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Bo Jacobs

@bojacobs.bsky.social

Nuclear historian, Emeritus @ Hiroshima Peace Inst, visiting @ #UNSW. I research the global #hibakuksha, #nuclear testing, production and waste. #PDX #STS Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022) https://nuclearbodies.com https://bojacobs.net

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d ago

Big reporting from @joshkovensky.bsky.social. Pls read & share! A lot of stuff can coincidentally fall into yr lap after u write a big check for the ballroom. A Ballroom Donor, a Sanctions Waiver, $201 Million in Public Money: The Mystery of Konstantin Sokolov talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-ballr...

A Ballroom Donor, a Sanctions Waiver, $201 Million in Public Money: The Mystery of Konstantin Sokolov

Ever since he contributed to the White House ballroom project last year,...

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Back From The Brink@backfrombrink.bsky.social · 4d ago

"A handful of people in 9 countries have the power to launch a nuclear war that will kill billions...In the US that power is concentrated in one person, the president who has sole & unchecked authority to launch nuclear war." Must read by BftB's Dr. Ira Helfand www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

We Should All Be Worried That Trump's Hands Are on the Nuclear Trigger | Common Dreams

There are no “right hands” to be in possession of nuclear weapons. But Donald Trump clearly possesses utterly "wrong hands” and should be lawfully removed from an office that gives him the power to de...

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Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 4d ago

It is, today, 115 years since navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick saw his first Adélie penguin, after which he wrote several pages of notes about their sexual habits, concluded “there seems to be no crime too low for these penguins”, and saw his findings suppressed for 97 years

Adelie penguins jumping onto an ice floe, c.1911. There are three in the main body of the picture. One appears to have just landed, one is landing, the third in mid-air. Photo by Levick, via Wikimedia Commons
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

DrCrlsnPEJD@drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 7d ago

#ByAnyOtherName European nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, Sellafield in the UK and La Hague in France, are the largest sources of radioactive iodine ¹²⁹I and also the major sources in East Asia. bsky.app/profile/drcr...

Long-Range Transboundary Transport of Iodine-129 from South Asia to the Southern Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Moss and Lichen

Abstract. Level and transport regime of radioactive pollutants are scarcely understood at the remote high-altitude Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is the well-

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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today in 1957, workers at the Windscale Piles in Cumberland on England’s northwest coast, where two air-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors were producing plutonium for the United Kingdom’s nuclear stockpile, discovered Pile No. 1 was on fire. This was the United Kingdom’s worst nuclear accident.

A black and white ground-level photograph of the Windscale Piles, including the two prominent and tall chimneys (one for each reactor). The large, square protrusions near the top of each chimney were known, until the fire, as Cockcroft’s Folly, after physicist John Cockcroft who, as director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, insisted (following the recommendation of fellow physicist Terence Price) that high-performance air filters be installed in the chimneys to prevent deadly radioactive particles from escaping into the atmosphere in case an aluminum-clad uranium fuel cartridge should rupture during routine operations and catch fire.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 7d ago

OTD 50 yrs ago, Gen. Paul Tibbets (USAF, ret.) re-enacted the bombing of Hiroshima he led on August 6, 1945, at an air show sponsored by the private Confederate Air Force in Harlingen, Texas. As Tibbets flew a B-29 overhead, conventional explosives were detonated on the ground to simulate the bomb.

Screenshot from an archival color film (linked below) showing a B-29 bomber in flight at the October 10, 1976, air show in Harlingen, Texas.Screenshot from an archival color film (linked below) showing the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the air show.Screenshot from an archival color film (linked below) showing the mushroom cloud a few second later rising from the ground following the simulated explosion of an atomic bomb at the air show.A black and white, undated (circa October 11, 1976) Associated Press wirephoto of the simulated atomic explosion at the air show: "Mushroom Cloud A mushroom-shaped cloud rises above Rebel Field at Harlingen, Tex., home of the Confederate Air Force, during a re-enactment of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The re-enactment of the first A-bomb use in war came over the weekend during an air show."
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today in 1957, workers at the Windscale Piles in Cumberland on England’s northwest coast, where two air-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors were producing plutonium for the United Kingdom’s nuclear stockpile, discovered Pile No. 1 was on fire. This was the United Kingdom’s worst nuclear accident.

A black and white ground-level photograph of the Windscale Piles, including the two prominent and tall chimneys (one for each reactor). The large, square protrusions near the top of each chimney were known, until the fire, as Cockcroft’s Folly, after physicist John Cockcroft who, as director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, insisted (following the recommendation of fellow physicist Terence Price) that high-performance air filters be installed in the chimneys to prevent deadly radioactive particles from escaping into the atmosphere in case an aluminum-clad uranium fuel cartridge should rupture during routine operations and catch fire.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last wk.

Curtis Yarvin praising Hitler, Peter Thiel ranting nonstop about the Antichrist…and no one asks JD Vance about his deranged gurus? I’m old enough to remember when we had to talk about Obama’s pastor for a year or so. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-cur...

JD Vance catches heat after his favorite pseudointellectual praises Hitler again

A right-wing influencer praised by Vice President JD Vance got called out for praising Adolf Hitler – and it's not the first time.The vice president has openly acknowledged neo-reactionary political t...

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digby@digby56.bsky.social · last wk.

I really appreciate Ossoff not hedging on calling him out for the bigotry and neo-nazi propaganda. A lot of politicians in a purple state wouldn't do it for fear of alienating the bigot constituency.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last wk.

Ossoff: "Imagine running for the U.S. Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins. And it's not just those around him. Mike Collins himself has amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online...Mike Collins is a bigot and it's disqualifying fo