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Nuclear historian, Emeritus @ Hiroshima Peace Inst, visiting @ #UNSW. I research the global #hibakuksha, #nuclear testing, production and waste. #PDX #STS Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022) https://nuclearbodies.com https://bojacobs.net

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Historian of nuclear science & technology at Hiroshima Peace Inst. My book *Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha* (Yale 2022) surveys harm from #nuclear production, weapon testing, & reactor accidents globally, & medical models that obscure harm from fallout particles.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8h

Opinion | Liberals say they are tolerant. So why are they so intolerant of Hitler?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19h

This is an extremely Boston thing to say but I was not quite prepared for Robby Roadsteamer to go full Lenny Bruce Mode!

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

This is 100% true. Your general knee - jerk libertarian bro doesn't like this. It's low priority for them because it's not happening to them or people they know, but they don't like it.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 23h

1. Lmao

2. Obviously he meant B-21

3. Confusing the two off the cuff is pretty reasonable

4. But talking about it with reference to the overflight last month is mistaking the two

5. Not actually knowing the difference is bad

6. We're making decisions based on this kind of thing??

6. Lmao

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Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯 @jonatomic.bsky.social · 23h

He seems nice

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Representative Dave Taylor, Republican of Ohio, said on Wednesday that his office and the U.S. Capitol Police were investigating after an American flag that had been altered to depict a swastika was found in his Capitol Hill office.

American Flag With Swastika Is Found in Republican Congressman’s Office

Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as “vile” and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a system collapse. It affects everyone. Even interpersonal relationships are under pressure from the structures they live within.

Take care of yourselves and each other.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

This story ends with some of the first concrete indications right wing extremists are responding to DHS' ICE recruitment drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

When Politico runs what appears to be a negative Trump story

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Three 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 completely wrong.

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

YouTube video by Interstellar1977

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 9d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 2d

Fall in Japan is being marked by a surge in bear attacks to historic highs.

As temperatures drop in Japan, bear attacks shoot up to historic highs

A total of 39 people sustained injuries from bear attacks in September alone.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Cool story with lots of interesting visuals

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Hidden under tonnes of rock, a dinosaur superhighway is emerging - where palaeontologists are walking in the footsteps of these giant beasts.'

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 2d

Here in #Tahiti, they have moved the sacred memorial for those harmed by French #nuclear testing to a new place more central to the route tourists walk by the pier, they have removed references to other nuclear test sites. As I watched, more people stopped to look, but the information is simplified.

An old white man standing in front of a monument with trees and hills behind

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Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 2d

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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