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PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share jackkennedy.ie linktr.ee/jack_kennedy

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · Aug 14

I wrote about what is was like visiting the US as a foreigner at the current moment. In short, it was weird

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The lamps are going out all over America

Leaving the US felt like the last chopper out of Saigon, except it was the Americans being left behind, and instead of a Huey it was an Aer Lingus A321neo.1 I spent about two and a half weeks in th…

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 6h

This is really blatant pro-Nazi rhetoric, but also the House Un-American Activities Committee following WWII considered it suspicious for people to have been anti-fascist before Pearl Harbor. So like…not new

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 9h

Closest I can find is a reference to summit diplomacy as kayfabe, looking at the Trump-Kim summit of 2018. So there's still time!

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Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump

Abstract. In this article, we propose the category of “foreign policy performance” in order to argue that a recognition of foreign policy's theatricality c

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 9h

"If you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful," writes Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan. "On Monday, when Bari Weiss was named editor-in-chief of CBS News, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots."

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h

OPINION: "Instead of stocking chips or soda, this vending machine has drug-testing strips, hygiene kits, socks, soap, wound care supplies and naloxone, a medication also known by its brand name Narcan that is used to reverse opioid overdoses—all completely free," Alice Zhang & Jennifer Murphy write.

Opinion | Vending Machines Give Pregnancy Tests, Hygiene Kits

Alice Zhang and Jennifer Murphy write that vending machines that provide easy access to harm-reduction resources helps to normalize their usage.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 9h

Are there any scholarly works explicitly invoking the concept of kayfabe to describe declaratory nuclear policy, or is there still a chance for me to be the first

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 10h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 12h

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 12h

Concept: transporter-erector-launcher for medium range ballistic missiles disguised as the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 13h

Our plans are measured in centuries

Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 13h

Just heard Ireland described as a geopolitical "middle power" which might be a first

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 22h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 19h

cw suicide

If your LLM can "go against the safeguards", those aren't safeguards. The word you are looking for is guidelines

“ChatGPT may correctly point to a suicide hotline when someone first mentions intent, but after many messages over a long period of time, it might eventually offer an answer that goes against our safeguards,” the company said

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 20h

Five Irish citizens have been detained by Israel on new Gaza-bound flotilla, including author Naoise Dolan and independent TD Barry Heneghan.
The others named by organisers as Fionn Macarthur, Veronica O’Keane, and Mutaz Jadaan.
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Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla

Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 1d

The Kaiserreich mod for HOI4 predicted this

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 4d

The recent rise of “shadow federalism” — groups of states replacing federal agencies abdicated or destroyed by Trump — combined with the president’s military targeting of those states makes an American schism a medium-term possibility for which we should plan

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Opinion: United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is a potential case study for the hypothesis that quite a few Conservative MPs and Spads whose brains have been marinated in Right wing American social media are increasingly being sucked into a civil war mindset that has embedded itself among many leading MAGA Trump figures.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 1d

Friedrich Merz making an unexpected statement in favour of excluding Israel from Eurovision

Euronews @euronews.com · 2d

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

German chancellor threatens to boycott Eurovision if Israel excluded

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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