Overwhelming amount of media world chatter and concern about "60 Minutes" tonight. Why would CBS News promote the story about the Trump admin's deportations to CECOT on Friday, only to shelve it today? Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says it is "not an editorial decision, it is a political one."
Who’s going to break it to him that no country other than North Korea has detonated a nuke this century?
If I was thinking about how to squander America’s advantage, and give China its greatest gift, this would be it.
We’ve conducted more than 1000 tests, China got in 45 before the ban.
Outdated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home. It’s past time for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
"Humanity cannot coexist with nuclear weapons forever."
- critical takeaway from my @ucs.org colleague Jenn Knox's must-read piece "Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite," the @netflix.com movie premiering in theater's tomorrow:
blog.ucs.org/jknox/five-t...
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
This speech is now an Emmy winner.
Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
At least it rhymes with paying $160k to burn $10M of contraceptives that the UN and others want to buy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
CO2 emissions in China have decreased from a peak in March 2024 to June 2025. The reduction is due to the deployment of massive amounts of renewable capacity, particularly solar PV.
There was a hint in 2024 that China's Carbon emissions had peaked due to their massive roll out of renewables, which continues. Now the data from the first half of 2025 confirms that CO2 emissions in China are decreasing. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋
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The man whose identity has not been disclosed was transported to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
By @janettev.bsky.social & @shoton35mm.bsky.social
This is a developing story.
lataco.com/monrovia-man...
One of the most dispiriting things about our current state of affairs is how much of the barbarism is just unaccountable bureaucratic rule following sucking up innocent people into an unfeeling machine and traumatizing them for life
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Maybe focus on nat’l security instead of loyalty to regime head?
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED
@reuters.com
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
Los Angeles was already struggling to revive its fragile economy after the most destructive wildfires in its history erupted six months ago. Now, immigration raids are driving workers crucial to the rebuilding into the shadows.
This swat-like ice raid was against citizens who had the misfortune of nicking an ICE car when they were arresting others. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...
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My colleague insightful colleague @lauraegrego.bsky.social explains why the US attack on Iran may have damaged disarmament efforts more than Iran’s nuclear capabilities: blog.ucs.org/lgrego/the-u...
if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.
He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
My latest story -- it's not often that everyday Americans have a venue to tell their government what they think about the new nuclear arms race.
But three sorts of public hearings occurred recently, drawing in locals from places like rural South Carolina to Las Vegas to the SF Bay Area.
How wild that without much debate, we are intervening in another war in the Middle East?
It’s quite a choice to ensure allies can launch preemptive military assaults on neighbors and the US will be there to shoot down any attempt at retaliation.
"According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a #NoKings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...
