant, go to the folks at Savannah River Site Watch. srswatch.org

Radioactive wasp nest found at old US nuclear bomb-making site The Savannah River Site hosts the wasp nest that has “legacy radioactive contamination greater than 10 times" the acceptable limit.

The government says this was not caused by any leaks at the nuclear plant, but with 34 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in 43 underground tanks, this is a bit hard to believe. interestingengineering.com/culture/radi...

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs | CNN Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the United States have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

I will be @cnn.com at 2:30 pm ET today to discuss, yes, radioactive wasps. It’s a real thing. www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/u...

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I’ve read dozens of articles on this, but none were as informative, with so much new information, as this discussion. As Bill says at the end, “Boy, he really unloaded a lot!”

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No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide

Israel’s war has amounted to “coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli group said. “In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

The fact that one man has the sole authority to launch one nuclear weapon or one thousand whenever he wants for whatever reason he wants is insane.

The fact that that one man is Donald Trump should terrify everyone.

Trump again publicly rambles incoherently about imaginary events.

This ignorant, bigoted know-nothing is in charge of managing the budget of the United States.

Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

The ICBM is not the only bloated, over-budget and behind-schedule nuclear weapon. Here’s another boondoggle making news. bsky.app/profile/nuke...

I especially like this one. It is often avoided by even progressives, who fear looking “weak” by opposing the corporate transfer of wealth masquerading as a defense budget.