The last panel of #HSF2025 Saturday focused on nuclear posture. Moderator @kimdozier.bsky.social led a panel with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social, Peter Watkins & Katarzyna Zysk to discuss on the theme “Preserving Peace and Preventing Aggression: NATO’s Nuclear Posture in the Future Threat Environment.”
"by drawing attention to the unusual presence of African workers on Russian assembly lines, they also raise troubling questions for African governments. Why are their citizens toiling at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s arms empire?" www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Unfollowing this account for that unfair characterization.
When each side no longer sees the other as people, they stop seeing a reason to stop killing each other. That's where we are in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
With @biannagolodryga.bsky.social & Zain Asher @cnnipr.bsky.social youtu.be/8ooNblpkBDk
US ‘silence’ encouraging Putin, says Zelensky, after Russia launches record air assault
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As Trump aims to expand presidential authority, can anyone stop him? | Analysis: cnn.it/43LA0PZ
Trump administration finally responds to large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine
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"X is racist. The only thing up for debate is whether this is a feature or a bug for those in charge," writes Charlie Warzel.
Delighted that The CIA Book Club has been chosen as an NPR pick of the summer. "The book's allure is intrigue, danger, and suspense in the service of meaning. I'm in." Thanks @npr.org. #theciabookclub
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You gotta love the Czechs.
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China, Iran steadily coming closer as nuclear talks with US continue. On energy, mil, trade, cooperation strengthening despite sanctions. Deal or no deal, naive to think Iran will abandon China. Fazli can only improve those ties. Sign-up to our NL here: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
Under Trump’s second term, the figures Media Matters has long scrutinized have been elevated into positions of real power. The fringe is now the establishment. And they’re now attempting to muzzle the watchdogs in plain sight. www.status.news/p/ftc-invest...
"The slaughter Wednesday night of two Israeli Embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington was an act of terrorism apparently motivated by virulent antisemitism," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4keK6im
This isn’t getting nearly enough attention.
Estonian navy is stopped at intercepting a shadow fleet vessel because a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 violated Estonian air space. This reduces even the implausible deniability to 0, which Russia has been relying on with the shadow fleet.
@glandsbergis.bsky.social and I presented this morning our report commissioned by the CBSS to the organisation's foreign ministers, who agreed with our conclusions.
The report is now public and free to read. (/2)
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According to Reporters Without Borders ( @rsf.org ) my beloved Estonia 🇪🇪 ranks second in the the world in media freedom. Media freedom is one of a principal foundations of democracy. rsf.org/en/index
Cables from US embassies reveal how the silencing of VOA, RFE/RL, RFA, MBN and Radio/TV Marti are harming US interests abroad
Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote. “And with them came worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts from American researchers about the fate reserved for them by the Trump administration.”
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“As the administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court,” Quinta Jurecic writs. “Even that tool might not be powerful enough”:
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
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This appears to be correct: British Indian Ocean Territory is on the tariff list. The only residents there are at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK military installation, according to a CIA Factbook. www.cia.gov/the-world-fa...
Moscow has downgraded its relationship with Pyongyang before and could do so again after the Russo-Ukrainian War ends. Washington and Seoul should act accordingly.
Very significant: China is launching a major exercise near Taiwan that looks like a dress rehearsal for a blockade against the island
Please tell me they corrected that typo?
Not the brand boost one would hope for.
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We cannot let the accountability disappear along with the messages. My latest on @BulwarkOnline on the Signal chat.
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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.
I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
