Adam Mount
@ajmount.bsky.social
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Fmr. FAS, CAP, CFR, Ph.D. Government, Georgetown. Deterrence, nuclear strategy, progressive foreign policy. Banners @UAHIRISE.
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.

"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
ajmount.bsky.social
Throw that cap over that wall.
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antoniajuhasz.bsky.social
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut.

They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
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igorsushko.bsky.social
Beautiful scenes in Anchorage, Alaska.
ajmount.bsky.social
It's a unique combination of anger, shame, revulsion, horror I haven't felt the day he smiled in front of American and North Korean flags with Kim Jong Un and saluted his general.
profsaunders.bsky.social
It was bad enough when Rubio met Lavrov at zero cost to a then-pariah Russia. It was horrendous when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Inviting Putin to the U.S. also at no cost was awful. But Trump clapping a red carpet welcome to Putin and giving him a ride is just sickening.
ajmount.bsky.social
America's failure to enact DC statehood and gave fascism a crucial foothold. A city so disenfranchised and disempowered that they could impose federal martial law without legal resistance, to normalize it and extend it to other cities.
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profsaunders.bsky.social
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
profsaunders.bsky.social
Putin is COMING TO THE UNITED STATES? Even by Trump 2.0 standards, this is beyond belief. U.S. diplomacy is dead.
christopherjm.ft.com
Trump says he will meet with Putin in Alaska a week from today.
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
is there a starker illustration of how they'll always find the money to terrorize people but never to shelter, clothe, or feed them
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.
ajmount.bsky.social
Taxpayer dollars spent persecuting political opponents.

Not only trying to intimidate state officials who are fighting to save our democracy, but normalizing threats of violence against citizens who support them. Not far now from armed and masked federal thugs at political rallies.
briantylercohen.bsky.social
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference.

This is what rising fascism looks like.
ajmount.bsky.social
I hope people understand that this is why progressives are progressives. Every reservoir of injustice we allow to persist is not only morally intolerable each and every day; it's a lever fascists will exploit to consolidate authoritarian transition.
51st.news
The 51st @51st.news · Aug 11
In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard
City leaders have called the move a "manufactured intrusion on local authority."
51st.news
ajmount.bsky.social
Eighty years ago, we destroyed Hiroshima. We killed civilians, children, foreigners, even Americans. There is much to regret about the history—and about the effects it has on our policy and culture to this day.

We will not be whole until we apologize.

foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/10/u...
America’s Nuclear Rules Still Allow Another Hiroshima
U.S. leaders must take responsibility for past nuclear atrocities.
foreignpolicy.com
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mclem.org
Accountability is possible. Democracy requires it.
ajmount.bsky.social
Catastrophic—for human civilization and America's place in it.
thanhneville.medsky.social
The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.
ajmount.bsky.social
And the dopamine hit when you see yellow for crit.

XCOM 2 is such a polished, nuanced game. There are a few mods that further enhance the already-exceptional exceptional UI. If I could have any single game, it would be XCOM 3.
ajmount.bsky.social
Please don't write or amplify headlines that say Trump "ordered" or "deployed" or "moved" submarines. He may have done so, pointlessly, but a tweet is not an order.
nuclear-jim.bsky.social
As much as I deplore nuclear signaling by tweet--can't believe I just wrote that--I would NOT necessarily assume there's a been change to the US nuclear posture. The U.S. always keeps ~4/5 SSBNs at sea ready to fire.
ajmount.bsky.social
On the relatively short list of explicit nuclear threats, I think this is the most stupid and least credible.

It's narrowly ahead of "fire and fury," which, remember, was also explicitly a threat against statements made by a foreign official.
shashj.bsky.social
Probably the first time that idle shitposting has resulted in concrete changes to an adversary’s nuclear posture.
ajmount.bsky.social
You want to know why it's important to have an effective government bureaucracy? Who else is going to develop standards for safe radiation levels in wasp nests?
ajmount.bsky.social
By the way, this is:
(1) What the arms control community warned you would happen happen from years of intoning that nuclear modernization is sacrosanct, on top of the obscene cost overruns and delays, and
(2) Hardly the only example.
ajmount.bsky.social
You've got to be pretty egregious if your use of the "nuclear modernization budget" as a slush fund made it to the front page of the New York Times.
ajmount.bsky.social
Presumably also rapid forward deployment to APAC without having completed preparatory work. Much good may it do anybody.
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dburbach.bsky.social
No, no, no. We do NOT want the regular US Army 'integrating at every echelon' with domestic police.

A two star has to get a mission done. He does not have to tell his troops and the press that Army-as-cops is great and this is what the US military *should* be doing