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Andrew Facini
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Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43

Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
Pinned
In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.
Cloudflare hq this morning
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It was awesome to sit down with @nktpnd.bsky.social on the reemergence of tactical nuclear weapons and the various scenarios I worry are becoming more likely. Listen in and check out more from his excellent show!
What Would Constitute Nuclear Use? The State of Tactical Nuclear Weapons Today - War on the Rocks
warontherocks.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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i hope it’s clear to everyone that the primary reason we aren’t doing this is because we don’t have strong political leadership fighting for it
i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
To be clear this is a downgrade in the US alliance network playing out in real time
South Korea's president, unveiling details of new US-South Korea agreements:

"There are no eternal enemies or eternal friends in the international community. Only the national interest is eternal."
대한민국 대통령실
대한민국 대통령 공식 홈페이지
www.president.go.kr
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Newsweek that the deployment of the United States Typhon missile system in the country does not target any specific nation, after Russia said it reserved the right to take necessary measures to ensure its security.
www.newsweek.com/japan-americ...
US ally responds to American missiles threatening Russia
The U.S. Typhon missile system can conduct land-attack missions with 1,000-mile-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If you haven’t seen it, this is the video.

It’s a serious problem that our government can respond to this video and claim that we didn’t see what we all saw.
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The world is drifting away from the norms that kept nuclear use unthinkable for decades. @andrewfacini.com and @nktpnd.bsky.social sit down to discuss what happens when restraint starts to unravel.

Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Every time I have too much of anything
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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New post on the history of Soviet and Russian hydronuclear tests axesandatoms.substack.com/p/the-questi...
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are

The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.

The government shutdown was invented in 1980

The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Do we think he saw One Battle After Another and was like, yeah, that's what I should look like
NEW: Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tells agents in LA, "It’s our f–king city" in newly released video. blockclubchi.co/4oU0lTF
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Not a savvy timing move for her. I'm still libbing out so much from Tuesday I might just give to Hochul
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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By interpersonal politics or professional norms, it’s unbearably difficult, but by effort alone, public health has the easiest job in the world right now: there is literally nothing left to do, and nowhere else to start the work, than telling the truth about why so many of us are sick or starving
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The font they used for this decal is "English 111" -- designed in the 80s by the foundry Bitstream, which was acquired by @bymonotype.bsky.social in 2014.

Presuming the contractor actually bought it, the standard license does not include "commercial / large-scale print environments"
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I have an idea.
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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June 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Stovetouching is back on the menu
ok now we are cooking. tell us how you feel folks let it all out
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"i fight for you and i fight for democracy" is essentially what the DPK ran on post-Yoon coup

it's a good message!
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Today we learned that for his whole life Dick Cheney could see 12 hours into the future.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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38% of scanners and gap is back to 95k. So it’s not closing with the initial EDay counts coming in. This is probably cooker. Hizzoner will be Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 12:01a
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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THE UNION FOREVER!!

HURRAH BOYS, HURRAH!!
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
DEMS BRACING FOR FALLOUT IN BROOKLYN
this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM