"The draft PEIS highlights increased risk of radiation in the environment and across communities near facilities and workers. The NNSA attempts to write these off as negligible increases and selects the most harmful and risky option of continued multi-site operations."
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Yup
LDP played the long game against the #Peace restrictions of the constitution.
🌎 This is how we’re entering Earth week.
Nuclear weapons are an environmental issue.
Learn more: preventnuclearwar.org/beginners-gu...
#NoNukes #nucleardisarmament #BackFromTheBrink #climatechange #EarthWeek
Finally
Due to underwhelming demand, I uploaded the complete 1954 EATOMIC SECRETS cookbook from Sandia Base. Bon appétit! archive.org/details/sand...
"A sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the U.K. is gathering momentum ... This sustained attack on our community's ability to worship and live in safety is an attack on the values that bind us all together."
Authorities have warned of an even larger earthquake hitting northeastern Japan, after a magnitude 7.7 quake struck off the coast of Iwate on Monday, triggering tsunami across a broad swath of the area.
Happy #Bicycle Day
When you’re desperate to keep your job….
"The wider impact of the disaster is contested and difficult to determine....In 2005, a study by several UN agencies concluded 4,000 people could die as a result of the [Chernobyl] accident. Other estimates suggest the number could be tens of thousands."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
When Americans realize Will Farrell was never funny, the healing can begin
Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.
Trump administration is actively weakening existing nuclear safety regulations, including a May 2025 executive order directing the NRC to reconsider core radiation exposure standards — raising serious public safety concerns.
oilprice.com/Alternative-...
The Zaporizhzhia NPP has temporarily lost all external power for the fourteenth time since the start of the war. The IAEA is conducting an investigation due to critical nuclear safety risks.
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Talk about a Good Friday news dump: the NRC has quietly voted to phase out the crucial, force-on-force security inspections that have helped ensure #nuclear plants remain protected against terrorist attacks since the aftermath of 9/11. Worst NRC ever.
www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2609/...
All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans
We've got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I'm sure it would go back even…
I'll be in Washington State at Whitman College to discuss my forthcoming paper with the @transitionsec.bsky.social and our reporting at @inkstickmedia.com on dwindling job creation and economic mobility in the military-industrial complex.
Anyone in and around Walla Walla welcome to join!
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
In Gaza, the effects of war do not end when the bombing stops. A silent health crisis is emerging among pregnant women and their children. Since the start of Israel’s assault, maternity wards have reported alarming increases in miscarriages, premature births, and rare congenital disabilities.
Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"
Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
Ryan and Leah have started their own, 2-person media outlet that is already breaking significant local stories. My town of Salem has an outlet called Salem Reporter that does good work with a staff of maybe 3 people. These are promising developments, but drops in a bucket. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
thronging to the new american pontiff
Someone had fun with this headline.
