Bo Jacobs

If you believe in karma, you have not been paying attention

On this day in 1958...

Workers on a hillside along a road in a forest, scrapping the soil to put into bags

“Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in #Fukushima”

How models of harm from #radiation established after the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki misses many risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

US Dropped $5.6 Billion Worth of Bombs on Iran in First 2 Days of War Alone Four days into the war, US Central Command said that the US had struck 2,000 targets using more than 2,000 munitions.

Four days into the conflict, US Central Command reported striking 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions, with the first two days of bombing alone costing $5.6 billion.

here's the first known case of a civilian victim of an AI-assisted attack by the US military, and the provenance of the intel input is already a blackbox

Record keeping feels like a small matter, but it's vital to accountability, and it looks to be a mess

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

All thanks to the Roberts Court.

Astonishing.

The Submarine of Czechia: Or, The Life of a Spy at Mar-a-Lago A version of this short story was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. This is most definitely a work of...

so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place

and then i wrote a short story

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Workers on a hillside along a road in a forest, scrapping the soil to put into bags

“Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in #Fukushima”

How models of harm from #radiation established after the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki misses many risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This is what ecocide looks like.

Going to use today's anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo to start another thread, this one dedicated to a research question that’s proven quite the journey: how many Koreans died in the firestorm?

tl;dr: 1000s, and some argue disproportionately more than Japanese

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead...

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can

And in comedy news….

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan's government pushes for more reactors Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

🚨 JUST IN: Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

This story was supported by the @pulitzercenter.org.

#Fukushima #nukesky @thebulletin.org

CHATGPT IS BAD AT FIGURING OUT "WOKE" YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox

My Take-a-Day challenge short is up!

DOGE used ChatGPT to decide which National Endowment for the Humanities grants to cancel and but the story isn't just what got flagged. It's what the flagging gets wrong about history

itself.https://youtube.com/shorts/z0f-_gzty-Y

This is part of my personal challenge to just get up and DO A TAKE... To let go of perfectionism in my argument and to stop futzing with hair/make-up/etc. It's good enough, and I'm doing the reps.

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And who is spreading the absurd idea that ALARA provisions have "forced operators to incorporate concrete shields into their reactor designs"? It takes several meters of shielding to reduce doses just so that workers don't start dropping dead from acute radiation sickness.

U.S. military commanders are reportedly invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about the biblical "end times" as the U.S. bombs Iran.

Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says his organization received 15 to 20 calls a day at the start of the war.

Justice Ziegler just announced that she won't run for re-election next year. With no incumbent, Democrats may have an easier time scooping up this seat. www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...

The dangerous lesson countries may take from the Iran war Having a nuclear weapon has never looked more appealing.

Having nukes has never looked more appealing.

My latest for
@vox.com on the dangerous lesson countries are likely to take from this moment, with insights from @nktpnd.bsky.social

www.vox.com/politics/481...

How the Epstein Files Reveal the Final Failure of QAnon This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

NEW: For @talkingpointsmemo.com, I wrote about how the idea that QAnon "was right" because of the Epstein Files reveals a lack of basic understanding about the Q movement. Q was never just about trafficking, it was a plan to save the world.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-the...

Trump’s holy warriors finally got the apocalypse they’ve prayed for Hundreds are dead. Iran is retaliating. And some of the people who helped start this war think it's going exactly as God intended.

I wrote about the Christian Zionism that is quietly fueling the US attack on Iran. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Sunday Interview: The New MAGA History: How Trump, JD Vance, and the Right Are Redefining What It Means to Be American Podcast-Folge · Straight White American Jesus · 8. März · 1 Std. 1 Min.

My latest Sunday interview for @straightwhitejc.bsky.social: @thomaszimmer.bsky.social and I spoke about recent speeches and rhetoric from Trump, Vance, Rubio, and Senator Eric Schmitt and their vision of the US rooted in ancestry, heritage, and “blood and soil” nationalism.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Two days before Trump launched Operation Epstein Fury, Omani FM Badr Albusaidi, a key mediator in back channel negotiations btw the US and Iran, announced a historic breakthrough: Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling, adding that missiles were also on the table. This should have been a big story.

Interview: Welsh author discusses his latest book on Okinawa Stephen Price Celebrated author, Jon Mitchell is set to hold a talk in Wales this March, discussing his latest book ‘Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence’, where he will discuss similarities b...

🗞️Get to know @jonmitchell.bsky.social as he discusses his book Why are we in Okinawa?: A History of Violence in @nation.cymru https://bit.ly/4bozkno

📖 https://bit.ly/4aSxXNP

NYPD confirms lit device was explosive in Gracie Mansion protest clash The lit device thrown during a clash of protests outside Gracie Mansion was in fact an “improvised explosive device,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Sunday.

www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-cit...