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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 21h

the USSR did design and test “clean” (90%-plus fusion) thermonuclear weapons. This was a key reason the US opposed a nuclear test ban in the 1950s. But neither country widely deployed them because they were not powerful enough for the miniaturized warheads that could fit into MIRVs on ICBMs/SLBMs.

A circular color photograph of the team leaders of the W87-1 warhead modification program (left to right, a white man, an Asian-American woman, and a white woman) smiling while standing next to a black Mk21A conical reentry vehicle sitting vertically on a wheeled platform. The Mk21A is roughly as tall as the white man and the white woman. The W87-1, originally deployed on the Peacekeeper ICBM beginning in 1986, currently arms 200 Minuteman III ICBMs. The Mk21A is intended for use on the new Sentinel ICBM.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 21h

Four years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.” This is categorically wrong.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17h

The White House press secretary answers for every decision this administration makes -- Trump filled the job with a loyalist from his own media company Day one showed what happens when qualifications come last More w/ @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social👇 -TN

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

Cancer has given the world a reason to talk about the pope outside of any conflict with a political leader or debate over a global trend. In doing so, it may have provided a platform to showcase something more fundamental about Leo and his spirituality. www.ncronline.org/vatican/leos...

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Leo's calm amid cancer diagnosis spotlights another side of his pontificate

Pope Leo XIV's calm "has been his style for many, many years," says one archbishop. "I don't think he is going to change overnight."

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12h

Republican candidate Brandon Herrera mocked people with Down syndrome during a 2024 podcast and used a voice mimicking them. At the time, the candidate admitted that if the clip got out it would ruin his political career.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 14/10/2026

NEW: Ukrainian troops were caught off guard by restrictions on Starlink satellite internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, as Kyiv received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities for the second day running, Ukrainian officials tell me.

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Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack

Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12h

GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera Mocked People With Down Syndrome The Texas Republican admitted the segment would end his political career if it ever came out. meidasnews.com/news/gop-can...

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GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera Mocked People With Down Syndrome

The Texas republican admitted the segment would end his political career if it ever came out.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 17h

Transcript: ‘A Man Like This Should Not Be President’: Jeffrey Sachs August 20, 2026 A Psychological Diagnosis Maybe you’ll regret that you invited me, but I think Donald Trump is literally and mentally ill to a very serious extent. singjupost.com/transcript-a...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Trump had people arrested to cover up his incompetence. An impeachable offense for any other president. For Trump, probably just about the 17th worst thing he did that week.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

What a total scumbag. Another one to vote out. These people are not just awful legislators, they are just terrible human beings. bsky.app/profile/theb...

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 20h

"Are we only becoming as barbaric as that which we are trying to prevent?" Milwaukee Bishop Grob said His comments came in the form of rhetorical questions and few declarative statements, which are characteristic of Grob's contemplative style journaltimes.com/news/state-r...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Trump and Musk are doing everything they can to try and force Ukraine to surrender to Putin while Musk spends over $300 million to try and buy the midterm elections to maintain total power. The American government under Republicans are on the side of evil. Vote them out.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams

"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.

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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What a day, Huntsville. Nearly 2,000 of you showed up yesterday to rally with my friend @staceyabrams and me. Stacey helped turn out the vote in Georgia. We can do it here in Alabama, too.

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs,” Omar said in response. “we’re going the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said. “Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Federal agents search Omar’s home in criminal investigation

Federal agents searched the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Monday morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — the investigative …

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Federal agents search Omar’s home in criminal investigation

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Who could’ve predicted it?

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is my Church (cit from the priest in the movie “The Waterfront”)

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Really if Ukraine decides to switch targets, data centers are great. Russia’s capacity to replace the parts inside given the global market is pretty limited

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026

NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.

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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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:

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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."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV rejects death penalty attack on dignity of human person Pope Leo reaffirms Catholic Church’s rejection of death penalty, recalling common good be “safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope Leo XIV rejects death penalty as attack on dignity of human person - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements ...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope Leo XIV rejects death penalty as attack on dignity of human person - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another lie to fool voters that never happened.

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Catholics for the Common Good President of US Catholic Bishops Condemns Livestreaming Firing Squad as "Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death." Archbishop Paul Coakley spoke after the Pentagon ordered the December 3, 2026, execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood to be streamed

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President of US Catholic Bishops Condemns Livestreaming Firing Squad as "Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death."

Archbishop Paul Coakley spoke after the Pentagon ordered the December 3, 2026, execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood to be streamed live.

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chrisppdorf.bsky.social @chrisppdorf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Such a strong rejection of capital punishment by a ninth century pope undermines the claim that there is an unbroken 2,000-year-old Catholic tradition in favor of the death penalty’s legitimacy.” — Robert Fastiggi on Pope St. Nicholas I wherepeteris.com/the-death-pe...

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