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Chad Briggs

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social

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Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 21h

I was at a Paul Rodriguez stand-up in 1992 and remember he asked the same thing. Why were white people who hated Latinos so eager to look more like them?

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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 2d

Alaskans aren’t prepared for how catastrophic the Trump healthcare cuts are going to be. In addition to making the ACA marketplace unaffordable for thousands of Alaskan families, it will raise premiums for everyone and probably shutter clinics and hospitals.

alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/23/a...

Alaskans face massive health insurance cost increases unless Congress acts before year end | Alaska Beacon

Subsidies for policies purchased through the federal marketplace are due to expire, affecting everyone in the state.

alaskabeacon.com

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

A frustrated Eisenhower knew but could not publicly say that secret photographs from U-2 spy planes and new CORONA photoreconnaissance satellites proved that no such gap existed. In fact, the United States had a six to one advantage in ICBMs (12 versus 2) and a small lead in SLBMs (32 versus 30).

A declassified black and white early CORONA satellite photograph showing the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soviet Union’s first missile flight test and space launch facility, located in Kazakhstan near the village of Tyuratam, some 1,300 miles southeast of Moscow. A rocket test stand and flame trench are at the lower right.

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 4d

Wildly overblown and disconnected from reality?
/dnrtfa

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 4d

I feel the inherency

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 4d

I have such a clear memory of this song, Jan 1, 1986. Sitting at my desk in a Wisconsin farmhouse, clear sunshine and bitter cold outside. Hand writing a junior high report on evolutionary biology, this song came on the radio

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 10d

Such a clever movie
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The 'burbs (8/10) Movie CLIP - We're the Lunatics! (1989) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 10d

This is perfect to inflict on my students this week

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12d

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 10d

I don't want my tiling hanging out with nazis

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 10d

a cowboy with a bandage on his head is wearing a cowboy hat .

Alt: Blazing Saddles reference to "ditto", since the Patrick Swayze reference from Ghost seemed a bit schmaltzy, and Blazing Saddles seems all too appropriate for this moment in US political history

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

In Kosovo, that was taught in qualitative research methods...but to be fair, the students all knew already

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11d

I'm mad just reading this

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 12d

Mork and Mindy (spinoff from Happy Days)

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 14d

Good luck!

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 15d

Our Kosovo rescue cat Violet looking out the window of our Anchorage house to see a moose sticking her snout near the window #adorable

Silhouette of a cat looking out a window into a snowy front year, with the front nose of a large moose visible in the left side of the window. A family of 3 camped out in our yard ALL FRICKING DAY. But it was early 2021, and we had nowhere to go, the university campus was still shut down.

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 16d

One would need an advanced degree,that's like the 3 body problem in physics

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 16d

Technologically advance a band.

Project Genesis

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Rachit Kansal @rachitkansal.bsky.social · 17d

Here's a starting point for who you could talk to next time @dwallacewells.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/rach...

Rachit Kansal @rachitkansal.bsky.social · Nov 11

Heya #EnergySky! Exciting to see the recent momentum on here.

Energy Twitter was great, but something we can improve on with v2 is to have a broader set of voices from outside the US - where the fight on climate will be won or lost.

A very early, incomplete start to this ->

go.bsky.app/AcmKEwb