Andrew Facini

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Nuclear weapons policy, history, cultural issues, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, Council on Strategic Risks. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension.

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Oh, and here's my start on working through the Project 2025 chapter on the State Department.

Project 2025 – The Department of Statenucleardiner.wordpress.com The Project 2025 chapter* on the State Department is a plan to transform the State Department into the President’s political arm in international affairs. Institutional knowledge would be jettisoned, ...

Right-wingers melting down this week is going to be nothing compared to the temper tantrums when the next round of polls show Biden 49% Trump 48%

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“Millions of kind-hearted compassionate people agree that immigrants are vermin poisoning the blood of America, or at least are compassionate enough to get past someone saying that.”

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

Ya, looks like a blip but just got back via web!

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Holy fuck the email he sent was so much worse:

Man I'm very tired with "how this will play" discourse. Of course this is a wild and upsetting example but jeez can we not take or place any responsibility for critical or nuanced thought onto any voter in this country?

Former President got injured in an appalling show of political violence but do we immediately just cede any nuanced understanding that the threat of his winning the election means the end of this country as we know it?

That everything he's said and done before points to a whole-ass system of violence and autocracy but once someone tries to do something terrible to him we have to bake into the conversation the idea that he will (rightly??) win support in his scheme?

Like does nobody have any faith in anyone anymore that we can hold *both* the idea that this is terrible and should not be legitimized + his platform is much more horrible than one dramatic moment of violence, and will result in much more?

Are we really gonna just take that as a tut tut outcome and accept that there's no deeper understanding in this country? This is a highly flustered rant with how politics goes, I know. I felt this way during the Biden discourse but then the polls showed no actual change, as poor a comparison it is

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"City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period."

Cars prove far deadlier than guns in NYC so far this yeargothamist.com City data shows 127 people were killed by drivers across the five boroughs during the first six months of 2024, about 55% more than the 82 who were fatally shot over the same period.

Come onnnnn

No no can't complain about this or any other continuing monetization of every aspect of private life because then I'd be doing a techlash

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An apt meme making rounds

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NEW FOIA Files newsletter: is up! Good news. If the nuclear football is “lost, stolen or compromised,” the DOD “has procedures to ensure only the president can authorize the use of nuclear weapons,” according to a report I obtained. Wait, is that good news? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Not to Worry, Only the President Can Launch Nukes, Pentagon Report Sayswww.bloomberg.com The “nuclear football” was dangerously close to Jan. 6 rioters. The Defense Department’s watchdog was then tasked with reviewing what would happen if it was intercepted.

Dope

That Hochul is not politically savvy was obvious. That she is willfully damaging the chances of the left and center by sprinting to the right is becoming more clear. "Saving" these three districts was the presumed goal of killing NYC congestion pricing, which was supposed to start 10 days ago.

(Bon Scott voice) It's a snaaail break

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Tonight in 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand (July 10, local time), French secret agents—in an elaborate intelligence operation codenamed Satanique—used two limpet mines to sink the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it prepared to return to Mururoa Atoll to protest French nuclear testing there.

Sentinel program modified after staggering overruns—now only 81% over! "Total program acquisition costs for a reasonably modified Sentinel program are estimated by CAPE to be $140.9 billion, an increase of 81 percent compared to estimates at the program's previous Milestone B decision in Sept 2020"

Department of Defense Announces Results of Sentinel Nunn-McCurdy Reviewwww.defense.gov On Jan. 18, 2024, the Air Force notified Congress that the Sentinel program exceeded its baseline cost projections, resulting in a critical breach under the Nunn-McCurdy statute.

Don't let the fascists in because they will break the mechanisms for you to get rid of them, un rappel opportun

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It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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A Second Trump Term Will Usher In Deadly White Supremacist Christofascism According to Explicit Manifesto vs. No It Won’t

even trump’s campaign staff (i assume he didn’t write this) knows that the reactionary, authoritarian agenda that’s project 2025 is going to be unpopular with the average voter.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

National Parks July 4 timeline cleanse 🇺🇲

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In which I note that presidential sole authority to launch nuclear missiles is pretty much like a monarchy already. The question is in whose hands you want that authority. #nukesky

This Won’t Change Under A Monarchy

This Won’t Change Under A Monarchy - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The US President has sole authority to launch nuclear missiles. “Sole authority” is the official phrase, and it means what it says. Only the President can give the order to launch nuclear missiles, and he is not restricted in any way. He does not have to consult with anyone else. A military aide follows him […]

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Law Talkin' Guy

Mr. Hutz, aka Miguel Sanchez, I hope you saw the post going around earlier: No one is above the law No, one is above the law!

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this year is going to take a lifetime

Haha glad there isn't a part II right